Supply Chain Planning Role
The successful candidate will have overall responsibility for meeting production schedules, managing material requirements, purchasing orders, inventory levels, and work orders to ensure customer requests are actioned within the agreed timeframe.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Maintain accurate inventory transactions, quantities, and due dates.
2. Prepare documentation for the disposal of obsolete or rejected materials in accordance with company policies.
3. Monitor and control inventories of bulk suppliers and finished products, ensuring achievement of plant inventory level goals.
4. Execute to the production schedule by ensuring process orders are available, batch determinations are completed, material availability is ensured, and technical issues are resolved.
5. Identify and participate in continuous improvement projects, process simplification, system enhancements, and automation of activities.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Appropriate qualification in purchasing or productions planning, a diploma in purchasing or relevant APICS examinations.
* At least two years' experience in production planning in a manufacturing company.
* A high level of expertise in solving scheduling, logistics, expediting, and purchasing problems.