Distribution Requirement Planning Specialist
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Your Role
We are seeking a talented and driven DRP Planner with experience to ensures FG availability across markets by executing long-term and short-term DRP processes, balancing inventory levels, service performance, and supply constraints.
In this role you will play a key role in:
- Manages FG replenishment planning, safety stock settings, and parameter optimisation to maintain accurate distribution signals and support network stability.
- Monitors global and cluster supply risks through regular KPI reviews, coverage analysis, and exception management to safeguard on-shelf availability.
- Leads availability management by identifying stock risks, resolving shortfalls, and coordinating corrective actions with factories, markets, and supply chain partners.
- Supports product lifecycle management through effective Phase-In/Phase-Out (PIPO) planning
- Collaborates closely with demand planning, supply planning, logistics, and market teams to align supply decisions and address operational issues.
- Executes distribution governance activities, including risk reviews, NPI readiness checks, and escalation handling across markets and clusters.
Your Profile
- Maintain long-term DRP settings including lead times, SLAs for NGP, safety stock recommendations, and DRP inventory parameters for active and new SKUs.
- Manage prebuild requests to support future demand, supply constraints, or inventory strategies.
- Perform primary and secondary replenishment planning and generate factory truck-loading priority lists.
- Execute order creation with EOC and validate replenishment signals for short-term supply planning.
- Lead cluster supply KPI reviews and supply risk meetings, presenting actual/estimated KPIs and mitigation plans.
- Conduct ITP market supply risk reviews and support NPI/ITP project readiness assessments.
- 5 to 9 years of experience in Distribution Requirement Planning
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and proficiency in Excel and reporting tools
WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE
- We recognize the significance of flexible work arrangements to provide support. Be it remote work, flexible work hours or alternative work schedules, you will get an environment to maintain healthy work life balance.
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.
Chennai (ex Madras), IN