Responsibilities / Tasks
- Ensure that material scheduling strategy and processes are in place and work effectively in order to ensure material supply meets production requirements with minimum stock levels, whilst optimising costs
- Take ownership of material planning issues that arise, including over or under delivery and take any follow up actions especially in the event of material shortages that affect production
- Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions
- Seek and recommend solutions to overcome issues arising in order to meet production requirements.
- Implement flexible solutions to aid business efficiency, drive process improvements and add value
- Support continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure that professional and consistent materials planning processes are applied across the business
- Ensure that any Material Requirements Planning system (MRP) in place is effective and that data is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required
- Investigate and implement system enhancement initiatives
- Ensure the integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and inventory accuracy at all times and manage and control inventory levels and movements
- Ensure that the operational information, reports and metrics are available to share with others in the business as and when required
- Report on achievement of targets and identify any corrective action
Your Profile / Qualifications
- Min. 5 years of experience in handling Material planning
- Trained on basic lean concepts would be added advantage.
- Solid understanding of Procurement, Planning and inventory management software SAP.
- Outstanding analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
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