Inventory Deployment Planner

The South African Breweries; Johannesburg; On-site; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the beverage industry is seeking an Inventory Deployment Planner to enhance stock management efficiency. The role involves strategic planning and optimizing inventory across various sales and distribution points, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and have experience in operational planning within the FMCG sector.

Qualifications

• 3 – 5 years operational or planning experience in FMCG.
• Deep Knowledge of NoCC Logistics and Planning processes.
• Understanding of ABInBev Logistics and Planning principles.

Responsibilities

• Planning and controlling optimum stock levels across various depots.
• Management of Load planning and TMS optimization.
• Generation of weekly and daily deployment plans.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Planning

Logistics

Stock management

Education

Relevant Bachelor's degree in Planning, Supply Chain Management or Logistics

Job description

Job title : Inventory Deployment Planner

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg Deadline : July 05, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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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 inventorymanagement
• 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