Craig Bodley

I'm Craig Bodley 40 years of age and currently working as a senior buyer for Freshmark Centurion and Freshmark KZN.

Over the years I have worked in numerous positions and for top companies in their fields of expertise. I work for Freshmark (shoprite) currently and have been with them for 5 and 7 months now. Spent numerous years in the industry of fresh produce and have adapted to the fast paced environment and its numerous changes from season to season.

Responsibilities

• Procurement (Market and Direct loads from farmers/suppliers)
• Competitive price checks
• Truck route planning
• Stock checks and count before loading
• Billing and costing's before departure (Weekly price modules)
• Order compilations
• Trading and sales
• Daily KPI's
• Tracking and tracing of truck arrivals
• Daily price updates on market
• Communication with agencies on the markets and farmers (deals etc)
• Daily stock counts which includes sell by dates, pack dates and week reports
• FIFO
• Buyers file updates
• Growing programs both winter and summer seasons
• Weekly availability and price checks
• Work closely with QC (quality control)
• Daily shortage reports
• Weekly store and farm visits
• Daily farm communication
• Weekly planning and orders
• Daily orders against sales reports
• Daily production guide handovers
• Basic IR

Matric and NQF professional cookery