Sr. Specialist, Planning Opti, PE

Job Purpose

The jobholder is responsible for optimizing and balancing Demand vs. Production supply within the S&OP Process (tactical horizon M3-M12), delivering an allocation of finish goods to support market requirements by running optimizer with considering business rule, business strategy, monomers availability and raw materials, full asset utilization and predefined production cycle to achieve Borouge company profit. Generate the production planned for semi-finished products for every polyolefin plant as one of output from balancing process.

This role contributes to Inventory Management, Optimization of assets and preparation of the Yearly Business Plan for PO Sales. Support in identifying gaps in the processes, enabling improvement that delivers highest business potentials at minimum cost. Drive continuous value optimization in the short to medium term planning and ensuring business priorities are met.

Key Accountabilities



OR Modelling & Business Scenarios

• Create and facilitate user acceptance testing to drive adoption across S&OP teams for new Business rules and reports deployed through modeling change and impact against change success factors.
• Assess and upgrade existing tools to response effectively to S&OP mandates and processes based on dynamic and latest market situations.
• Customize and integrate the knowledge and tools developed in the market or created by external consultants, into effective tools for different supply chain teams.
• Modify and maintain complex Excel based linear programming (LP) tool that optimally balances supply, demand and production plans considering constraints, and securing business priority rules.
• Build comprehensive models of total network inventory including safety stock and ramp up plans through process decomposition. Model the elements characteristics of material flows, and integrating those elements into a suitable timeframe segment through statistics and mathematical modelling.
• Generate Base case plan after challenging all constraints using Global Balancing tool for all Market Centers to fulfil Business priorities, Business Strategy & assumptions.
• Govern GBT master data, structure, decision logic, built-in models, and business priority rules logic through creating quality controls to sustain feature outcome.
• Clarify to tactical horizon stakeholders both internal and external the GBT (Global Balancing Tool) logic basis and assumptions used to help to reach consensus on company next 18 months’ sales and production plan.
  

Production Cycle Optimization

• Develop production cycle based on asset design utilization to ensure optimized production sequence in term of working capital considering asset versus grade historical performance, product volume business plan, test run and product launching plan.
• Recognize investment opportunities to improve asset performance in alignment with production limitation and actively involved in structuring business case and scenarios.
• Identify and mitigate risks toward achieving yearly business plan sales volumes and producing new products through gap analysis and developing recovery plans.
• Support each region sales by proposing different scenarios align with business opportunities to achieve higher company profit.
• Lead project with internal and external stakeholders for best practices and knowledge sharing to identify area of opportunities on production cycle optimization by enabling improvement that delivers optimum working capital at lowest product cost.
• Establish products database portfolio with road map considering existing product performance across assets, quality limitations, transition matrix, technology family, and product business plan.
  

Global Supply Optimization & Governance

• Develop allocation and production plan after evaluating all constraints and considering business rule, sales margin, business strategy, monomers availability and raw materials, full asset utilization and predefined production cycle.
• Control working capital through long term inventory planning to support management decision making on right balance for customer satisfaction.
• Drive the monthly Balancing cycle meeting for short and medium term Polyolefin’ s based on pre-defined rules and criteria within S&OP.
• Review Base case output of Production plan & sales plan and create scenarios to showcase superior possibilities for profitability and sensitivity analysis.
• Drive continuous value optimization in the short to medium term planning by mapping potential sales opportunities to obtainable supply options.
• Assess material balance in the tactical horizon to ensure optimized and consistent supply toward forecasted allocation plan to at right inventory holding point.
• Create and maintain supply allocation plan key figure to be governed and controlled.
• Govern the agreed supply allocation plan for tactical horizon to ensure each step of the process of the end-to-end planning process is controlled against product tolerances.
  

Material Flow Disruptions

• Lead quick response team to proactively manage execution to mitigate partner customer and reputation impact through analyzing gap and develop recovery plans during Supply crisis or other unplanned situations to minimize the impact on business.
• Drive operational S&OP escalations to identify and propose solution to S&OP chairman for endorsement.
• Assist all relevant stakeholders on any Production loss or extra Production with direct amend on allocation to timely response to change by propose alternative solutions to close potential gaps.
• Develop Contingency Plans for Supply Crisis or other probable situations (demand upsurge, quality, Material handling issues, logistics delays, raw materials).
  

Business Plan Optimization

• Establish optimum business plan for allocation plan, production plan and ending inventory volume consisting with product testing and launching plans to support different Business Centre priorities & Business Strategies with the new, available and revamped plants capacities, feedstock availabilities and product segregated granularity sales margin and align with Business Optimization direction.
• Drive the yearly business plan cycle meeting for Polyolefin’ s to reach consensus on established business plan allocation plan, production plan and inventory volume including safety stock proposal with S&OP platform and stakeholders.
• Managing and planning test run based on risk level and ensure proper mitigation in place while meeting product launching and growth plan.
• Lead the development of production cycle outcome through actively partnering with execution owners to ensure business strategy are met based on volume and asset capabilities.
  

Process Integration and Special Projects

• Lead investigations that require advance data analysis and understanding of supply chain management, and prepare management presentations to set expectation on way forward to eliminate root causes.
• Lead and actively involved in projects to drive value chain creation by integrating into Supply Chain’ processes, identification of the dashboard matrixes, recommend/report on the S&OP performance improvements, to support the global balancing calculation for monthly/annual planning, and provide with expert opinion on working capital through inventory models from statistical point of view.
• Maintain risk register to support developing mitigation plans to overcome the crisis situations.
  

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Minimum Qualification

• University Degree in Auctorial Science, Industrial Engineering, or relevant statistical or mathematical disciplines. Masters in Operation Research is preferred.
• Sounds knowledge and understanding to work with Information Management and Systems.
• Knowledge of Operation Management, Operation Research and Analysis.
• Advanced Knowledge in SAP, Microsoft Office; Excel’ solver and add-ons.
• Fluency in English Language is a must; written and oral.
  

Minimum Experience & Knowledge & Skills

• Minimum of 8 years of total experience, with 5 years in Planning Occupations.
• Ability to collaborate with cross functional stake holders, influence decisions and recommend a course of action based data analytics
• General knowledge of supply chain management process
• Knowledge of sales and operation planning process
• Solid knowledge on polyolefin operation, polyolefin business and products application
• Previous demand planning, supply planning and inventory experience for at least 5 years preferable on customer products industry
• Ability to analyse and evaluate data and make recommendation and decisions
• Strong ERP (enterprise resource planning) system skills and MRP (material requirement planning) system skill for at least 3 years
• Minimum 8 years of total experience in working with business’ mathematical or statistical modeling.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in analyst role.
• Exposure to and knowledge of Supply Chain, theories and practices.
• Hands-on developing the reporting and monitoring the performance.
• A completed project on developing the Supply Chain Processes, Standards or Procedures is an advantage.
• Advanced ability to conduct data analysis
• Recognized for being communicative, dialogue engaging, inspiring, motivating and setting direction for others within a multicultural environment.
• Advanced Planning, Reporting & Organizing Skills
• High level of Detailed Orientation
• Good Interpersonal Skills
• Able to lead and work in a multi-cultural team environment.
• Expert level Excel skills (advanced is not enough to support the GBT tool)
• Advanced knowledge of lineal programming methods (for GBT tool support)
  

Professional Certifications

• Certified APICS, SCOR in an advantage.
• Professional certification in Supply Chain (like CSCP) would be of advantage
  

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