Job Overview:
To monitor inventory levels of all assigned products at every General Mills location every day; creating, or adjusting replenishment requisitions as necessary deploying General Mills products across the network in order to achieve service level targets within acceptable cost parameters.
50% | of Time | Operational responsibilities - Distribution Planning - Review system generated service alerts daily. Deploy FG inventory across the network (General Mills CSF/warehouses) to achieve service level case-fill goals while balancing the inventory constraints with transportation costs. - Maintain inventory levels at all Warehouses (CSFs) within expected tolerances (space/transportation/inventory constraints). - Create/Adjust deployment requisitions to ensure smooth and steady flow of product to the CSFs - Review product obsolescence/age management reports to proactively re-deploy inventory across locations as needed - Review actual inventory movement vs. forecast to proactively react to demand trends (High/Low) |
20% | of Time | Co-ordination - Co-ordinate with GMI distribution resources that include CSF Planners, Plant planners, Transportation Coordinators, Production Schedulers, Demand Planning and other US-based resources - Schedule meetings with Plants to align on processes and identify opportunities for process improvements - Participate in the meetings for Seasonal SKUs, New products, Customer specific promotions, service meetings - Actively participate in Staff meetings, Knowledge sharing sessions, Trainings, Collaboration |
15% | of Time | Analysis & Reporting - Identify the reasons for shortfalls on customer orders - Investigate Off- Strategy Distribution movements - Analyze and report Key Performance Indicator’s (KPI’s- case fills, mode mix, reposition $ etc.) affecting the transportation costs. - Provide Service risk projections for short term and long term - Analyze & report key drivers (demand trends/production etc.) impacting variances in weekly service level performance - |
15% | of Time | Additional Responsibilities - Weekly Service sheet preparation with proper root cause analysis - Identify opportunities for process improvements - Perform System updates/maintenance as necessary - Co-ordinate process documentation- Desk Manuals, Job Task Analysis and Critical Task Lists and conducting audit for the same. - Work on Special Projects as assigned
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Education
Minimum Degree Requirements: | Bachelors (Full time) |
Preferred Degree Requirements: | Masters |
Preferred Major Area of Study: | Supply Chain |
Experience
Minimum years of related experience required: | Bachelors (2+ years) ; |
Preferred years of related experience: | 2-4 |
Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed:
Broad Perspective
Decision making
Interpersonal effectiveness
Learning Agility
Energize and Develop people
Technical and Process Leadership
Additional Information:
Distribution planning of the inventory from Production plants to warehouses to meet customer service level of 98.5%. Utilizing systems SAP capabilities to create requisitions and building outbound shipments based on the forecast in the system at an item location level. The other cost related KPIs, viz- Repositioning, Load Efficiency and Mode utilization needs to be balanced as per the Customer service levels.