Lead - Strategic Planning and Inventory Controller

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Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.

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Overview

This role is a key resource in the APAC Regional Distribution Center (ADC) organization. Responsible for regular validation and updates of inventory control parameters and inventory or sales analysis of ADC, and leading operational purchasing of products in ADC, with the main goal to optimize availability, inventory level and logistics costs. As a critical member of ADC operation team, you will have the opportunity ot oversee, develop and improve the process and procedures.

Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic planning:

• 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.

Planning Team Lead:

• 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.

Report and Analytics:

• 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.

Purchase Order Management:

• 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.

Inventory Management:

• 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.

Other:

• Develop work instructions, procedures, and standards.
• Actively lead and involve in new product launch projects.
• Support external and internal audit within the assigned area.

Requirements

• 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.

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About us 

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.