Master Planner

2 weeks ago

East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

Overview

  • Manage the Production Planning processes, outputs and resources to ensure customer OTIF and enhanced customer satisfaction within operation budgets
  • Medium term production optimisation and shift planning
  • Manage and guide IBP process.
  • Optimise Factory utilisation, Demand, Inventoryand Supply parameters with customer.

Responsibilities

Master Planning

  • Manage the creation of a factory wide masterplan, including production schedule, maintenance, laboratory, QA/QC, Warehouse and MRP across the value chain.
  • Balance demand and supply effectively to achieve strategic goals.
  • Provide "what if" capacity and schedule analysis for changing demand, staffing constraints, and new customer project awards.
  • Plan to minimise effects of resource constraints.
  • Suggest batch size changes, rerouting of products and outsourcing/ purchasing of additional equipment, as required.
  • Optimise parameters across the value chain to unlock value.
  • Ensure that all units are aligned to produce an optimised plan.

Planning coordination and reporting

  • Manage, prepare and facilitate the monthly supply point reviews for your specific unit.
  • Drive the adherence to key KPIs including budgeted, planned and actual OTIF, ATP, Schedule adherence and recoveries.
  • Work with production supervisors and managers for optimal efficiency to meet the needs of internal and external customers.
  • Assess and report on manpower requirements.
  • Assist the creation of SKU, work centre and labour matrix to allow for optimisation when demand or supply changes.
  • Ensure change controls are actioned appropriately.

Risk and Controls

  • Monitor sales against forecast volumes, identifying atrisk products.
  • Identify supply deficits, overscheduling, capacity constraints and underloaded schedules and highlight recoveriesrelated financial risks and critical materials shortages.
  • Ensure delivery terms are met and that correct documentation accompanies consignments.
  • Input into routings, inventory policies and related pertinent processes

Planning optimisation

  • Develop and manage data from all value chain units to create optimisation and simulation ability.
  • Work with the analytics team to continuously improve our ability to drive key KPIs.

Skills required

Background/experience

  • 5 to 10 years' experiencein a Supply Chain, Procurement or Planning role
  • Experience in a pharmaceutical/FMCG manufacturing environment
  • 3 year degree in Procurement, Logistics or Engineering,or a related discipline

Specific job skills

  • Computer literacy: proficiency in Excel, Word, Powerpointand ERP system
  • Solid understanding of S&OP/IBP
  • Scenario planning, optimisation and/or simulation experience
  • End to end understanding of Supply Chain operations in Plan, Source, Make and Deliver.

Competencies

  • Ability to represent SA OPS in global planning platforms
  • Strong leadership skill to guide business decision making considering service, cost and cash.
  • Taking Action
  • Managing Performance
  • Performance driven and solution orientated
  • Strong analytical and numerical skills a must
  • Highly collaborative, flexible and attention to detail
  • Conflict management and resolution

Accountability & Decision Rights

  • Root cause analysis and improvement plans
  • Exercise interpersonal, communication, training and problemsolving skills in work performance
  • Escalates highly complex problems or outofpolicy issues

Independent decisions relating to:

  • Resources, approach and tactical operations
  • Own and teamwork priorities and timelines
  • Interpretation of policies, standards, requirements and approaches
  • Management of budget(s) for team and/ or small projects

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