Pushpika Samarakkody Handugala Dewage

1. Production Planning & Coordination

• Lead the development of mid- and long-term production plans aligning with sales forecast, capacity, and material availability.
• Allocate sewing line capacity efficiently across 70 lines to ensure optimal resource utilization and cost-effective output.
• Ensure alignment between sales orders, sample approvals, material availability, and production planning timelines.

2. Line Loading & Efficiency Management

• Strategically manage style allocation to maximize efficiency and reduce changeover time.
• Oversee daily/weekly line loading plans in coordination with factory management and planning teams.
• Monitor actual vs. planned performance and initiate corrective actions to achieve production targets.

3. Manpower & Skill Planning

• Collaborate with HR and line supervisors to plan manpower based on style complexity and delivery urgency.
• Support training plans to build multi-skilled operators for flexible line management.

4. Capacity Monitoring & Optimization

• Track actual capacity vs. available capacity and adjust proactively for urgent or high-volume orders.
• Drive continuous improvements to increase line output, reduce bottlenecks, and balance workloads.

5. Delivery & Customer Commitment

• Ensure on-time delivery performance by proactively identifying and mitigating production risks.
• Collaborate with shipping, merchandising, and quality teams to meet customer delivery windows.

6. Cross-functional Alignment

• Act as the bridge between merchandising, technical, cutting, and sewing operations for seamless execution.
• Lead daily/weekly planning meetings with key stakeholders to review updates, risks, and action items.

7. Data Management & Reporting

• Implement planning systems and dashboards to track style-level progress, WIP, and output.
• Present capacity, productivity, and planning KPIs to senior management with data-backed insights.

8. Compliance & Lean Initiatives

• Ensure adherence to compliance, safety, and lean production principles.

Drive initiatives to reduce waste, improve throughput time, and enhance floor-level decision-making

• Overall planning responsibilities lingerers' division $36M annual sale turnover.
• High-level capacity analyzing annual budget Vs customer forecasts.
• Strategic planning long terms and short terms focusing profitability.
• Analyzing previous customer sale pattern and future sale behavior.
• Optimum capacity planning achieved budgeted efficiencies/SAH.
• Working with planners closely and courage meet business goals.
• Drive to Merchandizing team & Factories meet yearly Budget target.
• Well experienced fast react planning skills including report writing.
• Regular meeting with merchandising team follow up Raw material update.
• Maintaining KPI reports & present to senior managements.

• Group planning responsibilities $65M annual sale turnover.
• Overall capacity planning annual 300K SAH &3000 sewing operator's.
• Follow up annual sale budget and make a plan to meet sale target end of the year.
• Strategic planning Long terms and short terms focusing profitability.
• Optimum capacity planning for high productivity.
• Drive the planners optimize capacity & on time delivery.
• Drive to Merchandizing team & Factories meet yearly Budget target.
• Well experienced fast react planning skills including report writing.
• Understanding all phases from development to bulk shipments.
• Maintaining monthly KPI reports & present to senior managements.
• Responsibility for Lay planning functioning.

• Accountable for Lingerie's division $30M annual sale turnover.
• Capacity planning 1400 own sewers' and 500 sewer's sub contracts.
• Following up future demand for smooth capacity management.
• Strategic planning long & short terms focusing profitability.
• Optimum line loading for better productivity.
• Drive the planners meet set KPI target monthly and yearly.
• Maintaining KPI reports & present to managements.
• Drive to Merchandizing team & Factories meet yearly Budget target.
• Working with outsource factories and getting orders & CMT price negotiation.

• Starting with project implementation & functioning planning tool.
• Overall planning responsibilities entre group loading.
• Capacity planning based on customer future demand.
• Professional relationship external and internal customers.

• Fully planning responsibility for two factories 1800 sewer's under CBU.
• Prepare Production plan delivery priority and meet best efficiency.
• Prepare 3 months capacity document and discuss management.
• Leading weekly OTD meeting & discuss with operation team.
• Prepare embellishment under BU related all styles.
• Follow up raw material support for production plan & line continuity.
• Represent the Weekly operation meeting.(CFT)
• Involved to budgeted meeting discuss future capacity requirements.
• Professional relationships with all external and internal customers.

• Worked as planning in charge 2 own factories and 2 sub contract factories.
• Preparing production plan prioritizing deliveries and efficiencies.
• Accepting orders and quoting deliveries to merchandiser.
• Prepare monthly sale forecast and follow up achievements.
• Followed raw material support to agreed plan.
• Experience with fast react planning software.