Supply Chain Operations Manager

The scope of work of this position including: Production Planning, Material Planning, Logistics, and Warehouse Managemenet

• Production and Capacity planning.
• Ensure that material scheduling strategy and processes are in place and work effectively in order to ensure material supply meets production requirements with minimum stock levels, whilst optimising costs.
• Take ownership of material planning issues that arise, including over or under delivery and take any follow up actions especially in the event of material shortages that affect production
• Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions.
• Manage inventory risk and ensure that contingency plans are in place.
• Seek and recommend solutions to overcome issues arising in order to meet production requirements and address operational risks.
• Design, develop and implement flexible solutions to aid business efficiency, drive process improvements and add value.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure that professional and consistent materials planning processes are applied across the business.
• Ensure that any Material Requirements Planning system (MRP) is effective and that data is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required.
• Investigate and implement system enhancement initiatives.
• Ensure the integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and inventory accuracy at all times and manage and control inventory levels and movements.
• Take overall responsibility for obsolete parts process and ensure business is left with minimum liability and minimal waste.
• Oversee labelling processes to ensure correct parts/finished assemblies reach correct customers at the correct time.
• Ensure strategic and operational information, reports and metrics are available to share with others in the business as and when required.
• Report on the achievement of targets and identify any corrective action.
• Warehouse and logistic monitoring.

• Proven experience of Material, Planning, and Logisticin manufacturing environment with knowledge and understanding ofmanufacturing processes
• Experiences with Advanced Production planning with special ERP Software.
• Experienced withSAP B1
• Ideally degree qualified in a relevant commercial or engineering
• Experience of inventory, stock, distribution and replenishment planning of materials and products
• Awareness of IATF 16949, GMP, OEE, Capacity Analysis, TPM, ERP POKAYOKE, 6Sigma… is prefered.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in the same position