Supply Chain and Inventory Planner at Cargill

Job Purpose and Impact

The Supply and Inventory Planner will coordinate supply and inventory planning for one of our sales products in South Africa to address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals. In this role, you will monitor key integrated business planning performance indicators, cost to serve performance data and help coordinate the company's cross functional work teams to meet high customer service standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain data relevant to network distribution planning activities including capacity, constraint, logistics, supplier, master, and location data.
• Create requirements plan and long term supply plan for assigned products and locations as input for the integrated business planning cycle.
• Participate in the creation of inventory planning metrics targets.
• Develop gap coverage plans during inventory shortages.
• Generate and execute cycle stock and safety stock plans for the assigned product or location, using the approved supply plan inputs.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of three years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in supply and inventory planning
• Good understanding of statistics, forecasting, and supply chain planning
• MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint), PowerBI & SAP