Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
- Facilitate the implementation and support of an industry standard for VSC/DRM across the entire bakeries supply chain.
- Evaluating and optimizing the process in line with business requirements.
- Provide guidance for policies and procedures for outbound distribution.
- Monitoring and ensuring compliance of the highest standards and performance.
- Mobilizing an effective group of distribution superusers at business unit level, mentor and train the users.
- Ensures that distribution and supporting staff are engaged in the continuous improvement and performance of the route compliance and tracking to service all customers on time and cost effectively.
- Effectively monitor and track the route compliance across BU’s.
- Highlight and escalate the daily DRM management KPI’s to the BU’s.
- Customer hit rate 95%
- Planned routes (routes assigned) 95%
- Unit uptime (tracking) 95%
- On Time Departure at gate 80%
- Sequence compliance 60% (not measured yet)
- Drivers assigned 100%
- Calls logged resolved within 72 hours
- On Time arrival at customer 90%
- Online debrief 95%
- Effectively monitor and track the missed customers and provide dialy feedback.
- Evaluate the on time at customer, specifically for national customers.
- Review the customer hit rate provided by DRM and escalate transgressions of the modern trade customers to management i.e. WW, SC, P&P, Spar etc.
- Highlight and escalate any significant and unresolved variances of the KPI’s.
- Review the weekly variances and add commentary for DRM KPI’s and ensure it is followed up by the BU’s.
- Prepare a monthly KPI report for the bakeries MBR meeting.
- Responsible for tracking the route to market and the execution of the spatial plan:
- Identification of unprofitable or under performing routes.
- Overlay of the spatial plan and identification white spaces that can be explored.
- Evaluate the adjacent routes and service levels to establish if all customers are serviced and possible balancing customers on the route to improve service.
- Evaluate the adherence to route planning and sequencing.
- Analyze the routes for possible savings.
- Validate the reasons provided for unplanned kilometers and where necessary confirm the feedback by analyzing the vehicle tracking.
- Analyze and provide detail for the monthly logistics review meetings held with the bakeries.
- Responsible for the DRM/VSC system.
- Monitor the service levels between DRM/VSC on behalf of Sasko Bakeries.
- Ensure that service levels in terms of vehicle tracking are achieved.
- Perform master data health checks i.e. geo fencing, delivery time slots, time at customer.
- Review the data provided by the BU’s for accuracy and the compliance to standard.
- Managing and athourising payments for the VSC managed service, route planning, vehicle tracking and intergration services.
- Routine tasks:
- Provide backup coverage including after hours, or weekends as required.
- Assist the BU’s with the route bulk customer to SAP customer. conversion.
- Project manage the collection and plotting of all customer geocodes.
- Manage training and training needs analysis for all bakeries, depots and IDC users.
- Visit bakeries and bread distribution centers to evaluate standards and provide guidance on an ongoing basis.
- Assist with new plant or route implementations.
- Review the SCSG route profitability reports and draw the comparitve DRM route performance. Consolidate the information for management review.
- Route management and compliance - 114 Dc’s, 1213 Routes, 60282 Customers, 1628 vehicles (tracking)
Qualifications:
- At least 5 years previous route planning experience within FMCG environment.
- Excellent knowledge of route planning and tracking software.
- Excellent communication, organisational and planning skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Good knowledge and understanding of ERP systems in particular SAP.
- Strong Excel skills is essential.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Experience of working to tight deadlines and making own decisions to manage tasks.
- A good team player that is flexible to help with department and company needs.
- Good understanding of change management principals.
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