Job Title: Warehouse Supervisor
Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About US:
Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.
Job Summary: The Warehouse Supervisor will manage shift to efficiently execute both T1 & T2 load plans to satisfy internal and external Customer service levels.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Inventory Counts:
- Physically perform and lead the morning inventory count process
- Identify the root cause of inventory count variances and put action plans in place through problem solving tools to improve the Inventory Accuracy KPI
- Reduce Supply Chain Overheads through the utilization of problem-solving tools
- Create and manage warehouse management tools to ensure FEFO.
- Track and trend Inventory Accuracy
- Ensure movement of materials always reflects in the SAP system
Layout Implementation:
- Ensure adherence to the layout in line of certain warehouse activities e.g. Empties zone; Refusal zone; Order Picking zone; Repack zone; Finished Goods zone
Improve Quality Standards:
- Manage, track and trend 1. warehouse cleanliness, 2. pest control schedule adherence, 3. cross contamination from non-food grade chemicals, 4. daily temperature control and 5. product exposure
- Ensure 75% Compliance to the Global Warehouse GOP
- Implement and adhere to a Location-Based Inventory System to identify stored product
- Ensure adherence to blocking standards on non-conforming inventory
- Product quality induction programme conducted
- Track, trend and manage repacking operation to conform to quality standards and to improve repacking productivity
Picking Standards:
- Adhere to a standardised picking process and ensure compliance through management routines to ensure a safe and productive process
- Track, trend and manage picking accuracy and productivity through management tools
Productivity & Capacity Managed:
- Ensure 75% Compliance to the Warehouse Labour Productivity GOP to improve the KPI
- Allocate and assign labour activities utilizing the SKAP tool
Warehouse Management:
- Implement, track, trend and improve 5S results
- Support the design of the management cycle e.g. Business Descriptions, SLA’s, Process Maps, Indicators and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees
- Develop and continuously validate SOP’s through management routines and tools and ensure understanding by all warehouse employees (LnA)
- Team rooms managed and updated through routine meetings to solve problems and drive performance
- Develop and maintain SCL routines and track adherence thereof
- Use problem solving tools e.g. 5 WHY, Abnormality Reports, SIC, OPLs, RACI’s, OWD’s, PDCA’s, etc. to develop action plans to show improvement on PI’s and KPI’s
- Cascade KPI’s and PI’s to individual warehouse employee level, calenderise the KPI/PI achievements and monitor individual target
Safe Warehouse Practices:
- Ensure & maintain a safe warehouse operation driving awareness and compliance to all the relevant safety blocks
- Loading and Unloading activities
- Track and measure the PI of the loading/unloading bay allocation tool with action plans to improve productivity
- Track, trend and manage related KPI’s/PI’s e.g. TCT, baytime utilization, Hl/man Hour
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a relevant diploma/degree
- At least two years of warehouse and or logistics experience
- Highly level computer user (MS Office, Oasis, Handheld devices)
- SAP proficient
- Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
- Superior planning ability
- Ability to work under pressure
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
- Good self-management practices
- Strong achievement orientation
- Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
- Excellent coaching capability
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
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