Location: Umhlanga, North Suburbs, Job Type: Full-Time. FOOD Production Scheduler – R30 000 Neg. 5  Month Contract Umhlanga. Well established entity seeking applicant with the following: Must have FOOD Production Ind. exp. University Degree / Diploma, Supply Chain qualification APICS (module 1-2) to be completed in first 18 months on the job. Planning and functional business process knowledge. E2E supply chain knowledge and experience, Strong Bias for Action, Excellent rigor and order.

Strong Accountability & Responsibility: Well developed, mature emotional intelligence. Fully operational in ‘Plan’ processes. Understand ‘Make’ and ‘Source’ processes. Computer Literacy especially MS Office. and SAP, Strong excel skills. Strong service mindset. Excellent communication skills. To optimally schedule the factory in daily buckets using suggested signed off plan from central planning coordinator in order to deliver maximum customer service at lowest cost.

Collaborate activities with Centralized planner and Operations team and manage carryovers. Ensure efficient operation of factory and constant communication with Central Production Planner Schedule Production. Use ECC to schedule the factory resources and generate weekly plan and daily plan for the factory (labour, machine and material) optimally to meet the demand and deliver the customer service level targets. Ensure all orders are TECO as per timings agreed Review carry overs and Schedule fixed period. Attend Factory Ops meeting. Attend NTPP call weekly. Attend Weekly scrum calls Communicate and agree the production schedule with site material coordinator to ensure that sufficient materials are available before presenting plan to the factory, especially important with JIT materials Communicate and agree the production schedule with production team on a weekly basis. Identify production constraints in the “in-week” planning horizon, re-plan, if there are constraints, resolve constraints and communicate, if unresolved to stakeholders and collaborate with Central team to resolve constraints identified in non-frozen period Negotiate alternate plans with Central Production Planning Coordinator to resolve constraints.

Provide all contingency 3rd Party requirements for the week 0-2 period (on a rolling basis). Flag any risks to delivering export specific volume to the Central Planning Coordinator. Flag any risks to delivering local and export (shared SKU) volume to the Central Production Planning Coordinator.

Calculate and propose demonstrated capacities (DC’s) to the Operations team on a monthly basis mandatory and when required. Ensure sign off by SUD and implementation for use and the monthly Supply. Ensure Comms with Central Production Planning Coordinator on DC changes in order to update APO master data appropriately.

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