Planning Specialist

3 days ago

Paarl, South Africa The Joblink Full time

Contact person for this position:
Cathrine Hendricks

**Role**:

- Processing customer orders efficiently and on time
- Taking cost-optimized production and customer requirements into account
- Executing long term planning cycle, analyse rough cut capacity planning
- Executing weekly short-term planning cycle
- Ensuring availability in raw and pack materials and finished goods
- Optimizing production plans in accordance with the needs of the customers, suppliers’ capacities, constraints of purchasing, production, and distribution processes

***Duties**:

- Delivering KPI’s (Cover days, Service Level etc.) as agreed quarterly and annually
- SAP PP master production scheduling and running MRP
- Creating weekly production plans considering productivity and capacity
- Supply and material planning in coordination with sales, production and supply chain departments
- Running material orders in coordination with Sales, production and supply chain departments
- Continuously monitoring production plans, safety stock levels and MRP parameters
- Sets up and maintains PP related master data in ERP system
- Doing the material controlling according to production planning and shipping plans
- Running daily follow up of raw material, product and material stocks and entering daily data to the SAP system
- Participate in periodic forecasting meetings with Sales and other related departments
- Lead additional planning meetings with Sales, Purchasing, Production, and Shipping
- Assists with capacity requirements during the annual operating plan
- Perform other related duties, as required

**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**:

- Diploma/Degree in Production Planning or CPIM
- Minimum 4 years of production planning experience
- Experience in a Food manufacturing environment will be advantageous
- Excellent communication skills
- Professional experience in SAP/ R3 PP/PI will be advantageous
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Effective time management and planning
- Rational decision-making, negotiating and influencing skills
- An analytical work style
- Being able to work collaboratively with other departments

**BENEFITS**
- Pension fund
- Half pay maternity leave
- 13th cheque

**Salary: R35 000 to R38 000 CTC

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