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

Key roles and responsibilities:

• 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

Profile:

• Qualifications and experience
• Relevant Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management,
• Logistics, Engineering or any other relevant Commerce qualification
• Preferably 1 - 3 years working experience.

Skills and competencies

• Strong analytic and numerical skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to engage and influence multiple stakeholders
• Ability to understand and interpret trends
• Good leadership qualities
• Problem solving skills
• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Proactive, energetic and ambitious
• Resilient and able to manage change effectively
• Strong attention to detail