Materials Planner

**RCL FOODS** is recruiting for a **Materials Planner **to join our **Groceries Division** team based in** Randfontein**. The purpose of the role is to provide support to the MRP Planner Packaging with daily & weekly tasks for 9 manufacturing plants and to ensure adequate stockholding to meet the forward production plan & sales forecast for 9 manufacturing plants and Act as a backup up to the MRP Planner Packaging & Ingredients as and when required.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Material Requirements Planning**

Manage the MRP plan to ensure that the production plan can be met timeously by having enough packaging on site in advance to meet the processing schedule.

Expedite and/or postpone purchase orders where shortages or oversupply becomes evident.

Re-plan requirements weekly and make adjustments as _ad hoc_ changes get made to the planning schedule.

Ensure that stock holding levels are maintained appropriately to ensure working capital targets are met.

Use appropriate tools to determine safety stock levels.

Liaise closely with the site planning teams to ensure that their requirements are appropriately met

**Provide support to the MRP Planner Packaging**

Assist MRP Planner Packaging with the creation of purchase orders twice weekly based on requirements calculated and send purchase orders to suppliers.

Once suppliers responded to call offs with delivery dates, update the call off sheet on the planning spreadsheet used by the MRP Planner Packaging.

Call off packaging twice a week from suppliers and request better dates once notices that stock will not come in on time.

Provide packaging store with an updated delivery schedule from suppliers on a daily basis.

Confirm daily that packaging was delivered as per schedule from the MRP Planner Packaging.

Follow up on all non-deliveries as per delivery schedule with suppliers on daily basis.

Ensure system transactions are appropriately cleaned up on a weekly basis.

**Supplier Management**

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.

Sourcing team to be provided with anticipated annual volumes to be used for contract negotiations.

Resolve any supplier irregularities that may impact the forward production plan and escalate where these cannot be resolved.

**Information **and** Data Management**

Ensure plants 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

Share relevant data with management teams to enable reliable business decision making.

Own all MRP master data and ensure that the appropriate new product or amended product information are accurately updated and approved for update into the system.

**Administration**

Oversee filing and safeguarding of records within area of responsibility.

Compile ad hoc spreadsheets when required.

**Pricing**

Updating working tool with pricing received from sourcing team.

Update pricing sheet and distribute to team.

Update open orders with price increase/ decreases.

Investigate and process pricing claims.

**Quality rejected packaging**

Involve suppliers when stock has been rejected.

Arrange stock upliftment/ replacement stock with supplier.

**Minimum Requirements**:
Matriculation certificate

SAPICS qualification (e.g. PPIM) or Supply Chain Diploma (e.g. MCIPS) is advantageous or studying towards