As part of the supply chain team, the main responsibility of the Supply Chain Specialist is to support the supply chain process and to secure the product availability.
The main responsibilities of the Supply Chain Specialist.
- Inventory optimization in accordance to business strategy
- Ensure that appropriate supplies and stock levels are maintained to meet customer service levels, both within cost restrains and consistent with the distribution centre and suppliers lead time.
- Build relationship with Standard Operating Procedure team/Sales/Marketing/3PL / warehouse in order to assure the availability of the finished products for distribution towards the customers.
- Collaborate with the Customer Service department and Sales department regarding customer needs and supply availability.
- Collaborate with demand planner and commercial team to identify, analyse and report potential supply and inventory issues, and to tackle them pro-actively.
- Optimize the inventory level in conformity to the market needs and pro-actively analyse and give signal about stock replenishment needs and stock transfers across warehouses and across South Africa locations whilst meeting the agreed KPIs and minimize potential write offs.
- Liaise with 3PL to ensure transactions are fulfilled within agreed SLA, identify gaps, RCA, corrective actions.
- Liaise with 3PL and share analytical reports as per the business needs.
- Supply optimisation:
- Collaborate with demand planner to optimize supply.
- Prepare and facilitate supply review meetings in coordination with demand planner
- Measure, monitor and report KPIs, based on root cause analysis and counter measure proposals.
- Display ownership and accountability.
- Communicate and report in an effective way towards internal and external stakeholders
- Drive continuous improvements:
- Actively contribute to the preparation and testing of special projects related to continuous improvement
- Identify areas for improvement and design new processes and methods to enhance the performance of the department
This job description is not limited, the jobholder must follow all reasonable instructions given by his/her superiors.
Requirements
- A Bachelor degree or Masters degree in Logistics, Warehousing or Inventory Management.
- Working experience minimum of 5 years.
- Previous experience in supply chain management, in planning systems, in logistics activities is a prerequisite.
- Familiar with Microsoft Office in general, SAP is a must and be willing to work with these and other software packages.
- Taking ownership and have an action-oriented mindset.
- Very good analytical skills.
- Team player, able to work independently regarding the job context.
- Decision maker.
- Flexible.
- Stress tolerant.
- Excellent communicator and presenter, able to convince stakeholders.
- Be a role model for and transfer knowledge to other team members.
- Very good working knowledge of English (written and spoken).
