Last Full Time Role:
Senior Inventory Controller – Frucor Suntory (Nov 2022 – Nov 2023)
1 year fixed term contract.
(promoted during restructure to ‘Senior’)
Main responsibilities
- Direct line manager of 3 stock controllers working on a 24hr shift pattern
- These personnel conduct cycle counts of 33,000 pallet spaces / $22.5M of inventory in the distribution centre, conduct many ad-hoc checks, reports and movements across the entire Asia-Pacific network in order to meet KPIs.
- Responsible for all Auckland sites inventory accuracy
- Processing and auditing transactions to find errors
- Correcting behaviour to increase stock accuracy and limit write off
- Influencing and collaborating with key stakeholders across:
- Operations, Quality, Production, Planning and Sales to;
- Maintain operational warehouse capacity
- Maintain stock accuracy and integrity
- Feedback on business process, improvement projects and manging risk
- Master Data responsibility
- Responsible for setting up finished goods SKUs within EWM/S4 (SAP)
- All warehouse data created per SKU, eg fixed bins, replenishment data per storage type, voice picking settings ect..
- Main achievements:
- Recruited, trained and set up a new team and work pattern after restructure
- Monthly count compliance up from 40% avg to 99.9% avg
- Stock accuracy recorded at 95% (not previously maintained)
- Created better working patterns and good practice to prevent large amounts of returns and misc pallets from clogging up warehouse space.
- Reduced write offs by creating patterns of checks to unblock saleable stock and send short dated stock to staff shops to clear.
- Increased warehouse capacity by implementing blocked bin checks to free up unnecessarily blocked bins.
- Part of the implementation of Laser Guided Vehicle project into the DC bulk storage area.
- Member of the senior leadership team of the warehouse contributing towards overall success of the facility.
- Conducted inventory and SAP training across other sites across Auckland, New Zealand and Australian warehouse counterparts.
Previous Roles:
Inventory Manager - David Phillips Furniture Ltd (Jan 2022 – Sep 2022)
Main responsibilities
- Direct line manager of 2 supervisors
- 8 FTEs reporting to me in total
- Responsible for business wide stock holding and purchasing
- Project and regular inventory
- C.£18m of purchasing per year
- 3 warehouses and additional 3rd party sites
- Responsible for creating and maintaining all inventory processes
- Demand planning
- PO/data maintenance
- Availability metrics
- Reducing tail of range
- Clearing surplus/excess stock
- Bespoke purchasing
- UK, EU, Far East suppliers and distributors
- Freight/container management
- Import/Export regulations
- ERP system processes
- Engaging with key stakeholders
- Updating senior figures, directors, CEO/CFO/COO
- Engaging operational and sales teams
- Main achievements
- Reduced surplus/excess stock holding by £1.2m
- Development of demand planning software
- Availability avg up from 85% to 96%
Demand Planning Supervisor - David Phillips Furniture Ltd (Jan 2021 – Dec 2021)
Main responsibilities
- Line manager of three stock co-ordinators
- Regular stock availability / managing temporary items
- Liaising with Ops and Sales teams
- Managing supplier performance and addressing key issues
- Maintaining and improvement of the forecasting and reporting processes
- Data maintenance
- Managing containers from China / liaising with forwarders
- Management of new/exiting ranges
Lead Distributor (various categories) – WH Smith Travel Head Office London (Jan 2016 – Jan 2021)
Main responsibilities
- Demand Planning/Sales forecasting/Stock Forecasting
- Network optimisation projects (Delivery and planning)
- Managing critical paths
- Developing planning tools and applications
- Reporting (Stock/Sales/efficiencies)
- Leading/training a team of distributors
- Line managing administrators and direct reports
- Setting and achieving stock targets / OTB
- Supplier Engagement / Performance tracking
- Liaising with warehouse teams to manage throughput
- Managing store replenishment levels
