Material Planner

Main purpose of the role:

• Ensure material supply (raw and packing materials) to meet the planned requirements in the short term horizon.
• Maintaining packing materials inventory to agreed policies.
• Establish and execute the material call off schedules to support production plans.
• Monitors supplier delivery performance (VMI, Call-off, and/or Order based).
• Adheres to the Supplier order policy i.e. lead times and MOQ as defined in the Service Level Agreements.

Main Accountabilities:

Material Management:

• Run Daily MRP on the agreed production plan
• Do daily call offs, follow up with the deliveries
• Responsible for keeping the material stocks at target stock level
• Quarterly updates on target stock levels through stock modelling
• Chair monthly S&OP meetings with suppliers to address operational issues and drive improvements in the process
• Ensure supplier’s compliance with Unilever standards and drive improvements via MMS
• Run up/down of packaging materials in times of innovations/promotions to ensure limited business waste and on time availability of new materials
• Maintain lines of communication with suppliers and/or Supply Management on the performance of the suppliers.
• Execute savings projects in coordination with Supply Management team
• Projects
• Ensure OTIF implementation of SNC (Supply Network Collaboration)