Central S&OP planner

Internship from March 2023 till August 2023

The central planning team manage the Sales and Operation Planning for Europe Insulation and Gypsum businesses. The main role of the central S&OP planner is to manage all the operational activities related to this process.

1. Sales & Operations Planning

• Monthly process: European S&OP

• Supervise data collection (forecasts, capacity, stocks, CSI, …)
• Ensure consistency and reliability of plans reported by countries (demand, supply, production and inventory)
• Build/update capacity allocation and cession plans across countries over the S&OP horizon (18 month). Ensure plans maximize sales and optimize capacity utilization.
• Support countries to meet fluctuation of the demand, Highlight needs for arbitrations.
• Build and communicate S&OP dashboards
• Organize and host Europe Supply chain reviews

• • Yearly process: Budget and Long Range Plan

• Supervise data collection (forecasts, capacity, …)
• Ensure consistency and reliability of plans reported by countries (demand, supply, production and inventory)
• Build capacity allocation and cession plans across countries over the budget & LRP horizon (1 to 3 years). Ensure plans maximize sales and optimize capacity utilization.
• Highlight needs for capacity evolution.

Manage the central S&OP application (ESMS): setups, evolutions, …

1. Projects

Drive the implementation & ramp-up of changes related to S&OP tools and organization:

• Follow-up the ESMS application evolutions (based on PowerBI)
• Develop additional PowerBI reports to improve S&OP performance
• Follow-up the implementation of Gypsum business in the S&OP process

Contribute to other supply chain projects depending on business priorities.

1. Organization of yearly supply chain forum

Contribute to the organization of yearly supply chain forum.