Merchandise Planner Assistant: Home Choice
Merchandise Planner Assistant: Home Choice
Description
Key Performance Areas (KPAs)
Omega maintenance
- Responsible for the creation of order codes, SKU/items and price lists within the Omega system
- Ensure the successful linking of SKU’s from item to order code per activity
- Manage the installment set-up maintenance every 6, 12 and 16 months or as the need arises
- Create product action batches and codes as the need arises
- Accurately update the costing’s on the system bi-annually
Supplier purchase orders
- Responsible for order creation and follow-up until the order is delivered on time
- Conduct weekly update of supplier order screen in the Omega system
- Ensure that the supplier order is sent to the Finance dept. for local suppliers
- Manage the monthly update of the local supplier delivery schedule and update on COD suppliers to the Finance department
- Effectively manage faxing and follow-up with suppliers to ensure deliveries are met
Fulfilment
- Run the reporting on fulfilled
- Manage the running and dumping of reports for unfulfilled daily or as the need arises
- Process the daily product action batches and WFS task
- Forward urgent replacements to the warehouse immediately and check customer accounts to validate replenished/short delivery
- Forward queries to the customer service department for action
- Work through the ageing report and order or substitute if necessary
- Maintain product information
Briefs and proofs
- Check proofs from first to iris stage
- Check copy, prices colour/pattern and installments
- Identify and re-negotiate timelines with Marketing department
Stock update, communication, invoices and other
- Manage the creation of order codes
- Follow-up on the booking of stock on the system with WFS
- Accurately reconcile invoices
- Ensure that the Finance department is in receipt of authorised COD invoices
- Action penalties to prevent future late deliveries (local suppliers)
- Communicate by fogbugz to real systems for system related queries
- Accurately check the web page on-line and manage stock levels on e-mail campaigns/web clearance page
- Timeously create analysis reports for the business unit
- Re-designing of Merchandise screens
Requirements
Qualifications
- Matric (grade 12)
Experience and skills
- Omega systems knowledge
- Sound knowledge of HomeChoice products
Attributes and behaviours
- Communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Accuracy
- Proactive approach
- High stress tolerance
Location: Cape Town, Southern Suburbs
