Experience

The Smiths Snackfood Co Pty Ltd

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Inventory Controller

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  • Coordinate the capacity of the finished goods warehouse, ASRS and off site storage through daily discussions with the production planners, warehouse and CEVA logistics. • Act as the main liaison between Smiths and the offsite storage for pallet movements, inbounds to CEVA, return loads, labour and transport • Check for critical orders and report on potential missed deliveries • Check daily all open customer deliveries and ensure stock is sourced and available • Manage the weekly and monthly inventory dashboards to identify at risk stock • Liaise with the planners for export stock and create export documentation • Investigate and correct stock placed in the red square by the warehouse • Work with QA to hold stock and then adjust and release • Develop rapport between the warehouse and inventory team • Ensure inventory accuracy for new production, picking and storage • Manage quality holds and release of production • Monitor low code and at risk stock and FIFO • Ensure that stock is moved to the correct shipping area and is available to minimize customer order cross offs. • Coordinate stock takes of the Distribution Centre (annual wall to wall) as well as off site storage (quarterly wall to wall). Show less



Treasury Wine Estates

• Australia
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Inventory Control

  • Jan 2013 - Dec 2019

  • Develop the skills and knowledge base of the Inventory Team so that they have the confidence and abilities to make educated decisions that are in the best interest of the Packaging sites.• Ensure that all Inventory is accurate and available through constant monitoring and reporting.• Develop an Inventory dashboard that reports on key management requirements.• Develop a non-conformance report and liaise with departments to work through root cause analysis to identify process deviations and reduce future incidents.• Mentor a group of four inventory controllers across the Penfold’s and Wolf Blass Packaging sites.• Map inventory tasks and develop a skills matrix. Develop a cross training plan to ensure that all staff are across all tasks to provide coverage and staff development.• Liaise with production, warehouse and quality assurance to develop robust systems that better reflect inventory accuracy. Listen to their requirements and cultivate an environment of sharing and fixing issues.• Deal with more complex processing issue and problem solve. Such as dispatching loads not being able to be picked or despatched through the ERP.• Reconcile production work orders and investigate discrepancies to ensure that finished goods stock is accurate and available to order• Manage and control the cycle count process for Wolf Blass, Penfolds and Magill site that includes in excess of 16,000 warehouse locations• Manage and correct variances between the ERP and WMS• Manage and correct variances between the WMS and SYNQ (automated pallet racking).• Develop and review Inventory SOPs.• Review warehouse and store process and advise on improvements.• Create and run regular reports inventory report such as capacity, stock on hold, in transit, overdue orders etc.• Manage the stock accuracy for finished goods, semi-finished goods and raw materials, for all products located at Penfolds Packaging Show less

• Distribution scheduler

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2012

  • Manage the CHEP pallet account for the Penfolds Nuriootpa and Penfolds Magill wineries• Manipulate data in spreadsheets for the daily order schedules (export and domestic)• Raise transfer orders for the daily schedules from Penfolds and Wolf Blass warehouses• Liaise with key stakeholders on orders details, vehicle movements and stock issues• Maintain statistics and report on loads dispatched and orders beyond standard cut offs• Provide leave coverage in inventory control at both Penfolds and Wolf Blass packaging• Monitor work orders (WO) on a daily basis and liaise with production to progress WO status• Perform daily investigations and correct variances between JDEG and WMS – book to book process• Monitor and maintain warehouse customer pallet holds• Check and receipt deliveries into the inventory systems• Investigate and correct any variances stock versus systems• Coordinate deliveries into warehouse– time slots, order creation etc• Create and control cycle count sheets for Magill Museum inventory stock• Review and correct stock errors within the WMS and provide assistance and training. Show less