Inventory Deployment Planner - HQ Sandton at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyse and optimise finished goods stock levels between Breweries, DC’s and Distributors.
• Planning in accordance with planning principles and in line with inventory policy/Demand to ensure healthy DOC at DCs down to a SKU level.
• Optimizing load plans to ensure site throughput, T1 sizing is within parameters to enable execution.
• Maintain stock levels at the brewery to allow cross functional planning (exports/T2/Dship).
• Amendments of D0 loads to ensure continuous execution due to production fluctuations, on Spotlight & SAP.
• Analyse the production % split between exports/T2/Dship and ensure correct split is in the system.
• Identifying and mitigating inventory –related risks, such as stockouts, overstocking, obsolescence.
• Ensuring redeployment of SKUs at risk of obsolescence, ensuring load optimisation, minimising VLC impact.
• Managing internal stakeholders by providing continuous feedback on queries and risks to the deployment plan.
• Managing regional meetings within internal logistics team to ensure stock balance within the region.
• Aligning to the Global LCP methodologies of inventory deployment strategies.
• Run the ELP, collaborating on output to ensure Container plan accuracy.
• Monitoring execution on priority deliverables, and escalating to necessary stakeholders.
• Compile reports and presentations to present to senior stakeholders.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant Bachelors degree in Planning, Supply Chain Management or Logistics
• 3 – 5 years operational or planning experience in FMCG
• Deep Knowledge of NoCC Logistics and Planning processes, specifically inventory management
• Understanding of ABInBev Logistics and Planning principles
• Improvement through root cause and trends analysis using Belt methodology