Ronnie Smith

• Lead business diagnostics, supply-chain research and strategy development for Transnet six operating divisions.

• Aligning Supply Chain management strategy for the six operating divisions to the Transnet supply-chain Corporate Strategy

• Building an Analytics and Business Intelligence Capability

for the Supply-Chain division

• Conduct reviews of key strategic initiatives and monitors progress.

•Identify bottlenecks timeous to ensure early mitigation in order to align with the divisions strategic targets.

• Providing strategy formulation and critical insight into the the development of the performance reporting of the operating divisions.

• Leverage strategic foresight and emergent trend analysis.

• Streamlining supply-chain performance reporting to ensure a single view of the truth.

• Provide critical strategy information impacting the strategy formulation and development process of Transnet overarching strategic direction whilst informing decision making through data analytics and market analysis of our internal performance versus the market.

• Providing data-driven performance metrics and key KPI's.

• Developing data-driven supply-chain market intelligence and analysis capability to stay abreast of market related pricing

• Responsible for the supply-chain digital transformation roadmap alignment as per the Transnet Digital Transformation strategy.

• Building group-wide stakeholders relationships in order to ensure effective communication and minimize duplication of efforts.

• Lead strategic workforce planning to ensure that optimized capacity for supply-chain.

• Business Planning and Analytics
• Data Mining and Analytics
• Modelling Taxpayer behavior by making use of Predictive modelling
• Building Data Analytics framework and modelling lifestyle Cycle
• Developing Supervising and non-Supervising predictive models
• Gap Analysis
• Measuring KPI’s against Business plan
• Conduct research in order to remain abreast of advanced data analytics enablement trends
• Trend Analysis
• To Support Leadership in Encouraging Optimal Performance within Enterprise Data Management
• Stakeholder Engagement SARS-wide
• Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
• Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.

• Management of MIS Team
• Revenue Analysis and Forecasting
• Providing Business Intelligence to business
• Ensure that dashboard and KPI’s and metrics are updated and accurate
• Develop and Management of divisional Dashboards
• Analysis of Revenue data
• Performance analysis& monitoring of business units
• Trend Analysis & Forecasting (Operational & Strategic)
• Insight Analysis
• Presenting of business data analytics in meaningful and user-friendly format
• Provide and make recommendation on key findings to Senior Managers and Executive’s
• Building relationships with various business units within SARS LBC
• Coaching and developing of junior staff members
• Conduct risk assessments, identifying internal risk pressure points of each business process
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.

• Data Extraction from various sources
• Manipulation and transforming of data
• Identified and documented detailed business rules and use cases based on requirements analysis.
• Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of best placement for needed resources.
• Produced monthly reports using advanced Excel spreadsheet functions.
• Recommended data standardization and usage for protection of data integrity.
• Synthesized current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings and recommending changes.