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Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Key Purpose • Company Executive. Senior Management of Finance, Inventory, Warehousing, Purchasing, Production Planning and IT Management.Responsibilities • Reporting to the Managing Director.• Directly managing a staff complement of 300 staff (Office and Production Labour).• Develop and drive budgeted financial results of the production plant and business unit sales. • Monitor and manage the financial well being of the business unit. • Drive production planning and operations to break even on monthly targets. • Ensure profitability of the entire business unit. • Provide feedback to Holding Company and Shareholders as to the progress on the business unit.• Strategic planning. Budget preparation and achievement.• Operations planning. End to End Supply Chain planning. Achievements• Restructure of costing methods to accommodate the production and material components (BOM and Routing)• Reduction of inventory to 3 turns per year.• Reduction of operational and general expenses to 80% of 2011 budget.• Implementation of SIOP for focused production planning and external purchasing.• Restructure of Finance Department to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs.• Implementation of Finance timetables to reduce month-end downtime and provide monthly Pack within 48 hours of month-end.• Mentoring of new Supply Chain Management Staff.

Key Purpose• Senior Management of the Supply Chain Departments (Purchasing, Inventory Management, Production Planning and Warehousing).Responsibilities • Reporting to the Managing Director.• Management of Department Managers:- Purchasing Manager- Inventory Manager- Planning Manager- Warehouse Manager• Set, implement and monitor targets for each Supply Chain division in order to provide strong support to the Sales and production teams. • Streamline the flow of raw material to the production plant and finished goods to customer and distribution sites. • Prepare forecasts for production planning and inventory optimization going forward on a rolling six month basis.• Provide lowest cost distribution to agents and customers and maximize gross profit margins.Achievements• Inventory level reductions in Raw Material and Finished Goods.• Improvement on inventory accuracy levels by implementing strict access and physical stock reconciliations.• Reduction in raw material lead times by implementing supplier forecasts and consignment stock levels.• Redesign of warehouse layout to categorise inventory by quantity ABC analysis.• Obtained 15% reduction in transportation costs by negotiating lower rates and improvements in loading capacity. • Improvement in logistic processes and reduction in transportation costs.• Obtain synergies within group for the Procurement department.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Key Purpose• Total Operations Management of Procurement and Logistics Department, responsible to the SABMiller Breweries in East and West Africa. (Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, China, India, Vietnam, Congo, DRC).Outputs• Managed Department, Maintain Client and Supplier Relationships, Development and Maintaining of Process Flow – LEAN Concept, Compiling Reports and Feedback to the SABMiller Africa Hub, Manage delivery against production budgets, Staff Performance Reviews. Responsibilities • Reporting to the General Manager (SABEX).• Head of Supply Chain Team: Sales, Procurement, Logistics. • Maintained client and supplier relationships.• Developed and maintained Process Flow – LEAN Concept.• Compiling reports and feedback to the SABMiller Africa Hub.• Manage delivery against production budgets.• Staff performance reviews. • Ensure that procurement policies and procedures are followed. • Review and authorise transactions between R50K to R20M. • Control of Cost Drivers impacting on the operational purchasing and delivery of raw materials into Africa.• Management of the RFQ and Adjudication process.• Maintain and monitor service level offering of the department.• Ensure proactive communication and feedback to client procurement teams.• Manage delivery against budget. • Identify business opportunities with client, with strategic alliances.• Staff performance management and improvement. • Cost Centre management – Divisional budget adherence.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Key Purpose• Costing and Project Procurement of Caterpillar Mining Machines for Southern Africa Mining Houses(De Beers, Anglo Plat, BHP Billiton, Rand Gold).Outputs• Analytical Costing of Project Procurement.• Purchasing Forecasts.• Assembly Management.• Procurement planning to meet Mining Project Deadlines. • Risk Management.Responsibilities • Reporting to the Financial Director• Ensure that procurement policies and procedures are followed. • Monitor and maintain CAT Order book.• Monitor supply chain of individual components from Factory to Mine site.• Coordinate the availability of auxiliary equipment required for component movement and assembly (Abnormal vehicles, Heavy Lift Cranes, Etc).• Purchase and coordinate auxiliary equipment and assembly (Fire suppression, Lube Systems, GPS).• Manage customs clearance processes.• Manage FEC Purchases and exchange exposure.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Key Purpose• Group Sales Forecasting and Procurement of all inventory, Business Machines and consumer Electronics. Management of Procurement Team and Warehousing processes.Outputs• Periodical purchasing against budgeted cash flow.• Group and regional stock level management.• Product Marketing and strategic product pricing.Responsibilities • Reporting to the Divisional Director• Head of Procurement and Inventory Control Team. • Ensure that procurement policies and procedures are followed. • Monitor and maintain group and branch stock level, against rolling sales forecast.• New product evaluation and market introduction plan.• Competitive product costing.• Set and monitor purchasing parameters to achieve required stock turnaround.• New supplier evaluations. • Implement Supplier Service Level Agreements and monitor performance.

Bcompt, Accounting And Finance

Matric, Commerce