Permanent - Production Planner - Ekurhuleni (East Rand) - South Africa

Job Number: 80013


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80013
Permanent
Production Planner
Advanced MS Excel,MRP,SAP EWM,SAP MM,SAP PP
Industrial Automation
Ekurhuleni (East Rand)
Gauteng

SAP PP (Production Planning)

This should be the primary module requirement.

Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Creation and management of production orders
  • Production scheduling
  • Capacity planning
  • Work centre management
  • Routing management
  • BOM (Bill of Materials) understanding
  • MRP execution and review
  • Production order release
  • Production order monitoring
  • Exception message analysis

Reporting & Analytics:

SAP Reporting:

Planner should be comfortable with:

  • SAP standard reports
  • Exporting SAP data into Excel
  • Pivot tables
  • Planning analysis

Ideally (although these would be advantageous rather than mandatory):

  • SAP BW
  • SAP Analytics Cloud
  • Power BI

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Requirements:

SAP PP (Production Planning) + MM (Materials Management) experience non-negotiable

SAP Knowledge and Experience:

  • Minimum 3 years' experience using SAP Production Planning (PP) in a manufacturing environment.
  • Strong understanding of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), production order management, capacity planning, and inventory control.
  • Working knowledge of SAP Materials Management (MM).
  • Ability to analyse planning data and generate reports using SAP and Microsoft Excel.
  • Experience within a make-to-order and project manufacturing environment would be advantageous.

Required SAP knowledge ranked as follows:

SAP PP (Production Planning) - ESSENTIAL

SAP MM (Materials Management) - ESSENTIAL

SAP SD (Sales & Distribution) - Beneficial

SAP WM / EWM - Beneficial

SAP QM (Quality Management) - Nice to have

SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) - Nice to have

Highly Recommended Experience:

Because the role includes material planning and inventory management, knowledge should include:

  • Purchase requisitions
  • Material master data
  • Inventory management
  • Goods receipts
  • Stock transfers
  • Vendor delivery monitoring

Common Transactions:

  • MM03 – Display Material Master
  • ME51N – Purchase Requisition
  • ME53N – Display PR
  • MMBE – Stock Overview
  • MB52 – Warehouse Stock
  • ME2M – Purchase Orders by Material

SAP Transactions commonly used:

  • MD04 – Stock/Requirements List
  • MD05 – MRP List
  • MD06 / MD07 – MRP Controller Worklists
  • CO01 – Create Production Order
  • CO02 – Change Production Order
  • CO03 – Display Production Order
  • CM01 / CM21 – Capacity Planning
  • MF50 – Planning Table
  • BOM (Bill of Materials) understanding

Beneficial Experience:

SAP WM / EWM (Warehouse Management)

(Not mandatory but useful)

Understanding:

  • Warehouse stock locations
  • Goods movements
  • Inventory accuracy
  • Picking and staging

 

Production Planning or related
Diploma
Available

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