Weekly Supply Network Planner

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The Key Purpose of this role is to plan/optimise weekly production and inventory across South Africas supply network in line with the demand plan. This role connects the supply chain from sales through to production, logistics and finance by generating feasible weekly packaging, brewing and inventory plans that meet desired service levels while avoiding unnecessary distribution and obsolescence costs.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Generate, optimise and manage weekly production and inventory plans for the supply network over a 16-week horizon.
• Management of WSNP planning system(s) & master data.
• Daily/weekly communication with various teams including Supply (Breweries), Material requirements planning (MRP), Circular Packaging, T1 VLC, Demand Planning, Inventory Deployment and Major Equipment Outages Planning.
• Understand, analyse and review 16-week plan inputs (e.g., Brewery capacity, Demand plan, Gross Line Yield, Downtime, Material availability) to minimize costs while driving KPI achievement.
• Following up on the execution of the production/inventory plan.
• Analyze supply network data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Reporting weekly on KPI/production performance highlighting areas of potential risk or opportunities in the 16-week plan.
• Identify and analyse deviations to production/inventory plans to drive performance improvement.
• Drive OTIF delivery (Service Level) & VILC savings.
• Prepare for and actively participate in the Weekly S&OE meetings.

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Strong analytic and numerical skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders across all levels within the organization
• Ability to understand and interpret trends
• Good leadership qualities
• Operational excellence
• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Resilient and able to manage change effectively
• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on accuracy and quality

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Engineering or any other relevant Commerce qualification.
• Preferably 1-3 years working experience.

Additional Information:

• Band: VII

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing.