Innocent Mhukayesango

As a highly skilled and successful professional with more than 17 years of experience managing and optimising transportation, inventories, Warehouse materials, and sales and operations planning for various companies while ensuring compliance with regulations and guidelines (ISO9001, 45001) , I possess expertise and experience that will allow me to immediately contribute toward the success of a company.

Logistics and Operations Director 01/2020 - Present

Supreme Sustainable Systems, Zimbabwe

Supreme Sustainable Systems, distributes residential and commercial solar products and installation projects. As a Logistics and Operations director I:

• Create, implement and refresh the functional strategic plan and implement appropriate programs to address evolving business requirements or issues,

collaborating with carriers, freight forwarders, customers and other supply chain partners

• Achieve all agreed targets for People (safety, absence, engagement), + Service

(OTIF, serviceability), Business Process (order fill rate, forecast accuracy, waste management), Financial (OPEX, CAPEX, inventory days) and other metrics

• Leverage available resources and set the benchmark for project management,

planning and execution using Lean, ‘right first time’ approaches to eliminate waste and failure

During this period, 101 Residential and Commercial Solar Projects have been successfully completed and contributing to a 60% increase in Revenue YOY.

Logistics and Supply Chain Consultant 10/2017 - 12/2019

Self Employed – South Africa

Assisting clients in leveraging efficiency in Logistics and Supply chain management,

strategy design and operations optimization through:

• Understanding key client performance levers (on-time delivery, cost, feasibility,

etc.) and seek solutions to improve these metrics

• Providing structured and creative analysis to identify performance improvement opportunities and effectively communicate findings with clients
• Reviewing and validate data, build and validate models, run scenarios, and assist in the preparation of client presentations

Group Distribution Manager 11/2016 - 09/2017

GUD Holdings - South Africa

GUD Holdings is a leading automotive manufacturer of brands in South Africa and international markets. Being responsible for the tactical and strategic management of the actual physical logistical and distribution part of the business:

• Manage all warehouse operations in South Africa including back of factory and finished good warehouses
• Design and operationalize GUD warehouses in Africa, as well as 3PL solutions, in conjunction with the Africa team as and when required
• Identifying and implementing an integrated and optimized distribution network
• Process owner for OHS in the warehousing and Distribution network

Head of Logistics 12/2015 - 10/2016

Nayon Freight (3 & 4PL Company) – South Africa

Responsible for the logistics and transportation of road, sea, air and rail freight shipments for our clients as a 3 PL organization:

• Implemented Contract logistics management policies, integrating services include all aspects of logistics planning, control, and execution. From point of origin to consumption, designing solutions that turn customer logistics operations from a challenge into a substantial competitive advantage
• Negotiating rates with transportation service providers
• Cost controlling, sales forecasting, proposal development, deal structuring and preparation of tender applications

Logistics Manager 05/2014 - 11/2015

Imperial Logistics - South Africa

Responsible for management of Nampak Bevcan (Manufacturing) 22000 m2

warehouse (inventory value of US$30million) with warehouse and distribution functions – 24 hours operation meeting OHS Standards. The DC with head count of

111 employees – 80 Forklift drivers Supervisors and 4 line managers:

• Responsible for stock and dispatch accuracy of 99% as per SLA
• Execution of 60 deliveries in 24 hours OTIF with 13 trucks (30 pallet Capacity) FTL
• Collaborating with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping

•Designing of dashboard models for use in evaluating logistics programs, analytics or services

• Problems solving concerning distribution, logistics systems, exports, or customer issues
• Managed distribution Centre operation to ensure achievement of optimized cost,

productivity, accuracy, or timeliness objectives

Implemented a planning tool for OTIF schedule to assist deliveries to be received by customers as per time slot and further developed into a software using RFID tags on

Trucks at Bevcan

Administration and Operations Manager 08/2008 - 04/2014

Prime Logistix - South Africa

Responsible for transportation costing management of vehicles (35 trucks),

utilization, DOTIF and labour throughput. Management of 79 staff members (35

drivers, 35 van assistants, 7 clerks). Contracts management, cross border and local transport and DC throughput efficiency:

• Developing scheduling systems, that optimize output against customer targets
• Accountable for over border deliveries operations and documentation
• Optimization, designing and implementation of DC and Distribution networks

Contracts Manager 01/2006 - 06/2008

Pioneer Transport - Zimbabwe

Responsible for Management of 35 staff members (31 drivers, 2 clerks and 2

contracts coordinators). In charge of 7 fuel tankers (BP) and 24, 34 - ton Haulage trucks:

• Fleet and fuel management, tracking of vehicles, cost efficient routing, accident reports, breakdowns, repairs, services, licensing
• Execution for getting the right products in the right quantities, to the right locations all at right time
• Managing, monitoring and developing a team of drivers and line managers
• Contracts management, achieving the required metrics from SLA.

Advanced International Diploma in Logistics and Transport. Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)