Scm Planner

Doha, Qatar

Short summary of the job: Consultants with solid experience in Supply Chain Management including inventory, purchase, sourcing, and contract management operational experience. The consultants are expected to have a basic understanding of Oracle ERP. In addition, the incumbent should understand the end-to-end SCM business processes and should be able to handle the operations on daily basis.

**Qualification**:
Bachelor’s degree in Logistics/Supply Chain Management or in any other relevant field, with a minimum of 10 years’ experience of which 4 years of experience in SCM operations in health sector.

**Core Competencies**:

- Strategic assessment and planning of inventory requirements.
- Sourcing strategy development.
- Inventory / supply management.
- Supplier strategy development.
- Logistics & Warehouse management.
- Operations strategy development.
- Experience in Oracle Inventory and Sourcing module.
- Items planning based on forecast and consumption trend.
- Presentation and Excel skills.
- Policy and Process designing and implementation.
- Mandatory English reading and communication skill.

**Must Have**
- Responsible for end-to-end planning of inventory from end user demand to supply.
- Develop procurement and inventory management plans to support national level projects and occasionalevents.
- Identify current and potential product shortages, develop and execute recovery, advice interested partiessuch as item owners, end users, of status and recovery plans.
- Monitor items in Inventory planning - consumption vs. on-hand quantities and procure accordingly to maintainnominal stock, balancing the space consumed in central warehouse (CWH) and item expiry dates.
- Identifying and defining stocking policy based on Vital, Essential and Non-Essential (VEN) classifications.
- Monitor and update min-max for items based on consumption trend analysis for all individual health centersstorage facility and central warehouse.
- Follow up with logistics stake holder and suppliers for inbound orders for medical consumables.
- Monitor daily transactions are in line with the agreed policies.
- Highlight the abnormal consumptions to the concerned managers, if found.
- Maintain tracking sheets for stock out items and initiate temporary resolution and permanent solution. Conduct a root cause analysis wherever necessary.
- Coordinate with store in-charge on to understand the requirements and advice item movements to avoid bottle necks and stock outs situations.
- Updating of stocking policy as and when required inline to PHCC policies and procedures.
- Monitor and arrive at a re-order point data for complex items with irregular consumption pattern to automate the planning within Oracle ERP system.
- Update procurement strategy on item level based on constant assessment of demand requirements.
- Provide periodic reports and requested information such as consumption report for health centers, central warehouse etc. to the management.
- Monitor inbound stocks for agreed shelf life and the consultant is responsible for issuing out nearest expiry on an ad-hoc distribution plan.
- Mandatory Excel skills (proficient) for data analysis and preparation of reports, forecasts and reconciliation.
- Inventory reconciliation between the physical stock and Oracle ERP stock on monthly basis along with expiry dates lot-wise.
- Identification of missing transactions / root cause for the inventory mismatch / differences.
- Maintain a dashboard for items outlining the monthly consumption, monthly average, expiry dates and available stock for health centers.
- Maintain a dashboard for items consumption, health center wise, to track the consumption and report abnormal and irregularities, if found.
- Basic understanding of “Unit of Measurement” to update excel formats or UOM conversion.
- Preparation of obsolete items report for effective and timely liquidation of stock to minimize the condemnation.
- Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts for any new Item requests from health centers, for the complete specification, item description and advise the SCM planning support team to raise purchase requisition.
- Supplier’s invoice reconciliation with warehouse GRNs for timely payments.