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Plant Operator Inventory Controller

Location:
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Posted:
December 15, 2021

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Objective

Being the best I can in all aspects of life.

Personal Information

Contact number : +278*-***-**** / +277*-***-**** / +278*-***-****

Address : ** **** *** ******** **********

Postal Code : 4092

Gender : Male

Date of birth : 12 April 1979

Marital status : Married

Nationality : South African

I.D Number : 790**********

Employment Equity : Asian

Home language : English

Driver’s license : Code 8

Health : Excellent

Other Languages : Afrikaans / Zulu

Criminal offence : None

Secondary Education

School attended : Risecliff Secondary

Highest STD Passed : Matric

Subjects : English; Afrikaans; Mathematics; : Geography; Technical Drawing; Woodwork

Tertiary Qualifications

Institute : (PMI) Project Management Institute

Qualification : Diploma

Course : Operations Management

Status : Currently Studying (last year)

Subjects Completed : Operations Management

: Integrated Application Project

: General Management

: Financial Management

: Human Resource Management

: Quantitative Methods

: Quality Management

Computer skills

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Advanced Outlook

Microsoft Excel

Advanced Excel

Access

Advance computer Skills

Prism Interface

JD Edwards

WMS ( Warehouse Management System )

SAP

In-service Training Courses Attended

: 2007 – Sapics (Supply Chain Management)

Completed – Principles of Production and Inventory Management

Demand Management

Inventory Management & Distribution

Production Planning

Material Requirements Planning

Purchasing and Materials Management

Just – in – time principal

Total Quality Management

5 S (Sort ; Set ; Shine ; Standardize & Sustain)

Six Sigma

Lean Manufacturing

Team Management ( Coaching ; Encouraging & Leading team members)

Inspiring Team Management

Human Resource Management and Development

Conflict Management

Employment Relations and Law at CCMA

Chairing enquiries

Fire Fighters Specialist Training ( SAPREF)

Fire Search and Rescue training through smoke room

Fire Behavior

Ignition of fire

Growth & Spread

Phases of Fire

Extinguishing Methods

Factors that change the nature of a fire

Portable Fire Extinguishers

Type of Fire Extinguishers

Water, Foam

Wall Mounted Hose Reel

Fire Hoses & Fittings

Fire Hoses

Hydrants

Communications

Booster Pumps

Breathing Apparatus Awareness

Fixed Extinguisher Systems

Carbon Dioxide Systems

Foam Extinguisher Systems

Internal Sprinkler Systems

MANAGEMENT

Leadership: Experienced team manager

Excellent leading, Influencing, and delegating ability

Ability to initiate/manage cross-functional teams in disciplinary projects.

Exceptional decision making and problem solving skills.

Impeccable Planning, organizing and executing abilities

Result oriented: Ability to go the extra mile to achieve goals

Excellence Communication skills.

Exceptional negotiating skills

Prompt conflict resolution skills.

Adaptability – Efficient when under pressure and always meet deadlines.

COMMUNICATION

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Confident, articulate, and professional speaking abilities (experienced)

Empathic listener and persuasive speaker.

Writing creative or factual.

Superb speaking in public, to groups, or via electronic media skills.

Excellent presentation and negotiation skills.

LEADERSHIP

Effectively manage change

Good decisions making

Problem solving

Effective communicating

Inspire and develop others

Analytically and strategically thinking

Creative and innovative

Excellent Troubleshooting skill

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Name of company : RnR Shop-fitting

Positions Held : Proprietor

Dates : 01/2017 – Current

Key Tasks / Responsibilities:

Negotiating Deals; Order Planning and Scheduling ; Delivery receipting ; Site activities control ; Stock management ; Order processing ; Accuracy in order assembly ; Loading and unloading of commercial vehicle ; Stocktaking ; Warehousing ; Equipment maintenance ; Invoice payment ; Staff payment and Customer relations.

Name of company : Simba PTY LTD

Positions Held : Warehouse Supervisor- Picking Controller- Inventory Controller

Dates : 04/2011 – 11/2016

Reason for leaving : Business Opportunity

Duties:

Inventory Controller

Remarkable experience in Logistics and Warehousing environment and most effective in inventory control.

Proficient with LEAN, Six Sigma, SMART and WMS integrated with SAP.

Vast knowledge of inventory control and purchasing functions with cost saving experties.

Quick adapting to inventory systems, cost analysis and product evaluation coupled with expert concepts for repackaging, minimizing rand value losses.

Excellent understanding of procurement and accounts payable processes and methods

Ability to multitask whilst interpreting large amounts of data

Ability to evaluate product pricing and inventory control cost to company.

Ability to analyze, restructure and follow up inventory processes and trends for the most value added effective outcome.

Excellent organizational and analytical skills.

Designed and implemented inventory tracking system for problematic sku's that reduced losses by 80% whilst optimizing inventory control.

Assisted with senior systems Management throughout South Africa with WMS rolling out three CDC,s (Central distribution center) Durban, Cape town and Johannesburg.

Analized and restructured picking flow, archiving a 23% increase of production and minimizing time lost of staff queueing for fast moving product.

One of two to be chosen to learn SAP at Johannesburg (Head office) and implement and educate Durban CDC whilst integrating WMS into SAP system

Examine all POD’s (Proof of Deliveries) document regularly as a second process, eliminating incorrect data, and reflecting an accuracy in terms of SOH ( Stock on hand).

Prepare detailed reports on inventory operations, stock levels, and adjustments of monthly cycle counts to senior management team.

Evaluate new inventory to ensure it’s ready for shipment.

Perform daily analysis reports for determining potential inventory problems and investigating immediately redussing losses and giving better chances of corrections

oblems.

Order new supplies to avoid inefficiencies or excessive surplus.

Analyze different suppliers to obtain the best cost-effective deals.

Recruit and train new employees. Examine the levels of supplies and raw material to determine shortages.

Designed and implement an inventory tracking system to optimize inventory control procedures.

Examine the levels of supplies and raw material to determine shortages.

Document daily deliveries and shipments to update inventory.

Prepare detailed reports on inventory operations, stock levels, and adjustments.

Evaluate new inventory to ensure it’s ready for shipment.

Perform daily analysis to predict potential inventory problems.

Order new supplies to avoid inefficiencies or excessive surplus.

Analyze different suppliers to obtain the best cost-effective deals.

Recruit and train new employees.

Managing and reporting all non-conformance product as per SOP

Co-ordinate physical cycle count of all inventory & compiling a detailed investigation of all stock variance

Capture actual stock count to the WMS system & maintain an accurate database at all times

Compiled a detailed report on all variance in which is submitted to senior Management in the weekly production conference meeting.

Ensure all physical loads received are equivalent to the system transactions.

Ensure all relevant paperwork is correctly completed & the system updated continuously capitalizing on stock accuracy in the system.

Communication with load sender and load receiver is performed continuously

Communication with planning/forecasting department for replenishment of low stocks to be continuously minimizing out of stocks & lost of sales

Follow up on all stock put a ways hourly & monitor Staff’s productivity

Ensure all staffs are assigned task equally eliminating team divergence

Continuous tacking of all staff’s productivity is regularly communicated in team meeting & displayed on team notice board highlighting offenders & motivating maximum productivity

Filing of all relevant documentation is audited by a team members minimizing blunders & increasing stock accuracy

Manage absenteeism & implement corrective action for regular offenders

Track of all inventory orders and investigate/record issues continuously

Examine all purchase order documentation before processing in the system

Perform routine clerical duties, including data entry, spot checks, and assisting with customer service.

Lead, guide, train & couch employees on the processes relating inventory control & participate actively in the work operations strengthening the team.

Perform miscellaneous job-related duties in inventory & assign to direct reports.

Pursue established procedure with all customer returns & process relevant documentation as required continuously updating the data base maximizing accuracy.

Adding new items to the system immediately minimizing lost of sales

Design and implement an inventory tracking system to optimize inventory control procedures.

Examine the levels of supplies and raw material to determine shortages.

Document daily deliveries and shipments to update inventory.

Prepare detailed reports on inventory operations, stock levels, and adjustments.

Evaluate new inventory to ensure it’s ready for shipment.

Perform daily analysis to predict potential inventory problems.

Order new supplies to avoid inefficiencies or excessive surplus.

Analyze different suppliers to obtain the best cost-effective deals.

Recruit and train new employees.

procedures.

Examine the levels of supplies and raw material to determine shortages.

Document daily deliveries and shipments to update inventory.

Prepare detailed reports on inventory operations, stock levels, and adjustments.

Evaluate new inventory to ensure it’s ready for shipment.

Perform daily analysis to predict potential inventory problems.

Order new supplies to avoid inefficiencies or excessive surplus.

Analyze different suppliers to obtain the best cost-effective deals.

Recruit and train new employees.

new slots to the system when required

Manage pickface slots as per sales per SKU

Update mater Warehouse plan continuously for superior control

All empty pick slots are reconciled constantly & variance investigated immediately

All investigations are recorded & filed for weekly cycle counts & reporting to senior Management

All adjustments are approved by senior Management before adjustment is concluded & filed

Expired/short self-life product is adjusted off the system immediately after signed-off my senior Management

Traceability of random stock is done weekly & findings are filed

Any non-conforming product is segregated, isolated, recorded and adjusted off the system immediately as per SOP

Assist Quality department in the Recall process & audited on findings

All shift to be fully covered & have sufficient trained backfills in event of emergency for all

All team members to be trained as backfills which strengthen the team

Team members should be trained to work under pressure with added tasks to alleviate pressure from the bottle neck in the team to run smoothly.

Duties & Tasks are prioritized according to the urgency of the company

All processes are to be compliant with the company policy & procedures & all staff should follow this protocol & never deviate.

All filed documentation is audited & regularly spot checked for discrepancies

All offender to be reprimanded as documents should be double checked before concluding & closing transaction.

All transactions impacting the stock ledger are posted timeously & signed off before filing

Picking Controller

Manage 17 direct reports on a daily basis

Monitor workload and assigning task lists to pickers via the Warehouse Management System (WMS).

Release tasks as per picking sequence provided by third party Planning & Scheduling Company (Resolve/Imperial) and the Key Accounts Manager.

Monitor physical stock movement by staff to ensure superior management of all inventory

Monitor WMS dashboard to ensure maximum productivity and total compliance by all direct reports is adhered to continuously.

Ensure that direct reports adheres to all WMS roles as per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

Act as a mentor to staff ensuring compliancy with all Warehouse policies & procedures.

Monitor, record and publish hourly productivity of warehouse staff maximizing daily output.

Manage all shipping documents (Order Completion Sheets) issued to third party transporter (Resolve/Imperial) and Warehouse dispatching team before loading delivery vehicle.

Firm control on issuing of all Radio Data Terminals (RDT’s) to employees as per procedure.

Coordinate all staged loads to be demarcated and assemble in loading sequence before inspecting and dispatched.

Coach and reprimand offenders using the Simba policies and procedures

Coordinating morning tool box talks educating staff on safety and discussing production plan together with staff productivity issues.

Manage absenteeism & implement corrective action for regular offenders

Coordinating daily housekeeping checks ensuring a clean and safe work environment

Manage all Forklifts and Reach Trucks machines for total efficiency

Monitor and maintain scheduled maintenance for all Forklifts and Reach Trucks

Warehouse Supervisor:

2IC to Warehouse Manager (over 54 staff to manage)

Managing resources to meet daily objectives

Coordinating and reporting weekly Cycle Count.

Coordinating all logistics surrounding daily delivery to stores

Ensuring on time delivery to all customers ensuring better customer service

Ensuring all relevant documents are completed and processed timeously giving accuracy to customers

Manually creating and scheduling daily load plan for maximum space utilization and truck turnaround of all delivery vehicles

Management of all delivery Drivers & Assistances constantly

Ensuring effective cost management of all tools and utilities for monthly budget planned

Ensure accurate reporting to senior Management regarding cost usage per month

Controlling and issuing of picking list registers against physical stock staged to ensure completeness and accuracy orders shipped.

Ensuring effective time management on all staff creating a controlled work environment.

Liaising with customers on complains & emergency delivery planning maximizing customer service

Planning & scheduling of daily delivery optimizing customer service.

Monitoring Real-Time Vehicle tracking for all delivery vehicles & detailed reporting of delays in turn maximizing truck turnaround and minimizing missed/re-deliveries.

Conducting visual checks on all returned and damaged product separating resalable & redundant stock following policy in order to minimize financial impact of returned and damaged stock.

Compiling work instructions for a safer working environment

Coordinating daily housekeeping checks ensuring a clean and safe work environment

Conducting daily safety meetings to educate staff on safety in life orientation

Ensure all policies and employment code of conducts are adhered constantly

Manage absenteeism & implement corrective action for regular offenders

Participating with surprise spot checks on delivery vehicles minimizing stock theft

Coordinating of all work equipment & delivery vehicles service cycle are correctly planned & executed timeously

Maintaining a FIFO (First in First Out) rule for all salable stock.

Weekly investigation on all stock variances & a in-depth report compiled for senior Management

Participating in team’s revision of company policies.

Motivating, coaching and developing staff to maximum output ensuring that supply chain objectives are achieved constantly.

Name of company : Blendcor PTY LTD

Positions Held Manufacturing Operator; Operations Coordinator; Grease Manufacturer; Admin Controller : 02/2001 – 10/2010

Reason for leaving : Business Opportunity m

Duties:

Operations Coordinator:

2IC to Production Manager in his absence.

Managing < 50 directs reports to achieve Production Plan on a daily basis.

Attending Daily Production Meetings to report stats to Management on Production overview.

Ensure all time sheets are corresponding with gate clocking for correct payment to be executed.

Attend to daily contractor requirements (for absenteeism) ensuring smooth production flow.

OEE – Operational Equipment Efficiency – ensure all equipment is in a safe, efficient working condition at all times generating the best output required.

Coordinating all overtime when necessary and ensuring proper handover & smooth production flow accomplished to achieve required output.

Coordinating & Couching team members in daily Toolbox Talk ensuring safety prevails at all times.

Attending to all packaging and finished product quality concerns whilst ensuring correct policies and procedures are adhered to timeously.

Housekeeping standards are followed timeously ensuring a safe working environment at all times.

oInbound Controller:

Managing 15 direct reports on a daily basis within the Inventory team.

Coordinating weekly/monthly cycle counts ensuring accuracy & minimum loses achieved.

Coordinating all packaging received daily and ensuring minimum production downtime achieved whilst communicating with suppliers on production requirements timeously.

Managing all Packaging by enforcing the First in First out (FIFO) law, whilst optimal packaging rotation standards accomplished together with greatest Warehouse Space Utilization attained for all Production packaging requirements.

Vendor receipting for all inventory received done immediately after off-loading is complete ensuring an updated system at all times achieving an enhanced Production plan.

Creating gate passes for all outgoing inventory ensuring correct policies and procedures are adhered to & system immediately updated for accurate information achieved continuously.

Stores Control (dispatching of consumables) with accountability of all items furnished to staff in conjunction with updating the system, accomplishing superior management of all store items.

Ensure subordinates time sheets are accurate with approved overtime contained then submitted to Salaries for payment timeously.

Coordinating overtime for direct reports ensuring maximum support provided to the Production team giving an enhanced productivity output.

Coordinate & Coach subordinates on Safety in the daily Toolbox Talk while accomplishing a safer work environment by educating employees further about Safety.

Ensure all quality issues are addressed & corrected timeously using policies and procedures.

Manage all redundant inventories & ensure proper disposal processes are followed appropriately.

Ensure all housekeeping standards are followed timeously creating a safe working environment.

Reprimand & coach team members on any breach of conducts concerning Blendcor’s policies and procedures in which offenders are reprimanding and dealt with accordingly.

Manufacturing Operator

Filling and blending of oil and hazardous chemicals into 201L drums. Rail cars & Iso-tainers.

Transferring of product from tank to tank ensuring tank space utilization is optimized.

Ensure all safety policies & procedures are carried out timeously to prevent lost time injuries.

Excelled in operating the Komaco and Master Fill machines.

Hose Exchange – changeover of product from tank to the filling machine.

Working with extremely high pressure in pigging (line clearing) process.11

oFilling hall machine Operator:

Excelled in LDF – Large Drum Filling (210L)

Excelled in Sealed cans filling machine – filling of 500ml cans

Excelled in Mpp machine – filling of 500ml plastic bottles

Excelled in Blendcor 5L filling machine – filling of 5L plastic bottles

Excelled in Castrol 5L filling machine – filling of 5L plastic bottles

Excelled in Ocme universal filling machine – manual filling of 500ml bottles

Excelled in Master fill universal filling machine – filling of 500ml, 1L and 5L bottles.

oBlending Plant Operator:

Blending of Oil using the computerized blending system(Scada)

Worked on DES 1 & 2 (Drum Emptying System)for decanting of additives & hazardous chemicals

Tank farm Operator – tank transfers, sampling & dip measuring of product in bulk tanks.

Top floor Operator – sampling blended product, decanting of additives & hazardous chemicals into blending tanks physically ensuring safety at all times.

Transferring of base oil from third party (Samco and Sapref) into bulk holding tanks.

Transferring Base Oils via pipeline to Ship carriers & Rail cars.

Receiving & transferring additives via pipeline from Trucks to holding tanks ensuring accuracy.

oGantry (Truck Loading Operation):

Loading of trucks, Iso-tainers and railcars while ensuring safety at all times.

Transferring of product from one tank to another ensuring maximize space utilization & tank.

Dip measuring & sampling of blended product and Base oils ensuring correct product transferred.

Weighbridge Operator (weighing truck in & out ensuring accuracy) whilst all paperwork in order.

oGrease Plant Operator:

Manufacturing of all Shell, BP & Castrol greases using the computerized system (Scada system)

Panel man – Manufacturing (following proper Grease process) & controlling production line.

Working with extremely high temp (210*c) in manufacturing greases ensuring safety at all times

Charging of extremely dangerous additives e.g. Lithium whilst following extreme caution

Additive Weighing – weighing & charging of additives for Grease manufacturing process.

Filling of 15kg, 18kg, 50kg and 180kg grease containers at 90*c whilst following extreme caution.

Blending & Filling of Petroleum Bicherman at high temp (210*c) with extreme caution at all times

Sampling and Testing of greases for Quality control ensuring best quality products produced.

Inspection of staged greases after required time for oil separation and specks following the Quality process & Standards before dispatching as finished goods.

Housekeeping and line cleaning process followed as per procedure ensuring a safe working environment at all times.

oTrouble shooting

On all Filling and Blending machines ensuring minimum production time lost.

OEE – (Operational Equipment Efficiency) Production VS Plan, reporting daily production output in Management meeting ensuring maximum production output at all times whilst highlighting communicating reasons for Filling Line downtime obtained.

Name of company : Island View Storage (IVS)

Positions Held : General Operator

Dates : 01/2000 – 10/2000

Reason for leaving : Contract Position

Duties:

Filling and blending of oils and hazardous chemicals into transporting vessels.

Transferring of product from tank to tank ensuring space utilization is optimized.

Ensure all safety procedures are carried out timeously to prevent lost time injuries.

Name of company : Mercedes (NMI)

Positions Held : Checker / Picker

Dates : 02/1999 – 11/1999

Reason for leaving : Contract Position

Duties:

Perform multiple functions that includes receiving and processing incoming stock and materials, picking and filling orders from stock, packing and shipping orders together with managing dispatch bottle neck whilst ensuring all quality controls and policies are perfectly maintained at all times.

Name of company : Simba Chips

Positions Held : Merchandiser

Dates : 04/2011 – 11/2011

Reason for leaving : Business Opportunity

Planning product ranges and preparing sales and stock plans in conjunction with buyers;

Liaising with buyers, analysts, stores, suppliers and distributors

Maintaining a comprehensive documentation of appropriate data;

Working closely with the Store Management deciding proper optimization of display space to maximize sales;

Forecasting sales, and optimizing the sales volume of designated product areas;

Controlling stock levels based on forecasts

Analyzing every aspect of bestsellers and ensuring that they reach their full potential;

Maintaining awareness of competitors' performance within the team;

Monitoring slow sellers and taking action to reduce shrinkage;

Identifying production and supplier difficulties and dealing with any problems or delays as they arise;

References

Mr. Krish1 Reddy Mercedes Benz (NMI) 031-***-****

Mr. Darmesh Island View Storage 031-***-****

Mr. Jack Chaithram Blendcor PTY LTD 031-***-**** / 083-***-****

Mr. Appanna Pavendra Blendcor PTY LTD 084-***-****

Miss. K Chetty Simba PTY LTD. 031-***-**** / 082-***-****



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