Experience

JA Engineering Works (Pty) Ltd

• South Africa
• Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Supply Chain

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Strategy for Supply planning. Strategy for Supply planning.



Sandvik

• Sweden
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Supervisor Administration

  • Sep 2021 - Jun 2023

  Gather, compile and verify information and enter it into documents such as reports, presentations, forms, databases or spreadsheets. Code and sort documents for filing. Make standard calculations to compile and report statistics. Respond to or redirect routine enquiries from external and internal sources about the organisation, its activities or processes so enquiries are answered promptly. Communicate with external and internal sources regarding deliveries, stocks, pricing, invoices and ensure day to day office activities run smoothly. Perform other routine administration activities according to the organisations established procedures. Compile quotations for customers. Debtor and creditor management. Follow up on outstanding orders from customers. Attend to creditor or supplier queries. Capture timesheets on the system. General administration duties such as typing letters, memos or minutes of meetings. Compile payment requisitions to accounts. Attend to debtors queries. Compile reports as required. Financial reporting and analysis. Manage reporting and feedback. Work in progress management and reporting. Administrative office management. Show less



Komatsu Mining Corporation

• • Nov 2017 - Sep 2021

  • Develop and maintain the Master Production Schedule (MPS) from the 12-month rolling marketing forecast, forecast demands, actual customer orders, and the balance of current stock on hand. • Ensure the MPS is practical and attainable.• Convert the financial plan to production plan.• Ensure that the schedule is translated to the financial value and ties up with the financial plan (FPP).• Keep the MPS stable to provide a stable lower level schedule for an effective manufacturing performance. The MPS is the main input into MRP and must accept limited changes.• Keep a good relationship with the supply chain to ensure good communication of changes, what is practical and obtainable.• Manage the open slots on the MPS and ensure customer orders are received in time and long lead items are ordered to the time fence policies.• Consider material availability, capacity and adhere to time fence policies in a change.• Populate the rough-cut capacity-planning (RCCP) and model to verify the balance of the workload per period and resource requirements.• Chair sales and operations meetings to get approval of plans from the executive team and that it is consolidated with account managers and services managers.• Provide support to (business units) manufacturing and ensure availability of parts.• Machine build planning as per the master schedule.• Provide shortage reports to internal sales and business units.• Initiate advance internal orders and control inventory in terms of value, models that will be built in the particular financial year.• Sell the obsolete material back to the supplier to avoid scraping high values of material. Show less

• • Jan 2017 - Oct 2017

  • Replenish stock to required levels • Review inventory levels and offer what is not moving to vendors • Ensure stock required is available during the rebuilds and communicating delivery dates to the Project Manager.• Create and schedule production orders for inhouse manufactured components.• Run shortages for in-house manufactured components and liaise with material planners for delivery dates so components can be scheduled properly.• Ensure that the rebuild plan is adhered to and aligns with the company monthly financial plan. • Ensure stock is booked in distribution center external customer orders. Show less



Transnet Engineering

• South Africa
• Railroad Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Mar 2015 - Dec 2016

  • Control of supply chain logistics operations by checking if the teams are doing what they are supposed to be done as well as monitoring the LOGKPI.• Overview of logistics functions such as managing exceptions and order management.• Monitor inventory levels.• Minimise stock outs.• Prepare business control reports.• Organise old components to different centre of excellence businesses for overhauling.• Verify and post the cycle counts and investigate if there are variances.• Ensure that the depots have material to execute their maintenance duties, to reach monthly sales plans.• Improve customer services by adapting feedback channels.• Drive processes, standards and enforce logistics procedures as well as total quality management.• Ensure the sales plan is loaded and drive the execution and invoicing of the orders.• Manage customer and supplier relationships.• Ensure stock is booked into the distribution center for external customer orders. Show less

• • Mar 2012 - Feb 2015

  • Demand planning, MRP controlling and capacity planning.• Demand Forecasting, data analysis and MRP reports.• Reduction of rushed orders and requisitions.• Manage MRP parameters by drawing up MRP reports.• Prioritise delivery dates for clients’ needs.• Review maintenance plan for locomotive fleet.• Ensure a high percentage of SAP vs SPRINT.• Ensure that locomotives are scheduled for maintenance and has material.• Update the progress of locomotives while it is in the depot for service and releasing it for customer use when ready for service.• WIP management.• Costing.• Material and components management.• Manage inventory targets.• Maximise material availability.• Manage the exceptions and production or service orders MRP reports. Show less



Automotive Industry Development Centre (AIDC)/ LMT

• Junior Industrial Engineer (Trainee)

  • Jan 2009 - Mar 2010

  • Identify areas of potential improvement by conducting audits and using value stream maps. • Highlight waste within the process. • Prevent reoccurrence of failure within the system by using poke yoke. • Solve identified problems and standardise the solution. • Guide area managers when implementing the solution to the problems identified. • Identify areas of improvements by using lean manufacturing techniques such as 7 wastes, value stream maps, time studies, problem solving method, systematic approach and etc. • Analyse the process and propose solutions to the current problem. • Analyse the current process, improve it, and come up with means of sustaining the improvements. • Identify ways of doing things better i.e. How to handle material better, reducing re-paints and re-works, increasing productivity and lowering the throughput costs. Show less