Weekly SN Planner at AB InBev

Key roles and responsibilities

•  Generate, optimize and control production plans across the production grid for the medium and short-term capacity requirements
•  Management of manufacturing interface (schedules) and production planning to prevent stock outs and reduce working capital.
•  Daily/weekly communication to planning and wider business stakeholders
•  Reporting and trending production plans highlighting areas of potential unreliability and resolution of possible stock violations
•  Planning, follow-up on execution and feedback on specific activities related to the production of NPD products
•  Understand and analyze Production Planning impact on business costs in order to optimize cost and drive KPI improvement
•  Plan production execution at lowest cost by optimizing shift patterns, idle time and overtime at breweries.
•  Stock availability at a lower cost by managing finished goods & WIP (Work-in-Progress) stock levels to target.
•  Identify and complete root cause analysis of incidents of production unreliability in order to improve KPIs and production efficiency/KPIs.
•  Evaluate operating efficiency trends & recommend changes to target OE’s where applicable to improve reliability of delivery against plan.
•  Optimize production plan and drive continuous improvement in OTIF delivery and stability/reliability of plans.
•  Responsible for data collection and collation for Supply Review

Profile :

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering or Commerce.
• Preferably 3 –5 years manufacturing experience
• Preferably experience with brewery scheduling processes
• Experience in Supply Chain optimization
• Experience of planning tools, techniques and accountabilities ranging from- tactical planning, distribution and supplier management will be an advantage.
• Proven experience with ability to influence and interface with senior stakeholders, specifically manufacturing
• Able to understand and interpret sales trends, distribution chains and to convert into appropriate production strategy
• Operational excellence and improvement bias
• Good communicator across all levels within and external to the organisation with personal gravitas and credibility
• Customer focused mind-set and approach
• Proven problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Excellent self-management practices
• Proactive, energetic and committed
• Flexible, adaptable and pragmatic
• High tolerance for stress and managing the operational realities of the business Profile

Additional Information

• Band VII A
• Based in 65 Park Lane, Sandton
• Reporting to the WSNP Lead (Solid Line)
• Works closely with the BU South Africa Planning
• Teams in Demand, Materials, Stock, Container and
• Demand Planning.
• Work closely with in country teams and
• specifically S&OP Manager as well as Supply
• function.
• Travel