Planner: Deployment

**Job Advert Summary**:
Clover is looking for a Planner: Deployment to join the Supply Chain Planning team. The successful individual will pllan and monitor stock deployment between factories, CDC's & Branches. This position is based at Clover Head Office based in Roodepoort.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Degree
- Computer literacy (Advanced)
- Experience in working with senior management
- Code 08 Driver's license

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Maintain stock levels per warehouse**
- Plan stock deployment to branch to ensure 98% OFR to trade
- Maintain optimum stock levels (target days)
- Monitor stock age daily and take action to prevent obsolete stock
- Investigate and report on obsolete stock

**Create a deployment forward plan**
- Create a monthly forward plan for warehouse
- Communicate to primary transport and warehouse
- Communicate and monitor deviations from the plan and take action
- Distribute loads evenly to assist primary distribution

**Create daily loads and monitor activities**
- Identify and prioritise urgent stock and ensure stock is on load
- Ensure fair share in case of shortages
- Plan loads and link different delivery and loading points together
- Request Primary Transport and ensure that a TR number is received per load
- Ensure planned loads are actual is correctly actioned in Tower?

**Monitor warehouse space and forward planning**
- Monitor available space and adjust plan accordingly
- Daily space check on each branch incoming and outgoing????????
- Co-ordinate space constraints with Principals/Planners

**Report on all deployment activities**
- Report daily on warehouse utilisation
- Report on Primary, pallet and weight utilisation weekly
- Report on picking freshness per CDC daily, month to date, actioned weekly
- Report on stock levels within parameters actioned weekly
- Report and analyse daily short supply and coordinate with warehouse and SCP Planners
- Report daily to warehouse: OFR, warehouse utilisation, top 20 short supplies, picking freshness, SDS risk stock
- Double handling
- Compile weekly and monthly reports on all Deployment activities

**Review and correct planning parameters**
- Review and correct Multiple order quantities on item route level monthly, bi weekly
- Review and correct Min and Max stock levels parameters
- Review and correct Distribution Calendar