Inventory Controller at AB InBev | May 2024

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this job is to ensure that all governance processes and documentation are followed and completed to ensure that any and all physical movement of inventory is correctly reflected in SAP. Assist with primary and secondary distribution activities as required.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily and monthly physical inventory count
• Conduct stock count according to company standards and procedures
• Ensure that hand helds used in the stock process are set up correctly and maintained accordingly
• Stock Management
• Adhere to all physical pre stock take procedures
• Print and action pre stock take reports
• Process all stock adjustments prior to starting stock take, including sorted containers
• Start stock take on SAP and upload physical stock count from stock take system
• Print stock variance report and investigate all variances
• Post all authorized unresolved variances daily
• End stock take on SAP and print relevant posting and audit reports
• Compile daily stock pack and have pack signed off by relevant parties
• Conduct ad hoc stock counts for unresolved variances
• Assist with resolving and correcting invoice queries
• PD Shipments
• Ensure that all post goods issues have been processed
• Check that no deliveries have been post goods issues without shipments
• Follow up all inter depot in transit shipments if not received
• Inter depot claims must be logged in accordance to claim procedure
• Confirm inter depot movements with Breweries on a monthly basis
• Maintain product quality
• Ensure FIFO principle is applied to stock movements by printing bin pulling sheets for warehouse
• Adherence to stock age policy, ensure that all concessions are raised and approved
• Adherence to product recall policy
• Frozen stock must be physically isolated on floor and moved to the blocked stock zone on SAP to stop orders from being placed against stock and to reflect the correct days of cove
• Conduct ad hoc stock counts for unresolved variances
• Facilitate daily and monthly physical inventory count
• Conduct stock count according to company standards and procedures
• Ensure that hand helds used in the stock process are set up correctly and maintained accordingly
• Stock Management
• Adhere to all physical pre stock take procedures
• Update relevant visual districts
• SD Shipments
• Ensure that all post goods issues have been processed for all deliveries and driver corrections
• All proof of delivery notes have been checked and accounted for
• Check and sign off missing and unsigned invoice register daily
• Ensure that all daily load plans and distribution gate registers have been checked and are on file
• inter depot gate register and filed
• Follow up all inter depot in transit shipments if not received
• Inter depot claims must be logged in accordance to claim procedure
• Confirm inter depot movements with Breweries on a monthly basis
• Maintain product quality
• Ensure FIFO principle is applied to stock movements by printing bin pulling sheets for warehouse
• Adherence to stock age policy, ensure that all concessions are raised and approved
• Adherence to product recall policy
• Frozen stock must be physically isolated on floor and moved to the blocked stock zone on SAP to stop orders from being placed against stock and to reflect the correct days of cover
• Monitor outer packaging quality
• Missing broken and foreign reporting
• Ensure missing broken and foreign surveys are conducted according to policy
• Ensure missing broken and foreign survey sheet captured daily
• Communicate missing foreign and broken for follow up with customers
• Charge depots/drivers for shortages Start stock take on SAP and upload physical stock count from stock take system
• Print stock variance report and investigate all variances
• Post all authorized unresolved variances daily
• End stock take on SAP and print relevant posting and audit reports

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-year relevant diploma/degree
• 2-3 years’ experience in warehousing and inventory management
• Computer literate
• SAP literacy advantageous
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Have high levels of integrity and honesty
• Have attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good verbal ability and communication skills
• Ability to manage self
• Have good analytical and problem solving ability

Additional information:

Band: VII

ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.