Material Planner

Job description / Role

The primary responsibility is the inventory management to support Ecolab Gulfs Operations to assure on time product delivery to customers.

Main Responsibilities
- Maintaining planning information and MRP (AccPAc replenishment level, forecast collection, AccPAc master data)
- Coordinate with the manufacturing / internal suppliers to make sure adequate inventory of the finished materials is available at any given time
- Timely transactions as required by MRP
- Coordination and setup of minimum balances for stock items compared sales requirement / demand
- Timely response to customer orders, requirements.
- Generate and send replenishment orders to suppliers (external and internal) to maintain correct inventory level
- Follow-up of replenishment PO: ensure its received on time (shipping date follow-up, custom clearance, etc)
- Transacting Purchase orders in AccPac
- Monitoring supplier delivery performance (KPI)
- Generation of monthly KPI: reporting and tracking
- Day to day inventory / stock control
- Customs clearance coordination and instructions.
- Coordinating, facilitating and running of physical Cycle Counts
- Track material usage history
- Investigation of incidents and Non Conformances

Requirements

- University graduate of any discipline
- Minimum 5 years experience in a material planning role or similiar position in an international company
- Previous experience working in supply chain for a chemical manufacturing company
- Previous experience working with international virtual teams, including management, sales and 3rd party suppliers
- Should have ERP experience
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills
- Must be creative and a quick learner

About the Company

Every day, we make the world cleaner, safer and healthier – protecting people and vital resources. Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services. Around the world businesses in foodservice, food processing, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets choose Ecolab products and services to keep their environment clean and safe, operate efficiently and achieve sustainability goals. Our global workforce of over 44,000 employees is consistently delivering comprehensive solutions that meet the unique needs of our customers.