Cluster Supply Planner
Open to work
Natassia Kaye Dublin-Rumbines
Michelin AIM FZCO
Sharjah,United Arab Emirates
1
Language
4
years of post-secondary education
14
Years of experience
Experienced Supply Chain Planning professional specialising in demand and supply planning, inventory optimisation, and production planning across global and MENA markets. Achieved alignment of supply chain strategies with business objectives, optimised inventory investments, and enhanced service performance through strong analytical thinking and cross-functional collaboration. Focused on driving continuous improvement and building robust stakeholder relationships to ensure customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Work history
MNA Cluster Planner
5 Years 2 Months- Optimize short-term supply planning to meet order portfolio requirements, prioritize business needs, and accelerate shipment execution.
- Close coordination with customer service team to maximize order fulfilment and ensure successful execution of sales plan.
- Manage supply chain disruptions, business opportunities and customer escalations.
- Ensure optimal inventory levels of customers through effective BOT visibility and monitoring.
- Develop replenishment proposals for importers based on sell-out targets, forecasted demand, and target stock coverage.
- Identified potential gaps between sell-out performance and forecasts, as well as excess inventory risks, and communicated recommendations to commercial teams for corrective action.
- Lead monthly steering meetings with focus-country importers to address systemic issues, manage customer commitments, and align supply chain KPIs with customer expectations.
- Present updates on order portfolio status, supply availability, order execution progress, and operational challenges during monthly sales meetings.
- Acted as primary point of contact for Commercial Team, Cluster Sales Operations, and Customer Service teams.
- Drove service improvements to enhance key performance indicators, particularly on-shelf availability.
- Process importer data and prepare BOT file, serving as primary reference for monthly business reviews and steering activities.
- Support product Phase-In and Phase-Out processes to ensure seamless order alignment and timely execution.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to communicate supply risks, business priorities, and short-term operational alerts.
- Coach and support new team members and importers on key processes and monthly operational activities.
- Led small-scale projects and improvement initiatives that resulted in operational excellence and increased business efficiency.
- Contribute to execution of GCC DOT strategy, ensuring products from current production year are delivered within targeted 30-day window.
Supply Planner - Mining & Beyond Road
5 Years 6 Months- Managed deployment planning and supply allocation across multiple markets, ensuring optimal product availability while balancing inventory, service levels, and logistics costs.
- Analysed inventory performance across markets, mitigating overstock and shortage risks through proactive action plans that enhanced product availability.
- Executed inventory optimisation initiatives, reducing excess stock and rebalancing inventory in collaboration with commercial and supply chain teams to improve overall supply efficiency.
- Coordinated supply allocation, inventory transfers, and emergency deployment actions to address supply constraints and business-critical requirements.
- Administered and optimised deployment planning parameters and tools to support effective short-term supply decisions and market prioritisation.
- Monitored short-term import plans and ensured alignment between supply availability and market demand forecasts.
- Supported new product launches and phase-out activities, ensuring seamless product availability and inventory transition management.
- Maintained data integrity and planning system accuracy to enable effective supply chain decision-making.
- Facilitated regular supply review meetings between commercial teams, suppliers, and supply chain stakeholders to drive alignment, improve customer service levels and resolve operational challenges.
- Translated tactical supply chain decisions into operational execution, ensuring alignment across planning systems and stakeholder teams.
- Created and maintained supply chain performance dashboards, delivering KPI analysis and insights that informed strategic business decisions.
- Acted as key liaison between commercial, supply, and operations teams, enhancing communication, visibility, and end-to-end supply chain performance.
Planner
6 Months- Maintained Endura (RAK Glass) & Essence Brand MRP as primary planning tool for other planners.
- Analyse orders and determine SKUs to be supplied for Endura, Essence, Luminarc Dinnerware & decorated B2B considering inventory information, lead times & production capacity
- Confirm availability dates of items of each item committed to supply.
- Updates MPP with quantities, availability dates, and availability remarks.
- Create SAP production orders for Endura, Essence, Luminarc Dinnerware & decorated B2B
- Coordinated ordering of packaging materials to support production of Endura, Essence, Luminarc dinnerware, and decorated B2B lines.
- Provide list of SKU's to be pack with corresponding quantities to Selection & Packing Department
- Followed up on availability of decoration artworks and positives to support New Product Development (NPD) process and codification of new SKUs.
- Follow up availability of decoration artworks / positives to NPD.
- Daily Activities
· Monitors delivery of packaging & availability of glassware in order to update packing plan
· Monitors daily output of decoration / primary production
· Monitors online / offline packing status
· Attends daily operational meeting
Demand Planner
3 Years 1 Month- Generate monthly statistical forecast for Core Collection items and make necessary adjustment using inputs available (historical sales, inventory level, and collaborative forecast)
- Prepared and maintained demand planning reports to facilitate data-driven decision-making and support S&OP initiatives.
- Conducted forecast accuracy gap analysis meetings with Sales team to identify discrepancies and enhance forecasting precision.
- Monitored inventory levels for MTF items, ensuring alignment with demand targets and minimizing stockouts.
- Prepared report for monthly S&OP meeting, including stock position, capacity and demand analysis, and sales analysis.
- Monthly activities:· Update Forecasting Files with last 24 month Sales History & with generated Statistical Forecast.· Update all market files and send to every Sales Manager.· Compile all files received from Sales Manager with updated forecast.· Analyze all orders and list down issues to be discuss to each Sales Managers· Do Pre-DRM meeting with Every Sales Manager separately.· Prepare MPP File (FC quantities & Orders) and send to Supply Team for Planning.· Do SRM Meeting with Supply Planning Team.· Meet Sales Managers for DRM Meeting· Prepare & send MTF_ MTO Vs Supply file for every Market/Sales Manager
- Prepare monthly Master Production Plan and send to Supply Planning team.
- Monthly activities:
· Update Forecasting Files with last 24 month Sales History & with generated Statistical Forecast.
· Update all market files and send to every Sales Manager.
· Compile all files received from Sales Manager with updated forecast.
· Analyze all orders and list down issues to be discuss to each Sales Managers
· Do Pre-DRM meeting with Every Sales Manager separately.
· Prepare MPP File (FC quantities & Orders) and send to Supply Team for Planning.
· Do SRM Meeting with Supply Planning Team.
· Meet Sales Managers for DRM Meeting
· Prepare & send MTF_ MTO Vs Supply file for every Market/Sales Manager
Skills
End-to-end supply chain
Sales and Operations Planning
Deployment planning
Inventory Management
Process Improvement
Analytical Thinking
Problem Solving
Customer Focus
Data Analysis
Education
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
Languages
English
Fluent
Work preference
Job search status:
Open to work
Work Type
Full time
Location preference
On-siteHybridRemote
Open to relocation:
Yes
Minimum Desired Compensation
$0/yr
Timeline
MNA Cluster Planner
Michelin AIM FZCO
2021.07 - CurrentRead More
Supply Planner - Mining & Beyond Road
Michelin AIM FZE
2015.12 - 2021.06Read More
Planner
ARC International Middle East
2015.06 - 2015.12Read More
Demand Planner
ARC International Middle East
2012.04 - 2015.05Read More
Mapua Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science from Industrial Engineering
2003.06 - 2007.10Read More