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Team Member - Material Planning (SA)

Posting Date:  14 Jan 2025
Department:  SCM SAGA
Business Unit: 
Country:  Gauteng
State:  South Africa
Location:  Midrand
Req Id:  91544

Supply Chain

Procurement

Job Purpose

Review of production plan, Creation of monthly Purchase requisition of raw material and packing material for a specific cluster of units as per plan available in IBP/SAP by monitoring existing inventories, collaborating with procurement, Supply planner, Unit planner teams as per plan available in IBP/MRP as per set guidelines and ensure material availability.

  • Initiate and co-ordinate action plans to manage materials shortages.
  • Complete Monthly shortages reports
  • Expedite or defer materials as per SAP or Unit Planner recommendations to support business requirements timeously.
  • Ensure maintenance of SAP master data to drive and support MRP
  • Propose and evaluate continuous improvements and cost reduction initiatives.
  • Provide material schedules (Forecasts) to all suppliers on a quarterly basis for a rolling 12 months.
  • Minimize or eliminate excess inventory.
  • Proactively eliminate Slow-moving and Obsolete stock (SLOB)

Key Accountabilities (1/6)

Creation of Purchase requisition for raw materials and packing materials based on production plan available as per set guidelines and ensure material availability.

  1. Check material availability as per the BOM explosion.
  2. Check RM, PM inventory in other units for stock transfer.
  3. Create and Release Purchase Requisition for RM, PM in SAP as per IBP / SAP MRP plan

Key Accountabilities (2/6)

Liaise with Procurement, , Plant Planners, Stores, QA and manufacturing teams on delivery of material.

  1. Liaise with procurement team for the material follow-up.
  2. Liaise with stores team for the delivery of material.

Key Accountabilities (3/6)

Check with Procurement and ensure material delivery to ensure material availability. Action on rejection by procurement

 

  1. Ensure the details on delivery of goods, rejection and delays are updated respective supply and business teams
  2. Co-ordinate with procurement and QA teams on the material rejection and CAPA
  3. Be a point of contact for Control Tower meetings for assigned unit.

Key Accountabilities (4/6)

Ensure to raise Purchase requisition for RM, PM in adherence to the agreed standards of quantities and timelines for optimum inventory levels at all units

 

  1. Timely creation of indents as per the BOM specifications.
  2. Adherence to MRP created PRs and ensure to meet inventory target.
  3. Ensure Stock availability to support production plan
  4. Eliminate material shortages

Key Accountabilities (5/6)

Liaise with Procurement, Stores team on the action for the non-moving inventory such salvaging, disposal, destruction to avoid CoPE reduction and ensure minimum loss on non-moving, slow moving inventory.

 

  1. Collating data for salvaging of non-moving inventory.
  2. To dispose of non-moving material with the help of procurement.
  3. To intimate stores for raising disposal/ destruction authorization as per DOA
  4. Action on report generated on obsolete and expiring material.
  5. Sharing visibility/ data for short term and long term capacity building for warehouses.

Key Accountabilities (6/6)

MIS & Reporting

 

    1. Prepare regular reporting from MRP and share with all stakeholders.
    2. Prepare cluster wise total material CoPE risk and report to Finance.
    3. Prepare month on month inventory simulation.
    4. Prepare monthly material availability ie. Full-kitting report.
    5. Report Critical materials in weekly huddle meeting to de-risk production and business commitment.

Education Qualification

Grade 12/ Matric/ Equivalent

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in:

      • Mechanical Engineering
      • Industrial Engineering
      • Bachelor of Commerce
      • Finance
      • Supply Chain

Or any other related qualification

Relevant Work Experience

  • 4-6 years of supply chain and/or operations experience in pharmaceutical, FMCG industry, or other manufacturing specifically in manufacturing units
  • Excellent presentation skills and ability to proactively contribute to customer presentations

Desirable:

  • Good knowledge of SAP or ERP systems, MRP, IBP and various SAP transaction, reports related to materials.
  • Good communication skills, influencing skills, techno-commercial knowledge, MS Office skills and SAP or ERP know-how, stakeholder management.

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