Global Capacity Planner

This role ensures that the right resource is available internally when required to meet customer demands and leads global capacity planning work processes and tools for the supply chain.

This responsible execution of category level supply plans against the 5-year vision to deliver cost, cash, and customer service goals.

Additionally, this role coordinates across all product lines and supply chain teams to plan for capacity, balance and execute with constrained capacity.

This role joins a team that drives and adapts business infrastructure tools like SAP IBP/Hana or other enterprise digital planning platforms, short and long-term planning processes and service level agreements between manufacturing, sales operations, supply chain & order fulfillment as business becomes more complex.

• Map and digitize capacity across big five factories in terms of equipment, floor space, headcount to drive planning activities and optimize manufacturing efficiency, stock levels and costs.
• Generate view of critical capacity constraints impacting manufacturing (line, equipment, people, floorspace, warehousing capacity, etc.)
• Create detailed view of AE's assets (primarily equipment/testers) with associated specifications in order to build comprehensive map of capacities in network.
• Identify critical bottlenecks in network. Ensure information received is of quality, integrated and live to enable effective decision making.
• Run SC capacity plans balancing across BUs (product launches, capacity constraints)

Work with factories to analyze capacity constraints and footprint utilization:

• Leads and own processes for Demand Flow Verification, Rough Cut Capacity Planning, Category level Production capacity what If, CSP issue Resolution, Drive and Enable Category-Level Supply Chain Improvement, Inventory glide-path and critical supply planning (CSP) Health Check.
• Represents Supply and Demand Management in quarterly business review on cost scorecard and/or project updates with leadership. Ensure healthy inventory management KPIs.
• Will work with stakeholders to drive healthy utilization of warehouses, clear disposition of ageing inventory and efficient inventory management practices.
• Create capacity plans which meet business targets and optimize manufacturing efficiency and costs.
• Drive manufacturing flexibility for our sites: Drive standardization of equipment and optimize factory organization for mid and long term.
• Review systems and methods to continually improve plans so that organization can better anticipate customer needs leveraging Industry 4.0 technologies, platforms and solutions.
• Assess existing capacity and draw up forecasts based on future plans for demand.
• Analyze specifications and capacity and undertake appropriate calculations to estimate job requirements, in terms of labor, tools, materials and resources.
• Assess NPI Capacity Requirements as part of product lifecycle management and incorporate any associated phase out considerations.
• Continually monitor and review plans and make appropriate adjustments in event of changes and unforeseen circumstances.
• Review trends, research data and evaluate and prepare results. Reconcile variances from original plans and maintain view of actual against forecast projections.
• Lead Capacity Ahead Of Demand (CAOD)

CAPEx Meeting:

Determine production capacity needs to meet changing demands of products. Understands how business operates and plans for future capacity requirements.

Continually review ways in which to make improvements and make capacity planning and manufacturing process more efficient implementing and adopting best practices.

Utilize knowledge and research methods to drive best practice results. Implements and trains BU on CSP tools and work processes, enabling business to deliver critical supply planning business results.

Serves as primary CSP resource and level one support for end users within BU. Relationship Management.

Liaise with internal stakeholders and obtain appropriate information and data in order to prepare schedules, plans and forecasts. Liaise with customers to understand existing and future demands.

Communicate plans and forecasts to internal stakeholders and review plans to ensure efficient resource utilization.

Support meetings supplying relevant data, provide updates on plans and highlight concerns relating to actual or potential issues.

Escalate any issues to business leaders or others in organization particularly when there is risk which could prevent organization meeting customer demands or where there are over capacity concerns.

Support product change requests and prepare plans and forecasts in line with changes.

Design and maintain capacity performance reports and statistics to share with internal stakeholders and provide information as required in relation to organizational metrics and updates using digital technologies.