Background

AGL (Africa Global Logistics), the reference multimodal logistics operator in Africa, is part of the MSC family. With 23,000 employees in 50 countries, the company connects Africa to Africa and to the rest of the world. AGL relies on its 250 subsidiaries in Africa, Haiti, Timor and Indonesia to provide port, ocean, logistics and railway solutions.

Mission Description

Warehouse Operations

• Manage and drive 100% daily bin alignment
• Effective utilization and management of the allocated resources as per daily work plan schedules.
• Allocate daily tasks and workloads to warehouse clerks.
• Enforce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all warehouse operatives.
• Train new warehouse employees on warehouse procedures and safety requirements.
• Enforce proper shift handovers and team briefings at the start and end of every shift.
• Monitor employee performance and productivity.
• Drive daily tier 1 meetings and ensure 100% attendance and quality inputs and outputs of all reportees.
• Coordinate receiving, put-away, picking, storage, and loading operations.
• Identify process improvement opportunities
• Manage Finished Goods receipts from the lines while ensuring accurate tallying and documentation to maintain zero losses.
• Resolve operational issues affecting supply chain performance.
• Manage loading of Finished Goods to ensure exact quantities are loaded as per the picklist and proper documentation therein as per the SOP
• Monitor order fulfillment, accuracy and delivery timelines.
• Manage offloading of returns from trade while ensuring accuracy, authenticity of documents and proper documentation on offloaded products
• Implement cost-saving initiatives
• Ensure smooth inbound and outbound logistics activities.
• Manage returns from trade (ISANDA processes)
• Optimize warehouse space utilization and storage practices.
• Account for product damages and losses, report to the Operations Controller and Security Controller
• Manage the flow of trucks within the respective areas of operations to avoid congestion hence slowing down operations.

Stock Movement

• Manage and coordinate daily cycle counts to achieve 100% inventory accuracy
• Ensure accurate receipt, storage and dispatch of finished goods.
• Ensure cycle count is done at the end of every shift to attain 100% inventory accuracy.
• Monitor stock levels and prevent stock-outs or overstocking.
• Maintain an up-to-date daily stock movement report
• Coordinate daily stock reconciliation and variance resolution within 24 hours of discovery
• Account for all daily physical stocks' movements
• Real time updating of bin cards in the warehouses (if any)
• Accurate and documented bin to bin transfers (if applicable)
• Participate fully in end month physical stock take
• Ensure FEFO/FIFO is followed within the warehouses

Hygiene and Housekeeping

• Implement and continuously ensure 5S principles are always being adhered to in the warehouses
• Clear desk policy
• Proper filing
• Proper placement of pallets and cleaning equipment.
• Proper archiving of documents in reference to records management policy.
• Efficient management of warehouse space to achieve over 95% space utilization all year around
• Effective management on housekeeping standards within and surrounding of warehouses in order to achieve a daily score

Profile

Diplomas – Education

• Tertiary education in supply chain management or a related field.
• 2 years' experience in supply chain or a related field
• Training in MS Office suite and other industry related courses would be an advantage

• Manage and drive 100% daily bin alignment
• Effective utilization and management of the allocated resources as per daily work plan schedules.
• Allocate daily tasks and workloads to warehouse clerks.
• Enforce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all warehouse operatives.
• Train new warehouse employees on warehouse procedures and safety requirements.
• Enforce proper shift handovers and team briefings at the start and end of every shift.
• Monitor employee performance and productivity.
• Drive daily tier 1 meetings and ensure 100% attendance and quality inputs and outputs of all reportees.
• Coordinate receiving, put-away, picking, storage, and loading operations.
• Identify process improvement opportunities
• Manage Finished Goods receipts from the lines while ensuring accurate tallying and documentation to maintain zero losses.
• Resolve operational issues affecting supply chain performance.
• Manage loading of Finished Goods to ensure exact quantities are loaded as per the picklist and proper documentation therein as per the SOP
• Monitor order fulfillment, accuracy and delivery timelines.
• Manage offloading of returns from trade while ensuring accuracy, authenticity of documents and proper documentation on offloaded products
• Implement cost-saving initiatives
• Ensure smooth inbound and outbound logistics activities.
• Manage returns from trade (ISANDA processes)
• Optimize warehouse space utilization and storage practices.
• Account for product damages and losses, report to the Operations Controller and Security Controller
• Manage the flow of trucks within the respective areas of operations to avoid congestion hence slowing down operations.
• Manage and coordinate daily cycle counts to achieve 100% inventory accuracy
• Ensure accurate receipt, storage and dispatch of finished goods.
• Ensure cycle count is done at the end of every shift to attain 100% inventory accuracy.
• Monitor stock levels and prevent stock-outs or overstocking.
• Maintain an up-to-date daily stock movement report
• Coordinate daily stock reconciliation and variance resolution within 24 hours of discovery
• Account for all daily physical stocks' movements
• Real time updating of bin cards in the warehouses (if any)
• Accurate and documented bin to bin transfers (if applicable)
• Participate fully in end month physical stock take
• Ensure FEFO/FIFO is followed within the warehouses
• Implement and continuously ensure 5S principles are always being adhered to in the warehouses
• Clear desk policy
• Proper filing
• Proper placement of pallets and cleaning equipment.
• Proper archiving of documents in reference to records management policy.
• Efficient management of warehouse space to achieve over 95% space utilization all year around
• Effective management on housekeeping standards within and surrounding of warehouses in order to achieve a daily score

• MS Office suite
• Supply chain management
• Warehouse operations
• Inventory management
• Logistics
• Team leadership
• SOP enforcement
• Training
• Performance monitoring
• Cost-saving initiatives
• Housekeeping standards
• 5S principles

• Tertiary education in supply chain management or a related field.
• 2 years' experience in supply chain or a related field
• Training in MS Office suite and other industry related courses would be an advantage