Asahi UK
Supply Planning Executive
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Supply Planning Executive
Position Overview & Purpose
The UK Supply Planning Executive is responsible for supporting product availability across UK and EU produced SKU’s. They are responsible for maintaining target stock levels throughout a complex network of 3PL’s and production facilities and executing daily supply planning activities.
The role works closely with production teams at breweries, logistics, customer service and demand planning to pro-actively identify and resolve supply issues, ensuring products are available to meet demand. The role also supports the 13-week planning process, manages cask inventory and production prioritisation as well as co-ordinating outbound purchase orders for EU breweries, contributing to efficient, cost-effective supply planning.
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- Execute daily supply planning activities accurately and within agreed timelines.
- Manage the interdepot planning process for the UK portfolio of SKU’s across multiple production sites and 3PL’s.
- Monitor inventory levels across breweries and warehouses to maintain ideal target stock cover, service level and stock freshness.
- Identify supply risks and proactively escalate exceptions with proposed solutions.
- Plan and manage purchase orders for EU breweries.
- Monitor cask production cadence and SKU prioritisation to optimise storage capacity and minimise stock write-off.
- Support the execution of the 13-week supply plan.
Systems
- Maintain accurate planning parameters, master data and transactional data to support effective planning.
- Review new SKU’s in SAP and maintain in planning systems.
- Monitor SAP EDI interfaces and complete manual updates where required.
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Stakeholders
- Build effective working relationships with brewery teams, logistics, customer services, demand planning and finance.
- Co-ordinate effectively with production sites to ensure products are available for collection within agreed timelines.
- Liaise with finance, brewery teams and logistics to resolve delivery discrepancies.
- Communicate supply constraints and recovery plans clearly with stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, reporting and systems.
Experience & Qualification Requirements
- Preferable to have supply planning and/or operational planning experience in an FMCG environment.
- Advanced Excel skills for reporting and analysis.
- Power BI/Power Query advantageous.
- Knowledge of MRP systems (preferably SAP).
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