Company Profile:

ITC is one of India's foremost private sector companies, has a diversified presence in FMCG, Hotels, Packaging, Paperboards & Specialty Papers and Agri-Business. ITC's aspiration to be an exemplar in sustainability practices is manifest in its status as the only company in the world, of its size and diversity, to be carbon, water and solid waste recycling positive.

Job description:

 

Principal Accountability

(Specific tasks and the role that the person will undertake)

 

• Purpose : To lead the demand allocation and production planning for the category ensuring cost effective demand fulfillment of the market and facilitate timely New Product Launches for Category.

 

Principal Accountabilities

Manufacturing Planning

1. Analyze manufacturing demand (STR) and generate manufacturing requirement for all different factories, if demand is unfulfilled or beyond capacity, basis freight and manufacturing constraints carry out source re-allocation and generate Manufacturing Plan
2. Send to category manufacturing manager for approval
3. Finalize the Manufacturing plan and communicate to all stake holder – Factory Operation, Procurement.
4. Collate and review day wise plan created by each factory according to the run cycle
5. Consolidate daily manufacturing reports from different factories (plan v/s actual) and provide a day wise/ factory wise manufacturing update to category manufacturing manager
6. Capture issues and highlight for corrective actions.

RCCP Planning

1. Evaluate STR communicated for SNOP WSP/order requirements against available capacity of the plant
2. If required carry source re-allocation and generate T Lane change requirement
3. Circulate manufacturing requirement to procurement, factory and category manufacturing manager
4. Collate exceptional SKU list for discussion in S&OP

Production Execution

1. Coordinate with factory/ procurement representative to ensure production as per agreed plan;
2.  Prepare plan v/s actual manufacturing report and generate manufacturing adherence metrics
3.  Prepare factory ranking report on a monthly basis and send the report to category  manufacturing manager;
4.  Analyze the gaps/issues in the factory and provide possible recommendations to solve the issues;
5.  Communicate to factory the recommended solutions;
6.  Monitor and review the implementation of solutions recommended IN ORDER TO ensure market serviceability

New Product Commercialization

1. Coordinate with PD, packaging development, quality assurance and maintenance teams to ensure readiness of new product to be manufactured;
2.  Update master data code for new SKU based on information from brand team; Update SAP master plan for new production post receipt of bill of material (BOM);
3. Plan for new manufacturing process post receiving the BOM; Validate artwork for accuracy of factory address;
4. Coordinate with marketing and TM & D teams to finalize the final production numbers basis the demand and supply network IN ORDER TO ensure updation of details in the master code data/SAP database and smooth new product manufacturing process