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ALFA LAVAL

Heat transfer, separation, fluid handling solutions

Master Planner

Inventory Management +1Posted on Nov 11
Full-timeJiangyin, Wuxi, Jiangsu, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain management, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience in supply chain planning in multi-factory networks.
  • Fluent spoken and written English.
  • Fair knowledge of stock control and statistics.

Responsibilities

  • Drive and coordinate the factory supply chain and develop the factory supply plan.
  • Review the factory's ability to meet customer requirements and propose actions to close gaps.
  • Develop a local stock strategy, including cycle stock, safety stock, and overstock, aligned with product-group direction.
  • Execute supply and operations planning work and coordinate relevant factory functions.
  • Resolve problems, eliminate waste, and apply safety, quality, delivery, and cost priorities in daily work; promptly inform the line manager about problems or risks.
  • Review the local supply plan monthly by analyzing forecast changes, creating a new plan based on forecasts and capacity, and aligning it with the product-group supply and operations planning team.
  • Build fact-based assumptions and planning models, translating order-intake forecasts into delivery forecasts, component forecasts, and related plan breakdowns.
  • Prepare local supply-planning review meetings, balance demand and supply, and prepare issues and scenario analyses for stakeholder review.
  • Facilitate approval meetings, present information, engage stakeholders, support decisions, and articulate execution plans.
  • Follow up on meeting decisions across functions, departments, and teams, and escalate items with executives as needed.
  • Monitor the effectiveness of planning-process decisions, report metrics to factory management, identify progress and root causes, and drive process improvements.
  • Work with the central product-group planning organization on continuous improvement and supply and operations planning process challenges.
  • Coordinate information and analysis with product-group planners and other factories' planners and product managers to support the business.
  • Maintain supply-planning master data and parameters.
  • Identify supply risks and alternatives for managing them, and analyze supply situations under different scenarios.
  • Support central planning processes and contribute to network planning.
  • Provide input to other factories in the central component-supply process, including local component-demand forecasts.
  • Communicate agreed plans at the detail level needed for central plan consolidation and follow up on agreed actions.
  • Lead inventory-analysis meetings covering days on hand, safety stock, overstock, inventory simulation, and slow-moving inventory, and optimize inventory.
  • Lead material-reuse activities, including reuse of slow-moving and system-external materials.
  • Maintain finished-goods delivery-time master data.
  • Follow up on material-planning-related performance and key performance indicators.
  • Conduct standard operating procedure audits.
  • Break down quarterly unit-level forecasts into item-level forecasts and share them with material planners for enterprise resource planning system updates.
  • Drive quarterly reviews of item parameters, including inventory control, lead time, minimum order quantity, multiples, reorder quantity, and safety stock.
  • Prepare annual cost-update data.
  • Support product phase-in and phase-out activities and supply-chain optimization as required.
  • Perform other related tasks assigned by the unit manager.

About the Company

ALFA LAVAL

Heat transfer, separation, fluid handling solutions

Alfa Laval provides sustainable solutions for heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling across industries such as energy, food, water, and marine. It sells advanced equipment and process systems and offers ongoing service to keep them running efficiently and long-lasting. Its products work by using heat exchangers to transfer heat, separators to remove components, and pumps and valves to move fluids in industrial processes, and it differentiates itself through a focus on sustainability, long-term service, and strong research and development. The company aims to help customers boost productivity and quality while reducing environmental impact, and to create shareholder value through steady innovation, operational excellence, and strategic financial actions like share buybacks.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Lund Municipality, Sweden
Founded
1883

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