ON CLIENTS SITES: WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
The "HUB" teams on clients' sites oversee the safe receipt, storage, retrieval and timely despatch of goods. The Afrilog teams will ensure that workplace health and safety requirements are met and take responsibility for the security buildings and stocks.
Teams are responsible for planning the arrangement of goods within the warehouse and organise special requirements for certain stock, such as consignment stock, operational stock, critical and strategic stock.
The teams ensure that inventory level targets are met and maintain computerised administration.
Key points:
Procedures for Procurement and Expediting
- Confirmation of receipt of purchase orders by supplier to requestors
- Procedures for alert system – reorder point and confirmation to requestors – process for order and re order
- Overdue order management
- Reporting procedures orders vs. receipts
- Consignment stock: usage report – reorder – expediting
- Procedures to monitor and report on critical spare parts and other items
Stock Management: Stock management strategy - Key Procedures
- Receiving procedures
- Discrepancies report
- Reverse procedures (non-conform items)
- Review of min/max and set up of min/max
- Cataloguing: Data base cleaning, correction and revision – creation of stock item – categorization etc.
- Redundancy management
- Inventory check and reporting
- Inventory control KPI’s as per client requests: stock level – operational stock – general “stock outs” – critical stock – strategic stock.
- Stock reporting: stock level – turnover stock – stock on hand – stock on order – supplier details – unit cost – users – consumption history – min/max values – budget information, etc.
- Adjustment and variances report