Brewery Logistics Manager - SAB Polokwane Depot at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key roles and responsibilities:

Safety

• Ensure a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented
• Maintain a robust system of SIO generation and close out
• Quarterly safety reviews are conducted with the Logistics and Supply Directors to identify risk trends and mitigation plans
• Complete an annual risk review of internal and external processes, identifying relevant mitigation plans and implementing them

Quality

• Ensure that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInBev’s quality guidelines
• Adhere to Zone blocking mechanisms to ensure that blocked stock is at no time a risk to our stakeholders
• Manage DOC & stock age for finished goods inventories in order to proactively identify opportunities or alleviate write off risks with functional peers in Planning, Sales and Supply

DPO/VPO

• Ensure that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO/VPO guidelines (OWD's, SCL, MCL, mandatory meetings)
• Conduct the Daily Logistics Meeting as per the specified TOR's listed in the DPO/VPO framework
• Ensure that processes are standardized via SOP's and work standards are monitored and improved by using Operational Work Diagnoses (OWD's);
• Track KPI's on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in line with DPO/VPO requirements
• Ensure that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out-of-range KPI's in line with DPO/VPO methodology

Service Level:

• Maintain a healthy relationship with T1 &T2 carriers to ensure brewery throughput is maintained
• Maintain interactions with RD’s to identify opportunities for return of glass back to the brewery
• Engage with Planning Team around glass availability and sales requirements to support service level
• Ensure there is strict adherence to Inventory Policy within the warehouse
• Manage Service Level Agreements (SLA) on a weekly basis with Fleet, Quality and Sales/CIC
• Escalates relevant MBFU policy transgressions and takes appropriate actions to mitigate packaging downtime
• Manage weekly SLA with Sales with clearly documented information on sizing, sales forecast and potential SCOH; performance measures to be shared weekly includes refusals performance, sales curve index, OODD, drop size and OOS constraints

Cost Management:

• Drive a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse and inventory management teams
• Ensure that accountability is aligned to package owners
• Assume overall accountability for Brewery Logistics spend on both VLC, FLC and SCOH
• Account for over/underspends on a weekly and monthly basis dependent on the GL frequency

People Management:

• Ensure that the Shop Floor are aligned in terms of goals and meeting routines to drive continuous improvement
• Ensure that Monthly One on Ones are conducted in line with the target review process
• Maintain a healthy industrial relations climate with key stakeholders through documented SLA Meetings
• Communication channels are open to relevant stakeholders via Monthly All Employee meetings
• Follow up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern
• Recruitment of talent and building of pipeline
• Perform 180 reviews and address poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings

Key attributes and competencies:

• Good interpersonal skills
• Superior planning abilities
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good verbal and communication skills
• Good self-management principles
• Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
• Excellent coaching capability
• Strive for continuous improvement
• Demonstrate leadership skills
• Good decision-making ability
• Strong analytic and numerical skills

Minimum requirements:

• Logistics degree or another 3-year degree in related field
• Familiar with local market environments
• Knowledge of relevant legislative requirements
• Knowledge of customer service principles