Planner: Supply Channel

**Job Advert Summary**:
Clover is looking for an experienced Planner: Supply Channel to form part of the Supply Chain Planning team. The main purpose is to plan production and manage stock levels throughout the supply network to support a 98% service level at the lowest cost.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Degree in Supply Chain Management or relevant industry specific qualification (i.e. CSCSP)
- Business English: Fluent
- Computer literacy (Advanced)
- Previous experience in a Production or Supply Chain Planning environment critical
- FMCG experience preferable.
- Strong analytical, organizational, decision making, written and verbal communication and presentation skills to EXCO level.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Production planning and stock management**
- Plan daily production at a minimum horizon of 21 days and weekly plans at a rolling 12 weeks according to agreed plan and production rules which will be uploaded weekly to the MRP system used for procurement purposes.
- Ensure timeous communication with the applicable factory when additional shifts/less shifts are required based on current demand trend and production requirement.
- Analyse additional volumes and the impact it will have on a specific line when new products are launched as well as the procurement lead times on product availability.
- Ensure space bottlenecks are identified and communicated for further investigations and analysis to ensure sufficient space in the network is determined in advance.
- Analyse batch sizes vs. shelf-life requirement and impact the predetermined batch size will have on supply of the product in the network (warehouse space, Freshness of stock, obsolete stock)

**Plan optimal stock levels for semi
- and finished goods to ensure pre-defined customer service levels are on target.**
- Take ownership of channel to ensure sufficient and optimal stock levels are maintained by ensuring constant and timeous communication with the deployment team regarding product group/sku priorities.
- Optimise the supply network to ensure freshness of stock at optimal production/network/primary costs.
- Determine factors contributing to constant short-dated stock in the supply channel, and the corrective action needed to reduce/avoid the constant obsolete stock.
- Communicate potential short-dated stock problems to the Demand team and ensure stock is moved to a location/s as required for additional sales to limit the short-dated stock/write off.
- Consolidate the CDC demand in optimal factory planning while taking into consideration available capacity in the network and daily/weekly/monthly CDC demand and actual supply.
- Ensure constant supply of a product group/sku's in the channel by timeous communication and request for early releases/grading if this should have an impact on supply.

**Optimise network planning**
- Optimise the supply network based on guidelines, and determine the most cost-effective supply channel, factory, route.
- Ensure stock is replenished from most optimal factory location (where similar and non-similar factories are packing) at optimal costs when tradeoffs need to be made regarding additional supply locations while freshness of stock and the OFR % are maintained.
- Define and revise buffer levels and MOQ’s on a national and DC level by determining risk of changes in demand or supply by sku/prod group to ensure target OFR% and product freshness.
- Analyse the total supply chain function to ensure target OFR % is met and maintained.

**Give input and report on sales and operations planning**
- Ensure accurate information is available to optimise rough cut capacity plans with impact of constraints for best possible inputs to the S & OP process.
- Identify bottlenecks, processes, constraints that have an impact on current supply and possible solutions/corrective measures.
- Ensure daily reporting at summary level of channel information (Obsolete stock, constraints, impact of supply disruption, potential supply problems) by monitoring, identifying and implementing corrective measures in the supply channel.
- Ensure monthly consolidated reporting of Channel information in summary format (Obsolete stock, supply disruption and impact on OFR%, channel costs and potential savings)

**Channel ownership of Target OFR % in the supply network**
- Identify and facilitate mitigating actions where OFR% deviations occurred in the supply chain and way forward.