SUMMARY:
Perishables Inventory Dept Manager
POSITION INFO:
Perishables Inventory Department Manager – East Rand
Main purpose:
To plan, coordinate and manage the daily operations, including employees, expenditure, efficiencies, and customer relations to ensure a profitable and efficient operation, by those accountable and tasks are executed timeously and effectively.
Ensure that the warehouse operates at peak efficiency by achieving departmental KPIs and managing shrinkage optimally. A hands-on leader, who is a good team player will be the ideal candidate
Minimum requirements:
- Relevant Supply Chain / warehousing tertiary qualification | SAP EWM skills
- In-depth knowledge of inventory – SAP EWM system – with the ability to accurately track and identify products, check quantities and ensure proper storage and organising
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in Supply Chain / Warehousing environment
- Willing and able to work long hours and 12 hour shifts (day/night)
- Willing and able to work on weekends and public holidays
- Willing and able to occasionally lift and/or move objects that weight around 35kg
- Able to use a pallet jack up to 1 ton
- Physically fit and in good health and willing and able to work at heights and confined areas
Responsibilities:
- Understand SAP and all SOP’s / BP’s relevant to this area of responsibility
- Ensure the shift structures and staffing levels are appropriate to ensure efficient operations and that all are carrying out their job functions correctly & efficiently
- To lead investigations of all incidents and non-compliances and conduct root cause and reports thereof as required.
- Facilitate housekeeping audits regularly, and corrective action is taken if required
- Identify improvement opportunities where needed | Identify and communicate possible operational risks
- Evaluate the impact of work delays, interruptions or changes in plans and develop appropriate course of remedial actions
- Ensure that ECG monitor is cleared by the end of each shift and any problems are escalated
- Ensure all bins are setup correctly and available for use
- Ensure article master data is correct | Ensure all case and inner picks are allocated to the correct areas.
- Ensure all transgressors are identified and escalated to the operations team for progressive discipline.
- Ensure you have responded to all request from management and demand planning before the end of shift.
- Ensure all PI docs have been cleared and all high write-ups and write-offs have been corrected before the end of shift.
- Ensure all interim storage locations have been cleared and any issues escalated by the end of shift.
- Manage all performance management aspects of direct reports and facilitate the same within the rest of the departments. Inclusive of One on ones, PDPs, IPAs and LOE.
- Facilitate an engaged and motivated workforce.
- Manage discipline and grievance aspects of all direct reports and facilitate the same within the rest of the departments.
- Check all write-ups for the shift and make sure all irregular SLED dated have been verified and corrected where applicable.
- Ensure proper insight is given on shrinkage and provide feedback on weekly financial reporting.
- Ensure that SOH is maintained, and that the FIFO principle is followed
Salary offer: R30K negotiable dependant on skills and experience
