Inventory Deployment Planner at International Breweries

Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Plan, optimize and control optimum stock levels across the sales depots, Breweries and distributor grid as well as exports;
• Utilize the business enablers (process and systems) in order to achieve current business objectives.
• Management of distributor interface (orders) and load planning.
• Generation of a Weekly deployment plans to ensure adherence to defined stock standards.
• Generation of Daily deployment plan within the context of resource constraints (warehouse and T1) and expediting requirements;
• Ensure container plan (reverse logistics) execution meets cost and availability targets at Breweries.
• Support to line management, as the custodians of age concession management on behalf of planning.
• Daily/weekly communication to the Planning Team of stock levels, areas of potential stock pressures and resolution
• Specific activities related to the management and distribution of NPD type stock. • Flagging stock age issues and quantifying potential write off risks.
• The strategic/tactical accountability is to: Continuous review and inputs to planning cycles in an attempt to improve on stock availability at a lower cost and optimizing distribution requirements.

Profile:

Education

• Relevant bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Supply Chain Management or Commerce.

Experience

• Able to understand and interpret sales trends, distribution chains and to convert into appropriate stock level strategy
• Knowledge of Supply Chain planning processes specifically stock management
• Preferably 3 – 5 years manufacturing and or sales & distribution experience