CONA Specialist at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities :

• Presenting a monthly unconstrained production plan solved to DC level as per LCP Requirement – 12-18 months forward
• Scenario planning with various cost inventory levels – all scenarios solved for lost sales by DC
• Main connection between SCD, Supply teams and Demand planning
• Focus on long term capability, capacity and cost while focusing on protecting service level and deliver mix and enable commercial plan
• Responsible for providing the cash flow budget and monthly full year LE on finished goods
• Translate production plans by brewery into numerical KPI’s (GLY, NST, OAE) and ensure full understanding by brewery and lines
• Least Cost Model maintenance, alignment and update (VIC, VLC & VILC)
• Responsible for maintaining inventory policy data books for RSI modelling.
• Publish an optimized monthly long term production plan from M+2 with at least a rolling 12 months incorporating WSNP handover
• Monthly Production plan with cost and allocation optimization solving for lost sales down to DC level
• Manage key Supply Planning KPI’s & Costs (T1 VLC; CONA & Allocation Efficiency; WSNP efficiency)
• Lead and prepare Supply Review deck in accordance with TOR and
• Sign off on monthly inventory LE’s to cash flow team
• Ensure monthly ‘handshake’ on S&OP process between WSNP & CONA teams as well as with the Supply team
• Attending all S&OP routines and S&OE
• Input analysis - demand publish accuracy
• Input analysis – capacity, capability, line speeds, NPD and project timelines. 
• Output analysis – Lost sales
• Output analysis – IR movements and T1 cost

Education Requirements:

• An orientation towards the quantitative disciplines of mathematics, statistics and economics would be advantageous
• Candidate should have a 3 year Bachelor level with a preference to Supply Chain
• A minimum of 1 year Planning / Logistics / Procurement experience will be advantageous