Material Planner - Foods RM Unilever

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do creating a better business and a better world. If you are an effective communicator, have high problem-solving skills, have great time management skills & high attention to detail then this role is just for you! You ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters for people and the planet.

Because here, we don t just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Materials Planning:

• Ensure materials/FGI requirements are reflected in SAP.
• Establish material requirements for Production Plans with the use of MRP Planned Orders/Purchase Requisitions & Purchase Orders.
• Run & maintain IPM model.
• Monitor Stock levels and ensure material availability for current production requirements.
• Establish and maintain appropriate safety stock levels.
• Highlight material constraints that could impact production plans for the upcoming 3 months at least.
• Communicate with suppliers/Sourcing units on material requirement forecasts on an ongoing basis.
• Identify materials with continuous bottlenecks situations & plan to mitigate them or debottleneck them.
• Anticipate constraints in materials availability On Time In Full.
• Plan materials with near expiries or expired to replenish them.
• Plan new innovations or projects materials orders with alignment of Supply Planners & Innovation Planner respecting the innovation/projects network & alignments.
• Plan [To be delisted/To be obsolete] materials rundowns/depletion based on alignment of project network.
• Cross check with suppliers on materials development of projects/innovations.

Purchasing:

• Raise Purchase orders and call offs to suppliers based on planned requirements.
• Follow-up on supplier confirmation of Purchase Orders and shipments.
• Monitor shipments of all imported materials and take action when necessary to ensure timely arrival of material on site, thereby avoid disruption to production plans.
• Co-ordinate with Internal Logistics to ensure availability of all imported materials
• Establish requirements of specified packaging materials both local and imported based medium-term requirements.
• Place purchase orders and issue call offs according to Production Schedules.
• Liaise with Suppliers on rejected materials or short shipped consignments.

Co-ordinate on Sourcing issues:

• Co-ordinate with Planners / Sourcing new raw and packaging materials.
• Provide data to establish Supplier Performance rating.

SAP:

• Ensure MRP (planning) and call-off procedures are followed.
• Update MRP Master Data.
• Obtain information on MOQ, shipping and clearance lead-times and update planning information in SAP.

Reports:

• Provide necessary information and maintain necessary records to enable proper control of inventory and prices
• Reports such as: Working Capital reports, Critical Material Report, Purchase Order Report, SLOBS List Report, Critical Materials Report (CMR), Neary Expiry Materials Report (Raw Materials Planning mainly).