Materials Planner

AkzoNobel


Date: 5 days ago
City: Dammam
Contract type: Full time

Date: Oct 22, 2024

Location: Dammam, SA

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.


For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com


2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.

Job Purpose

  • Inbound materials planning to ensure short and long term sales requirements are supported, by sound and achievable decision making.
Strong relationship building with key stakeholders
  • procurement, external suppliers, manufacturing, demand planning.
  • Ensure planning process optimizes materials availability to achieve customer service metrics (OTIF) whilst maximizing inventory turns and minimizing costs (OWC & SLOB management).
  • Support local customs clearance process of inbound materials.

Responsibilities

Planning:

  • Analysis of demand for translation to purchase plan for locally sourced and imported materials.
  • Plan materials with an understanding of balancing cost and customer service.
  • Analysis to correct and prevent over/under stocking
  • short and long-term inventory planning, out of stock management.
  • Manage reduction and prevention of slow and obsolete stock, including phase out and phase in.
  • Maintain materials delivery schedule with suppliers per requirements.
  • Analysis of supplier performance for corrective and preventative actions on service failures
  • drive improvement plans.
  • Balance replenishment with an understanding of site warehouse capacity.
  • Takes ownership for continuous improvement and performance management processes.
  • Co-ordinate customs clearance process with relevant parties.

SAP experience:

  • MRP for analysis of nett requirements.
  • Create purchase orders
  • Maintenance of purchase orders reflecting the reality of the replenishment plan.
  • Manage MRP exceptions daily/ weekly
  • Analysis of material shortages for resolution

Continuous improvement:

  • Data management: review and maintenance of master data in accordance with inventory replenishment policies & MRP parameters i.e. ABCXYZ segmentation, lead times, safety stock levels etc…
  • Support implementation of respective continuous improvement projects.

Role Requirements

  • University Graduate in relevant field
  • Minimum 4 years experience, in FMCG Supply planning.
  • Experienced with SAP ECC-PP
  • Understanding of production planning and inter-dependencies with Material Planning.
  • Experience in local customs clearance process.
  • Microsoft: Outlook & Excel

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 43214

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