Weekly Supply Network Planner at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Generate, optimise and manage weekly production and inventory plans for the supply network over a 16-week horizon.
• Management of WSNP planning system(s) & master data.
• Daily/weekly communication with various teams including Supply (Breweries), Material requirements planning (MRP), Circular Packaging, T1 VLC, Demand Planning, Inventory Deployment and Major Equipment Outages Planning.
• Understand, analyse and review 16-week plan inputs (e.g., Brewery capacity, Demand plan, Gross Line Yield, Downtime, Material availability) to minimize costs while driving KPI achievement.
• Following up on the execution of the production/inventory plan.
• Analyze supply network data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Reporting weekly on KPI/production performance highlighting areas of potential risk or opportunities in the 16-week plan.
• Identify and analyse deviations to production/inventory plans to drive performance improvement.
• Drive OTIF delivery (Service Level) & VILC savings.
• Prepare for and actively participate in the Weekly S&OE meetings.

Minimum Requirements:

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