VW Supply Chain Co-Ordinator - PA 1492 at Volkswagen Group South Africa

Job Description and Responsibilities

• Maintain detailed, systematic aspects in respect of vehicle ordering, distribution and inventory management.
• Actively participate in the monthly sales planning process as it pertains to supply channel management.
• Monitor and analyse dealer orders; generate allocation reports to identify shortfalls, imbalances and capacity constraints.
• Resolve supply/ demand imbalances with Regional Sales Managers and Special Markets.
• Coordinate between VI Sales Region and Regional Sales Managers/ Special Markets to ensure order compliance (e.g., supply allocations, ordering shortfalls).
• Identify problems/ delays with vehicle movement through ports and recommend solutions.
• Liaise with Product Marketing on Product changes, error resolution.
• Locate vehicles for vehicle exchanges (Fleet deals, Rental changes, VIP sales, etc) as required.
• Special vehicle ordering and tracking (New vehicle orders/ New dealer openings).
• Track damaged vehicles in transit to SA and keep internal customers and dealers up to date on status.
• Co-ordinate and capture unit orders into NADIN.
• Ensure that dealer orders are scheduled according to the required specification in the correct priority.
• Analyse regional inventory, ordering, delivery and allocation status
• Provide inventory reports at all levels (dealer, port, production) by customer channel.
• Ensure that Rental and Government orders are processed and scheduled to meet delivery requirements.
• Ensuring the pro-active maintaining of the NADIN ordering system.
• Responsible for issuing a timeous, accurate Aged Stock Report.
• Responsible for the preparation of the Weekly Status Call report.
• Proactively planning of the Order bank to ensure the pipeline meets the Sales departmental KPIs.
• Responsible for the upload of the weekly Model mix planning for Polo Vivo and management of required stipulations.

Education and Experience

• A formal 3-year National diploma or Bachelor’s degree from a recognised institution in Commerce/ Business Science/ Logistics.

Have a minimum of 3 years motor industry experience, ideally within the following fields:

• Logistics Planning
• Volume Planning
• Dealer Sales
• Franchise Operations