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The Role:
This is a 12 month fixed term contract which may be extended.
Finished Goods Demand Planning & Procurement
- To ensure stock levels of finished goods are maintained at an optimum level to meet customer demand and respect space, shelf life and cost parameters
- Gather information on long term sales forecast, invoiced sales, outstanding sales orders, outstanding purchase orders and existing finished goods stocks
- Create a forecast aligned with existing financial and sales forecasting structure
- Generate demand requirement
- Make judgements to create a procurement plan with regard to proposed standard 3 week lead times and optimum batch sizes
- Raise and place purchase orders for finished goods required
- Communicate with Production Planner to ensure orders are planned for production to meet required delivery dates, or where capacity is breached to negotiate revised lead times
- Communicate with the Stock Controller to ensure finished goods received into the warehouse are assigned to the correct purchase order and booked in promptly and accurately
- Completion of Supply Chain Performance Tracker statistics
2. Materials Resource Planning & Procurement
- To ensure all required production materials are available when required and that stock is maintained at an optimum level to meet demand and respect space, shelf life and cost parameters
- Gather information on ingredients and packaging recipes per finished goods stock unit to create a database of materials
- Gather information on rough cut production plan (3 week plan) and fixed production plan (1week plan)
- Gather information on suppliers, lead times, optimum or agreed pricing, optimum production and delivery volumes
- Create a materials planning tool to generate materials requirement
- Make judgements to create a procurement plan with regard to lead time, space, volume, cost parameters
- Raise and place purchase orders for materials required
- Communicate with suppliers to ensure deliveries are on time and booked into our warehouse
- Communicate with Stock Controller to ensure deliveries received are inspected and booked in promptly and accurately
- Ensure GRN paperwork is received, annotated with shortages/damages and passed to accounts to complete the financial control process
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Knowledge of core processes in demand planning
- Previous experience in planning and scheduling via MRP
- Excellent knowledge of Excel and ability to navigate 3rd party IT portals
- Experience in managing suppliers
- Experience in procurement
- Good communication skills with colleagues, managers and subordinates
- Ability to gather information from various sources
- Excellent planning, co-ordination and organisation skills
