Supply Chain Planner

**Job description**
- Determines policies and reviews safety stock and inventory levels.
- Regularly reviews and optimizes inventory parameters and levels ( re-order pt, safety stock, ABC categorization)
- Places orders based upon agreed lead time and volume parameters
- Integrates new products, trials and maintenance into production schedules
- Prepares & assists in gap resolution as pre-work to Sales meeting
- Drives the flexible part of short term supply to resolve alerts of real time issues
- Determines & reviews safety stock and inventory settings quarterly
- Ensures that the right safety stock levels are set in the entire network
- Reviews out of stock situations and defines actions to avoid this in the future (respecting the defined service levels per category)
- Partners with Sales to ensure fulfillment, respecting the service level agreements
- Collaborates with Logistics to hand-over the Deployment Plan for Deployment Scheduling
- Utilize data and systems to analyze, monitor and report inventory levels and status
- Monitor and manage short dated (use by date) inventory to ensure stock is rotated timeously to prevent risk of expired stock in any location
- Monitor and report scrap and obsolescence
- Use initiative to recommend changes / improved methods to reach optima inventory while minimizing inventory costs and exposure
- Knowledge and adherence to all business rules, polices and regulations, processes and operating systems,
- Ensure inventory principles are adhered to for Phase out / Obsolete stock
- Performs task as required by the Management in relation to the job function.
- CAN START IMMEDIATELY

**Job Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree
- With experience in Demand/Supply Planning
- Advance proficiency in MS Excel
- MS Office/SAP Business One

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- Day shift