DC Co-ordinator FTC

Fixed Term - Thekweni

We are a Supply Chain and Sales & Merchandising partner adding value to your business through a fully integrated, temperature-controlled network in Southern Africa.

But we are also more than that. We are people serving people. While we boast the best in tech and infrastructure, our people are our greatest resource. With our skilled, curious, can-do people at the forefront, our assets become your assets, our service your solutions.

Vector's vehicle fleet includes a food industry first in 'multi-temperature' vehicles enabling the company to service business across frozen, chilled and ambient temperature zones on a single delivery.

Effective and efficient co-ordination and execution of sales and logistics within the DC to achieve DC and Customer's objectives in order to deliver customer service excellence.

• Vital role player in achieving budgeted growth across categories.
• Advise of any discrepancy of promotional timings, pricing and order quantities to ensure effective execution of promotional activity.
• Drive promotional activities with the sales team as per monthly priority sheets.
• Drive depth of distribution on innovation SKU's.
• Process store orders from Sales Team at DC level.
• Vital back up link by coordinating with call cycles to ensure correct order frequency.
• Generate sales report and compare to established order patterns and predict possible issues.
• Know the Customer's strategy and objectives to increase sales and assist with execution.

• Weekly order fulfillment of 100% across all SKU's with zero pricing errors.
• Monitor critical lists and stock and communicate to relevant stakeholders both in DC and the Customer.
• Report short deliveries, transport/distribution issues, turnaround times, and delivery on time to relevant stakeholders.
• Monitor deliveries and ensure stock is receipted in against the ordered quantities.
• Monitor stock ordered by stores and ensure is corresponds to stock being dispatched to stores.
• Monitor stock levels against promotional activity.
• Communicate stock with low stock levels to relevant buyer.
• Opening orders on new listings-drive with buyer and communicate opening orders to the team.
• Communicate delivery schedules with the DC.
• Advise Customer stock controller of discontinued lines to ensure the running down of stock to prevent excessive uplifts.
• Daily monitoring of data capturing on orders received to reflect in system (buyer to EDI to distribution into DC).
• 100% execution of orders between EDI, sales and distribution.

• Handling of DC and store specific issues including:
• Late deliveries.
• Short deliveries.
• Thermal abuse.
• Quality of stock upon delivery.
• Short dated stock.
• Expired stock.
• Product recalls/up lifts from stores.
• Claims for Same Day Returns and Uplifts and manage the claims procedure in the DC.
• Attend any DC Meetings where Representation is required in order to build and maintain a strong relationship with Customer from an operational point of view.

• Matric.
• 2 year's experience in sales and Distribution or in a similar role.

• Computer literacy.
• Advanced in Microsoft Excel.
• Good communication and written skills.

Vector Logistics supports the principles of Employment Equity and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Preference will be given to candidates from designated groups in line with our Employment Equity Plan.

If you have not heard from us within 3 to 4 weeks after submitting your application, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion. We truly appreciate your interest in joining the Vector team and encourage you to stay connected for future opportunities that may align with your skills and career journey.

We look forward to hearing from you!