Raw Material Planning Officer

Position Summary: Responsible for planning and controlling the Factory's purchasing of materials to meet business requirements, ensuring that buying processes are in line with Nestlé standards and policies, with optimum cost.
- Create a feasible production plan within the Demand Supply Planning (DSP) period that takes into consideration available capacity available labour available materials that respects the product family sequencing as determined by the Supply Planner and best optimizes the factory's ability to produce the SKUs within the families.
- Identification of practical issues concerning plant shutdowns, timing of promotion activity within the DSP period.
- Follow-up daily actual production outputs by DOR meeting or the system against the plan; revise the plan to meet the weekly master production plan (MPS) and customer requirements, when necessary, to ensure that the production plans are smoothly executed.
- Create an optimized replenishment plan for raw and packaging materials over an 18 month horizon that ensures supply of material to production whilst ensuring that the working capital targets for raw and packaging materials are met.
- Monitors supply signals through the use of MRP purchase requisitions ensuring delivery dates, lead times and required quantities are correct and finally creating purchase orders and ensuring their fulfillment by the supplier.
- Manages directly with the defined supplier the delivery of materials: this includes creating, sending, confirming, receiving, investigating errors and discrepancies on blocked or parked invoice lines and handling all exceptions / issues in those operations, including claims management.
- Propose the stock policy and management approach to be applied to each SKU within their portfolio.
- Identification of practical issues concerning material supply and demand for raw and packaging materials.
- Ensures excellent supplier relationships.
- Involves their suppliers in Supply Chain improvement exercises that creates shared value for both Nestlé and their suppliers.