#Team
Sergey
Starkov, National Logistics
Manager: “We perform many ‘invisible’
processes. For instance, we are responsible for
execution of documents for imported cigarettes and now for our new
product myblu, we are in charge of warehousing and shipping of all finished
products and advertising materials, monitor updates of master data on products
in SAP, daily form orders for Megapolis, simultaneously tracking whether they ‘fit’ into
the approved sales plan, as well as check and correct the stocks of finished products at
the Megapolis warehouses.
At the end of a financial year communication related to fulfillment of the annual sales plan
takes most of the time. Ensuring efficient interaction with Megapolis is most important for
me in my work. Coordination of the sales plan and achievement of the company’s targets are
always the top-priority tasks.
Today we have a well-functioning mechanism for carrying out daily shipments and
importing cigarettes and an excellent team of associates – this is my pride.”
Your ideal weekend
This is quite trivial – with my family in the countryside.
Recommend a book to your colleagues
I have recently read a textbook on logic for secondary school by
Vinogradov and Kuzmin (Uchpedgiz 1954), and I think
it can be useful for everyone.
The logistics team had
many new projects in financial year
2018: our colleagues were actively engaged
in launching our new product myblu, and are
now supervising Imperial Tobacco’s participation
in a national tobacco products’ track & trace
experiment. We have decided to throw light
on our logisticians’ hard work and to
speak about every one of
them.
Dmitry Shapovalov, Sales
Supply Service Manager: “Work with
the customs takes most of the time. Unfortunately,
our customs legislation can be interpreted ambiguously,
which often entails unforeseen consequences impeding business
processes. Imported products are subject to customs clearance:
payment of taxes and levies, preparation of permits and shipping
documents – sometimes, this process is rather time-consuming.
But financial year 2018 has given me something to be proud of: we have
completed customs clearance of the first batch of myblu – an absolutely new
product for us – not simply within the deadline, but even ahead of schedule. Working
in the project team for launching myblu, I received an opportunity to develop
from scratch the import and shipment process that is efficiently functioning and
yielding good results for the company.”
Your ideal weekend
If I have time, I prefer cycling with my family or alone. Of course,
weekends are associated with the country house and ‘shashlyk’.
Recommend a book to your colleagues
My favorite one is the Customs Code of the
Russian Federation.
Svetlana
Malakhova, Distribution
Coordinator, daily monitors operation
of Imperial Tobacco’s local warehouse
in Moscow: acceptance and shipment of in-store
equipment and advertising materials, as well as
imported finished products: “I am responsible for efficient
interaction between the office and the warehouse and deal with
various routine and unexpected events that occur daily and require, for
instance, additional coordination with the Accounting Department or the
management of the warehouse, or coordination of the delivery. This
takes most of my working time. But actually, I do like helping to find
solutions for complicated tasks.”
Your ideal weekends
They are still ahead of me.
Recommend a book to your colleagues
American Story by Anatoly Toss.
The team of Dmitry Shapovalov and Svetlana
Malakhova is responsible for import of finished
products – cigarettes and myblu – and shipment
of imported products and advertising materials,
interaction with the state customs, as well as supply
of excise marks to the factory.
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