Nondumiso Bhengu

Category planner is responsible for the governance of the overall category performance. Help lead the cross- functional alignment with the sales and category, marketing, finance, demand planning teams to ensure the marketing and shopper plans deliver against budgets.

Key outputs

· Support planning manager by providing regular reporting including volume tracking, trade spend, percentage of promotional activity and seasonal in- stock tracking.

· Approve promotional activity in line with guidelines of promotional spend.

· Managing store budgets and identify opportunities for stock turn improvements.

· Managing aged stock levels in line with company strategy

· Managing the flow of stock from supplier to the distribution and final leg of distribution to stores.

· Focus on delivering products to stores on time and in full.

· Analyze sales history to determine trends and forecast accurately without overstocking.

· Support the preparation of NPD selling story to ensure implementation of launch plan.

· Actively launch / activate/ track implementation and performance on new product launches, activations.

· Manage category portfolio operational issues to ensure no disruption in day to day operation across channels and customers

· Analytical thinking and problem solving abilities.

Planner Supervisor for Region, consisting of 16 Distribution Centers. Responsibilities include maintaining WinRoute planning tool database. Scheduling daily, optimized, cost effective distribution Load Plans whilst remaining agile to unforeseen circumstances. Efficient and effective fleet optimization. Active Service Level management whilst managing and overseeing team member activities and daily plan execution. Driving continuous Key Performance Indicator (KPI) improvement and reducing inefficiencies.

Key Outputs

· Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.

· Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins.

·Monitore company inventory to maintain optimum stock levels at all depots.

· Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, manage challenging situations with ease whilst developing and maintaining courteous and effective working relationships.

· Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.

Scheduling Load Plans within prescribed period whilst remaining agile to unforeseen circumstances, reacting accordingly and complying with government legislation and liquor standards. Reviewing Load Plan execution along with KPIs to drive improvement where necessary. Managing and overseeing the day-to-day operations and performance of the inventory Load Plan

Key Outputs

Responsibilities included Plan, optimize and control optimum stock levels across all sales depots, Breweries and distributor grid as well as exports; Generation of a Weekly deployment plans to ensure adherence to defined stock standards, Ensure container plan (reverse logistics) execution meets cost and availability targets at Breweries, Daily/weekly communication to the Planning Team of stock levels, areas of potential stock obsolescence, and resolution

· Employed accurate forecasting to increase efficiency and reduce waste.

· Scheduled movement of raw materials and finished goods in support of operational needs.

· Monitored arrivals and prioritized inbound shipments with transportation department.

· Track placed orders to ensure timeous delivery at the right time at the right place.