Supply Chain Sr Planner

PepsiCo is seeking a Supply Chain Sr Planner in Mexico City, Mexico. The role involves optimizing supply plans, analyzing data for production and sourcing, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Responsibilities include maintaining accurate data for SAP S4/HANA, executing simulations, and addressing raw material shortages. The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills and experience in supply chain optimization, influencing cross-functional teams, and developing strategic recommendations.
Overview

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Responsibilities

The Opportunity

The Sourcing Planner will partner with the PFNA Platform owners, Industry Managers, and Raw Material Planners to maintain an optimized network wide Supply Plan that delivers against target service and cost metrics while adhering to capacity, network and transportation constraints through extensive data maintenance. This role will be accountable to maintain accurate inputs required for SAP S4/HANA Network Optimization application, analyze the production and sourcing plan outputs against an aligned solution quality definition, communicate changes to their platform owner, publish the sourcing ratios/quotas for consumption by other supply chain planning applications and setting up Origin-Destination-Product combinations that allow the daily operation of other S4/HANA modules. This person will have the responsibility to create sourcing and supply recommendations with help of scenarios and simulations and align the organization on the optimal strategy for finished good and semifinish good deployment. The chosen candidate is expected to have a strong understanding of optimization models and ability to analyze complex data sets to develop recommendations. They should have experience influencing upward and cross-functionally in the business and have the thought leadership to suggest optimal supply plans across a network.

Your Impact

As SC Sr Planner your responsibilities would consist of

Functional Responsibilities

• Review master data and transaction data flowing into NetOpt tool for accuracy and escalate issues
• Load & maintain network optimization data in the product aggregate grouping (PAG) master data tool
• Partner with Net Opt Managers (Platform Owners) to develop finished and semi-finished goods production and sourcing plan for internal plants and external co-manufacturers in the 0–64-week horizon
• Execute ad-hoc scenario and simulations analysis and analyze impacts
• Identify and coordinate production plans for raw material shortages that result in the best outcome for service
• Review and publish production and sourcing ratios for platform to be utilized by downstream supply planning applications
• Measure, monitor and tune network optimization outputs by adjusting inputs and constraints
• Review planning alerts tied to specific NetOpt solve to identify shortages, target inventory violations, and capacity and utilization issues and align with Net Opt manager on resolution
• Collaborate with and incorporate feedback on the source plan from cross-functional partners including master production planners, replenishment planners, inventory optimization raw material planners, industry managers and net opt managers (platform owners) to appropriately tune model with parameters and constraints
• Partner with Inventory Optimization to determine IO policy adjustments required due to manufacturing or storage constraints
• Support the monthly S&OP and AOP (annual operating plan) processes with outputs from network optimization
• Communicate outputs of network optimization in a simplified way to NetOps managers for decision making purposes
• The person in this role will be expected to help create and give feedback on new business processes in relation to supply sourcing analytics and how the team collaborates with FLNA HQ and Field teams
• Support POET and Innovation processes by setting all master data required and generating the corresponding Production and Sourcing Ratios.
• Create T-Lanes for daily and weekly operation requirements.

Qualifications

Who Are We Looking For?

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Experience

• Minimum of 4 years of Supply Chain Planning experience is required with exposure to network optimization preferred
• Ability to navigate complex datasets
• Flexible, ability to model “what if” scenarios with business acumen
• Ability to translate supply chain constraints to NetOpt model without compromising the optimization integrity of the application
• Ability to educate and influence up to higher levels in organization, primarily Net Opt managers, for alignment on source plan outputs which will
• Effective team player
• Influencing and persuasion skills are a plus as they must be willing to challenge group thinking and ask difficult questions
• Ability to simplify complex data and communicate clear recommendations to support business KPIs
• Data science and model building experience a plus
• Need an understanding of network and production capabilities/capacity
• Comfortable with excel and pivot table functionality
• Experience in optimization tools and principals required with SAP S4 Hana tools and Network Optimization Module of SAP preferred   

If this is an opportunity that interests you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements.

What can you expect from us:
 
• Opportunities to learn and develop every day through a wide range of programs.
• Internal digital platforms that promote self-learning.
• Development programs according to Leadership skills.
• Specialized training according to the role.
• Learning experiences with internal and external providers.
• We love to celebrate success, which is why we have recognition programs for seniority, behavior, leadership, moments of life, among others.
• Financial wellness programs that will help you reach your goals in all stages of life.
• A flexibility program that will allow you to balance your personal and work life, adapting your working day to your lifestyle.
• And because your family is also important to us, they can also enjoy benefits such as our Wellness Line, thousands of Agreements and Discounts, Scholarship programs for your children, Aid Plans for different moments of life, among others.
 
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We respect and value diversity as a work force and innovation for the organization.