Overview
Job Description: Is to coordinate and manage orders of materials, confirm the correctness of finished goods loads, maintain detailed and organized records of orders, and liaise with production and Lordsview.
Materials Orders
- Checking and verifying of orders received from Admin Clerks.
- Escalate urgent orders to Lordsview.
- Ensure that uplifts are processed and uplifted within the required time.
- Check with production Admin/controllers: quantities and material codes (raw materials and packaging materials) from Lordsview before being transferred to production (through the ERP system GP).
- For materials being returned before they are loaded on a truck to Lordsview, perform the same checks as above.
- Ensuring Admin Clerk signs for materials received.
- Ensure that a signed gate release is given to the driver after offloading.
- Ensure and sign on the truck driver sheet that driver arrival and leaving times are correct.
- Update spreadsheet with turnaround details – these times must match the times on the above sheet.
Finished Goods
- Allocating finished goods orders using the production book.
- Ensure that blue slips are signed and taken out during load allocation.
- Capture spreadsheet of pink vs blue production slips.
- Uploading loads on Sizanani, allocate truck upon arrival. Only release it when the truck leaves.
- Ensure that daily targeted orders and loads are processed, checked in accordance with the priority listing or routing.
- Ensure allocated loads are checked and staged in correct lanes and labelled with colour coding cones according to truck number; all pallets are ready for loading.
- Ensure that invoices for the allocated stock are ready and printed before the truck arrives.
- Ensure all invoices are signed by all relevant parties (Coordinator / Loadmaster, Security, and Driver).
- Ensure production areas at NID3 and Picasso are always empty of finished goods.
- Ensure that a Chep document is completed and attached to the invoice.
- Capture Chep records on Chep account.
Stockcounts
- Coordinate and partake in accurate cycle counts as required.
- Coordinate stock counts once per month.
- Understand reasons for variances and put measures in place to prevent recurrence.
Coordination role
- Ensure that the team under your control adheres to prescribed policies and regulations.
- Ensure that the team under your control completes the set tasks and meets the stated targets.
- Ensure proper timekeeping of all team members under your control.
- Ensure that necessary problems are escalated to superiors.
Housekeeping
- Send sugar bags back to Lordsview with required documentation as soon as one bin is full.
- Call Enviroserv to pick up brown and plastic pallets as soon as there are 60 between all gates.
- Check that all Gate 2 pallets are moved to Gate 3 once per shift.
- Report any irregularities to superiors.
- Report cross load/misloading.
- Report damages.
- Actively encourage and ensure Premier FMCG housekeeping standards.
- Ensure satisfactory internal and external food safety audits.
- Call Illovo to collect flow bins once we have 8 at Gate 3.
Health and Safety (Risk Management)
- Ensure compliance with occupational health and safety act.
- Encourage health and safety amongst subordinates.
- Enforce SHE policies and procedures in the workplace and ensure adherence thereto.
- Ensure stacking height limitations are adhered to.
- Moving equipment.
Qualification Requirements
- Grade 12 / Equivalent qualification
- Certificate in Logistics/Supply chain (desirable)
- 1-2 years of experience in a similar role
Experience Requirements
- 1-2 years in similar role
Key Outputs
- Office Management/Office Systems and Processes
- MS Office skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication (verbal and written)
- Teamwork
- Deadline Driven
- Ability to work under pressure