Weekly SN Planner - Sandton at The South African Breweries (SAB)

The key purpose of this role is to plan/optimise weekly production and inventory across South Africa’s supply network in line with the demand plan. This role connects the supply chain from sales through to production, logistics and finance by generating feasible weekly packaging, brewing and inventory plans that meet desired service levels while avoiding unnecessary distribution and obsolescence costs.

Key roles and responsibilites

• Generate, optimise and control weekly production/inventory plans for the supply network across the 13-week horizon (3 months).
• Management of production planning system(s) & master data.
• Daily/weekly communication with various teams including Supply (Breweries), Material requirements planning (MRP), Circular Packaging, Demand Planning, Inventory Deployment, Major Equipment Outages Planning.
• Understand, analyse and review 13-week plan inputs (e.g., Brewery capacity, Demand plan, Gross Line Yield, Downtime, Material availability) in order to minimize costs while driving KPI achievement.
• Following up on the execution of the production/inventory plan.
• Reporting weekly on KPI/production performance highlighting areas of potential risk or opportunities in the 13-week plan.
• Identify and analyse deviations to production/inventory plans in order to drive performance improvement.
• Drive OTIF delivery (Service Level) & VILC savings.
• Preparation for Weekly S&OE meeting