MINENHLE SITHOLE

Excellence Programmes (VPO & DPO)

• VPO Safety, Logistics & Maintenance Pillar support
• DPO Delivery & Safety Pillar Support

Safety

• Driving the Safety Culture within Logistics Operation
• Auditing stacking inspections conducted by peers
• Daily FMX Monitoring, tracking and investigating transgressions to improve operator behaviour
• Conducting Safety Behaviour Observations on warehouse floor

Quality & Inventory Management

• Conducting Daily stock counts using HHT (Finished Goods & Raw Materials)
• Ensuring adherence to quality standards as per VPO & DPO requirements
• Conducting quality checks on warehouse floor (BB Date Verifications, Stock cleanliness, etc)
• Ensuring that stock is stored correctly and adherence to the FEFO/FIFO method when loading
• Developed a daily Malt tracking process to reduce losses & write offs
• Developed tracking for ZM12 errors to improve daily stock counts & stock posting time

Productivity

• Implemented a daily Picking Tracking to achieve high productivity, accuracy & reduce over time
• Developed a daily Sorting Tracker to improve accuracy and reduce over time
• FTCT - Developed the FTCT, Drop-Trailer, Bay Utilisation (T1 & T2) & Dispatch-to-Gate trackers as part of FTCT improvement projects
• Conducting Daily Warehouse KPI Analysis and problem solving

• Drove safety culture by ensuring compliance with PPE standards, monitoring site safety through inspections and conducting fleet evaluations of trucks and trailers.
• Productivity Management: Management of KPIs (OTIF, NPS, Rate My Delivery, Capacity Occupation, Vehicle Utilization, Refusals & OODD), minimize overtime and temp usage.
• Conducted monthly VLC and ZBB analysis, providing actionable plans to address discrepancies and improve operational performance.
• Validated spending requests to ensure compliance with financial policies and ensure adherence to procurement to pay policy.
• Formulated peak sizing plans to optimise resource allocation during busy times & Planning for all critical periods.
• Take part in IR Procedures & Manage people related queries and performance.
• Executed distribution load plans, managing daily customer delivery queries and resolving complaints to enhance service satisfaction.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain open communication channels with sales and centralized planning departments.

• Identified and engaged errant customers to minimise missing, broken, and foreign bottles.
• Maintained positive customer relations through consistent on-time delivery.
• Conduct weekly driver debriefing and key performance indicator review.
• Explored logistical assistance opportunities to support customer growth.
• Gather and collect competitor information for developing the competitor strategy.

• Distribution load plan execution (Dispatch Office): Allocate resources to ensure correct split assembly and meet order lead times.
• Communicated out of stocks before short-loading shipments to minimise customer complaints and maintain service levels.
• Drove AB-InBev safety culture by attending daily shift handover meetings and conducting pre-trip inspections on forklift machines to ensure compliance and operational safety.
• Inventory Administration: Stacking products as per relevant governance standards.
• Collaborated with team members to analyse warehouse key performance indicators and identify root causes for missed goals, enhancing team accountability.

• Informed logistics team of driver start-up times to optimise dispatch efficiency.
• Ensure that empties are placed correctly to reduce truck turn-around-times and downtime caused by logistics into production lines.
• Launched proposals to improve turn-around times for better logistics performance.
• Conducted operational work diagnosis to ensure adherence to processes.
• Load plan verification to ensure correct product picking.