Brian Beyleveldt

Experience

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  Afrox

  Oct 2005 - Jul 2015

  • Leading and delivering Black Belt Lean Six Sigma projects that aligns with the business strategy.• Training, developing, delivering, tracking, and reporting on the full project life cycle and benefits.• Full Portfolio Management including the tracking and reporting of all active projects within Operations, LPG, and Finance business units.• Facilitating project review meetings where statuses are reviewed, exceptions are managed and de-bottlenecked, and resource availability discussed.• Planning, managing, and facilitating training courses, i.e. Green Belt, Basic Project Management, Basic Problem-solving, PCI Change Management Level 2, and Basic Lean and Six Sigma Awareness.• Successfully coaching and mentoring allocated learners from the Green Belt Training programmes thus ensuring project implementation within 6 months.• Driving Six Sigma awareness and culture change towards leading throughout the organisation.• Acting as Regional Controller for global Growth and Performance (GAP) financial reporting.• Ensuring projects are prioritised and correctly resourced.• Acting as Change Management Lead for the Integrated Cylinder Control (ICC) project:- Introducing the bar coding and scanning of all industrial gas cylinders at 80 sites across South Africa.- Ensuring all Change Management activities are planned and executed. Show less • Leading the Afrox Exports Department exporting products to both Linde Group's African countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and gas equipment customers in Europe and Pacific regions.• Ensuring sustainable supply of materials to countries and the delivery of products to customers through proper strategic and tactical planning.• Managing the recruitment, training, supervision, mentoring, and performance evaluations of a staff compliment of 14 export employees.• Offering first-class training, coaching, and mentoring to export employees to ensure smooth adoption of SAP.• Developing and deploying Supply Chain Management strategies to deliver value through strategic sourcing.• Designing and implementing standard Supply Chain processes and procedures across eight African Operations countries, i.e. Inventory Management, target setting, and procurement processes.• Developing Inventory Management strategies to reduce stock losses, managing exceptions, and optimising inventory holding.• Establishing and implementing new systems, best practices, inventory control, demand planning, and other optimisations for company growth.• Visiting countries to review processes and conduct Supply Chain audits. • Managing the nomination, evaluation, and selection of other South African suppliers including non-Afrox stock, services, and freight Suppliers. Show less • Leading the planning and procurement of all welding items sourced from external international and local vendors.• Managing the effective planning and procurement of stock in order to ensure sufficient stock availability at the main supplying warehouses.• Maintaining cash flow and budget targets.• Collaborating with Welding and Gas Equipment Production facilities to establish short and long term planning and forecasting for all 400 Stock Keeping Units (SKU) by liaising with Sales and Demand Planning Departments in the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.• Compiling and distributing monthly reports on planning and forecasting performance, production and planning of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) during Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings.• Calculating, analysing, and reporting on the safety and maximum stock levels based on lead times and demand variations on a monthly basis.• Ensuring variations are used as a guideline by Inventory Planners for changes to SAP MRP parameters.• Managing the timeous planning and procurement of all Special Gases, 130 Stock Keeping Units (SKU) from international suppliers.• Evaluating and measuring the performance of all external suppliers to ensure delivery within agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).• Reporting all non-preforming suppliers to the National Supplier Management team for performance management. • Creating and validating planning, Material Resource Planning (MRP), and Vendor Master Databases for SAP implementation. • Effectively manage recruitment, training, supervision, mentoring, and performance evaluations of a staff compliment of 5 Planner Buyers. Show less

  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

    Aug 2010 - Jul 2015

  • Supply Chain Manager

    Jul 2008 - Jul 2010

  • Procurement and Inventory Planning Manager

    Jul 2006 - Sept 2008

  • Procurement Planner

    Oct 2005 - Jun 2006
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  Crickmay

  Aug 2015 - Dec 2017

  Continuous Improvement Manager - Cane Supply Chain

  • Spearheading and successfully delivering Supply Chain Improvement projects for Ubombo Sugar, Swaziland: - Implementing new scheduling software to enable a significant reduction in fleet.- Improving visibility of supply health to optimise milling efficiency.- Managing stock levels to reduce burn harvest to crush delays.• Identifying and training local sponsors to allow acceptance of the project by all levels of staff and external contractors.• Identifying, resourcing, and tracking continuous improvement projects to assist in the delivery of main project Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).• Coaching and mentoring allocated learners from Illovo's Yellow and Green Belt Six Sigma Development Programme.• Stakeholder Management of both internal and external role players including Milling, Agriculture, private Farmers, and private Hauliers.• Managing daily operations of cane supply from 20 harvesting fronts for 13 Hauliers to deliver 12 000 ton of cane to Ubombo Sugar Mill with a team of 5 Employees. Show less

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  Self-employed

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

  Supply Chain, Lean Six Sigma and Business Consultant

  • Working with food and beverage client to identify opportunities in supply chain to improve customer service and reduce supply chain cost.• Business case development for IBM on a client experience improvement project at major corporate client in insurance industry.• Supply Chain cost analysis of imports process for customer in chemical industry.

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  LIXIL Africa

  Jul 2018 - now

  Supply Chain Director

  • Providing leadership and management oversight to the Supply Chain function to ensure delivery of customer service level targets as well as the revenues and asset utilization targets for each period, while managing the total costs and optimizing the value of the Supply Chain function.• Stabilizing and improving efficiency of the supply chain function and identifying any possible innovations and cost efficiencies.• Developing and implementing state of the art supply chain processes and strategies: including but not limited to demand planning/forecasting; inventory planning; procurement; warehouse layout/configuration, and location optimization to achieve error free shipment with minimum pick-pack-ship cycle time.• Leading and implementing improvements in customer order fulfillment metric (in terms of “On Time In Full”) and error free shipments.• Driving continuous improvement opportunities with customers, 3PL partners and manufacturing plants.• Negotiating and managing contracts with suppliers and 3PL partners to ensure optimum performance and cost efficiency.• Managing, motivating and coaching the supply chain staff. Show less