Factory Material Requirement Planner

Department: Supply Chain

Main Purpose of Job:

• Ensure availability of materials to fulfill the requirements of the production plans within the agreed stock cover targets.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Create an optimized replenishment plan for raw and pack material for short term ensuring zero loss of production due to material availability
• Create an optimised replenishment plan for raw and packaging materials over an 18 month horizon that ensures supply of material to production whilst ensuring that the working capital targets for raw and packaging materials are met and waste is reduced by minimizing write-offs
• Monitors supply signals through the use of MRP purchase requisitions ensuring delivery dates, lead times and required quantities are correct and finally creating purchase orders and ensuring their fulfillment by the supplier
• Manages directly with the defined supplier the delivery of materials: this includes creating, sending, confirming, receiving, investigating errors and discrepancies on blocked or parked invoice lines and handling all exceptions / issues in those operations, including claims management
• Define the stock policy and management approach to be applied to each SKU within their portfolio
• Identification of practical issues concerning material supply and demand for raw and packaging materials
• Ensures excellent supplier relationships

What can make you successful::

• DPS Planning
• DRP Planning
• Understanding and can explain concept details: Inbound Material Management best practices and process - Integration points between the Material Management Planning, Supply Planning and Procurement Operations - Roles, responsibility and accountability of all involved in Inbound Materials
• Understands best practices, implications, alignment points, benefits & issues of: - Warehouse management for raw & packaging material, inventory counting / Master Production Scheduling and Detailed Production Scheduling / Factory Operations / Quality management / Co-packing or Co-manufacturing / Procurement Operations / Supply Chain KPIs
• Insight into capacity details, PV version, line outputs