*************@*****.***
Wellington, Western Cape.
WEBSITE: WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/ANTON-VENTER-646b72128
DETAILS
Date of Birth: 1977-08-08
Nationality: South African
Marital Status: Married
Languages: English & Afrikaans
Driver’s License: Yes, Code EB 8
Notice period: 1 Month
Health: Excellent
EDUCATION
Grade 12 HTS Springs (1995)
Afrikaans (SG), English (SG), Mathematics (SG), Physical science (SG), Technical drawing (SG), N3 Fitting & Turning (SG).
Technikon S.A (1998)
Business Administration 1 & 2
SKILLS/SOFT SKILLS & PERSONAL CHARACTER
-Microsoft Office
-SAP
-MMS
-Syspro
-Qlinksense
-S-Qube system
-Translution – EasyQuery
-Capital Air Tracking System
-Data Analysis
-Operational Management
-Professionalism
-Work ethic and morals
-Leadership
-Good communicator
-Team player
-Training personnel
-Problem solver
-Good time management
-Distribution – In/Outbound
-Returns
-Delivery schedule driven
-Costing
-Operational management
-Planning
-Administration
-Logistics
-Time management
-Conflict handling
-Results driven
-Attention to detail
-Religious
-Honest
-Committed
-Loyal
-Hard working
-Disciplined
-Dedicated
-Creative
-Initiative
-Punctual
-Well organized & neat
-Adaptable to change
SHORT TERM GOALS
Rectification and identification of problems.
Personal and professional growth within self and the company.
LONG TERM GOALS
Financial stability. Pacing my way upward In the organization.
HOBBIES
Handy man, fixing broken things as well as finding new ways for it to work. Fault finding.
Gadgets.
Technology.
Outdoor living. Fishing, hiking, biking,
camping, site seeing.
Golfing.
Advance target sport shooting.
ANTON VENTER
LOGISTICS SUPERVISOR / ACTING MANAGER
ABOUT ME
Energetic, results driven individual. Well organized and honest. I take initiative where need be. Respond and act fast in unforeseen circumstance. Clear minded in stressful situations. I work well as an individual as well as in a group setting. Believe in leading by example and not dictatorship.
WORK EXPERIENCE
DENNY MUSHROOMS A DEVISION OF LIBSTAR (PACKSHED AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGER) (NOV 2023 – CURRENT)
-Manage the Packshed and distribution departments w.r.t manning and scheduling of packing requirements, orders and deliveries.
-Manage the finance of the Packshed and Distribution according to budget.
-Asset management.
-Manage personnel according to legislation and recognition agreements.
-Manage customer relations and satisfaction (service levels).
-Manage quality and efficiency of Packshed and Distribution.
-Develop goals and business plans for the departments.
-Ensure that all Food Safety GMP’s are followed and adhere to.
-Compile stock availability and shortages and stock transfers.
-Generate stock transfers on Syspro.
-Route planning (Customer, driver and vehicle).
-Check vehicle utilization, fuel and vehicle maintenance.
-Maintain safety and roadworthiness of distribution vehicles.
-Ensure that the machines’ maintenance is done according to plan in Packshed.
-Co-ordinate loading of the vehicles.
-Conduct briefing and debriefing sessions with drivers and assistance.
-Ensure that all employees adhere to the stock control processes in the departments.
-Ensure proper housekeeping in all areas of departments and vehicles.
-Ensure quality regarding food products.
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DAYBREAK POULTRY (AFGRI POULTRY, ROSSGRO) (LOGISTICS SUPERVISOR)
[FEB 2010 – MARCH 2020]
-Manage logistics, warehouse and distribution.
-Promote and motivate personnel to excel in their respective fields.
-Evaluate personnel performance according to KPI’s.
-Ensure that SOPs are always followed and adhered to.
-Organize warehouse space and plan layouts to allow for maximum storage capabilities.
-Liaising with distribution staff and QC to facilitate smooth stock returns from suppliers.
-Co-ordinating dispatch of 30 employee drivers to accomplish daily delivery requirements and instructions.
-Trained and lead over 60 employees.
-Analyze and logging of purchase orders.
-Assisting auditors with supplier’s invoices and month end finance accruals.
-Collaborated with other supervisors to maintain smooth inter- departmental communication and operations.
-Processed orders by due date to enable timeous delivery to customers.
-Improved efficiency through employee management, work flow evaluations and monitoring procedures/processes.
-Verified effective and time implementation of operational goals by prioritizing tasks.
-Documenting of shipment receiving information on MMS.
-Administration of sales orders as well as processing of documented transactions.
-Delivered substantial cost saving by securing discounts from third party logistic service providers.
-Build continuous improvement culture that attracted and retained high performing employees while reducing cost.
-Prepared and updated shipment reports for sales executives and clients.
-Implemented new scanning and labeling strategies to improve processes, systems and behavior.
-Negotiated with different freight companies and obtained annual contracts resulting in over R2 million per annum cost saving.
-Lead value added customer service team that consistently over deliver on customer expectations.
-Planning and supervising of product from production to end-user and scheduling of routes.
-Reviewed established business practices and improved process to increase efficiencies and reduce expenses without compromising customer service levels.
-Motivate and promote employees to excel in their field.
-Draft new procedures if needed on SOP’s and KPI’s
-Implementation of changes and ensuring that it’s understood and followed correctly.
-Investigations (product loss, recovery, accidents and theft).
-Tire management, Fuel consumption.
-Assisting in internal hearings and CCMA cases.
-Shift planning.
-Daily, weekly and monthly meetings with personnel. Health and safety tasks on hand.
-Ensure inspections are done in all areas and paperwork submitted timeously.
-Job cards are completed for necessary area maintenance.
-Handling office duties, telephone and mails, data capturing, invoicing
-Handling customer queries, complaints and requests.
-Stock vs sales order handling.
-Manage frozen and fresh products (FMCG) – multi temperatures
-Managing cold storeroom and (6) DC (cold storage) - rentals.
-Reconciliation between MMS system and SAP sales.
-Inspections, releasing, and route planning.
-Time keeping
-Overtime motivation and approvals.
-Completion of job cards in all areas necessary for maintenance.
-Ensure charging stations for forklifts and scanning stations are working properly.
-Ensure correct PPE are worn at all times.
-Conflict handling
-Housekeeping
-Preparing opening stock to compare with sales for the day.
-Ensure stock rotation and FIFO are applied at all times.
-General office / administration duties (data capturing),
-Reconciliation between MMS & SAP systems, invoicing.
-Pallet control and recovery – manual & system.
-Route planning and communicating delivery instructions to drivers.
-Truck inspections, releasing.
-Weighbridge reconciliations and approvals.
-Cost analysis
-Cross border documentation checks.
-Ensure that goods are delivered as per QC regulations and ISO is met.
-Fleet management.
-Fleet recovery.
-Accidents reporting and investigations.
-Fleet tracking and monitoring from personnel responsible.
Q- PROJECTS (DIRECTOR/ OWNER)
[JAN 2006 – JAN 2010]
-Manage and supervise driver’s fleet.
-Assisting leadership with successful launch of startup.
-Determine ideal locations, attained permits and planned routes to achieve intended results.
-Develop impactful and strategic partnerships with contractors to drive business development.
-Creating marketing strategy and advertising initiative used to promote company to community members.
-Contract sourcing.
-Meetings with contractors involved per site.
-Analyzed business needs and customer feedback to improve processes.
-Fleet maintenance and inspection.
-Driver instruction according to specs, diver license and PDPs are in order.
-Hire and trained teams to achieve daily and long term operations and business goals.
-Roadworthiness of fleet, sourcing parts, tires etc.
-Confirmed company documentation regarding site health and safety requirements and day to day operations followed,
-Sourcing of accommodation for drivers and operators if need be.
-Provide documentation to comply with regulations and company policies.
-Created and applied new business analytics and reporting tool across 6 sites.
-Vehicle recovery.
-Accident investigations and reporting.
-Overtime approval and payments, office duties and payments, invoicing.
-Salaries and UIF payments, recons between payments and invoices.
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES (UNIT SUPERVISOR / ACTING MANGER)
[FEB 1996 – DEC 2006]
-Supervise unit personnel and prisoners.
-Health and safety, humanity is always kept.
-Monitor living conditions, food inspections.
-Handling sensitive documents regarding prisoners and offences committed (warrants).
-Attending court officials on visits to prisoners.
-Escort prisoners to court, finger printing and correspondence for transfers.
-Cell inspections are done maintenance and checking of cells.
-Daily and weekly searches done on inmates, their belongings and sell’s.
-Complaints are noted and monitored and completion done timeously.
-Check dress codes on inmates.
-Ensure toiletries are handed to inmates daily.
-Rehabilitation programs are followed by the registered inmates.
-Conflict handling.
-Administrative duties,
-Implementation of new control measures.
-Investigations for research and resolutions of complaints.
-Provide assistance in preventing escapes, fights and violations of facility rules in event of code.
-Issued remediation to staff for non-adherence to housing unit policies and procedures.
-Logged maintenance request details with facility problems and date of referral to monitor resolution of work order.
-Assist in development and implementation of policies, procedures and regulations of unit operations.
-Meet with unit staff and support personnel to plan services, programs and activities.
-Monitor and evaluate inmate behavior.
-Recording of visits and phone calls.
-Checking of nightshift journals for all activities during thr night and attending to those from own unit.
WORK REFERENCES
Correctional Services:
Jurie Mare 083-***-****
Daybreak Poultry
Wynand Du Toit 071-***-****
Denny Mushrooms
Attie Mare 083-***-****