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DanoneRoute To Market Lead - Global
Jul. 2024GlobalGlobal lead for establishing a strategic framework and governance for different Danone markets across the world. The purpose is the establish the best fit for purpose logistics route to market strategies to excite our customers while being agile and efficient.
DANONE SOUTHERN AFRICAHead of Logistics
Jul. 2022 - Jul. 2024City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaLead DANONE Logistics function end to end.
Lead the implementation of a major Route to Market overhaul for DANONE to increase customer fill rate and reduce cost.
DanoneHead Of Planning and Logistics
Apr. 2018 - Jun. 2022Johannesburg Area, South AfricaHead of Planning and Logistics for DANONE Southern Africa. In this role I lead the Demand Forecasting, Activity Management, Supply Planning and Logistics teams. I am also the Integrated Business Planning Leader, ensuring focus, alignment and synchronization among all functions of the organization to drive the companies financial ambition. I have 5 direct reportees and 10 indirect reportees. Daily I engage across many different departments within the busines, including: Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing and Logistics. My main responsibilities are:
- Drive integrated business planning process
- Ensure we align Demand and Supply to deliver against customer expectations [stock availability]
- Ensure we deliver against finished good and raw materials & packaging materials inventory target levels to manage working capital
- Delivery against set waste reduction productivity projects
- Develop an open and inclusive working environment in which internal and external stakeholders feel empowered
- 3PL logistics management of our logistics service provider against the set SLA
DanoneNational Logistics Manager
Oct. 2015 - Mar. 2018Johannesburg Area, South AfricaIn this role I; 1. Managed a national third party logisitcs service provider, ensuring succesfull deliveries to our +- 4000 customers delivery points daily.
2. Lead a team who managed the DANONE factory raw and packaging material warehouse.
3. Lead all export logistics to African countries.
DanoneProject/Performance Manager
Aug. 2014 - Aug. 2015BryanstonAs Supply Chain and Logistics Performance Manager, my main responsibility is to ensure the implementation of the department's productivity program. The role works closely with key role players in the logistics, supply planning, procurement and finance teams within Danone, as well as key role players in our logistics provider. I was also part of the core project team responsible for the implementation of our dedicated national supply network.
South African BreweriesSupply Manager
May. 2014 - Jul. 2014Pretoria Area, South AfricaAs Supply Manager I need to ensure the availability of products to satisfy customer demand in full and on time through the management of the production planning process, raw materials and outsourced product supply. This role also involves the effective control of stock such that all stock transactions are accounted for and the system inventory levels are reflective of physical inventory within the warehouse & that customer accounts are reflective of the stock that was physically delivered.
South African BreweriesWarehouse Manager
Jan. 2013 - Apr. 2014Pretoria Area, South AfricaWarehouse Capacity 35 000m2, Throughput 33mil cases People Management 4 Junior Managers
3 Supervisors
121 Permanent Staff Managing KPIs to meet Targets Customer Order Fill Rate
Inbound and outbound Logistics
Picking accuracy
Loading accuracy
Despatch hit rate
Waste Management (breakages and Losses)
Stock availability
Site Control Management
Production vs. warehouse interface
Production down time (Flt resource)
Container management for production Developing and managing departmental Budget Total annual budget of R76mil
Vendor contract development and incorporation
Vendor invoice management
Identifying opportunities of stretching limited funds/resources Other Generic Management Functions Ensuring resource planning, availability and management
Audit preparation and ensuring we meet requirement
Ensuring we comply to SHEQ requirements
Management reporting
Interdepartmental interactions to meet/achieve depot deliverables
Employee Engagement
Peer Coaching
ABIOperations Improvement Specialist
Sep. 2011 - Dec. 2012Pretoria Area, South AfricaAreas of the supply chain I actively work in is Warehousing and Distribution. My work currently focuses mainly on Team Empowerment. Teamwork practices, visual performance measurement aligned to business strategic goals, a workplace discipline [5S] culture and establishing a problem solving [root cause analysis] culture is the broad themes. I lead the implementation on this structured program towards establishing the foundations of a mature world class operation within the warehouse. Within 9 months we become the benchmark for SAB/ABI warehouses. I also lead and is involved in many productivity improvement initiatives at all levels of our organization. Lately I am leading improvement initiatives around process mapping, data integrity verification and capacity flow improvement in the warehouse environment. I have advised on activity [truck, man and material] flow improvement projects. During the last 18 months I have been exposed to a formal Leadership Coaching program which focused mainly driving accountability within teams. I am currently conducting leadership coaching to junior leaders within our business, under the guidance of a professional coach. Over this period I also develop tools and structures to analyse on-time and in-full [customer service] deliveries to our customers, this has greatly assisted focusing on bottlenecks within our supply chain.
I also provided the knowledge input into a region wide implementation of a team maturity measurement tool, which was successfully implemented in the 2nd quarter of the year.
ABIManufacturing Development Specialist
May. 2010 - Aug. 2011Pretoria Area, South AfricaMy work focused mainly on implementing World Class Manufacturing strategies, processes and tools in an FMCG environment. Most of this work is based on best practices from the Toyota Company, plus best practice across the SABMiller group and the Coca Cola Network. It includes teamwork, 5S, Visual Performance Management, Root cause Analysis, Supply Chain Flexibility, Asset care systems and Operator based Maintenance. I was actively involved in changing our organizations culture to that of a Lean Supply Chain, working with shopfloor employees, junior, middle and senior management. I served as a member of the site executive committee with my role being to consult on best practice during strategic goal setting and during routine execution thereof.
During this time we made considerable progress in establishing a stable and mature packaging team environment, which laid the platform for the significant productivity improvement that followed thereafter.
My self awareness and ability to adapt/manage to different personalities was grown through formal EQ [emotional intelligence] awareness training and 'Insights' workshops.
South African BreweriesManagement Trainee - Manufacturing Development Department
Mar. 2009 - May. 2010SandtonMy role included building analysis tools for all the ABI Manufacturing sites. The purpose was to have a weekly rolling 52 week view of all downtime elements and plant efficiencies to focus improvement efforts. I also managed the reduction in duration of product change over activities as a project at one of the manufacturing plants [QCT initiatives], using process improvement tools like Makigami, EMCS and SMED. On most production lines we achieved a 50% reduction in duration.
SABResearch Assistant
Mar. 2008 - Jan. 2009Sandton, GautengThis was an entry level job with a team in SAB that looked after SAB's Capital Project Portfolio, My job included researching best practice on how to structure Capital Project Portfolio's, considering Capability, Capacity, Continuity and Risk. I was also exposed to tactical planning scenario analysis and assisted in building simulation platforms for the tactical and demand planning departments.
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