Warehouse Supervisor M/f

Mission Description

Warehouse Operations

• Manage and drive 100% daily bin alignment
• Effective utilization and management of the allocated resources as per daily work plan schedules.
• Allocate daily tasks and workloads to warehouse clerks.
• Enforce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all warehouse operatives.
• Train new warehouse employees on warehouse procedures and safety requirements.
• Enforce proper shift handovers and team briefings at the start and end of every shift.
• Monitor employee performance and productivity.
• Drive daily tier 1 meetings and ensure 100% attendance and quality inputs and outputs of all reportees.
• Coordinate receiving, put-away, picking, storage, and loading operations.
• Identify process improvement opportunities
• Manage Finished Goods receipts from the lines while ensuring accurate tallying and documentation to maintain zero losses.
• Resolve operational issues affecting supply chain performance.
• Manage loading of Finished Goods to ensure exact quantities are loaded as per the picklist and proper documentation therein as per the SOP
• Monitor order fulfillment, accuracy and delivery timelines.
• Manage offloading of returns from trade while ensuring accuracy, authenticity of documents and proper documentation on offloaded products
• Implement cost-saving initiatives
• Ensure smooth inbound and outbound logistics activities.
• Manage returns from trade (ISANDA processes)
• Optimize warehouse space utilization and storage practices.
• Account for product damages and losses, report to the Operations Controller and Security Controller
• Manage the flow of trucks within the respective areas of operations to avoid congestion hence slowing down operations.

Stock Movement

• Manage and coordinate daily cycle counts to achieve 100% inventory accuracy
• Ensure accurate receipt, storage and dispatch of finished goods.
• Ensure cycle count is done at the end of every shift to attain 100% inventory accuracy.
• Monitor stock levels and prevent stock-outs or overstocking.
• Maintain an up-to-date daily stock movement report
• Coordinate daily stock reconciliation and variance resolution within 24 hours of discovery
• Account for all daily physical stocks' movements
• Real time updating of bin cards in the warehouses (if any)
• Accurate and documented bin to bin transfers (if applicable)
• Participate fully in end month physical stock take
• Ensure FEFO/FIFO is followed within the warehouses
• Hygiene and Housekeeping
• Implement and continuously ensure 5S principles are always being adhered to in the warehouses

Clear desk policy

• Proper filing
• Proper placement of pallets and cleaning equipment.
• Proper archiving of documents in reference to records management policy.
• Efficient management of warehouse space to achieve over 95% space utilization all year around
• Effective management on housekeeping standards within and surrounding of warehouses in order to achieve a daily scor

Profile

• Diplomas - Education
• Tertiary education in supply chain management or a related field.
• 2 years' experience in supply chain or a related field
• Training in MS Office suite and other industry related courses would be an advantage