Supply Planner

**Company**:Nestlé
**Qualification**:Degree or national diploma in Industrial Engineering or B-Tech or an equivalent where Planning, Logistics was one of the majors.

**Experience**: Two or more years of relevant operational experience at market/business level

**Position Summary**

With a history spanning over 150 years, Nestlé didn’t become the world’s leading food and beverages brand by chance. Perfection is at the heart of what we do, and our people are always looking for the next big idea to cement our status. We are now looking for a Supply Planner to be based in Bryanston.

In this role you will be responsible to build supply/ production plans respecting the agreed level of available capacity to ensure that finished goods are available with high freshness, at the right stock location to meet customer demand whilst minimizing cost.

**A day in the life of a Supply Planner**:

- IMS Planning: Analyze and evaluate the supply plan and net dispatch requirements to satisfy customer needs considering the network complexity and the supply constraints. Responsible for 18 months production plans for the factory in the scope.
- Inventory Management: Balance the need for product availability versus the need to minimize costs of inventory to ensure optimum stocks of the right material in the right location.
- Exceptions management: Analyze exceptions, to take business decisions (based on priorities or after arbitration) and to adjust planning results accordingly. Establish production requirements for short and long term and to follow up production plans.
- Consistently achieve sustainable Customer Service Level for domestic and Inter-Market Supply (IMS) customers within the Working Capital and Freshness objectives by ensuring that the weekly planning process is executed on time.
- Establish stock policies for Finished Goods. To do this for Inter Market Supply together with Planners of Receiving Markets. Periodically review the stock level of the domestic and the receiving markets to pro-actively look for solutions in case of deviations.
- Determine key issues with volume variance that may impact supply, challenge existing Logistics and Supply Planning processes and tools - implementing improvements to deliver tangible benefits (e.g.: time savings, increased efficiencies, etc.) - monitoring requirements evolution.
- Analyse and effectively communicate relevant information - Highlighting all supply issues - Detailing impacts of proposed actions and related tradeoffs. Ensuring actions and Supply Plans are realistic and achievable in accordance with the Business Planning process
- Challenge manufacturing on regular basis to manage lot sizes, cycle times, to drive optimum FG inventory level. Also, to challenge and support Demand Planner (Domestic and IMS) to improve Demand Planning Accuracy

**What will make you successful?**
- Two or more years of relevant operational experience at market/business level is useful, in the following areas:

- Production Planning
- Supply Network Planning / IMS Planning
- Other Demand & Supply Planning positions
- Tertiary qualification - degree or national diploma in Industrial Engineering or B-Tech or an equivalent where Planning, Logistics was one of the majors.