Minimum Requirements

• Matric (Standard 10) or recognized equivalent qualification with maths
• Diploma in production management, business management, supply chain or related field
• 3-5 years’ experience working in a similar role in a lean manufacturing plant

Duties and Responsibilities

Production Planning:

• Ensure plan is updated daily/weekly/monthly: Daily updating of plan vs actual.
• Ensure KPI’s are communicated to all impacted departments.
• Ensure that OTIF of 98% is achieved.
• Investigating and communicating yield losses / gains: Daily/weekly/monthly
• Production planning on SAP to timeously meet business demand requirements within inventory management targets, product allergens, product colour impact and optimize on efficiency constraints. 
• Effective communication of any constraint impacting on our business units within Nando’s Feitoria.
• Measurement and communication of production plan adherence APT%, and by SKU MPS% and mandatory attendance of all production meetings and co-ordination thereof.

Daily Tasks

• Daily reporting of issues experienced.
• Daily releasing of production orders for production.
• Daily creation of production orders to check materials.
• Run MB52 and COOIS for Customer Service
• Creating and releasing of production orders using transaction CO01
• Attend daily production meetings and provide SC with feedback via email. 
• Reporting material shortages to customer services with tentative production dates.
• Updating production status report and ensuring all production orders are goods receipted and confirmed within 48hrs
• Ordering of all vegetable, oil and vinegar requirements for the facility to ensure that production is not impacted.

Weekly Tasks:

• Weekly summary of plan and output.
• Confirming a minimum of one week’s plan to the Production/Warehouse group leaders.
• Reporting the weekly ATP achieved with root causes and corrective actions where applicable.
• Attend NPD meetings to ensure smooth process flow for trials/launches and communicate to material planners the dates and material requirements
• Provide customer service with a status report for all orders with tentative production dates/availability dates.
• Consolidate the Open Orders vs Production report weekly to ensure all orders are planned and accounted for.

Monthly Tasks:

• Prepare and lead Capacity Review.
• Create monthly production plan in SAP for Material Planner to check missing parts.
• Update monthly KPI’s (ATP and Yield Loss)
• Ensure master data is updated and conduct spot checks.
• Ensuring production plan meets capacity of plant and communicating the deficits to customer services, operations and supply chain teams.

Safety and Quality:

• Closely following Safety, Quality will also receive highest priority.
• Report non-conformances immediately to Quality department and ensure that immediate corrective action is taken.
• Ensure that all production is scheduled following allergen control matrix.
• Ensuring a high standard of safety and good housekeeping and that plant & activities complies with conditions stipulated within the OHS Act.
• Report incidents (Injuries and losses) in the section.

Adhoc:

• Updating material master’s for finished goods and house blends
• Create routings for new materials
• Ensure non – conformances are addressed and new production orders are executed to meet customer delivery date.
• Reevaluate Capacity checks due to additional orders.