Functional Planner, Johannesburg, South Africa, Onsite
What is the job about?
The role reports directly to the 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 improvement 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:
- 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 discussing and steering your long-term Grundfos career path. You’ll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive, trusting environment guided by six core values.
In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:
- 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.
- Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly.
Do you want to learn more?
If you have questions or would like to know more about this position, please contact the Recruiter at
If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume and cover letter by clicking “Apply”.
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We look forward to hearing from you.
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