Supply Chain & Manufacturing Functional Lead

Supply Chain & Manufacturing Functional Lead

Production Planning: MRP (Material Requirements Planning), production orders, capacity planning, shop floor control

Process Manufacturing: Recipe management, process orders, batch classification, yield management

Materials Management: Material master, purchasing organisation, purchase orders, goods receipt, invoice verification

Inventory Management: Goods movements, batch management, stock transfers (inter-plant, inter company), physical inventory

Quality Management: Inspection plans, quality notifications, usage decision, Halal certificate management, shelf-life management.Warehouse Management: Warehouse structure, transfer orders, storage bin management (MY plant warehouse)

Batch Management: Batch classification, batch search strategy, batch traceability (FEFO - first expiry first out)

Integration with Manufacturing Execution System (MES / SCADA / Wonderware) - interface design and governance

Vendor integration: purchase order automation, vendor evaluation, approved vendor list (Halal certified vendors)

Minimum 10 years ERP Supply Chain experience, with at least 2 full-cycle ERP Greenfield implementations in food manufacturing

Demonstrated experience in FMCG batch manufacturing with recipe/process order management

Experience supporting Halal-certified manufacturing environments is strongly preferred. Familiarity with certification frameworks such as JAKIM (Malaysia), MUIS (Singapore), or equivalent Halal regulatory processes will be considered an advantage.

MES/SCADA integration experience (Wonderware/AVEVA, or equivalent) preferred

Certification in Supply Chain in the relevant ERP platform is preferred

English language proficiency required; Bahasa Malaysia an advantage for MY plant team interactions

Demonstrated experience in APAC regulatory environments (Malaysian HACCP, MY Dept. of Veterinary Services, JP food standards)

Responsibilities:

Lead all Production Planning, Materials Management, Quality Management and Warehouse Management design workshops with the appointed SI and Arnott's Operations, Procurement and Quality teams

Define and govern the material master framework: material types, MRP parameters, procurement types, batch classification

Design the recipe and BOM structure for Arnott's M&B FMCG product portfolio, aligned to production and costing requirements

Configure MRP: planning strategy, lot sizing, safety stock, reorder point logic for all M&B SKUs

Design Halal quality management configuration: QM inspection points, Halal certificate batch linkage, usage decision workflow

Configure batch management: batch classification (FEFO), batch search strategy for production and goods issue

Define shelf-life management parameters aligned to M&B product and regulatory requirements

Design and govern the MES/SCADA integration architecture in collaboration with the appointed SI and Arnott's Operations

Design and execute Production Planning, Materials Management, Quality Management and Warehouse Management SIT and coordinate UAT with Operations, Procurement and Quality teams

Validate materials master data migration: legacy BPCS material data, open purchase orders, stock on hand

Produce Production Planning, Materials Management, Quality Management and Warehouse Management configuration documentation, MRP parameter documentation and Halal QM operating procedures