Inventory Deployment Planner

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The key purpose of this role is to provide strategic input and continuous review for optimising beer stock holding across the Africa Zone, driving WIC management while maintaining customer service levels and controlling beer age and system costs. This includes planning and managing beer stock across South Africa (and exports) to meet stock targets, improve WIC performance, maintain service levels, comply with beer age rules, and optimise system costs.

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

Additional Information:

• Band VI

SAB/ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with SAB/ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.