Job Description
The key purpose of this role is to ensure consistent supply of materials to plants to satisfy production volumes while optimising cash flow.
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Deliver weekly and long term MRP runs
- Prepare and present materials related KPIs, gaps and opportunities in supply review
- Manage materials within cash flow budgets and against inventory policy
- Manage call offs from suppliers
- PR generations for all materials and Retpack
- Supplier management (operational level)
- Ensuring material supply against requirement
- Expediting of urgent deliveries
- Control/Loss Prevention and Obsolete Management
- Stock level management at Brewery and Supplier
- Materials management for NPD, Promotions and discontinuations, including phase in and phase out planning
- Risk identification and mitigation
- System and Master Data maintenance
- Identify and implement cost avoidance and cost reduction initiatives
- KPI tracking – DCBL material, Inventory Out of Range
- Reporting
Minimum Requirements:
- Min – HND
- B Tech Logistics or Equivalent qualification in Logistics or Commercial
- Min – 6 months on the job training.
- Ability to negotiate and influence Suppliers
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong Problem-solving ability
- Familiarity with Supply chain principles, from Purchasing through to manufacturing
- Ability to use SAP, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
- Excellent presentation, report drafting, and interpersonal skills
- Discipline and rigor around process and attention to detail
- Supply chain orientated degree, or degree in one of the numerical sciences preferred