Supply Chain Specialist - Midrand at BASF

The successful incumbent will be responsible for managing the demand forecast and planning process for the South and Southern Africa Cluster. The incumbent will manage average and point-in-time inventory and tracking of inbound an outbound shipping. Duties will include the following:

• Manage logistics service providers, contractors, and internal stakeholders
• Manage the coordination and implementation for medium to long term supply chain solutions within South and Southern Africa
• Ensure supply chain compliance alignment according to BASF Group guidelines, policies, and procedures
• Manage the demand forecast and planning process for South and Southern Africa Cluster
• Accountable for full year forecast of all relevant materials for AP, aligned to needs of the market and uploading of forecast into Integrated Business Planning (IBP) tool
• Analyse and challenge bottom-up demand planning from sales
• Maintaining article numbers in SAP and IBPManage half-year and year-end stock takes
• Ensure inventory adjustments and stock variance at 3rd party warehouses are processed timeously
• Relabeling of products for South and Southern Africa, sourcing the labels and packaging material, communicating with all relevant stakeholders in Procurement and 3rd Party Warehousing service provide
• Tracking of vessels and updating all stakeholders on the ETA
• Managing inbound stock from a POA (port of arrival) point of viewManaging stock transfers from Johannesburg, Durban, and Paarl warehouse
• Reconciliation and follow-up of the inbound open purchase order (PO) report
• PR/PO creation, goods receipts requests, submissions of invoices to ICEbox for local & foreign logistics vendors for ordering stock
• Processing of warehouse invoices from 3rd Party service provider
• Investigate, follow up and closing of supply and production Non – Conformance Management (NCM)
• Acting as business partner and assist divisional units regarding ad hoc analyses, providing background explanation and possible leverages.Identify efficiency in processes / system enhancement
• Ensure that deadlines are met, and that quality information is delivered; and presented in a comprehensive way

What we expect

• A Tertiary qualification in Supply Chain Management
• Minimum 5 years experience in similar roleSAP and Microsoft excel experience
• Experience in demand planning, supply chain and inventory management
• Good proficiency and ability to communicate and build creditability with internal functions
• A commercial mindset