About this opportunity
Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager and as 2IC, as Supply Chain Coordinator you will support and control the demand and capacity throughput for APM while ensuring that the customer’s requirements are meet through superior customer service.
Specifically, you will:
- Work with key stakeholders to deliver best in class supply chain experience for customers
- Proactively work with the sales team to collaboratively deliver the sales plan and ensure supply chain risks are managed
- Own the short-term forecast to drive accuracy and product availability for customers
- Effectively manage an efficient production schedule and master plan, from product mix and financial perspective
- Work with finance and production to ensure production order compliance
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Receive and enter all customer orders in SAP
- Convert customer orders into production orders
- Create monthly production schedule
- Upload customer forecasts and provides sales budget based on forecast
- Thorough analysis of forecast versus order received
- Raise Master data & Raise Price requests in SAP
- Raise credit notes in SAP
- Responsible for co-ordination of NPD orders
- Order Labels and managing label changes as per customer request
- Produce 3 monthly plan.
- Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
- Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget
- Responsible for raising internal change controls and planned deviation
- Address issues as they arise aiming for minimum disruption
- Obtain output information (number of finished products, percentage of defectives etc.)
- Prepare and submit status and performance reports
- Monthly DIFOT report for all customers
- Monthly capacity report for all machines
Your skills and experience
To be successful in this role, you’ll have:
- At least 4 years’ experience gained within a planning/supply chain role
- Proven experience as Production Planner within a manufacturing background
- Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles
- Experience in SAP ERP system (essential)
- Excel experience
- Production and Materials planning experience is important also (BOM’s, workflow planning etc)
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and
- Dynamic approach to problem solving
