Production Planning & Inventory control (Rajkot)

We're Hiring: Supply Planner

Location: SEZ, Matoda Ahmedabad

Department: Delivery Planning – Reg Market

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences or Pharmacy

Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience

About the Role

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Supply Planner to join our Delivery Planning team. This role is critical in ensuring seamless production planning, material availability, and timely delivery to meet market demands. If you thrive in a fast-paced workplace and enjoy cross-functional collaboration, we’d love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

1. Production Planning

- Evaluate demand variance against historical requirements and align with production capacity.
- Map demand to production capacity using R validation and execute accordingly.
- Conduct weekly reviews with Manufacturing and Quality teams to identify and address planning gaps.
- Monitor production schedules bi-weekly and ensure timely issuance of BMR/BPR for the next 15 days.
- Create and manage process orders efficiently.
- Track critical and new product launches.
- Actively participate in monthly S&OP; meetings, including Material and Campus SNOP.

2. Material Planning (RM & PM)

- Track daily material receipts, consumption, and quality clearance.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Procurement, Warehouse, Quality, Manufacturing) for seamless planning.
- Plan and coordinate JIT items such as shippers and bottles.
- Schedule high-volume materials while balancing warehouse capacity.
- Monitor long lead-time materials in advance for manufacturing readiness.
- Manage Track Wise change controls, artwork changes, and BOM approvals in S4HANA.
- Analyse near-expiry and re-test materials and drive necessary actions.
- Work on 4-month shortage projections for critical formulations.

3. Inventory Management

- Evaluate blocked and restricted inventory and drive actions like shelf-life extension or unblocking.
- Execute code-to-code and inter-location stock transfers.
- Plan new artwork to minimize write-offs of old stock.
- Address slow-moving and non-moving inventory through destruction tracking or STOs.

4. Projects / MIS / Reporting

- Drive initiatives like site/area transfers, alternate vendor validations, and batch size optimizations.
- Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Contribute to Monthly Performance Review Meetings (MPRM) and S&OP; presentations.
- Hands-on experience with SAP S4HANA or SAP ECC (PP module).

Key Skills

- Strong analytical and planning skills
- Excellent communication and coordination abilities
- Proficiency in SAP (S4HANA/ECC) and MS Office
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work under pressure
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