Execution Planner-materials-bpc

2 days ago


Durban, South Africa Unilever Full time

Main Job Purpose:
The Execution Planner (RMPM) is the Planning representative at Unilever’s factories from RMPM perspective. The role Material Scheduling: receives the Production Schedule - and schedules and executes the daily call offs of Raw and Packaging Materials from suppliers.

Key Accountabilities:
Material Scheduling- Schedule the delivery of materials with Suppliers, monitor delivery logistics (Call off)- Liaise with local Suppliers to ensure material availability to meet schedules and define and execute corrective actions when necessary.- Manage and resolve week 0 to 1 material availability crises with suppliers.- Execute SLOB management actions proposed by the Inventory Optimisation Specialist- Maintain delivery due list with inbound warehouse personnel.- Ensure the tracking document is populated with integrity of materials by ensuring prompt write offs of obsolete stocks (following global policy)- Recommend changes on POs to L2 team (MRP Coordinator)

Liaison with other parties:
- Escalate to Procurement planned material availability issues.- Liaise with inbound stores on overdue deliveries and follow up with suppliers.- Liaise with inbound stores and Suppliers for most desirable delivery days.- Liaise with Suppliers of rejected materials and ensure that all materials are returned to the suppliers.- Ensure that all GRN on materials on week 0 to 1 are capture timelessly, and if not escalate to the Market & Site Collaboration Planner- Advise Suppliers of all changes in stock holding policy to ensure that stock is appropriately managed.

Transition Management:
- Manage RMPM material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, 5S projects, working closely with the MRP Coordinator to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained.- Ensure material availability for RMPM on week 0 to 1 - production trials, ramp up and ramp down.- Provide input into MOC for RMPM

Working Capital Management- Work closely with the Procurement team and suppliers to ensure appropriate stock levels for bulks are maintained both on-site and at the suppliers to ensure material availability.- Execute actions proposed by the Inventory Specialist and End to End Planners on Slow and Obsolete (SLOB) raw and packaging materials and ensure that provisions are raised timeously.

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.- Perform regular scheduling data health checks.

Reporting- Ensure the plant shortage report is issued weekly.

Professional Skills & Standards of Leadership

ESSENTIAL- Future fit planning skills is an advantage (Curiosity and Agility; Impact through technology)- Tertiary degree with Supply Chain and/ or Business Management is preferred. An engineering degree will also be considered, with experience in the general supply chain being an advantage.- Further studies in supply chain, including a APICS/SAPICS qualification, would be beneficial.- A good understanding of, and the use of SAP is essential.- Planning and functional business process knowledge- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders to achieve results.- Strong change, service and agile mindset- Strong accountability and responsibility- Standards of Leadership: Personal mastery; Agility

Experience Required:
ESSENTIAL- 1-3 Years exposure to broad based Supply Chain management.- Understand ‘Make’ and ‘Source’ processes.- Fully operational in ‘Plan’ processes- Experience in managing external parties.- Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.

PREFERRED- FMCG experience

Travel:
Contacts:
Internal:
- Factory management and operational teams- Inbound stores- L1 Planning team.- Procurement Teams

External:
- L2 Planning Hub- Material Suppliers

What You Get: Challenges of the job & experience to be gained.- Opportunity to work with and optimizing the systems in order to delivery improved planning results.- Combine several constraints and often divergent objectives.- Team working with different functions.- Working with suppliers & managing their development and performance- Clear vision of the supply chain processes.



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