SPL Manager

Overview

The Replenishment Planner plays a critical role in ensuring product availability across channels by managing inventory levels, optimizing replenishment strategies, and collaborating with cross\-functional teams. This role focuses on improving service levels, especially in Organized Trade, E\-commerce, and Modern Trade, while driving operational excellence. In addition, the role is responsible for end‑to‑end management of Niche \& NPD projects, covering planning, launch readiness, replenishment execution and customer deliveries

Responsibilities

• Drive Order Fill Rate improvement to 95% across Organized Trade channels
• Monitor weekly fill rate performance for organised trade and Identify root causes of fill rate gaps
• Ensuring optimal inventory levels across warehouse to meet market and sales demand
• Partner with supply planning, and Regional logistics teams to ensure seamless execution
• Support production planning with insights to ensure timely product availability
• Drive RP plan adherence in ISCP and Adoption across all Plants
• Drive automation and digitization initiatives to streamline order management processes
• Implement best practices from global PepsiCo teams and adapt them to local organised trade dynamics
• Tracking and delivery of low‑volume Niche/NPD SKUs through courier and PTL models to ensure timely and cost‑effective fulfillment.

Own end‑to‑end lifecycle for niche SKUs (e.g., RRD) covering RM planning production* dispatch.

• Drive Inventory Norms through ISCP and stabilize IP Compliance

Special Project

• Establish SOPs, inventory norms and dispatch workflows for new plant Guwahati

Qualifications

• *Key Skills/Experience Required**.* Education: MBA (Supply Chain Management/ Operations)
• Functional Experience: Approx. 5 – 7 years of experience
• Language: English, Hindi
• At least 3\-5 years of Supply Chain experience in a FMCG industry (preferably food industry)
• Proficiency in SAP, JDA and Material Planning Software Systems
• Ability to work in a fast\-paced environment