EXPERIENCED EVENING SAP EWM WAVE PLANNER.

Foodstuffs North Island; Upper Harbour; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free on-site parking

Team events

Wellbeing services

Job summary

Foodstuffs North Island is seeking an Experienced Evening SAP EWM Wave Planner for Gilmours North Shore. The role focuses on managing inventory, orchestrating waves in SAP EWM, and leading a team to hit productivity and service KPIs, with Sunday to Thursday, 4:00pm–1:30am shifts.

You will coordinate with department leaders, ensure inventory accuracy, and drive excellent customer service through effective wave planning and staff management.

Qualifications

• Experience with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).
• Ability to set up and run waves to balance workload across warehouse zones.
• Strong understanding of warehouse operations and inventory processes.

Responsibilities

• Operate the SAP EWM Monitor to manage inventory and sales order waves.
• Allocate work for stock replenishment and customer orders to hit KPI targets.
• Provide hands-on leadership to staff and maintain morale to achieve productivity and service level targets.
• Run waves in EWM and balance workload across warehouse zones.

Skills

SAP EWM

Wave management

Warehouse operations

Data analysis

Staff coaching

Tools

SAP

EWM

Job description

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EXPERIENCED EVENING SAP EWM WAVE PLANNER.

At Gilmours North Shore, we are out here to prove we are thefoodservice provider you can trust. We employ over 120 epic people, and servethousands of people a week, all while helping to support our local community.We’re recruiting for an exciting new role as we look to ‘level up’ ourWarehouse Operations and get the best out of our team to continue to deliver anoutstanding customer experience.

Hours = Sunday to Thursday - 4.00pm - 1.30am

What you’re responsible for

• Utilizingthe Warehouse Monitor in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), you areto see and act upon all key processes that effect inventory, with theprimary focus being to simulate Customer Sales Orders.
• Thisinvolves the allocation of consistent work for stock replenishment andcustomer orders, to get the best results and achieve agreed KPI’s aroundproductivity, service level, and labour.
• Youwill proactively provide hands on management of staff and manage staffmoral to ensure productivity meets agreed targets, as well as meetingagreed wage and service level targets.
• Youwill run ‘waves’ in EWM while ensuring a work balance across warehousezones, assigning and monitoring the work required for ‘the wave’ (pickingand replenishment of stock).
• Youwill communicate and work closely with department leaders to ensure bestpractice is followed to ensure inventory accuracy.
• Enabling,through management of the wave and all direct reports, Gilmours NorthShore to maximize sales and service levels. Ultimately the role isresponsible for ensuring that our customers always receive an outstandingservice experience.

Flexibility is required to work across all days of the week,and applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ workvisa.

What skills and experience you need

• Stronginterpersonal skills and the proven ability to work with teams, managedirect reports, and build relationships with the wider organization. TheSAP EWM Planner (Wave Manager) role involves working both independently,and in collaboration with team members across multiple functions.
• Youwill be process driven, with high attention to detail, and the ability tosee the ‘big picture’ and analyze what levers to pull to achieve the rightoutcomes for our staff and customers.
• Youwill be curious, and keen to learn more; constantly looking at what’spossible with a focus on customers and results.
• Ahigh level of computer literacy, with experience analyzing data, trends,and making insight-driven decisions.
• Youwill be a problem solver, undergoing analysis of data and drawing insight,with the ability to work under pressure.
• Anunderstanding of warehouse operations, and / or supply chain, will bebeneficial for this role, and experience in a medium to large supermarketor food services provider is preferred, but not mandatory.
• Similarly,experience with SAP and / or SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) ispreferred, but not mandatory. Training will be provided to support yoursuccess in this role.

What’s in it for you?

• Proveyourself in an organization known for its people development, with greattraining and career progression opportunities.
• Trainingand support to build capability in SAP, one of the largest global toolsused to manage business operations, and to build experience in warehouseoperations and supply chain.
• Anamazing team of leaders to learn from, who are also open to your helpalong the way!
• Greatlocation with free on-site parking, and team events.
• Appsexclusively available to ‘foodies' including wellbeing services, perks anddiscounts at businesses all around NZ!

Who are Foodstuffs North Island?

We’re Foodies and we’re an unbeatable team of over 22,000New Zealanders, who are making sure New Zealanders get more out of life. Webelieve that everyone who calls New Zealand home, or comes to visit us,deserves to enjoy more of what matters most to them.

For nearly 100 years we have built up a network of almost350 (And still growing) PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and Gilmours stores,conveniently located where our customers need us to be, from the top to thevery bottom of the North Island.

Local grocers own and operate every one of our stores and are committed to delivering what’s right for our customers and communities.When we say local, we mean it, they live in the community, stock the productstheir customers want and support the local community groups.

Our people make our business what it is. We are focused onmaking sure every single one of our team has what they need to unleash theirown potential. Part of this is also making sure members of the Foodies Teamhave purposeful careers and bright futures, that’s why most of our owneroperators come from within the cooperative.