Role & responsibilities

Create an optimised replenishment plan for raw and packaging materials over an 18 month horizon that ensures supply of material to production whilst ensuring that the working capital targets for raw and packaging materials are met and waste is reduced by minimizing write-offs

- Monitors supply signals through the use of MRP purchase requisitions ensuring delivery dates, lead times and required quantities are correct and finally creating purchase orders and ensuring their fulfillment by the supplier.
- Manages directly with the defined supplier the delivery of materials: this includes creating, sending, confirming, receiving, investigating errors and discrepancies on blocked or parked invoice lines and handling all exceptions / issues in those operations, including claims management.
- Define the stock policy and management approach to be applied to each SKU within their portfolio

Identification of practical issues concerning material supply and demand for raw and packaging materials

Ensures excellent supplier relationships

Involve suppliers in Supply Chain improvement exercises that creates shared value for both Nestl and their suppliers

Preferred candidate profile

Two or more years of relevant operational experience at market / business level is useful, in at least one of the following areas: DPS Planning

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Operational buyer University Graduates Experience in the following processes would be highly beneficial

- Product lifecycle process
- Insight into capacity details, PV version, line outputs

1. Core knowledge of the 10 Principles and expert knowledge in our areas of responsibility. (mandatory - do not remove or change) Can explain in detail the concept and practical working of following topics, as well as highlight main strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of their application in a particular context:
- Inbound Material Management best practices and process - Integration points between the Material Management Planning, Supply Planning and Procurement Operations - Roles, responsibility and accountability of all involved in Inbound Materials Understands best practices, implications, alignment points, perks & issues of:
- Warehouse management for raw & packaging material, inventory counting / Master Production Scheduling and Detailed Production Scheduling / Factory Operations / Quality management / Co-packing or Co-manufacturing / Procurement Operations / Supply Chain KPIs Can mention critical elements of following subjects and their relationship with their work:
- Promotion management and product customization - Material and product portfolio (type of demand, seasonality, lifecycle status, shelf life) - Implications of non availability of material / stocks in value chain

📌 Material Planning Engineer (Gurugram)
🏢 Nestlé
📍 Gurugram