Vendor Managed Inventory Manager
CurrentWORKING EXPERIENCE SMT AFRICA. April 2018-PresentSMT offers the whole range of Volvo equipment: Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Trucks, Volvo Buses, and marine & industrial engines with Volvo Penta. SMT is also official dealer of SDLG, Dressta, Sennebogen Green Line, Mack Trucks and Marcopolo buses. In its subsidiaries, SMT Africa has a permanent stock of trucks, machinery and parts ready to be delivered.• Perform market testing to understand the market and key suppliers in order to be able to accurately forecast • Review industry best practice within the industry• Identify requirements, develop scope of work with understanding of business units’ requirements• Manage reconciliation process effectively by ensuring transparency• Communicate with customer in a fair and accurate way• Responsible for ensuring compliance with ‘conflict of interest’• Undertake pricing comparisons with support of finance team where necessary• Keep end users in progress report updated on weekly basis or as changes take place• Develop knowledge of supplier base within the industry• Develop a professional and policy-compliant relationship with the customer• Provide guidance on supplier management to business units to ensure ongoing inventory management.• Adopted the continuous or fixes order system to replenish stock• Provide input to management regarding problems such as shortages, design changes and backlogs• Ensure that employees are in compliance with mining health and safety regulations• . Perform duties to maintain supply and inventory levels for deployed systems and/or part.• Manage MRP orders for replenishment of contractual stock• Develop and maintain formulas to measure customer satisfaction with parts supply and at the same time being able to manage the cost of this support• Ensure that correct invoicing is done with POs • Manage customer back-order report and communication• Responsible to ensure legal compliance, rules and regulations governing the VMI.