Manager, Planning

Overview

Strategize and direct the overall master planning of production activities to meet delivery dates according to sales forecast and / or customers’ orders while meeting standards of safety and quality.

Ensure production results and on-time delivery according to sales forecasts or customer orders and appropriate inventory levels. Identify challenges and perform root cause analysis for variation and recommend for solutions accordingly.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire production scheduling at the plant encompassing optimal workforce utilisation taking into consideration cost benefit of overtime cost against the production targets that has been set.
• Monitor the business market demands and orchestrate the plant production while taking into consideration the upstream supply from the broiler farm which includes (but not limited to) managing bell curve utilized to ascertain the bird size, scratches, Coefficient of Variance (CV), harvesting and logistics, which all will have impact on the quality of the poultry products.
• Drive towards optimal levels of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in the plant to ensure equipment is availability for production and timely completion of preventive maintenance, through close coordination with Engineers from P1 to P8 on the autonomous machineries.
• Work closely with relevant stakeholders on Inventory management, warehousing and logistics to ensure production quality, efficiency in meeting customers’ demands.
• Develop good liaison with FP&A team for cost-effective evaluations, Marketing for effective stock sales and movement (broaden marketing base to minimize stock going into the cold room), and HR on Learning and Growth.
• Work closely with upstream broiler suppliers (Stakeholder Engagement) to reduce the quality defects of birds coming into the plant; uniformity, (wing and drumstick bruises, yellow and red scratches, ammonia burns on the hock joint and foot pads).
• Analyse production specifications and plant capacity data and perform mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes, tools, and etc.
• Continuously review, monitor & analyse customer requirement, supplier performance, planning and actual production in order to achieve customer’s satisfaction.
• Optimize production planning and control with up-to-date information on demand variation affecting raw material requirements, and ultimately affecting production planning and overall operation.
• Monitor production results and ensure on-time delivery according to sales forecasts or customer orders and appropriate inventory levels.

Qualifications

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