Material Planning Manager
AkzoNobel
Date: 11 hours ago
City: Petaling Jaya
Contract type: Full time

About AkzoNobel
Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.
For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com
2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.
Job Description
Material Planning:
Requisition ID: 49047
Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.
For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com
2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.
Job Description
Material Planning:
- Review/ update material planning and manage material availability: planning of raw & packaging materials, ensuring that the production plan can be executed.
- Creation of purchase orders and inform production planning on timelines. Review the 12wk outlook for the material plan, taking into account capacity agreements and storage capacity on the site.
- Support the material controllers and the site with analyses when needed to create visibility
- Manage MRP exception messages.
- Drive gate keeping meetings with the other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
- Provide impact analysis when needed to show the impact of decisions or scenarios to the plan. Support on reporting where necessary.
- Reviewing with Supplier flexibility to support Material Planning with respect to supplier capacity and suppliers 2nd tier material availability
- Link to Procurement and Inbound Supply Chain Manager to improve Supplier Performance and escalate in case of structural material availability issues (& inform stakeholders).
- Balance service level (OTIF) and inventory targets (OWC) of raw and pack materials, whilst understanding cost impacts on manufacturing.
- Manage reduction and prevention of slow and obsolete stock (raw & pack). Ensure rework and scrapping at the site/primary DC.
- Inputs to inventory strategy including safety stock settings on raw & pack materials for existing, new and phase-out products.
- Inputs and maintains inventory stocking policies of raw & pack materials, safety stock levels in ERP system.
- Ensure master data correctness & proper housekeeping of transactional data.
- Support projects and process improvement to enhance performance and efficiency of the required material planning activities.
- At least 5 -year experience in Supply Planning in FMCG, Paint/Coating or Retail
- Expert on Supply Planning in SAP and BI
- Experience on IBP processes, Advanced Supply Planning tools
- Project and Change Management skills
- Experience on coordinating teams and managing stakeholders
- University Education (e.g. Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or other relevant discipline) with Degree or equivalent qualification
- Focused on results
- Good problem-solving skills, able to identify and structure issues, run accurate analyses and synthesize recommendations
- Strong desire to challenge and improve status-quo
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, flexibility and able to work under-pressure
- Fluent and able to work in English. Understanding and sensitivity to different cultural behaviours.
Requisition ID: 49047
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