Planner: Deployment

**Job Advert Summary**:
**Minimum Requirements**:

- Grade 12 or equivalent NQF4
- Business English: Fluent
- Computer literacy (Intermediate)
- Work shifts/weekends/public holidays

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Maintain stock levels per warehouse**
- Plan stock deployment to branch to ensure 98% OFR to trade
- Maintain optimum stock levels (target days)
- Monitor stock age daily and take action to prevent obsolete stock
- Investigate and report on obsolete stock

**Create a deployment forward plan**
- Create a monthly forward plan for warehouse
- Communicate to primary transport and warehouse
- Communicate and monitor deviations from the plan and take action
- Distribute loads evenly to assist primary distribution

**Create daily loads and monitor activities**
- Identify and prioritise urgent stock and ensure stock is on load
- Ensure fair share in case of shortages
- Plan loads and link different delivery and loading points together
- Request Primary Transport and ensure that a TR number is received per load
- Link ERP orders to BR loads as soon as load is shipped on ERP

**Monitor warehouse space and forward planning**
- Monitor available space and adjust plan accordingly
- Co-ordinate space constraints with Principals/Planners

**Report on all deployment activities**
- Report daily on warehouse utilisation
- Report and analyse daily short supply and coordinate with warehouse and Demand Planners
- Report daily to warehouse: days stock, stock age, excluded lines and supply to trade
- Compile weekly and monthly reports on all Deployment activities

**Execute semi-satellite planning**
- Create all loads needed to fill satellite trucks
- Link ERP order detail and complete loads