
Lead - Strategic Planning and Inventory Controller
- Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Plan and execute regular planning parameter reviews and update inventory control parameters of products in ADC.
- Actively identify and propose improvement to global policies for inventory management of regional distribution centre.
- Work actively together with suppliers to improve availability and logistics costs whilst reducing inventory levels and working capital.
- Work closely with global/ country planner to align on forecast, lead time, customer orders, new material, etc.
- Review and manage material and purchasing master data in SAP.
- Lead and support the Planning and Inventory control team.
- Define team goals and priorities to align with strategic objectives.
- Monitor and resolve escalated issues, providing timely resolution to minimize impact to customer satisfaction.
- Recruit, coach, and develop Planning and Inventory control team.
- Collaborate with teams to develop and improve performance metrics.
- Manage and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
- Designand maintain reports for operational and analysis use to provide the visibility of orders and stocks to planning team and stakeholders.
- Update, analyze and report performance indicators related to service level and inventory management performance of ADC, and drive continuous improvement.
- Perform complex and ad-hoc reporting tasks when needed.
- Lead the Planning and Inventory control team to manage purchase order daily operations.
- Generate purchase orders to factories/EDC/NADC and monitor order status to ensure goods receipt on time.
- Communicate scheduled delivery date and related changes to stakeholders in a timely manner.
- Coordinate with supplier and forwarder for inbound shipment booking, tracking and customs clearance to ensure on time arrival.
- Work with supplier and forwarder to resolve cargo damage and claim.
- Work with QRC to ensure registration license is available for the product import to SG.
- Work closely with 3PL Warehouse Ops team to ensure stock to be received properly.
- Handle received stock discrepancies and resolve nonconforming logistical issues.
- Handle return shipment to vendor.
- Point of contact for inventory enquiries.
- Ship hold, block, and stock movement control.
- Coordinate with 3PL to arrange physical inventory count, discrepancy investigation and reconciliation.
- Coordinate with 3PL for scrapping.
- Handle damages within warehouse with 3PL.
- Develop work instructions, procedures, and standards.
- Actively lead and involve in new product launch projects.
- Support external and internal audit within the assigned area.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Logistics or business related fields.
- Minimum 5-7 years of Supply Chain Planning and purchase order management experience.
- Good knowledge of supply chain management such as forecast and planning, inventory management, air and ocean freight, import and export trade compliance, etc.
- Experienced user of material requirements planning (MRP) and ERP systems. SAP is preferred.
- Organized, Structured, Analytical and Data-driven mindset.
- Proficient in MS office suite (MS Word, Excel and Power Point). Experience creating report in power BI is a plus.
- Strong verbal and written skills in English.
- Knowledge of and specific experience in BI tools and data reporting tools.
- A team player with ability to work effectively in a cross-functional and multi-cultural environment with internal stakeholders globally.