About RCL Foods

RCL Foods is a major South African consumer goods and milling company that produces a wide array of branded and private label food products. The company was originally founded in 1960 as Rainbow Chicken Ltd. The company’s operations extend beyond South Africa to several other African countries, including Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia. Its products cover multiple categories, including household staples and value-added goods.

Application Details

The purpose of the role is to manage the overall processes and resources of Inbound Raw and Packaging Material Store, 3rd Party onsite store, Production Planning, Demand Planning , Overseeing the 3rd party production and Planning Customer collaboration. The role will report to the Planning and Logistics Executive.

Minimum Requirements

• Degree, preference given to the fields of Supply Chain Management and Finance.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a planning role, Management of a team is advantageous.

Essential

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a Supply chain operational role, preference given to specific Planning experience.
• Fully operational in “Plan” processes
• Working knowledge of S&OP
• Understanding of “Make” and “Source” processes.
• Factory based experience
• Demand Planning

Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Planning

• Define the degree of forward planning (3 – 6 months, 2 years etc.) and execute accordingly.

Functional Strategy into Action Operationalisation

• Ensure the agreed SIA is implemented through team targets and that these targets align cross functionally within area of responsibility.

Demand Forecasting and Management

• To assist in driving the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process by reviewing of the customer demand and supply resources, in order to reconcile the GAP and achieve the S&OP “one number”.

Short Term Supply Planning (Production Planning and MRP call-off)

• Drive the delivery of a detailed production plan to the factory taking into account factory constraints (line capacity, labour/ shift patterns), distribution constraints (warehousing and transport) as well as internal inbound constraints (transporting of inhouse materials from other facilities) and external supplier constraints (e.g.: ingredients and packaging materials).

Stock Management (Finished Goods, Raw Materials, Packaging and Ingredients)

• Pro-actively manage national stock covers within the targeted range, considering capacity constraints, product innovation, discontinuations, slow moving and obsolete stock across all stock holding points.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement in both forecast bias and customer service excellence by making recommendations for change using facts and trends learnt through appropriate analysis of data.

Promotions Effectiveness

• Work closely with the sales team to complete promotional effectiveness analysis and provide input into pricing decisions where appropriate.

Innovation

• Work with Marketing and Customer teams to develop the forecast for new products and to manage the discontinuation of products out of the business.

Portfolio Management

• Complete the data analysis to provide input into discussions on portfolio management.

Customer Service Excellence

• Work closely with the extended supply chain team to deliver customer service excellence (using data analysis on ordering patterns to make recommendations on lead times, order quantities, frequency of deliveries and input into the distribution incentives process).

Master Data and Hierarchy Management

• Manage the maintenance and setting up of master data and hierarchies in accordance with both demand planning and sales requirements.

Commodities

• Responsible for the monthly 52 week Blend and Oils Forecast which will be used by the Commodity team to inform their buying strategy.

Project Delivery

• Participate as an integral member of cross functional teams to deliver business projects.