Bpc Production Planner

2 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa Unilever Full time

JOB TITLE : BPC Production Planner

DEPARTMENT : Supply Chain, IOPs - Planning (Reports to Demand Fulfillment Manager)

WL/GRADE : 1CU

LOCATION : South Africa, La Lucia Ridge

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:
The BPC Production Planner is the Planning representative at Unilever’s factories. The role covers Production Scheduling for week 0 to 1 horizon: receives the Production Plan for the week - Master Product Schedule (MPS) - and creates a daily production schedule to meet the end of week production outputs. The BPC Production Planner ensures that changes to factory capacities and other operational parameters are fed back to the L2 Hub to ensure that executable Plans are created. Plays a key role in building the Planning relationship with the factories to drive plan adoption.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
1. Production Scheduling
- Schedule the factory resources optimally in line with the Master Production Schedule (MPS) provided by the L2 Planning Hub for week 0 to 1 horizon:

- Review previous week’s performance against schedule and agree production orders to be carried over
- Align with factories to confirm inputs to line scheduling (eg. factory calendar, labour)
- Create the production schedules in line with the MPS
- Ensure that materials are available before presenting the production schedules to the factory for sign off
- Ensure that production schedules are in line with warehouse capacity constraints
- Align with the factory operations teams, challenge and adjust schedules as necessary and publish
- Feed back to the L2 Planning Hub when adjustments are needed to improve the MPS in future
- Incorporate in week adjustments as necessary - Innovations, Breakdowns, Unplanned Maintenance
- Monitor and drive conformance of Operations to the production schedule
- Act as point of contact between the factory and the L2 Hub i.e. communicate factory information needed by the L2 Hub to create an executable MPS
- Monitor and manage volume of product left from change overs and rework activities
- Propose adjustments to the MPS to E2E Planner to resolve constraints
- Manage unexpected plan shutdowns or extraordinary events and communicate at the earliest opportunity to the L2 Hub
- Convert Planned Orders to Process Orders
- Flag any risks to delivering export specific volume to the Market Collaboration Planner
- Flag any risks to delivering local and export (shared SKU) volume to the Market Collaboration Planner
- Flag any short-term risks to the E2E Planner weekly before weekly Ops meeting
- Work with the operations team to generate run sequences per line to minimise downtime and maximise output
- Review previous week’s performance and root cause, adjust plans after checking carry overs.

2. Output Reliability (OR):

- Review previous week’s factory performance against plan (Latest Plan OR) and input into the weekly OR loss tree with sourcing unit input and consensus (owned by Ops).
- Report on losses and plans to improve in weekly Ops meetings and S&OP Supply meeting, when required.

3. Transition Management:

- Execute material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, VIP projects, working closely with the E2E planner to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained
- Incorporate transition activities into the daily schedule e.g. schedule production trials
- Provide input into MOC for FG

4. Working Capital Management
- Execute working capital reduction plan at site for Finished Goods through run strategy, EBQ optimization etc. Flag any reduction opportunities with the Market Collaboration Planner.
- Execute actions proposed by the Inventory Specialist and End to End Planners on Slow and Obsolete (SLOB) finished goods and ensure that provisions are raised timeously

5. Data Maintenance
- Provide feedback to Parameter Optimisation Specialist to ensure run strategy is workable
- Provide and validate input data to the Inventory Specialist for generation of the Inventory Planning Model and agree output prior to implementation
- Provide and validate other planning master data required by the L2 Hub
- Ensure proper maintenance of relevant data in the system as defined by the Master Data templates
- Ensure accuracy of dynamic factory master data (e.g. changeover times)
- Perform regular scheduling data health checks

6. Reporting
- Work closely with supply planning team in updating customer service reports and providing information on recovery.
- Capture OR Losses with sourcing unit stakeholders on a weekly basis (Latest Plan OR) and communicate to stakeholders.
- Provide data for CCFOT loss analysis to the E2E Planner (losses pertaining to OR).
- Support S&OP Supply Meeting preparation (and attendance), when required.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & STANDARDS OF LEADERSHIP

ESSENTIAL
- Future fit planning skills is an advantage (Curiosity, Impact through Technology; Leading for Growth and high performance)
- Tertiary degree with Supply Chain and/ or Business Management is pref

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