Manufacturing Planner

Job Responsibilities

• To schedule production and/or procure externally sourced materials in accordance with prevailing confirmed customer demand, ensuring material availability at finished goods warehouse.
• Day to day planning skills to keep track of, and prioritize process orders and/or purchase orders.
• Extensive planning and organizational skills to meet and satisfy customer demand over extended periods of time.
• To make scheduling and/or procurement decisions that will impact customer orders and company stocking policies.
• Day to day planning skills to ensure that raw materials, packaging will be available in time to meet production requirements.
• To continually devise improvements to systems to improve efficiency and the speed of delivery of information from the department.
• Communicate and support the QC department regarding possible material for rework and production and/or procurement changes.
• To attend and play a key role in contributing planning issues in daily and weekly meetings, providing key information in meetings to improve the efficiency and running of the plants and/or procurement process.
• Continually review the production schedule to ensure all forward demands are being met and take appropriate action to add, move or cancel production and/or purchases to minimize working capital.
• Investigate and respond to customer complaints.
• Using MRP review proposed output and make decisions on the viability of turning planned order and/or purchase requisition requirements into firm process orders and/or purchase orders.
• Ensure product compatibility is maintained
• Respond in a timely manner to Escalations taking action to schedule new production if required.
• Effectively communicate the production schedule and any issues arising from it to production, customer service, sales, and manager.
• Assist with other task assigned by manager.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of site manufacturing, processes and products.
• More than 2 years of planning experience in manufacturing environment with SAP systems
• Experience in using Epicor system will be an added advantage
• Knowledge of SAP processes in the Sales & Distribution and Production Planning modules.
• Competent user of MS Office packages.
• Ability to complete tasks to tight deadlines
• Good knowledge of Excel
• Excellent communication and writing skills. Must have written and oral proficiency in the English language.