Koena Mathebula

Manage the entire supply chain, from procurement to delivery, including warehousing, transportation, and inventory management Work with different teams and departments, including sales, marketing, and operations, to ensure smooth logistics operations Identify and implement process improvements to streamline logistics operations and reduce costs

Logistics Manager - XLink Communications

(2025-04 - 2025-09)

• Manage the entire supply chain, from procurement to delivery, including warehousing, transportation, and inventory management
• Work with different teams and departments, including sales, marketing, and operations, to ensure smooth logistics operations
• Identify and implement process improvements to streamline logistics operations and reduce costs
• Maintain accurate inventory levels, ensuring timely replenishment, and minimizing waste
• Negotiate with transportation providers, selecting the most cost-effective and reliable options, and tracking shipments
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs), analyze data to identify improvement areas, and report on logistics performance
• Identify and resolve logistics issues promptly and efficiently, ensuring minimal disruption to operations
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards
• Supervise and mentor a logistics team, providing training and development opportunities
• Motivate and manage a team, delegate tasks effectively, and provide guidance and support

Physical Supply Chain Performance Advisor - Anglo American

(2024-03 - 2025-03)

• Provide advisory support to the BU budgeting processes, providing the required Supply Chain information for accruals and annual budget requirements
• Provide analytical support for KPI and target setting and align with required systems and processes
• Prepare monthly Supply Chain reporting for the Business Unit, in partnership with the Global Centre of excellence, providing visibility to performance against KPI targets
• Provide advisory support preparation for quarterly performance reviews
• Provide advisory support for reviewing operational performance dashboards weekly to ensure regional services are providing the requisite BU performance and highlighting new or emerging issues that must be addressed
• Collaborate with operational excellence teams across sites to monitor issues and ensure improvement plans are being executed
• Provide advisory support to the performance specialist for internal and external audit processes

Analyst Supply Chain: Customer demand fulfillment - Sasol Energy

(2018-11 - 2024-02)

• Measure and report on the Business Unit's supply chain performance (financial and non-financial), and the impact thereof on annual budgeting and forecasting
• Provide intelligence and business insights for the formulation of supply chain decision-making and ensuring the sustainability of the inbound and outbound supply chains
• Development of Supply chain reports on Power BI
• Development of methods to monitor internal SLA's and work issue work instructions
• Work with the Functional Supply chain to develop and implement initiatives which will optimize the organization unit's supply chain effectiveness
• Ensure that organization's unit performance measures are aligned with the group level policies and procedures
• Analyze supply chain performance on process area KPI's and budget reporting done on time and accurately
• Analyze health check reports and propose appropriate action
• Maintain/ Review Business process mapping and interface management on an annual basis

Material Planner - Alstom Ubunye

(2017-03 - 2018-10)

• Communicate and update ALSTOM's needs to supplier's portfolio
• Anticipate, track and analyze supplier's acknowledgement
• Anticipate potential missing parts and mitigate delivery issues through dedicated action plan
• Monitor supplier's commitment, deliveries and performance
• Ensure the ERP logistics parameters accuracy for supplied articles
• Align with the logistics specifications defined with the suppliers and the existing supply chain rules such as: ABC classification, logistics flow type, stock target, lot size, delivery frequency, dynamic safety stock
• Set-up appropriate routines with suppliers in order to communicate the needs and follow the last commitments
• Make sure the latest delivery information is available to all other functions inside the ERP
• Define the appropriate logistics specification recommendations to be set in the ERP in order to comply with the stock targets and logistics constrains
• Secure that the agreed non-conformities delivery lead time is fulfilled by the supplier and manage the quantity and documentation claims until complete solving
• Contribute to the Missing Parts root cause analysis and take subsequent mitigation actions on own scope
• Make sure that the parts are delivered on-time in full and control the supplier delivery performance - define an improvement action plan with the supplier when needed

Logistics production planner - Transnet Engineering

(2014-06 - 2017-02)

• Responsible for the accurate and timely processing of production orders, planned orders, maintenance orders and delivery notes
• Ensuring that the material is available just-in-time when required for production from the suppliers
• Following-up on delayed deliveries from suppliers and expediting of purchase orders
• Manage inventory targets including safety stock levels
• Designing and generating weekly and monthly reports
• Assemble and analyze all data pertinent to inventory levels
• Co-ordinate annual stocktaking and cycle counts
• Managing the movement of stock from the stores to the production line
• Creation of nonconformance report for obsolete items
• Updating all information regarding material management on SAP

Business Registers Analyst - Statistics South Africa

(2008-04 - 2014-05)

• Analyze the information on the business register regarding the specific business being investigated
• Identify problems and deficiencies in practice
• Co-ordinate collection of survey information
• Verify analyzed information
• Code production units according to activity, municipal institution and economic transactions
• Communicate findings to relevant stakeholders
• Update and maintain business register
• Assist supervisors with any other activities related to the division

Receiving Data Clerk - Shoprite Distribution Centre

(2002-10 - 2007-10)

• Receiving stock from suppliers
• Creating goods received verification (GRV) documents
• Matching physical stock with goods delivery notes and original purchase orders
• Processing purchase orders
• Doing vendor returns
• Monthly stocktaking and circle counts
• Filing of copies of the purchase orders and delivery notes
• Making follow-ups on delayed deliveries and damaged orders
• Handle all supplier queries in terms of payment and invoicing
• Verifying the referencing documents

Master of Business Administration - Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) (2023 - 2024)

Post Graduate Diploma - Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) (2022 - 2023)

B Com Honors - Logistics Management - University of Johannesburg (2018 - 2019)

B Com - Logistics Management - Unisa Pretoria (2008 - 2010)

Grade 12 - Maowaneng Secondary School (1996 - 1996)