About this Planning Analyst role at Abbott
JOB DESCRIPTION:
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
This position works out of our Uptown 1 office in the Core Diagnostics Division (CRDx). We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
Primary Function/ Primary Goals/ Objectives:
Responsible for demand & supply planning, inventory replenishment from source DC, tracking and following up of shipment from source to affiliate DC, inventory management on product expiry, slow moving & obsolescence. Ensure replenishment is at optimum to minimize freight cost. Coordinate with global planner on inventory availability.
Major Responsibilities:
Review historical sales and establish a demand trend to build a baseline supply plan
Drive monthly S&OP meeting with affiliates Comm’l team to determine any one-off event, seasonality and additional/reduction in demand due to market/customer penetration/exit to finalize the demand plan
Review salable inventory onhand, stock in-transit, safety stock level and transit time to workout the supply requirement using ADDOne tools and raise the order to source DC timely
Regular review of inventory DOH (Days On Hand) to minimize out of stock and backorder.
Collaborate with global planner to expedite backorder from source Collaborate with Area Demand and Supply Planning Head and Commercial to align on inventory holding strategy, safety stock, order frequency, minimum shelf life, lot sequestering & shipping mode to maximize order fill rate and minimize inventory holding and freight cost
Coordinate with source DC logistics, forwarder & custom broker to track shipment for timely departure and arrival. Coordinate with source DC on delay or discrepancy
Regular review of inventory to reduce slow moving, obsolescence and distress inventory, report timely to Finance on any significant distress
Responsible to initiate Change Request to Master Data team for all new material master creation, extension or revision in SAP Collaborate with affiliates logistics and 3PL on inventory accuracy at warehouse. Report timely to Finance on any significant variance
Responsible for timely inventory destruction at the warehouse. Coordinate with Service team for disposition of idle intrument at the warehouse
Collaborate with Global SME to maximize the use of planning tools ADDOne and provide feedback to Planning Head for improvement on planning process
1st contact point for Comm’l on inventory availability
Publish/review Supply Chain metric in relation to inventory DOH, distress, order fill rate, backorder value as well as the performance of source DC. Automate reporting.
Support Area on continuous improvement program to drive efficiency and
Gross Margin Improvement initiatives related to Planning
Regular review and provide feedback to managers to any process gaps on Planning playbook to keep it up to date against actual proces Ensure all workflow and processes adher to Abbott OEC policy and procedures
Education:
Bachelor degree holder from Supply Chain Management, Statistics, Analytics or other related discipline
The base pay for this position is
N/AIn specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Supply Chain
DIVISION:
CRLB Core Lab
LOCATION:
Malaysia > Selangor : Imazium, No. 8, Jalan SS 21/37
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
No
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
