Production Planner

About the position

Our client, a leading company in the FMCG industry, is urgently looking for a highly skilled and experienced Production Planner to join their dynamic team
Our client, a leading company in the FMCG industry, is urgently looking for a highly skilled and experienced Production Planner to join their dynamic team

Location: Mobeni, Durban

Requirements:

• Degree/Diploma in Supply Chain/Logistics
• 3 years of experience within a similar role (non-negotiable)
• Demonstrate experience reducing cost or improving efficiency in previous jobs
• Knowledge and understanding of MRP principles.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating and steering the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process
• Ensures adherence to the outlined processes for S&OP and demand planning
• Root-cause analysis of relevant front-end and back-end supply chain metrics and taking suitable action
• Ensuring the completion of action items decided in S&OP meeting
• Develop and execute product demand plans to meet organization goals.
• Manage demand planning and management processes for new and existing products.
• Work with sales team, customer input and supply chain management to improve forecast accuracy
• Obtain, analyze and interpret supply chain relevant data.
• Use analysis results to improve supply chain processes, performance and to reduce costs.
• Perform analyses with this data using analytical models and mathematical analysis
• Forecasting, capacity planning, demand planning, warehouse capacity planning, production planning

Desired Skills:

• Production Planning
• Demand Planning
• Supply Chain