Materials Planner - Randfontein at RCL Foods

• The purpose of the role is to provide support to the MRP Planner Packaging with daily & weekly tasks for 9 manufacturing plants and to ensure adequate stockholding to meet the forward production plan & sales forecast for 9 manufacturing plants and Act as a backup up to the MRP Planner Packaging & Ingredients as and when required.

Minimum Requirements    

• Matriculation certificate
• SAPICS qualification (e.g. PPIM) or Supply Chain Diploma (e.g. MCIPS) is advantageous or studying towards
•  2 – 3 years raw materials/packaging experience, preferably within a FMCG environment, but will also consider candidates with strong operations processing experience and/or who have worked closely with the supply planning team in other roles.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Material Requirements Planning

• Manage the MRP plan to ensure that the production plan can be met timeously by having enough packaging on site in advance to meet the processing schedule.
• Expedite and/or postpone purchase orders where shortages or oversupply becomes evident.
• Re-plan requirements weekly and make adjustments as ad hoc changes get made to the planning schedule.
• Ensure that stock holding levels are maintained appropriately to ensure working capital targets are met.
• Use appropriate tools to determine safety stock levels

Liaise closely with the site planning teams to ensure that their requirements are appropriately met

• Provide support to the MRP Planner Packaging
• Assist MRP Planner Packaging with the creation of purchase orders twice weekly based on requirements calculated and send purchase orders to suppliers.
• Once suppliers responded to call offs with delivery dates, update the call off sheet on the planning spreadsheet used by the MRP Planner Packaging.
• Call off packaging twice a week from suppliers and request better dates once notices that stock will not come in on time.
• Provide packaging store with an updated delivery schedule from suppliers on a daily basis.
• Confirm daily that packaging was delivered as per schedule from the MRP Planner Packaging.
• Follow up on all non-deliveries as per delivery schedule with suppliers on daily basis.
• Ensure system transactions are appropriately cleaned up on a weekly basis.

Supplier Management

• Provide suppliers with a 12-week forward view of anticipated requirements to be used to secure time on the supplier's production facility as well as enable them time to procure their input materials.
• Sourcing team to be provided with anticipated annual volumes to be used for contract negotiations.
• Resolve any supplier irregularities that may impact the forward production plan and escalate where these cannot be resolved.

Information and Data Management

• Ensure plants accurately and regularly capture data into the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.
• Ensure all planning master data is 100% accurate in planning tools
• Share relevant data with management teams to enable reliable business decision making.
• Own all MRP master data and ensure that the appropriate new product or amended product information are accurately updated and approved for update into the system.

Administration

• Oversee filing and safeguarding of records within area of responsibility.
• Compile ad hoc spreadsheets when required.

Pricing

• Updating working tool with pricing received from sourcing team.
• Update pricing sheet and distribute to team.
• Update open orders with price increase/ decreases.
• Investigate and process pricing claims.
• Quality rejected packaging
• Involve suppliers when stock has been rejected.
• Arrange stock upliftment/ replacement stock with supplier.

Closing Date    
2023/09/01