Warehouse, Logistics, Inventory Manger (Manufacturing)

• Systems used: SAGE Evolution, Excel advanced level 2. PowerPoint. Microsoft
• Manage daily cycle counts and variance reports. Investigations and corrective actions.
• Writing and implementing SOP’s, WI’s, and procedures.
• I manage a team of 14 staff. New staff is trained by me so that the standard is set before sent out for formal training.
• Daily toolbox talks.
• Assisting internal customers with queries, information, and departmental reports.
• Creating reports for project managers to assist in speedy actioning for spares for projects.
• Managing stock levels and buying spares, opening jobs for parts.
• Managing stock levels based on lead times from suppliers to avoid over or understocked items.
• Finding solutions to problems found and streamlining the processes where need be.
• Implementation of 5’s and maintaining good practice standards.
• Implementation of 6 Sigma and maintaining and improving the system by analyzing data gathered.
• Assisting other departments compile data to streamline their processes.
• Weekly inventory meetings to ensure issues are addressed and rectified between teams.
• Yearly stock takes.
• Assisting other departments when requested to do so in both reports, taking over some of their daily tasks so that all processes run smoothly.
• Daily cycle counts and variance analysis.
• Additional duties: Assisting procurement with setting up usage report, slow mover reports, open PO reports

• Maintains receiving, warehousing, and distribution operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Complies with federal, state, and local warehousing, material handling, and shipping requirements by studying existing and new legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
• Safeguards warehouse operations and contents by establishing and monitoring security procedures and protocols.
• Controls inventory levels by conducting monthly physical counts; reconciling with data system.
• Conducting weekly cycle counts
• Maintains physical condition of warehouse by planning and implementing new design layouts; inspecting equipment; issuing work orders for repair and requisitions for replacement.
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Completes warehouse operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
• Maintains warehouse staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Maintains warehouse staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Implementing procedures, training of staff
• Reporting OEE figures for production on a daily basis
• Working off a budget issues by the operational Director
• Planning production runs for make to order and back ordered items
• Working closely with transporters and exporters to arrange exports and imports.
• Live by company values
• Lead by example
• Chairing disciplinary hearings and representing the company at the CCMA

To design, implement and maintain quality standards.

• Design necessary quality systems, schedules, processes and procedures.
• Leading the quality function to deliver product according to specification.
• Maintain and continuously update the ISO 9001: 2015 quality management system.
• Internal NCR system management.
• Customer focussed with a strong understanding of customer requirements.
• Training and coaching QC monitors, supervisors and all staff
• Product specification implementation and management of all changes made to products.
• Manage and coordinate product, systems and process audits.
• Record, report and manage all NCRs from internal and external audits.
• Customer visit coordination and reporting.
• Internal and external audit leading and managing.
• Managing of pest control.
• Assist factory manager with waste management.
• Implementing and maintaining an analytical laboratory

• Managing all inventory in the raw material store, daily cycle counts and yearly stock take at both raw material warehouses ( Nando’s, Pepsico and KFC )
• Managing the picking and dispensary team to ensure production gets all raw materials on time to avoid down time.
• Attend daily production planning meetings to ensure not all flavours and colours clash and to ensure more efficient production runs.
• Receiving and storing of raw materials, according to the food safety regulations.
• Implement and maintain VSM (value stream mapping) streamlining the entire warehouse and picking process. (Process saved 2 and a half hours a shift for the team to focus on other work as well).
• Ran cost saving initiatives to save money for the company and helped us run smarter in the way we done tasks.
• Assisted production when production manager was away on leave or training ensuring the plant does not come to a standstill.
• Reporting monthly SLOB (slow moving obsolete stock) to the company to ensure all raw materials get utilised to reduce all waste.
• Training of staff in their functions, SOP’S, WI and policies of the company.
• Conducting weekly and monthly food safety audits to ensure we adhered to the highest food safety standards.
• Design and implement new functions into SAP to streamline the processes and scanner support during stock take
• System:SAP (Super user)

• Planning of all preparation and production for all departments.
• Receiving orders from Woolworths portal and planning production and distribution of all products.
• Managing the despatch team and working closely together with all other production managers to ensure all orders are produced and dispatched timeously
• Managing of all storage locations for raw material.
• Overseeing issuing of raw materials, daily cycle counts and yearly stock takes.

• Forklift driver
• Printing and loading of pick slips
• Invoicing completed orders
• Arrange loads with transports
• maintaining and overseeing inventory with cycle counts and monthly and yearly stock counts
• Training and reviewing staff performance
• Overseeing the receipting and storing of all products
• Managing the CHEP account, monthly counts and recons