Company Description
4P’s, headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, operates 40 worldwide restaurants. Our main restaurant, Pizza 4P’s, has 35 stores in Vietnam and manages global franchises like IPPUDO and ABOUT LIFE COFFEE BREWERS. Our core products are food and beverages, specifically pizza, with key differentiators of "House-made cheeses", "Earth-to-people" and "Omotenashi" hospitality.
Pizza 4P’s is an innovative Vietnam-based Japanese Italian pizza restaurant that started in Vietnam with a simple yet powerful mission: “Delivering Wow, Sharing Happiness”. We are known for crafting artisanal pizzas, homemade cheese, and unique East-meets-West flavors while embracing sustainability and community impact at the heart of everything we do. Today, we operate restaurants across Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, India and Indonesia, and continue to grow with a vision of bringing people together through memorable dining experiences.
Job Description
ROLE PURPOSE
The Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) Executive will ultimately be responsible for co-ordination and execution of all activities related to the planning and procurement of raw materials and components, converting the output of the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and the Detailed Schedule (DS) into material requirements to ensure availability of the right quantity of components to the production lines when needed.
Communicating the plan to the different suppliers within the agreed lead times. Be an integral part of a team which optimizes the flow of materials, while considering the plants warehouse capacity and inventory targets in order to eliminate potential disruptions in the storage, storage costs and avoiding material scrap (SLOB - slow moving & Obsolete) for Kitchen 4Ps.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Execute the development, maintenance, communication, and publication of the Materials Requirements Plans (MRP) to ensure that supply plan is met. Maintain Raw Materials and Components inventories within our goal, while minimizing excess, obsolete and expired materials
Ensuring efficient and effective procurement & inventory practices and optimizing the balance between quality, service, reliability, and cost. Ensure that all material delivery schedules are communicated to the suppliers on time to meet plan requirements.
Liaises with the suppliers & SCM buyer to clarify potential plan constraints and interfaces between supplier and the key internal stakeholders to ensure issue resolution.
Partner with SCM Buyer to drive Supplier performance improvement including quality and OTIF KPI.
Communicate where required into the Supply Review Meetings (SRM).
Prepare actual allocation report & work with SCM Buyer to explain variance vs plan.
Interfaces with Quality and Warehouse staff regarding rejected / defective materials, making the necessary physical arrangements with the supplier to ensure a prompt return of goods or disposal.
Liaises with warehouse staff to understand and adhere to space constraints, managing inventory levels within agreed targets.
Effectively partner with all internal and external business partners.
Focuses and encourages continuous Kaizen of the process supported.
SUCCESS METRICS & KPIS
1. Material Availability & Service Level
% OOS Raw material
% Order wrong leadtime
% OTIF
Number of Times Line Stop due to Material Shortage
2. Inventory Health & Control
Days of Inventory (DOI / DOS)
Slow-moving / Excess Inventory (%)
Expired / Obsolete Material Cost
Shelf-life Utilization / Value Write off
TOOLS, ENVIRONMENT & WORKING CONDITIONS
Systems & Tools
Microsoft Suite (Excel, Querry...), Google Workspace (Gmail, Sheets, Docs - daily), plus flexibility for department-specific tools.
Work Setting
Primary: WOW Center HCMC (Saigon Pearl)
Secondary: Kitchen 4Ps (Long An)
Travel Expectations
Occasionally onsite at Restaurant or Kitchen 4Ps to observe operation issues and run projects
