Website South African Breweries (SAB)
SAB is South Africa’s leading brewer and one of the nation’s most admired companies. The company operates 7 breweries and 42 depots in South Africa with an annual brewing capacity of 3.1 billion litres. Its portfolio of beer brands meets the needs of a wide range of consumers and includes brands rich in heritage such as Castle Lager, Hansa Pilsener and Carling Black Label.
Key Roles and Responsibilities :
- Presenting a monthly unconstrained production plan solved to DC level as per LCP Requirement – 12-18 months forward
- Scenario planning with various cost inventory levels – all scenarios solved for lost sales by DC
- Main connection between SCD, Supply teams and Demand planning
- Focus on long term capability, capacity and cost while focusing on protecting service level and deliver mix and enable commercial plan
- Responsible for providing the cash flow budget and monthly full year LE on finished goods
- Translate production plans by brewery into numerical KPI’s (GLY, NST, OAE) and ensure full understanding by brewery and lines
- Least Cost Model maintenance, alignment and update (VIC, VLC & VILC)
- Responsible for maintaining inventory policy data books for RSI modelling.
- Publish an optimized monthly long term production plan from M+2 with at least a rolling 12 months incorporating WSNP handover
- Monthly Production plan with cost and allocation optimization solving for lost sales down to DC level
- Manage key Supply Planning KPI’s & Costs (T1 VLC; CONA & Allocation Efficiency; WSNP efficiency)
- Lead and prepare Supply Review deck in accordance with TOR and
- Sign off on monthly inventory LE’s to cash flow team
- Ensure monthly ‘handshake’ on S&OP process between WSNP & CONA teams as well as with the Supply team
- Attending all S&OP routines and S&OE
- Input analysis – demand publish accuracy
- Input analysis – capacity, capability, line speeds, NPD and project timelines.
- Output analysis – Lost sales
- Output analysis – IR movements and T1 cost
Education Requirements:
- An orientation towards the quantitative disciplines of mathematics, statistics and economics would be advantageous
- Candidate should have a 3 year Bachelor level with a preference to Supply Chain
- A minimum of 1 year Planning / Logistics / Procurement experience will be advantageous