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Kitwe, Copperbelt Province, Zm

Lusaka, Zambia

My responsibilities include:1. Full inventory quality analysis achieving a target of over 80% fast moving materials in inventory and reduction of dead stock.2. Daily analysis of lost sales - complete reduction of lost sales on fast, medium and slow-moving stock.3. Ensuring that perpetual counts are conducted, and variances reconciled daily.4. Ensuring visibility in the warehouse (Proper binning and labelling).5. Monitoring material movements, order levels, order points and… Show more My responsibilities include:1. Full inventory quality analysis achieving a target of over 80% fast moving materials in inventory and reduction of dead stock.2. Daily analysis of lost sales - complete reduction of lost sales on fast, medium and slow-moving stock.3. Ensuring that perpetual counts are conducted, and variances reconciled daily.4. Ensuring visibility in the warehouse (Proper binning and labelling).5. Monitoring material movements, order levels, order points and material movement categories. 6. Preparation of monthly suggested stock orders.7. Measure and track parts fill rate and parts service rate to the workshops.8. Responsible for warehouse and implementation of all warehouse practices. Show less

Kitwe, Zambia

Key responsibilities include;1. Management of the Parts Sales Funnel for the Organization2. Developing and managing new sales leads.3. Managing customer relationships.4. Management and leading the sales team.

Kitwe, Zambia

This position is national and involves inventory management of five warehouse across the country, three major and two smaller ones. Activities include;- Leading warehouse and inventory teams.- Optimizing inventory levels· Reducing holding costs and parts variety· Reaching or surpassing international quality and tractability standards· Maximizing service levels and inventory turnover while minimizing error rates- Maintains inventories at optimum levels to prevent… Show more This position is national and involves inventory management of five warehouse across the country, three major and two smaller ones. Activities include;- Leading warehouse and inventory teams.- Optimizing inventory levels· Reducing holding costs and parts variety· Reaching or surpassing international quality and tractability standards· Maximizing service levels and inventory turnover while minimizing error rates- Maintains inventories at optimum levels to prevent under-or-over investment in inventory; - Supervise and coordinate the taking of periodic physical inventories; - Verify clerical computations against physical count of stock and adjusts errors in computation- Carrying out periodical cycle counts, bin audits and annual wall to wall stock counts.As one of the team leaders, I was involved in successfully relocating the parts warehouse from a number of small sites to a new ultra modern facility with completely new bins and location. This new facility and optimized processes has added value to our customers who have appreciated the improved service delivery. Improved parts availability from around 50% to 90% by insuring strict adherence to standard operating procedures thereby reducing stock variances. Show less

Kitwe, Zambia

General office administration and supervision.Job costing and Work in Progress management.Machine life cycle costing and long term planning.SAP SuperUser functions and training.Parts administration and workshop support.ISO internal auditor functions.

Kitwe, Zambia

Long term planning for contracts (i.e. life cycle costing)Contracts costing.Contracts processes management.Site auditsManaged a project of setting up and centralizing the mines support section of the organization successfully. I was also responsible for setting up support departments for Barloworld on mine sites such as Nchanga, Mopani and Lumwana. Facilitated recruitment and provided training to new support staff such as site administrators, costing and admin clerks… Show more Long term planning for contracts (i.e. life cycle costing)Contracts costing.Contracts processes management.Site auditsManaged a project of setting up and centralizing the mines support section of the organization successfully. I was also responsible for setting up support departments for Barloworld on mine sites such as Nchanga, Mopani and Lumwana. Facilitated recruitment and provided training to new support staff such as site administrators, costing and admin clerks, planners and parts personnel. Show less

Chingola, Zambia

Involved in the start-up of the equipment maintenance contract with the then Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines and later with Konkola Copper Mines. Production of weekly and monthly equipment maitenance schedules. Job openning and parts ordering.Resource allocation (i.e. labour and materials) Cost control and capturing.Customer billing

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