Inventory Deployment Planner at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Planning, optimising and controlling optimum stock levels across the sales depots, Breweries and distributor grid for South Africa;
• Ensuring that business enablers (process and systems) are aligned to achieving current business objectives
• Management of Load planning and TMS optimization, including Distributor interface
• Generation of a Weekly deployment plans to ensure adherence to defined stock standards
• Generation of daily deployment plan within the context of resource constraints and expediting requirements, alignment with T1 on operating hours and capacity
• Custodian of age concession management on behalf of planning
• Ensuring that business enablers (process and systems) are aligned to achieving future business objectives
• Specific activities related to the management and distribution of NPD type stock
• Stock age issues and quantifying potential write off risks
• Management of the Inventory Deployment team to ensure;
• a good understanding of central planning and broader business functions resides in team
• good inter and intra communication
• positive attitude and continues improvement
• Strategic/tactical accountability to South Africa for load planning in terms of:
• Continuous review and inputs to Advanced planning cycles in an attempt to improve on stock availability at a lower cost & optimized load planning

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant Bachelor's 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
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity