Responsible to ensure strategic plant allocation in co-ordination with Global Tire Sourcing. (PLT only)
Steer Structural Capacity Management and Production FC for the plants in the region according to BU targets.
Responsible for rolling, optimal production planning according to sales targets, considering R&O and financial effects.
Support decision process for production priorities and communicate priorities in case of shortages
Steering of Dual sourcing / Flex articles across APAC plants in order to balance production capacities across BU.
Maintain SCM systems accordingly to have the correct plant - market sourcing splits each week for flex articles.
Operations
Responsible to balance PSI according to targets, evaluate & steer all relevant SCM Parameters in co-operation with CDIM (optimum fill rate vs. cost targets).
Responsible to ensure availability and delivery of customer orders according to requirements.
Repeated mold order confirmation and checking between plants and GTS.
Check market shortage risk to GTS due to SOP delay.
Coordinating mold transfer between plants Operations.
Responsible to implement KPIs to steer performance and development of the department to increase customer service levels & Support plants to improve KPI results.
Responsible to ensure alert management of manufacturing issues and actively identify supply shortages
Responsible to steer and mange phase in/phase out, including transfers. Example Gen 7 introduction
Responsible to ensure all relevant regular reporting for the business steering.
Introduction of new tools and processes (example TLB), development of new reporting platforms (example Power BI reports) Continuous Improvements.
Responsible to establish continuous improvement activities in the Supply chain (processes, structures and Organization)
Training of plant & market colleagues on new tools, processes and systems (when needed)
Strategy Support SCO in updating 5 year Manufacturing Footprint for APAC plants (PLT) each quarter inline with the latest market updates including R&O and inputs from controlling.
Plan further flexibility needed between plants based on the 5 year overview considering factors like plant complexity, equipments, compounds and cost while protecting interests of the customers and OE together with GTS.
Weekly update on running flexibility tasks, production loading to regional / central GTS teams.