
Production Planner
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
- R240,000-276,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for coordinating and steering the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process
- Ensures adherence to the outlined processes for S&OP and demand planning
- Root-cause analysis of relevant front-end and back-end supply chain metrics and taking suitable action
- Ensuring the completion of action items decided in S&OP meeting
- Develop and execute product demand plans to meet organization goals.
- Manage demand planning and management processes for new and existing products.
- Work with sales team, customer input and supply chain management to improve forecast accuracy
- Obtain, analyze and interpret supply chain relevant data.
- Use analysis results to improve supply chain processes, performance and to reduce costs.
- Perform analyses with this data using analytical models and mathematical analysis
- Forecasting, capacity planning, demand planning, warehouse capacity planning, production planning
- Relevant qualification in Supply Chain Management, Logistics is preferred but not essential
- MIN 3 years FMCG working experience within a Supply Chain environment
- Demonstrate experience reducing cost or improving efficiency in previous jobs
- Working experience within a multinational is an advantage
- Knowledge and understanding of MRP principles.