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