Production Planner
Premier FMCG (Pty) Ltd
Job Purpose
- Ensure daily production volumes are recorded, planned and executed according to requirement from Client and Food Services to ensure 100% availability on time.
- Responsible for the medium to long-term production plan relevant to a portfolio of manufacturing sites and product categories
Key Responsibilities
- To ensure that required raw materials and packaging are communicated to stores, buyers daily – every morning according to forward orders to ensure 100% availability.
- Ensuring optimum use of intermediate raw materials in WIP and updated the line plan before planning.
- Ensure daily downloading of Woolworths orders and analyse order fluctuations.
- Ensure production reports is send out promptly daily.
- Ensure daily production plan is issued to the factory well in advance.
- Monitor execution of daily production plan, analyse and highlight potential yield losses.
- Monitor all yield information, analyse, investigate and compare against standard.
- Attend daily production meetings with relevant Foremen to discuss production plans.
- Analyse the weekly productivity report to ensure planned kilograms will have a positive labour recovery.
- Weekly review of Forecasted Demand/ Stock Cover/ Capacity Utilization/ Customer Service Levels.
- Determine/ Maintain Model Stock parameters per SKU within Working Capital & Customer Service Level framework.
- Issue updated production plan daily to ensure working capital & customer service level deliverables are met.
- Review and Maintain Planning Master Data parameters (Lead-Times / Batch Sizes/ Model Stock).
- Support Stock Controllers/ Buyers with SYSPRO MRP (Output/Interpretation/Master Data).
- Perform any ad hoc duty as delegated by superiors
Qualification Requirements
- Matric/Grade 12
- Computer literacy and GMP, HACCP and WW Code of Practice
- A sound knowledge of food production and manufacturing processes and techniques
- Knowledge of food quality and food safety systems and standards
Experience Requirements
- At least 5 Years working experience in FMCG Production Planning in a multi-process manufacturing environment.
Key Outputs
- Good administrative skills
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Analytical approach
- Very good communication skills – both verbal and written
- Attention to detail
- Assertiveness
- Problem Solving skills
- Action orientation/ Sense of urgency
- High level of computer literacy
