MRP Planner

At **RCL FOODS** we see and do things differently. We think bigger, work smarter, and collectively work as a team to achieve our ambition, MORE food to MORE people, MORE often

Our Talent Team is looking for someone who is proactive with a high attention to detail to fill the role of **Material Requirements Planner - Packaging **at our **RCL FOODS Grocery Division**.

The role will be based in **Randfontein** and report to the **Procurement Manager.**

**RCL FOODS** entrusts the responsible person to develop and manage the material requirements planning for packaging material required to meet the forward production plan & sales forecast for 9 manufacturing plants. To ensure adequate stockholding to meet the forward production plan & sales forecast for 9 manufacturing plants.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Material Requirements Planning (Packaging)**:

- Manage the MRP plan for packaging to ensure that the production plan can be met timeously by having enough packaging on site in advance and on a continuous basis.
- Expedite and/or postpone purchase orders where shortages or oversupply becomes evident.
- Ensure that stock holding levels are maintained appropriately to ensure working capital targets are met.
- Provide suppliers with a 12-week forward view of anticipated requirements to be used to secure time on the supplier's production facility as well as enable them time to procure their input materials.

**Packaging Material Stock Management**:

- Ensure appropriate safety stock levels are maintained (both on site and at suppliers).
- Establish and maintain lead time & safety stocks requirements for individual packaging requirements.
- Identify possible stock inaccuracies internally and at suppliers, and work with site teams (stores and MRP coordinator) and supplier to correct and maintain stock accuracy levels.
- In conjunction with stores, ensure obsolete and quality compromised stocks are written off promptly.
- Responsible for communicating overstocks or shortages to the business and making recommendations to resolve situations.

**Innovation / Discontinuation Project Coordination**:

- Work closely with Supply Planning, Marketing and R&D teams to ensure packaging requirements for new product launches are received to meet launch deadlines.
- Calculate estimated bleed outs of packaging at the beginning of a project and where applicable provide timeous provisions for write-offs to the project team.
- Work closely with supply planners and site team to ensure innovation is successfully delivered within the timelines.
- Actively manage down stock being discontinued, including working with production planners and distribution to exit a sku.
- Manage master data for MRP appropriately to ensure the best possible change over from old to new materials.
- Advise the Master Data and MACS teams of when to switch the system to the new BOM as the MRP planner is responsible for this decision based on stock holding of the old materials at each site.

**Supplier Relationships & Management**:

- Work closely with sourcing team to manage supplier relationships.
- Supply the sourcing team with anticipated annual volumes to be used for contract negotiations.
- Challenge the business when MOQ requirements with suppliers far exceed the production requirement. If possible, this needs to be re-negotiated with suppliers or through sourcing team. If this is not possible, the potential write-off costs due to shelf-life expiry must be built into the product costs.
- Work with the sourcing team and site teams to ensure inbound service, driving on time, in full & correct quality requirements are met by suppliers.
- Monthly, provide suppliers with a 6-month forecast based on a 6-month forward view.
- Monitor stock at suppliers closely in relation to call-offs to ensure stock holding numbers are accurate at all time.
- Establish stock holding/safety stock for new suppliers based on their lead time requirements.

**Sales and Operations Planning**:

- Provide input into the Supply Planning Meetings and Supply Chain Reviews on where the risks are for shortages, excess stocks and potential write-offs are for packaging.
- Make recommendations on how these changes can be avoided and/or costs prevented.

**Information and Data Management**:

- Ensure plants & packaging warehouse staff accurately and regularly capture data into the information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.
- Ensure all planning master data is 100% accurate in planning tools.

**Pricing**:

- Updating working tool with pricing received from sourcing team.
- Update pricing sheet and distribute to all relevant stakeholders.
- Update open orders with price increase/ decreases.
- Investigate and process pricing claims.

**Minimum Requirements**:
Relevant 3-year degree or Supply Chain Diploma (e.g. MCIPS) advantage

Computer literacy (SAP or Syspro and MS Office skills prerequisite)

**Knowledge & Skills**:
MRP ski