Warehouse Manager - JHB at Alstom

Purpose of the Job

Manage the physical flows (goods reception, warehousing, inventory, line replenishment, packaging, shipping and reverse logistics) to ensure customer satisfaction (material availability), while contributing to profitability improvement in logistic costs

Responsibilities:

• Develop Logistic performance through the improvement of warehouse(s) processes, competencies and KPI in coordination with local operations to support the following objectives:
• Manage Warehousing (incl Line replenishment) and Logistics activities in coordination with local Operations
• Manage inventory accuracy in warehouse
• Eliminate downtime and improve efficiencies
• Measure and challenge the performance of the Warehouse activities
• Ensure that employees operate in an environment that complies with company Health, Safety and Environmental policies
• Ensure implementation of all standard processes & golden rules in compliance with Logistic Handbook
• Ensure optimization of warehousing, packaging and physical flow according to Lean Manufacturing and QCDE principles
• Ensure key users are in place to support critical processes and users (training, data corrections, system KPIs…)
• Ensure the ERP solution is implemented, correctly used and guarantee the master data quality
• Deploy the processes/IT tools in Warehouses
• Stakeholder management

internal

• Labour
• Interdepartmental

External

• Third Party Service Providers
• Develop annual budgets (Resources) and appropriate organisational structure that support the Logistic activities
• Develop and provide appropriate training for team members to enable them to improve and achieve their objectives whilst effectively contributing to business performance
• Actively contributes to the Continuous Improvement activities
• Manage Jobs & Skills, Training & Qualification, Workforce, Staffing & organization, World Class Manufacturing network

 Requirements:

• National Diploma in  Supply chain or any related field
• Similar experience of 5-8 years in an industrial/manufacturing environment
• Advanced knowledge of SAP
• Proven project management experience
• Analytical
• Sound knowledge of Industrial and Supply chain processes
• Proven industrial (labour) relations experience
• Excellent and concise communication and leadership skills
• Active team player, deadline driven, process driven