Planning and Forecasting Manager - Houghton at SBV Services (Pty) Ltd.

Description

Responsible for the effective forecasting and planning of the collaborative ATM supply chain, at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.

• Develop, communicate, and recommend ATM supply chain strategies and long-term capacity plans in compliance with by risk considerations, resource constraints, service level agreement, business development commitments and financial prudence. Continuously reviewing and updating planning standards.
• Responsible for a wide range of planning horizons, ranging from short-term (the forecasting of daily ATM cash payouts and the planning of ATM replenishments), to long-term strategic capacity planning
• Accountable for all planning platforms, enabling planning covering inventory, operations, and capacity planning.
• Identify exceptions where supply does not meet demand and create plans to address exceptions to close the gap.
• Identify and recommend the most feasible plan by consulting all the stakeholders involved.
• Develop, communicate, and drive a Contingency Plan for BCM.
• Obtain data from multiple sources for inclusion in the calculation of stock targets e.g. forecast accurately, production cycle times and order lead times.
• Calculate and interpret cycle and pipeline inventory to facilitate decision making.
• Responsible to ensure that the cash volumes are forecasted and planned accurately to meet demand.
• Optimize cash, including availability levels by using cash modelling tools regularly, reviewing inputs and outputs from the models to ensure appropriate inventory as according to the inventory limit and associated policies and procedures.
• Identify bottlenecks on Supply Chain Planning including key suppliers, and recommend proposals to resolve them at optimal cost
• Review of monthly reports on the ATM cash supply chain. Where available; interrogate and trend ATM cost of funds and logistics costs.
• Where available; identify, evaluate, and report on the Cash in Transit (CIT) routes that are practically relevant to the ATM supply chain.
• Assist Planners to resolve gaps between the plan and the production schedule by assessing the impact of available options on the supply chain e.g. incur additional costs through overtime, temporary labour etc.
• Effectively manage the cash in ATM’s by delivering cost effective plans whilst simultaneously ensuring that there are no service failures.

Understanding of IT related aspects with regards to systems

• Display a thorough knowledge of planning logic in the various systems to thoroughly vet and engage with ICT in the design and creation of a fully integrated Planning system.
• Implement measures to ensure all planning systems meet the required uptime to support the business.
• Verify that all master data is kept current in the planning systems.

Create and maintain the infrastructure for accurate and comprehensive execution, reporting and analysis on Supply Chain Planning

• Define, develop, and maintain metrics to measure the cost of quality for Planning.
• Create the infrastructure (systems, manpower, frequency, etc.) to provide Senior Management with visibility on Planning for SA
• Assist with implementation and maintenance of ERP system.
• Develop statistical and analytical tools to drive deeper reserve trend understanding as well as improving forecast accuracy going forward.
• Conduct trend analysis on Cash volumes focusing on inbound and outbound logistics
• Analyse the demand statistics to forecast accurately.

Stakeholder engagement

• Build and foster relationships with colleagues, business stakeholders and role players to improve overall effectiveness.
• Establish Sales and Operations planning process in the business
• Engage with external industry participants who influence the planning solution.
• Interact with external clients at a senior level to improve forecast accuracy (eg. Banks)
• Attend relevant forums where direction is taken in terms of the future development of strategic management and methodology internally and externally.

Adhere to Corporate Governance

• Final review of all processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks for the planning department, ensuring that all of it is documented and understood by all members of the team and broader Operations team.
• Work with the Risk & Governance department during the scoping of audits to ensure fair coverage.

Manage the Budget

• Assist, develop and manage the internal budget for the planning and forecasting department.
• Manage resources within budget guidelines according to company policy and within ethical corporate governance guidelines.

Provide leadership to employees within the organization, creating a winning culture and high morale Lead as an Ambassador and executor of Change.

• Act as a change management architect in periods of change to ensure continuity to operations
• Manage the integration of CIT and Processing into a seamless end to end solution for customers
• Effectively communicate and embed new processes and procedures as they occur addressing or escalating matters / concerns to the SME’s (subject matter experts) when required
• Facilitate the necessary presentations, workshops, or forums to ensure consistent and accurate communication is given across one’s centre/s

Drive the organization culture.

• Drive the department’s values while inspiring confidence and generating excitement, enthusiasm, and commitment towards the mission.
• Provide leadership to employees within the organization, creating a winning culture and high morale
• Drive a culture of performance driven output through shared purpose vision and values

Requirements

• 5 years’ experience in managing planning & forecasting within the Supply Chain environment, of which:
• 2 years in a middle management role of a similar nature
• 1 years’ Project Management experience. (Including the implementation of forecasting and planning systems’ experience.)
• Proven understanding of supply chain management principles

Minimum Requirements: Education

• A supply chain relevant degree (Industrial Engineering, BCom, or BSc) majoring in Logistics, Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Business Management or Statistics.
• A post graduate specialisation relevant to supply chain management. (Advantageous)