Functional Planner, Johannesburg, South Africa, Onsite
What is the job about?
The role reports directly to production supervisor. Be the owner within Grundfos South Africa supporting all order handling with their planning and purchase requirements. Execute and global best practices within planning and purchase business processes. Ensure compliance to usage of best practice methods and tools, measurements and reporting of results in Grundfos. Support the operations of Grundfos.
Your main responsibilities:
- Plan orders to ensure stock accuracy and realistic planned dates.
- Identify delayed purchase, planned, and production orders and move to new and realistic delivery dates to have an accurate plan. Share information between production and planning and communicate delays or improvements with order handling.
- Identify missing components for production and move orders with missing components to ensure feasible production schedules are maintained. Actively reschedule production orders and communicate to order handling.
- Ensure the correct picture of the current capacity load and available capacity according to time and pieces is maintained by ensuring routings are realistic and relevant to the product produced.
- Create new production orders to confirm sales orders and ensure component supply. Planned orders which opening period is relevant to the business day should be converted and firmed.
- Convert related purchase requisitions and forward purchase orders to suppliers. Ensure order acknowledgements are processed and open purchase orders monitored to meet the required date in the production plan. Send weekly open order requests to key suppliers and follow up on overdue deliveries.
- Check for anonymous stock on customer stock materials and if possible, move requirements or flag that it requires disassembly. Effectively manage excess stock from suppliers.
- Check reconfirmed orders daily.
- Monitor and ensure automated processes follow the correct process.
- Continuously improve execution of practices and methods based on performance and process performance indicators.
- Be responsible to handle requests from order handling and be accountable for actions.
- Participate in strategic and operational projects.
- Participate in audits/assessments and task force assignments.
- Own, maintain and execute accurate Master data.
- Participate and contribute to network meetings and workshops.
Your background:
We imagine that you have:
- At least a Senior high school diploma.
- About 1-3 years of relevant planning experience.
- Experience in using SAP MM PP SD modules is beneficial.
What’s in it for you?
Whether it’s developing leadership skills or advancing your expertise even further, we’ll support you with continuous learning and development opportunities, to enable you to discuss and steer your long-term Grundfos career path. You’ll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive, trusting environment guided by six core values.
- If you’ll be working from your home office, we’ll make sure you are well equipped with a good workstation. However, you are always welcome to our offices where you can engage, learn, and have fun with colleagues.
- On top of it, flexible working hours and up to 3 days’ additional paid leave for volunteering of your choice.
- Annual bonuses, health insurance, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programmes.
- Access to the modern Grundfos Academy to pursue further both personal and professional development.
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Job Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Grundfos is one of the world’s leading water technology companies with more than 19,000 employees in 60+ countries all over the world. Our skills commit us to pioneering solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improve the quality of life for people. By becoming part of our united powerful team, you too can drive this change no matter your role.
An inclusive team
We believe that the key to a work environment where employees thrive and grow is our ability to celebrate and value our differences in background, experiences, and perspectives. In our recruitment process, we welcome all professional people without consideration of age, colour, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, ethnicity, or religion.
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