POSITION: Inventory and Supply Chain Coordinator
LOCATION: Kempton Park, Gauteng
Position Description
Responsibilities:
Inventory planning & management:
- Running MRP (system & manual)
- Planning of stock orders & communicating these to the Purchasing Administrative Assistant (PAA)
- Communicating new or changed Inventory Orders as captured by the PAA to Suppliers
- Obtain order confirmations from Suppliers and communicate these to the PAA
- Review of weekly/monthly expediting reports from the Purchasing Admin Assistant and action as required
- Building production assemblies (BC)
- Responsible for monthly cycle counts with the assistance of the Factory/Stores Assistant
- Responsible for annual stock counts
- Experience in the manufacturing environment
- The candidates must have recent experience in Microsoft Business Central and especially know how the manufacturing Module BOMs, Planning, etc work
- The candidate must have experience in managing people
Supplier Management:
- Liaising with suppliers as to lead times, price adjustments, order multiples, etc
- Sourcing of stock/consumables if unavailable from current supplier
- Assessing Suppliers from time to time to ensure that we are getting the best product, at the best price, with the best service levels
Master Data
- Maintaining Purchase Price file (BC) (master data)
- Maintaining Item cards (BC) (master data)
- Maintaining BOMs in both BC and the Manual ERP document
Sales
- Liaising with customers as to their requirements (Sales Orders), lead times, quality, etc.
- Communicating Customers’ requirements to the PAA
- Planning of deliveries to customers & instruction to stores on timeous assembly of parts required
- Planning of deliveries to customers & liaising with the Shipping Manager as to container requirements
- Invoicing to customers (BC)
Factory Stores
- Accountable for the performance of the factory store
- Applying the disciplinary process with store employees pertaining to issues relating to the store
Reporting
- Reviewing and giving feedback on weekly exception reports as received from finance dept
- Reporting to monthly Manco meeting
- Performing Health & Safety responsibilities
- Any other ad hoc functions as needed, from time to time, that is deemed necessary pertaining to this position or requested by management
Position Objective
- Providing an efficient and effective purchasing environment in the factory to ensure that the correct stock is held
- Ensuring that the administration is done efficiently and effectively to limit problems with vendors, cost of goods, selling prices, stock, etc.
- Ensuring that the correct stock, at the correct price, is available at the correct time
Must Haves:
Manufacturing
Recent MS Business Central (Working experience on the Manufacturing Modules/ Boms)
Management experience