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September 14, 2024

Aspen Pharma Group

Port Elizabeth

FULL TIME


Master Planner (Re-advertisement)

Job purpose
  • Manage the Production Planning processes, outputs and resources to ensure customer OTIF and enhanced customer satisfaction within operation budgets.
  • Medium term production optimization and shift planning
  • Manage and guide IBP process.
  • Optimize Factory utilization, Demand-, Inventory-and Supply parameters with customer expectations
Responsibilities
Master Planning
  • Manage the creation of a factory wide masterplan, including production schedule, maintenance, laboratory, QA/QC, Warehouse and MRP across the value chain.
  • Balance demand and supply effectively to achieve strategic goals.
  • Provide “what if” capacity and schedule analysis for changing demand, staffing constraints, and new customer project awards.
  • Plan to minimize effects of resource constraints.
  • Develop and oversee capacity planning activities for sales and operations planning, master scheduling, marketing application timelines, materials requirement planning, detailed scheduling.
  • Suggest batch size changes, re-routing of products and outsourcing/purchasing of additional equipment, as required.
  • Optimize parameters across the value chain to unlock value.
  • Ensure that all units are aligned to produce an optimized plan.
Planning coordination and reporting
  • Manage, prepare, and facilitate the monthly supply point reviews for your specific unit.
  • Drive the adherence to key KPIs including budgeted, planned, and actual OTIF, ATP, Schedule adherence and recoveries.
  • Work with production supervisors and managers for optimal efficiency to meet the needs of internal and external customers.
  • Assess and report on manpower requirements.
  • Assist the creation of SKU, work centre and labour matrix to allow for optimization when demand or supply changes.
  • Ensure change controls are actioned appropriately.
Risk and Controls
  • Monitor sales against forecast volumes, identifying at-risk products.
  • Identify supply deficits, over-scheduling, capacity constraints and under-loaded schedules and highlight recoveries-related financial risks and critical materials shortages.
  • Ensure delivery terms are met, and that correct documentation accompanies consignments.
  • Input into routings, inventory policies and related pertinent processes.
Planning optimization
  • Develop and manage data from all value chain units to create optimization and simulation ability.
  • Work with the analytics team to continuously improve our ability to drive key KPIs.


Skills Required
Background/experience
  • 5 to 10 years’ experience in a Supply Chain, Procurement or Planning role.
  • Experience in a pharmaceutical/FMCG manufacturing environment.
  • 3-year degree in Procurement, Logistics or Engineering, or a related discipline
Specific job skills
  • Computer literacy: proficiency in Excel, Word, Power Point, and ERP system.
  • Solid understanding of S&OP/IBP
  • Scenario planning, optimization and/or simulation experience
  • End to end understanding of Supply Chain operations in Plan, Source, Make and Deliver
Competencies
  • Ability to represent SAOPS in global planning platforms.
  • Strong leadership skill to guide business decision making considering service, cost and cash.
  • Taking Action.
  • Managing Performance
  • Performance driven and solution orientated.
  • Strong analytical and numerical skills a must
  • Highly collaborative, flexible and attention to detail
  • Conflict management and resolution

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