Job Summary
Qualifications
- Matric
- Supply chain/logistics/purchasing - qualification
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years experience in an FMCG or manufacturing environment as a Supply chain specialist.
- Excellent knowledge of data analysis and forecasting methods.
- Working knowledge of inventory management software (e.g. ERP – Info BAAN, SAP, Syspro, etc).
- Ability to accurately track inventory and create reports
Duties
- Devise ways to optimise inventory control procedures.
- Inspect the level of business supplies and raw material to identify shortages.
- Ensure product stock is adequate for all distribution channels and can cover direct demand form customers.
- Record daily deliveries and shipments to reconcile inventory.
- Use software to monito demand and document characteristic of inventory.
- Place orders to replenish stock avoiding insufficiencies or excessive surplus.
- Analyse data to anticipate future needs.
- Evaluate suppliers to achieve cost-affective deals and maintain trust relationships.
- Collaborate with warehouse employee and other staff to ensure business goals are met.
- Report to upper management on stock levels, issues etc.
- Develop, lead and execute purchasing strategies.
- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
- Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure clear requirements documentation.
- Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power.
- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
- Assess, manage and mitigate risk.
- Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers
- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.
- Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand.
Objective Personnel
1977
Clearwater Office Park, Block E, Cnr Atlas & Park Roads, Parkhaven Ext 3
2-10
Recruiter
About
Objective Personnel is a professional recruitment partner and placement agency that has been making it’s mark on the industry for over 40 years. The company boasts a highly stream-lined service that offers its clients the freedom to focus on running their businesses while Objective Personnel deals with recruitment.
Objective Personnel is well suited to filling any vacancy, from entry level to the CEO, and everything in between. If your business has employment opportunities that need filling, Objective Personnel will help you fill them with competent and qualified screened candidates.
Situated near Johannesburg, Objective Personnel focuses on the whole of South Africa.