Taahir Tayob

Slacks By It is a business that was started in the year of Covid 2020. A business that was started by my wife and I. The business manufactures luxury lounge wear garments for both men and Woman. All designs are made up by us. All manufactured in South Africa and Sold online.

• Manage the entire finances of the business
• Sourcing of fabrics from different suppliers (Local and International)
• Negotiating and sourcing new CMT’s to manufacture products
• Sourcing of accessories for the garments, such as Elastic, wash care labels etc
• Assist in weekend pop ups to sell stock
• Overview on the company’s website.
• Managing dispatch and logistics services

Korteks Textiles is the largest vertically integrated textile manufacturing company in South Africa. The business specialises in curtaining for Home Textiles. It has a manufacturing facility that is housed under 19000 Square meters. It has a work force of 250 Employees. The company supplies Multi national chain stores in the country and independent retail stores in South Africa. We also supply neighbouring countries to South Africa. All equipment that is purchased in the company is from Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Turkey ensuring state of the art equipment.

• Managing the entire operations of the business
• Manage the full line of the production
• Manage product from the time containers arrive at the factory until the end of process of completing the product into a finished good.
• Overlook, with a team the receipting of goods that arrive from containers. Cross check and balances from suppliers invoice to what was actually received
• Issue stock out to the factory against production orders. As well as creating the production order against a Customer purchase order
• Plan each department with head of departments on the operations of the department on a month to month bases.
• Mange all the procumbent from local suppliers for peripherals that are needed to manufacture the product
• Deal with all planers from multi national chain stores in terms of orders and delivery dates
• Head up a quality control team to ensure the finest quality product is manufactured and eliminate bottle necks with quality
• Manage 30% of the independent sales for the company.
• ·Weekly meetings with sales force for the independent market to see what is required
• Overlook the maintenance team to ensure maintenance is completed on machinery to avoid breakdowns.
• Assist in breakdowns from a mechanical and electrical view and deal with machine manufacturers to help diagnose and resolve the breakdown
• Financial cash flows and salaries and wages payments to confirm before it is released
• Part of the development when the company moved over to Sap ERMP system

• Job Shadow the Factory Manger
• Learning how production is managed
• Created the current Job card that the factory still uses today
• Product planning and understanding the flow of product from one department to the next
• Receipting all stock purchased from Local suppliers
• Developed Supplier relations with local suppliers
• Understanding product and finding better ways to improve production efficiency’s

• Sales for the independent market
• All towns in South Africa
• Weekly would go out and see customers with samples offering them new products as well as marketing research
• Signed new customers and built new relationships
• Bring back market research to the factory and new development would be created
• Built a relationship with the company’s biggest independent customer who is still manage by me todays
• Understanding product and what the market requires
• Working with sample makers to have better samples to take on the road and to offer customers
• Had 1 Sales rep who worked closely to.

• Pull and pick orders from sales reps
• Packing and preparing goods for delivery
• Loading of trucks of customers orders
• Dealing with logistics company to collect stock for areas the company did not deliver to
• Stock management of stock that was in the warehouse
• Fleet management on services for trucks and company vehicles
• Cross check goods being dispatched against what was invoiced
• Created a sales order for all orders that were received from the sales Reps