Warehouse Coordinator – Lanseria needed at The South African Breweries
Job title : Warehouse Coordinator – Lanseria
Job Location : KwaZulu-Natal,
Deadline : November 10, 2025
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Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Excellence Programmes
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Ensure implementation and compliance of VPO and DPO Excellence Program
Safety
- Conduct Risk Assessments to identify and mitigate potential hazards
- Work with Fleet & Safety Supervisor to ensure maintenance schedules are adhered to for Forklifts
- Analyse safety performance to identify trends and improve safety
- Lead by example and foster an environment where safety is a shared responsibility
- Investigate incidents to determine root causes and prevent recurrence
- Organise and oversee onboarding and training of new and existing employees
- Ensure emergency preparedness of Warehouse
Quality
- Quality Standards are adhered as per the VPO and DPO requirements including GOPs
- Ensure 75% Compliance to the Global Warehouse GOP
- Product quality induction programme conducted
- Quality Standards on all Inbound and Outbound Logistics (FEFO , BB date, Batch Management etc) including receipts from Packaging are adhered to
- Ensure Stock Stored correctly and compliance to the Freshness and Rotation Policy (FEFO) as per VPO Standards
- Collaborate with quality teams to quarantine, inspect and release goods. SLA and Routines with QA department managed
- Track and Trend Quality issues to identify root causes – Work with other departments to improve quality related KPIs
- Track, trend and manage repacking operation to conform to quality standards and to improve repacking productivity
Contractor/3PL Management
- Standardises Supplier and Internal Customer Management through SLA reviews
- Ensure Contractors/3PL alignment to Business Strategy
- Create an engaging environment to foster business partnerships and good relations
- Continuously engage Contractors/3PL to extract maximum productivity responsibly
- Ensure Contractors comply with SAFE requirements
Statutory
- Adherence to the Health, Safety and Environmental Standards
- Department of Labour Stacking Exemptions complied with
- Site housekeeping standards maintained to ensure adherence to site safety standards
- Ensure compliance to all relevant legislation
Financial Management
- Minimize overtime and temporary employee usage
- Warehouse shift sizing conducted & resources aligned to weekly & daily activity
- Minimize use of Contractors/Temps and manage within relevant legislation
- Continuously look for financial optimization opportunities internal and external
- Weekly monitoring of general ledger accounts to ensure adherence to budget and forecasts
- Monthly financial performance analysed and necessary plans put in place to correct if required
- Optimises SCOH Management and ensures Problem Solving approach is followed
- ZBB & VLC budgeted / LE costs understood vs actuals and actions plans to improve
Stock Count
- Ensuring daily counts are completed to ensure ERP vs Physical are aligned and where variances these are investigated and closed to ensure all movements
- 100% of all material and SKUs is counted monthly as per MICs requirements
- Ensure Obsolescence write offs risks are mitigated
- Manage KPIs and PIs linked to Inventory (E.g. Stock Posting Time , Inventory Accuracy , OOR , DIO)
- Reduction in Supply Chain Overheads through the utilisation of Problem Solving Tools
Inbound & Outbound Logistics
- Ensuring any escalations of Delivery Schedules and Inbound Retpack Plans not materialising takes place timeously with Supplier and T1 Control Room before risk materializes
- Monitoring Outbound Plan is sufficient to manage Warehouse Capacity , FTCT and OTIF
- Manage KPIs and PIs linked to Inbound and Outbound Process (E.g. FTCT and all related PIs, DLPA )
- Reliable Supply of Quality Raw Materials to ensure no production stoppages. OOR KPI Managed
- Track loading/unloading productivity and show results evolution
- Implement and monitor load scheduling
Packaging Line and Brewing Process Area Interfaces for Raw Materials, Finished Goods and Returnable Containers
- Process Control Owner to ensure Bin Card Process is managed to meet LCA requirements and reconciliation between two parties takes place shiftly and discrepancies are resolved timeously
- Problem Solving Stock Discrepancies and ensuring route cause is identified and resolved
- Actions developed to improve process control together with packaging and brewing process area owners
Additional Interface Requirements
- Management of DCBL Process and Problem Solving DCBL impacts to ensure Sites and Customers not adhering to sorting standards are held accountable
- Review MBFU and FRI Results Captured and drive Problem Solving on gaps identified
Operations (Picking, Sorting, Pallet Repairs, Decanting, Overpacking)
- Management of Daily Priorities and efficiencies based on Operational Requirements. Management encompassing the PI/KPI results, Safety, Problem Solving to Improve Payment for Services etc)
- Some important KPIs/PIs E.g. DOC, Packaging and Brewing Plans , OTIF , T1 vs T2/DS , Export Requirements , WNP , WQI , FNP etc
- Make use of GOP’s linked to warehouse KPI’s and insure 75% score is achieved
- Ensure 75% Compliance to the Warehouse Labor Productivity GOP to improve the KPI
- Design and maintain sizing simulator to address optimal labor and equipment resourcing
- Develop and Manage the Warehouse Capacity Utilization model to improve Warehouse efficiency
Bottle Loss
- ERP transactions reflect all Loss Points in the Logistics Operation (Breakages , MBFU from Sorting , Inbound Losses etc.) to ensure GL losses in ERP match Mass Balance Results
- Packaging Interface Processes and Routines as detailed above to ensure losses are reflected in the correct areas to drive problem solving
- Problem Solving Inventory Counting discrepancies to minimise swings
SCOH Management
- ERP transactions reflect all Loss Points in the Logistics Operation (Breakages , Inbound Losses etc.) to ensure GL losses are reflected timeously in ERP
- Reduce Supply Chain Overheads through the utilization of problem solving tools.
- Gate Control SOPs on Inbound and Outbound Loads are followed to ensure Un-accountable Losses are negated
Forklift Management
- Permit to Work Management
- Supplier Management vs SLA
5S
- 5S Compliance within Logistics Operations
- Conduct 5’s Audits, consolidate results and use management tools to improve results
LCA
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Ensure implementation and compliance of LCA Audit Requirements
PTP Process
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GRIR/VIM Query Management
General
- Liason with Internal and External Customers
- Support Team Goals and VPO Principles
- Ensure strong routines for both Finished Goods and Raw Materials Warehouses to ensure KPIs are reviewed and managed
- Team rooms managed and updated through routine meetings to solve problems and drive performance
- Security cameras in key points on site & random verification conducted
- Implement and manage waste plan and recycling operation by type of material: paper/carton, plastic by type: PET, PS, PP etc. metal –aluminum, iron, etc., glass, food remains, other types, unrecyclable
Minimum Requirements:
- 3-year relevant diploma/degree
- 3+ years Warehouse and or logistics experience advantageous
- Highly level computer user.
- SAP proficient
- Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
- Superior planning ability
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good verbal and communication skills
- Good self-management practices
- Strong achievement orientation
- Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
- Excellent coaching capability
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