The Head of Supply Planning ensures timely and efficient finished product supply to L-Acoustics customers. This position reports to the Global Supply planning director within the Supply Chain organization of L-Acoustics.
The Head of Supply Planning primarily owns the operational (0-3 months) and tactical (3-18 months) supply planning activities like master planning, scheduling, and capacity planning for group entities. The position sets the direction for, synchronizes, and oversees the supply planning activities of L-Acoustics group sites across the globe and strategic suppliers in collaboration with the respective supply planning teams of these sites.
The Head of Supply Planning is accountable for ensuring industry-leading service and finished product inventory results of L-Acoustics.
Contribution and Deliverables:
As the Head of Supply Planning at L-Acoustics, you will,
Within the operational horizon:
- Develop master production plans based on business needs driven by the S&OP process, ensuring that products are available to meet customer orders.
- Identify and proactively address supply bottlenecks and disruptions to minimize production delays.
- Act as the key contributor to the supply availability process with a mandate to debottleneck the process and reduce the need for manual supply allocation.
- Ensure synchronization and drive clarity for the supply planning activities across group sites.
- Guide component planning, supply chain operations, and sales coordination to work in full synchronization with supply plans.
- Own the planning for custom and make-to-order items.
- Define, own, and monitor service, cost, and cash-related KPIs.
Within the tactical horizon:
- Lead the product segmentation process to classify product portfolios to simplify planning activities.
- Lead the operating strategy process to uncover and document operational constraints and lead times that need to be considered.
- Contribute to the process of prioritizing, reducing, or eliminating operating constraints.
- Lead the rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) process for main sites with a mandate to establish a global RCCP process across group sites.
- Act as a contributor to the RCCP process for warehousing, logistics, and key suppliers.
- Contribute to cost control and reduction strategies, optimizing production costs while maintaining product quality.
- Own the process for avoiding and eliminating non-performing inventory.
- Contribute to the annual budget process and the monthly S&OP process.
- Work in harmony with the supply planning business expert to drive data-driven decision-making and adoption of modern supply chain tools & processes.
Within the strategic horizon:
- Contribute to the planning activities of new production sites, new distribution centers, new markets, new products, new customers, and new business verticals.
- Lead the capability-building plan, define roles and responsibilities, and own functional onboarding plans of the related organization.
Location : 91300 - Massy.