Thabo Dlamini

Accomplished Warehouse & Inventory Supervisor with comprehensive experience in Manufacturing and FMCG. Specialized in managing complex supply chains, reducing inventory discrepancies, and optimizing warehouse layouts to eliminate bottlenecks. Highly proficient in SAP, JDE, WMS, and Pastel. A proactive leader dedicated to driving cost saving, team productivity and exceptional customer service.

Logistics and Warehouse Control at GSW (2024-03 – 2025-03)

• Oversee and coordinate daily warehouse operations, keeping customers informed and dealing with queries.
• Monitor and coordinate inbound, outbound operations, distribution of goods across the branches and returns.
• Coordinate external logistics service providers to book, track, secure timely local and international shipments.
• Enforce stock handling best practices, stock rotation, proper loading, vehicles checks, and fleet management.
• Monitor inventory levels and warehouse processes to maintain efficiency and ensure consistent stock availability.
• Maintain inventory accuracy by executing monthly cycle counts and structured annual stock takes.
• Investigate stock discrepancies and enforce SOP control measures to eliminate future process errors.
• Identify slow-moving stock, obsolete items and excess inventory to optimize warehouse space.
• Execute system transactions, including purchase requisitions, stock receipts, and inter-branch stock transfers.
• Utilize economical shipping methods and establish Service Level Agreements (SLA) with logistics providers.
• Expedite late and back orders, negotiate optimal delivery dates to maintain consistent supply and avoid stockouts.
• Prepare operational documents, including MSDS, commercial invoices, waybills, packing lists, and customs clearance paperwork.
• Control documentation strictly for all physical stock movements and systems adjustments.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and stock audit.
• Track and report on inventory KPIs by supervising, controlling and analyzing performance metrics.
• Investigate operational incidents to identify root causes and implement effective corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvements across warehouse workflows to enhance productivity and generate cost saving.
• Maintain housekeeping standards and strict health and safety protocols.

Inventory Supervisor at Torque IT (2023-01 – 2023-04)

• Attend meeting with BU managers to prepare for the following week registration.
• Check how many courses are running and the number of delegates booked to attend the course.
• Send digital course-ware to BU managers and trainers.
• Monitor stock levels to ensure stock availability.
• Ordering stock by generating purchase orders.
• Create new codes and update the prices of course code.
• Attend accounts queries and do stock receipt.
• Do monthly cycle counts and annual stock take.
• Maintain and manage suppliers relationship.
• Obsolete non-moving stock.

Inventory Supervisor at Multotec (2016-02 – 2022-12)

• Oversee and coordinate daily operation of the department.
• Ensure that all staff are utilized effectively and timekeeping.
• Ability to Interpret technical drawings, pick and issue stock for daily production based on the monthly plan.
• Expedite late orders with suppliers, negotiate the best possible delivery date to ensure consistent supply in production department.
• Maintain a positive and productive relationship with internal departments procurement, sales, accounts, research & development, production and external suppliers.
• Drive and implement improvements in support of productivity & cost saving.
• Monitor inbound and outbound inventory operations. Run supply demand report, stock status and other reports.
• Monitor stock levels in-house stores and two external warehouses to ensure the availability of stock to avoid stock out. Do monthly, cycle counts and annual stock take.
• Prepare for stock take to ensure complaince internal controls and audit requirements.
• Maintain inventory accuracy of 96% target and other KPI's targets are met monthly.
• Investigate stock discrepancies, implement, enforce SOP control measures to eliminate process errors, inventory discrepancies and accounts queries.
• Supervise, control, analyses, tracking and reporting on inventory KPI's.
• Do inter-department stock transfers/movement and delivery notes.
• Identify slow moving stock, excess and obsolete old 2-3 non moving stock.
• Working very closely with procurement department and production to identify new procurement opportunities, evaluate supplier service, late delivery and quality.
• Create purchase requisition and send PO's to suppliers once approved.
• Maintain, enforce standards of health and safety.
• Compliance with ISO standard.
• Monitor housekeeping and apply 5S principles.

Stores Control Clerk at Joy Global (2014-09 – 2015-02)

• Driving engineering change management process to make changes such as loading purchase info records, getting quotation from the vendors create routing and rework.
• Create rework production orders.
• Allocate correct MRP code to the planner through running MRP report status on SAP.
• Running Pro share report every week to sell excess stock to other branches to reduce inventory.
• Create purchase orders for internal company sales.
• Make monthly stock reports excess stock and obsolete stock on excel.

Stock Control and Data Capturing at Afrox Gas Equipment (1999-01 – 2012-11)

• Issue pick slips to organizing material for production.
• Creating requisitions and production orders for stock items (Kanban System)
• Expedite orders with suppliers.
• Updating bin cards.
• Doing inter-departmental stock transfers.
• Assisting with capturing of delivery notes.
• Doing stock taking and investigate stock variances.
• Sending invoices to accounts, Filling and housekeeping.
• Monitor stock levels ensure availability of stock.

Higher Certificate in Supply Chain Management – Mancosa

Certificate in Strategic Logistics Management – Damelin

Senior Certificate – Barnato Park High School