Stock Manager
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric (Grade 12)
- A minimum of a B Comm or B. Degree in Logistics Transport Business Management or Finance.
- A minimum 5 years operational experience in warehousing and stock control
- A minimum of 3 years in a management role
- Understanding of key business cost drivers
- Financial and business modeling experience
- Stock management experience
Responsibilities:
Stock Management and reconciliation
- Ensure that all stock transactions are accounted for and the system inventory levels are reflective of physical inventory within the warehouse.
- Ensure that customer accounts are reflective of the stock that is physically delivered.
- Analyse of the stock management environment and identification of critical risk areas.
- Investigate and provide recommendations for redesigning warehouse processes specifically related to stock management and movement.
- Execute the management & control of finished goods stock inventory.
- Ensure the effective execution & accurate accounting of stock movements via secondary distribution.
- Ensure the effective execution & accurate accounting of stock movements via primary distribution.
- Support the regional teams in the management of stock.
- Reconcile all the quantity of the loads delivered to customers on SAP in order to minimize loss and wastage.
Document Management and Reporting
- Ensure the monitoring and investigations of daily variances in order to provide weekly reports.
- Managing the proof of delivery to customers and manage queries that may arise.
- Investigate customer queries and ensure timeous resolve.
- Manage and Maintain the CHEP accounts and keep records of the transactions.
Managing compliance and Quality
- Ensure that Stock Management practices are adhered to at all times.
- Ensure the effective execution of customer claims processes & Proof of Deliver (POD) delivery requirements.
- Manage audit documentation and Sarbox procedures and ensure that these are utilised for the effective auditing and meeting RACM requirements.
- Ensure compliance to operational standards in line with SCMAT (Stock and Management Practices) and flag and communicate deviations as and when they occur.
- Maintain the effective execution of the stock management policies and procedures.
- Monitoring of key KPIs relating to stock management and control.
- Management of stock management systems and software applications to ensure effective utilization within warehouse facilities
- Execute the analysis of stock reconciliations to ensure accuracy (quality) and to identify opportunities and issues.
- Implement stock counting procedures systems and processes and the standardization of these across all warehouse facilities.
- Maintain quality assurance and roll out of TPM FIFO principles.
Drive Performance Improvement
- Oversee daily stock count to ensure optimal reporting.
- Structure and facilitate problemsolving using suitable resources and appropriate techniques to eliminate root cause and close loops.
- Manage gaps using a formal process to track problems and their resolution.
- Identify and prioritize performance improvement opportunities using key KPIs and appropriate analysis.
- Plan implement and manage performance improvement projects.
People and Stakeholder Management
- Manage the team effectively in order to achieve the goals high engagement levels and quality work outputs.
- Manage and ensure regular engagements with team to ensure alignment and the addressing of needs and risks as they may arise.
- Maintain the knowledge and application of the PERFORM Way.
- Manage and allocate work to achieve productivity through working on opportunities to minimise waste and control fixed and variable costs.
- Align team activities to optimise processes through supporting and implementing continuous improvement opportunities and optimising process capability.
- Manage and maintain the management accountability to the Risk Manager on stockrelated issues and mitigations on losses and noncompliance.
- Maintain interaction with distribution production external customers and sales when required.
- Experience in logistics and business software systems
- Experience and understanding of SAP stock management transactions