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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end-to-end planning of inventory from purchase requisition to customer invoice

• Develop production and inventory management plans to support sales and promotions

• Facilitate meetings with sales teams to valid forecasts over and above core business sales

• Conduct root cause analysis when necessary

• Identify current and potential product shortages, develop and execute recovery, advise stakeholders of status and recovery plans

• Constant interactions with sales and assessment demand requirements. Reflect changes in SKU level forecast

• Achieve consensus on operating plans, inventory goals and dispatch plans

• Develop system and procedure required to meet service and inventory turn objectives

• Maintenance and daily management of the MRP-SAP B1

• Develop master production schedule for specified products and production lines underlining all physical and crewing constraints on the lined planned

• Monitor factory performance, challenging and understanding where performance is different from what was expected

• Monitor stock cover daily, avoiding stock outs and over stocks where possible, raising these with the right stakeholders to address the same

• Monitor the daily availability of materials (packing and raw), challenging as necessary when materials are not available required

• Capacity balancing of products across lines if balance cannot be achieved with the constraints of production/crewing, raise this at the scale and operations planning meeting

• Ensure run rates, inventory targets, batch quantities, changeover times and other data key to planning accuracy are regularly reviewed and maintained correctly in appropriate systems

• Understand forecast for specified products, monitor accuracy and challenge where necessary

• Ensure all plans are feasible in terms of material supply, notify all stakeholders of potential shortfalls

• Liaise with the commercial term on day-to-day dispatch scheduling / stock issues

• Coordinate product launches effectively to eliminate unnecessary downtime and packaging/material waste

• Ensure complete and comprehensive master production scheduling is generated at the required intervals

• Ensure required reports and KPIs are generated at the necessary frequency, monitored and utilized correctly to ensure improvement actions are generated and completed

• Manage the monitoring of finished goods and highlight any potential write off in line with the department procedures for planning/commercial decision to be made to minimize impact

• Take an active part in the continuous improvement of all operations