Liquid Planner at Air Liquide

ALBS is an Air Liquide entity in Kuala Lumpur, regrouping for the APAC scope its Business Service Centers (Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai) as well as the two Global Functions (IT, Digital and Procurement). Designed to derive optimal value by better leveraging technology, people and competencies, the ultimate goal is to boost efficiency and deliver outstanding and sustainable performance while keeping a strong focus on customer centricity. This Organization is striving for excellence, adopting the Best in Class models to deliver value through simplification and standardization of processes, while adhering to Internal controls and compliance requirements.

Responsible for the management & improvement of all production planning & supply chain activities relating to liquid (LIN/LOX/LAR/LCO2).
The Liquid Planner is responsible to orchestrate an optimized production planning that is cost efficient together with the Supply Chain Analyst. He/She is responsible for managing the sourcing with key stakeholders to align the quota for each source; matching our customer demand with optimized production, 3rd-party and distribution assets. He/She is responsible for gathering all inputs and constraints from our sourcing and distribution operation. This person is responsible for monitoring and improving the performance of our Total Landed Cost.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

1. Act as the focal point for all Business Lines for supply chain related matters: Logistic constraints, shutdown/maintenance planning, sourcing, traffic management/purity constraints, liquid allocation pertaining to liquid planning (LIN/LOX/LAR/LCO2)

2. Strategic Planning

Contributor to scenarios formulation and optimisation

3. Monthly Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP)

Aggregate demand forecast for liquid
Match demand forecast and exceptionals with supply and production
Consolidate S&OP with distribution and logistics
Consolidate realized performance vs previous plan
Implement the plan with the stakeholders

4. E2E Short-term: Weekly Planning (S&OE)

Review previous week liquid forecast accuracy
Aggregate liquid demand forecast
Aggregate PP constraints
Run scenarios & Select
Check plan effectiveness & capitalize on lessons learned

5. E2E Short-term: execution of the daily production

Update Weekly Planning S&OE

6. E2E Short-term: execution of the daily distribution

Update weekly planning S&OE if required (incl. pickups)
Rolling monitoring of quota & close the loop in industrial performance

7. Spot Sales

Competitor Support Decisions
Communicate Unavailability to Competitor
Picked up liquid volume check against requirement
Delivered Spot Sales Support Decision
Communicate Unavailability to Prod mgmt/Commercial
Communicate Unavailability to Customer
Present Cost to Product Management
Gas and Liquid delivered volume check against req.
Calculate & communicate final costs, lessons learned

8. Shortage Crisis Management

To assist in defining plan to resume the customer supply
To participate in Post Crisis Capitalization
S&OP Scenarios Updates
To assist in Financial Impact Assessment

Are you a MATCH?

The successful candidate should have advanced education in engineering and preferably above 5 years of experience in plant operation and/or production planning and/or business operation. This background should enable him/her to optimize the "Production vs Demand" activity on a pool of Air Separation Units, located in different EAP countries. The candidate should also be in charge of coordinating a number of associated workflows. As our goal is to leverage digital tools to build data driven production planning, it is key that the successful candidate is keen to cope with the digital tools.
Due to the multiple stakeholders that the candidate will deal with, excellent communication skills, high autonomy and ability to learn fast will be a key success factor.
Considering the candidates will coordinate in emergent situations at different timing, flexibility and resiliences are key to success criterias.
The candidate will strive for continuous improvement to streamline Non-Value Added tasks and standardize our workflow throughout our geographies.

About Air Liquide

A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.