Mutali Radzilani
Johannesburg
Summary
Experienced supply chain professional with a strong background in end-to-end supply chain and operations. Skilled in analyzing sales and marketing data to accurately forecast future product demands. Proficient in multiple ERP systems and possess a deep understanding of supply chain operations. A strategic and logical thinker, adept at supporting risk assessment and mitigation processes. Highly capable of monitoring and reporting on changes in budgets, sales forecasts, and business strategies.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Demand Planner
Epiroc Rock Drills Ab
03.2022 - Current
- Engage with the sales and service organization to formulate the appropriate demand plan to forecast parts required to support the sales and expected growth of Epiroc in the region
- Identify changes and events in the market and coordinate actions to adjust forecasts and stock levels accordingly
- Drive the continued implementation of the demand planning process in the region
- Interaction and support to Customer Centers in the local and regional demand planning process
- Support the implementation of collaborative planning with customers and drive customer co-planning meetings
- Coordinate with supply planning team for responses to demand plan and major market events and analyze forecast accuracy and take corrective actions
- Coordinate process requirements with the global process owner and participate in projects to implement new processes and systems functionalities
- Contribute to the supply chain competence development throughout our organization
- Ran weekly fill rate reports to highlight potential issues and corresponding solutions.
- Provided ad-hoc analytics and operational expertise to drive fact-based inputs into forecasting.
- Reviewed historical sales trends and researched demand drivers to prepare forecast data and develop statistical forecast models.
Demand Planner
Sandvik Mining RSA
09.2018 - 02.2022
- Leading strategic demand planning activities, work with Customer Service Center for the Southern Africa region, and develop a strategy to manage inventory levels to minimize stock holdings while maximizing supply ability
- Develop effective forecast models based on industry trends and demand patterns
- Collaborate with sales teams and customers to develop usage forecasts and financial forecasts per region (south africa, Namibia & Botswana)
- Lead monthly S&OP process with Areas Managers to scrutinize market area performance vs forecast
- Collaborate with the inventory management team to adjust stocking levels based on forecast and requirements
- Support management with risk assessments and mitigation activities to prevent stockouts and to enhance business processes
- Collaborate with production Units in South Africa, Sweden, China, Canada and India to plan for current and future demands
- Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy
- Successfully communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management
- Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies
- Lead training/knowledge sharing sessions amongst the team to improve internal operational efficiencies
- Address demand-related issues in a timely and effective manner and present alternative solutions
- Improved demand forecast for multiple distribution channels based on previous sales and consumption.
- Reviewed historical sales trends and researched demand drivers to prepare forecast data and develop statistical forecast models.
- Proposed and implemented solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.
- Procured and managed inventories to support customer backlog and forecast.
- Communicated demand plans to manufacturing sites to resolve gaps between demand and supply plans.
Operations Manager
Costars ( Pick N Pay Longmeadow DC )
07.2018 - 09.2018
- Plan and manage outbound operation activities including employees, expenditure, efficiencies and customer relations in order to ensure a profitable and efficient operation and to maintain relations with customers and key role-players
- Manage shrinkage to below target
- Manage manpower costs as measured by analyzing overtime trends, allowance payments, employee strength and method of calculation
- Ensure conformance to OHS procedures and conduct safety audits as required
- Oversee and manage shift personnel, all loading processes and procedures
- Ensure timely delivery of produce to all customers and ensure that appropriate resources are in place to meet customer demand
- Liaise with transport companies/sub-contractors and maintain cost control within the transport operation
- Identifying and development training needs of subordinates according to Workplace Skills Plan
- Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe, or ineffective practices.
- Established positive and effective communication among unit staff and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications, and missed deadlines.
- Developed and maintained relationships with external vendors and suppliers.
- Analyzed and reported on key performance metrics to senior management.
- Supervised operations staff and kept employees compliant with company policies and procedures.
- Tracked employee attendance and punctuality, addressing repeat problems quickly to prevent long-term habits.
- Reported issues to higher management with great detail.
- Scheduled employees for shifts, taking into account customer traffic and employee strengths.
Logistics & Demand Coordinator
Essity south africa ( SCA )
01.2017 - 06.2018
- Ensure that the demand of the business is met at all times, be it inventory, cost saving, or forecasting principles
- Coordinate orders from different countries in Europe until they reach Johannesburg
- Correct and mine historical forecast data to correct the baseline
- Calculate all Demand KPI's and root-cause analysis for gaps and support in making action plan
- Create the weekly/monthly demand plan for the category customer groups and SKUs
- Create the statistical baseline forecast supported by KAMs team input and product phase in/out for all SKUs within the category
- Validate base demand plan using statistical forecasting techniques for rolling 13months
- Analyze sales trends, validate promotional uplifts and ensure integration of sales and marketing demand drivers into overall demand to challenge and improve forecasts
- Discuss new product launch volumes and discontinued items and share the information with the supply planning team, KAMs and marketing to enable readiness
- Obtain and assess event volumes from Sales and Marketing team for the planning horizon and update volumes in case of any changes
- Achieve consensus unconstrained demand planning by SKU/Category and review the same with supply side to identify potential demand to challenge and supply gaps
- Review Demand Plan vs Target at category level and update unconstrained demand plan after DR in the system
- Maintain and manage the database of sales and marketing assumptions
- Participate in the Demand Review to sign-off the category demand plan and support the monthly Capacity Review through provision of insight into demand
- Continues improvement actions to ensure OTD improvement
- Executing and driving down MRP exception messages
- Weekly Supplier management and order book reports
- Stock level management and prevention of stock outs
- Liaise with suppliers to contain costs and enhance service levels
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders in order to enhance lead time and improve service levels
- Entered data, generated reports, and produced tracking documents.
- Gathered and organized materials to support operations.
Warehouse Team Lead
Giesecke & Devrient
04.2016 - 12.2016
- Manage a team of 5 directs reports to ensure that the inventory within the warehouse was within the min/max levels put in place to ensure optimal inventory levels and supply
- Implementation of new strategies and operations practices
- To effectively forecast min/max orders for the warehouse and special projects
- To ensure that data integrity and proper document policies are adhered to
- To manage technicians and customer sites audited stock counts
- Developing and implementing new policies and procedures to ensure better operational outputs and cost savings
- Tracking of all in-transit shipments to provide accurate ETAs to all stake holders
- Ensuring that customer orders are supplied within the stated SLA lead time
- Managing the supply and demand of the technical department on a daily basis - Effectively managing the working capital
- Handled fright and parcel shipment schedules, return and transfer processes and oversight of daily warehouse operations.
- Oversaw warehouse staff and maintained efficiency in fast-paced environment.
- Acted as liaison between company departments and warehouse teams.
- Monitored performance and safety practices of warehouse staff.
- Adhered to industry best practices for warehousing, material handling, and documentation.
- Collaborated with management to implement new initiatives and policies and achieve benchmarks for production, quality, and safety.
Warehouse & Operations Team Lead
Coca Cola Beverages Africa ( ABI )
10.2014 - 03.2016
- Manage a team of 36 directs reports to ensure that the warehousing and distribution of stock was executed effectively and efficiently
- We applied the On Time In Full principle
- Maintain & improve operational efficiency standards
- Rigorous management & control of cost within defined parameters
- Receiving production quantities on SAP
- Implementation of new strategies and operations practices
- Sending status reports to management
- Devised and implemented processes and procedures to streamline operations.
- Maintained overall safe work environment with employee training programs and enforcement of safety procedures.
- Evaluated staff performance and provided coaching to address inefficiencies.
- Conducted regular reviews of operations and identified areas for improvement.
- Generated reports detailing findings and recommendations.
Regional Planner
British American Tobacco
02.2012 - 09.2014
- Support the Regional manager to co-ordinate and ensure effectiveness in implementing marketing strategies and plans to provide execution excellence in the TM&D regional initiatives
- Keep track of all TM&D assets in the field and warehouses in region and coordinate TM&D merchandising shipment in line with regional plan or on request
- Prepare and distribute daily sales reports and dashboards etc
- To reflect Actual Performance vs Target, at regular time intervals and on request by Regional Manager
Sales Representative
British American Tobacco
01.2011 - 02.2012
- Implement brand and trade programs in the outlets according to cycle plan
- Ensure the effective and efficient execution of marketing activities in the territory (within the area)
- Recruit, train and motivate Merchandisers in order that trade marketing representation in retail chain outlets is superior to the competition in respect of both core and added value services
- Manage financial accounts and assets for the area to ensure that trade marketing resources are secure and used in the most efficient and effective manner possible
- Developed and maintained strong working relationships with professionals within assigned territory.
- Collaborated with managers to provide customer feedback and recommend operational changes to meet emerging trends.
- Performed effectively in self-directed work environment, managing day-to-day operations and decisions.
Education
Diploma in Logistics - Economic Sciences
Tshwane University of Technology
Pretoria, South Africa12-2010
Skills
- Highly analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong Organizational skills
- Problem Solving skills
- Strong Leadership skills
- Coaching skills
- Results orientated
- Conflict Resolution
- Emotional Intelligence
- Team Building
- Imports & Exports
- Demand Planning
- Forecasting
- Orders Management
- Inventory Management
- Operational Costs management
- Policy creation & implementation
- GMP
- Production Interface
- Warehousing & Distribution
- Budgeting
- Product lifecycle management
- Market trend analysis
- Collaborative planning
- Capacity planning
- Data-driven decision making
- Data interpretation
- Project management
- Deadline management
- Continuous improvement
Systems
- SAP
- Vision Plus: Fener
- Fleet loader
- Pastel
- Access
- Aurora
- System 21 DI
- MS Excel
- PowerPoint
- Macros
- GIM
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tshivenda
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Xitsonga
Upper intermediate (B2)
Sepedi
Advanced (C1)
Setswana
Upper intermediate (B2)
Sesotho
Upper intermediate (B2)
Isizulu
Upper intermediate (B2)
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
HybridRemoteOn-SiteImportant To Me
Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany CultureFlexible work hoursPersonal development programsHealthcare benefitsWork from home optionPaid time offTeam Building / Company RetreatsPaid sick leave401k matchTimeline
Regional Demand Planner
Epiroc Rock Drills Ab
03.2022 - Current
Demand Planner
Sandvik Mining RSA
09.2018 - 02.2022
Operations Manager
Costars ( Pick N Pay Longmeadow DC )
07.2018 - 09.2018
Logistics & Demand Coordinator
Essity south africa ( SCA )
01.2017 - 06.2018
Warehouse Team Lead
Giesecke & Devrient
04.2016 - 12.2016
Warehouse & Operations Team Lead
Coca Cola Beverages Africa ( ABI )
10.2014 - 03.2016
Regional Planner
British American Tobacco
02.2012 - 09.2014
Sales Representative
British American Tobacco
01.2011 - 02.2012
Diploma in Logistics - Economic Sciences
Tshwane University of Technology
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