Supply Chain Specialist - Sandton - Leroy Merlin

Description

Description:

The Supply Chain Specialist plays a key role in driving operational efficiency, minimising costs and ensuring product availability.

Main Responsibilities:

• Process Optimization: Optimise the flow of goods or information within the specific circuit or process to improve efficiency and choose the right circuit for a specific supplier.
• Placing Orders (Replenishment): Ensure timely and accurate placement of orders, procuring products in the correct quantities, maintaining the required quality standards, negotiating the best prices and ensuring delivery at the optimal time to support sales and minimise holding costs.
• Imports and Clearing of Goods with Freight Forwarder: Oversee the import process by coordinating with freight forwarders and customs agents to ensure the efficient clearance of goods.
• Category Performance Analysis: Conduct detailed analysis of sales performance, market trends and category metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Inventory Control Management: Manage and optimise inventory levels to balance supply and demand, ensuring sufficient stock availability while minimising excess inventory.
• Determining the best flow options from International suppliers in the LMSA network.
• Coodination: Collaborate with Adeo and other BUs to ensure seamless integration and coordination within the designated circuit.
• Building Relationships with Suppliers, Distributors and Store Teams: Develop and maintain strong, productive relationships with key suppliers, distributors and store teams.
• Identifying Supply and Inventory Problems / Root Cause Analysis: Proactively identify and investigate supply chain disruptions, inventory discrepancies or inefficiencies.
• Efficient Circuit Flow: Focus on optimising the flow of goods from International suppliers to the DC and throughout the supply chain circuits.
• Ensuring Availability of Products: Ensure that all products are consistently available for sale.
• Managing Stock Rotation: Implement and manage effective stock rotation practices.
• Improving Supply Chain Costs: Continuously seek ways to reduce supply chain costs through process improvements.
• Ensuring Supply Chain Data Quality: Maintain high standards of data accuracy across all supply chain operations.

Requirements:

• Relevant Supply Chain & logistics qualification
• Minimum 5 years' experience in retail replenishment
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to plan, multi-task and manage time effectively
• Ability to lead and influence
• Self-confident, hardworking and lives by example
• Team player who is also comfortable with working as an individual
• Being analytical