Key Deliverables

• Responsible for managing the supply planning process for the Businesses and the coordinating of the long-term supply plans from the frozen period to the end of the 24-month horizon in order to optimise customer service at minimal cost and inventory investment.
• Manage the reconciliation of supply and total demand for the lines planned and escalates where exceptions exist.
• Interfaces between the Sourcing Units/plants, the broader supply chain and business functions to ensure that there are no interruptions in supply and that the highest level of customer service is achieved
• Anticipating and addressing short term Supply Chain risks.
• Responsible for stock availability loss in the OTIF loss tree.
• Short term gap closing / demand management.
•  Eliminates tactical and strategic service losses through daily root cause analysis.
• Ensure production requirements are updated on SAP.
• Supply and Demand Reconciliation
• Table resultant (optimized) line utilization and impact on supply for discussion in S&OP supply meeting monthly.
• Finished goods Inventory planning
• Obtains data from multiple sources for inclusion in the calculation of stock targets. (e.g. forecast accuracy, factory reliability, production cycle times, order lead time, despatch rates).
• Calculates and interprets safety, cycle, pipeline, strategic and pre-build stocks in order to facilitate decision making.
• Consolidates and proposes stock level targets for agreement by Supply Chain and Factory managers.

Requirements

• MBA with 8-10 years of post-qualification industry experience.
•  An understanding of how, and the willingness to go the extra mile, to bring added business value.
•  Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team building skills.
•  A previous experience in Logistics, Warehouse managment, Supply chain management would always be a value add.

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