Cape Town City Centre: Inventory Manager

About the Role

The Inventory Manager role is a critical position in our Distribution Centre, responsible for ensuring the accurate management of inventory across our client base. The successful candidate will be accountable for financial responsibility, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure costs are captured in the month incurred (Labour, MHE R&M, Stock Losses)

• Ensure unprocessed costs are accrued in the month incurred

• Ensure monthly inventory department expenditure is maintained within budget

• Explain variance of budget versus actual

• Ensure cost overruns are investigated and appropriate countermeasures are instituted to prevent further overruns

• Compile input for all inventory expenditure to be used in the annual budget for the distribution centre

• Replenish stock before commencement of picking

• Ensure replenishment is completed into correct locations as per WMS

• Put away inventory correctly labelled

• Ensure daily stock receipted is put away in the correct location

• Manage recalls and assist in the management of the recall process

• Ensure master data management of WMS (adding new SKU’s, adding new warehouse slots, managing pick slots assignment)

• Post transactions to ensure that transactions impacting the stock ledger are posted timeously

• Conduct daily stock accuracy checks and investigate variances

• Manage non-conforming products according to DQSP processes

• Ensure daily check of expiry dates on all stock items in pick slot and reverse of warehouse master

• Manage letters of variance according to DQSP process

• Reconcile in-transit sites within 48 hours after receipt

• Control stock movement between local and export locations

• Accurately reconcile consignment stock from suppliers

• Develop monthly stock count plan

• Communicate monthly stock count dates to the business (supply chain)

• Ensure correct record keeping of stock count documents

• Investigate and resolve stock variances within 48 hours

Requirements

• Excellent knowledge of how inventory flows in the warehouse and the impacts thereof

• Excellent knowledge of what impacts stock balances on the computer system

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills (English)

• Ability to take responsibility, great attention to detail, and exceptional time management skills

• Planning and organizational skills, ability to work in a dynamic team

• Results and deadline driven, good problem-solving capabilities with a disciplined approach

• Analytical, logical, problem-solving attention to detail numeric accuracy

Qualifications

No specific qualifications mentioned in the original job description.

Salary & Benefits

Salary information not provided in the original job description.