Material Planner - Boksburg, South Africa - Unilever

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Boksburg, South Africa

1 week ago

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Main Job Purpose:

  • The Execution Planner (RMPM) is the Planning representative at Unilever's factories from RMPM perspective.

The role covers Material Scheduling:
receives the Production Schedule - and schedules and executes the daily call offs of Raw and Packaging Materials from suppliers

  • Key Accountabilities:
  • Material Scheduling
  • Schedule the delivery of materials with Suppliers, monitor delivery logistics (Call off)
  • Liaise with local Suppliers to ensure material availability to meet schedules and define and execute corrective actions when necessary
  • Manage and resolve week 0 to 1 material availability crises with suppliers
  • Execute SLOB management actions proposed by the Inventory Optimisation Specialist
  • Maintain delivery due list with inbound warehouse personnel
  • Ensure the tracking document is populated with integrity of materials by ensuring prompt write offs of obsolete stocks (following global policy)
  • Recommend changes on POs to L2 team (MRP Coordinator)
  • Liaison with other parties:
  • Escalate to Procurement planned material availability issues
  • Liaise with inbound stores on overdue deliveries and follow up with suppliers
  • Liaise with inbound stores and Suppliers for most desirable delivery days
  • Liaise with Suppliers of rejected materials and ensure that all materials are returned to the suppliers
  • Ensure that all GRN on materials on week 0 to 1 are capture timelessly, and if not escalate to the Market & Site Collaboration Planner
  • Advise Suppliers of all changes in stock holding policy to ensure that stock is appropriately managed
  • Transition Management:
  • Manage RMPM material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, 5S projects, working closely with the MRP Coordinator to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained
  • Ensure material availability for RMPM on week 0 to production trials, ramp up and ramp down
  • Provide input into MOC for RMPM
  • Working Capital Management
  • Work closely with the Procurement team and suppliers to ensure appropriate stock levels for bulks are maintained both onsite and at the suppliers to ensure material availability
  • Execute actions proposed by the Inventory Specialist and End to End Planners on Slow and Obsolete (SLOB) raw and packaging materials and ensure that provisions are raised timeously
  • Data Maintenance
  • Provide feedback to Parameter Optimisation Specialist to ensure run strategy is workable
  • Provide and validate input data to the Inventory Specialist for generation of the Inventory Planning Model and agree output prior to implementation
  • Provide and validate other planning master data required by the L2 Hub
  • Ensure proper maintenance of relevant data in the system as defined by the Master Data templates
  • Perform regular scheduling data health checks
  • Reporting
  • Ensure the plant shortage report is issued weekly.
  • Professional Skills & Standards of Leadership

ESSENTIAL

  • Future fit planning skills is an advantage (Curiosity and Agility, Impact through technology)
  • Tertiary degree with Supply Chain and/ or Business Management is preferred. An engineering degree will also be considered, with experience in the general supply chain being an advantage
  • Further studies in supply chain, including a APICS/SAPICS qualification, would be beneficial
  • A good understanding of, and the use of SAP is essential
  • Planning and functional business process knowledge
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders to achieve results
  • Strong change, service and agile mindset
  • Strong accountability and responsibility
  • Standards of Leadership: Personal mastery; Agility
  • Experience Required:
  • ESSENTIAL
  • 13 Years exposure to broad based Supply Chain management.
  • Understand 'Make' and 'Source' processes
  • Fully operational in 'Plan' processes
  • Experience in managing external parties.
  • Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.
  • PREFERRED
  • FMCG experience
  • Travel:

Contacts:

  • Internal:
  • Factory management and operational teams
  • Inbound stores
  • L1 Planning team
  • Procurement Teams
  • External:
  • L2 Planning Hub
  • Material Suppliers
  • What You Get: Challenges of the job & experience to be gained.
  • Opportunity to work with and optimizing the systems in order to delivery improved planning results.
  • Combine several constraints and often divergent objectives.
  • Team working with different functions.
  • Working with suppliers & managing their development and performance
  • Clear vision of the supply chain processes.
  • Internal Job Description


  • Main Job Purpose:
  • The Execution Planner (RMPM) is the Planning representative at Unilever's factories from RMPM perspective.

The role covers Material Scheduling:
receives the Production Schedule - and schedules and executes the daily call offs of Raw and Packaging Materials from suppliers

  • Key Accountabilities:
  • Material Scheduling
  • Schedule the delivery of materials
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