Supply Planner, Jhb

3 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa AkzoNobel Full time

**Date**:Feb 23, 2023

**Location**: Johannesburg, ZA

**Company**:AkzoNobel

We’ve been pioneering a world of possibilities to bring surfaces to life for well over 200 years. As experts in making coatings, there’s a good chance you’re only ever a few meters away from one of our products. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and have set our sights on becoming the global industry leader. It’s what you’d expect from the most sustainable paints company, which has been inventing the future for more than two centuries.

**Job Purpose**:

- Responsible for the planning of raw materials and packaging materials, ensuring that the production plan can be executed. Through close contact with procurement and suppliers you ensure a solid supplier relationship and performance.
- Plan production, purchase, and distribution of Finished Goods with a high level of understanding the trade-offs between service, inventory and costs.
- The role requires a comprehensive understanding of existing and future capacity plans/constraints (RCCP) at the manufacturing plant and distribution network, and knowledge of how production capacity can be flexed to meet demand.
- Manage exceptions and other planning activities to ensure SEMI/FINI availability for the master production plan in line with MRP parameters and supplier contracts.
- Ensure the right network settings (e.g., production/distribution throughout times) and replenishment models are correctly applied in the planning system.

**Key Accountabilities**:
**Material Planning/ Distribution Requirements Planning**
- Review/ update material planning and manage material availability: planning of raw & packaging materials, ensuring that the production plan can be executed.
- Creation of purchase orders and inform production planning on timelines. Review the 12wk outlook for the material plan, taking into account capacity agreements and storage capacity on the site.
- Support the material controllers and the site with analyses when needed to create visibility
- Manage MRP exception messages.
- Reviewing with Supplier flexibility to support Material Planning with respect to supplier capacity and supplier’s 2nd tier material availability
- Link to Procurement and Inbound Supply Chain Manager to improve Supplier Performance and escalate in case of structural material availability issues (& inform stakeholders).
- Manage reduction and prevention of slow and obsolete stock (raw & pack). Ensure rework and scrapping at the site/primary DC.
- Inputs to inventory strategy including safety stock settings on raw & pack materials for existing, new and phase-out products.
- Inputs and maintains inventory stocking policies of raw & pack materials, safety stock levels in ERP system.
- Manage the supply and replenishments across the whole supply network & review mid term and long term outlook of the supply plan against resources and warehouse capacities.
- Ensure consolidation of independent, dependent and distribution demand at SKU level.
- Requirement’s inventory setting and DRP process management. Resolve exceptions in accordance with IBP rules.
- Distribution plan full horizon/ weekly/ daily release for Stock Transfer Orders / ICDs depending on the flows.
- Inventory plan volume and value projection and warehouse/ logistics capacity planning.
- Review’s logistics schedule adherence and drive improvement including optimization of truck load management.
- Manage demand exceptions with Demand managers/planner, logistics and Supply Planning Manager.
- Drive gate keeping meetings with the other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
- Provide impact analysis when needed to show the impact of decisions or scenarios to the plan. Support on reporting where necessary.

**Production Planning**
- Manage the MPS/MRP process and resolve exceptions in accordance with IBP rules.
- Master production plan 13-week horizon/ 1 week/ daily release for production plant/ cells while keeping in line with agreements made on capacity.
- Finite production and capacity planning based on factory calendar and EBQs. Make sure the Rough-Cut Capacity Plan (RCCP) process and planned production capability exceptions for Supply Points are managed (x production sites and relevant tollers/TPMs).
- Release production orders to the site in line with agreements made with the site. Review schedule adherence and drive improvement.
- Manage demand exceptions with Scheduler and SP Manager. Support the site schedulers and site with analyses when needed to create visibility.
- Work together with DRP Planners to understand customer requirements and incorporate this in the production plan.
- Drive gate keeping meetings with the other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
- Provide impact analysis when needed to


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