Supply Planner

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It helps children grow healthy, pets thrive, parents age gracefully, and everyone lives life to the fullest. Good food brings us together. Good food also respects our planet and protects resources for future generations.

The Opportunity

At Rhodes, we are looking to add a Supply Planner to the team. Your main responsibility will be to manage the Supply Network of the assigned area of the business by replenishing each dispatch point to meet customer service objectives whilst maintaining optimal stock cover that also takes into account cost optimisation.

Responsibilities:

1. Consistently achieve sustainable Customer Order Fulfilment levels for domestic and Inter-Market Supply (IMS) customers within the Working Capital and Freshness objectives by ensuring that the weekly planning process is executed on time
2. Supply planning: Analyse and evaluate the supply plan and net despatch requirements to satisfy customer needs considering the network complexity and the supply constraints.
3. Capacity Planning: Work with Factory Logistics in establishing short- and long-term production and capacity plans to meet stock cover, cost, and service requirements.
4. Manage daily supply execution from order creation to Order ATP for local Market supply
5. Inventory Management: Balance the need for product availability versus the need to minimise costs of inventory to ensure optimum stocks of the right material in the right location at the right time
6. Challenge manufacturing regularly to manage lot sizes, cycle times and R&P inventory levels, to drive optimum FG inventory level.
7. Determine key issues with volume variance that may impact supply, and highlight to MPS Planner by challenging existing Logistics and Supply Planning processes and tools

Skills and Experience:

• Relevant operational experience at the market/business level is preferred
• Some experience in factory production
• Foreign trade – Inter Market Supply is a plus
• Factory Logistics knowledge
• Experience in other Demand and Supply Planning positions is highly regarded.
• Exposure to Customer Solutions / Physical Logistics
• Desirable to have worked in a LEAN organization that has adapted LEAN concepts and tools as part of their way of working.

Benefits:

You will have the chance to work with an outstanding and highly engaged team and build and grow your career with an inclusive, global FMCG leader. In addition, we offer:

1. Varied career experiences and personalised development support
2. Wellbeing benefits include vaccinations and health insurance discounts
3. Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and program
4. Paid parental and partner leave
5. Purchased Leave Scheme
6. Volunteering leave, Sports leave, Emergency Services leave
7. Discounted Nestlé products

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