- Germiston
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Construction Manufacturing Mining
- Benefits: Medical Aid Pension Training Parking Maternity Leave
- Reference: 6547
- Employment Equity Position
Vacancy Details
Employer: Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
Introduction:
Komatsu South Africa is seeking an experienced Specialist: Remanufacturing Materials Requirements/Demand Planning to join our Reman department. The preferred candidate should have at least a Diploma or Degree in Supply Chain & Logistics/Production Planning with 5 to 6 years of work experience.
Job responsibilities:
- Executes and updates a targeted/specific plan for remanufactured components and cores, namely: WSP, WES, WSH and WSE
- Developing and maintaining Customer component forecast database.
- Forecasting of RM/PEX component usage.
- Liaising with Branch- and Depot Managers to ensure Customer forecast accuracy.
- Ensure that components are available either fully rebuilt (RM/PEX) or as new parts.
- Plan and execute core returns to Global RM factories.
- Ensure that emergency stock levels are maintained
- Forward planning of all repairable components
- Generating OEM material schedules to meet demand within the requirements
- Facilitating planning meetings.
- Communicating deviations from plan timeously, up-front where possible and suggesting corrective action.
- Maintaining close contact with Production Work Order Planners and WIP expeditors by advising them on materials delivery status.
- Liaising with global suppliers with regards to the sourcing of components.
- Monitors systems data integrity and inventory levels & accuracy by Checking Bills of Materials integrity and inventory accuracy.
- Gathers and reports on MRP metrics and statistics
Required Skills
- Production Planning: 5 to 6 years
- Ms Office: 5 to 6 years
- Logistics Planning: 5 to 6 years
Candidate Requirements
Qualifications:
Degree or 3-year Diploma in Supply Chain & Logistics/Production planning.
A Technical qualification or background will be advantageous.
Years of experience:
5 to 6 years’ experience.
Supply chain experience in Production Planning in a manufacturing environment is essential.
A sound understanding of production planning & manufacturing philosophies (Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or equivalents).
Generic knowledge requirements:
Microsoft Office: MS Excel, MS Access, and MS Word - Advanced
Core Tracker database - Advanced
MRP system – Advanced
ISO 9001/2008
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About Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
We build machines to answer the needs of society. For more than a century, our brand has been synonymous with connection to community. It guides everything we do, from the ways we think about innovation, to how we hire and train new employees around the world, and how we build relationships with our customers.
In 1921, Meitaro Takeuchi founded our company in the town that shares our name. He did so to provide work for the local community after the closure of a nearby copper mine.
Today, we have come a long way from where we started. We have evolved into a truly global company with a diverse workforce comprised of different nationalities and beliefs. And it’s by harnessing the potential of all our different talents and unique perspectives that we push ourselves further.
We explore and help advance the boundaries of technology, developing smart construction equipment and autonomous mining trucks, creating underwater electric bulldozers and even conceptualizing an excavator capable of operating on the moon. Our products and solutions directly support industries essential to the ongoing development of modern societies and everyday life.
For our core customers in forestry, construction and mining, we make big machines that take on even bigger challenges, gentle giants answering the needs of society.
We believe that when people are united by a common goal, the truly remarkable happens. In communities across the globe, we find purpose in creating value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, business, and our planet thrive together.
Harnessing our collective expertise to go further, we stay true to our brand promise: Creating value together.
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