#Team
The team of Yuliya Volkova, Ekaterina Sidorova and Vera Ivanova manages the stock of
Imperial Tobacco’s products at the warehouse of our client – GC Megapolis – and ensures
sufficiency of that stock for achieving the company’s sale targets. In logistics and supply
issues, the colleagues interact with all the parties concerned: Megapolis, the factory,
employees of the Sales and Marketing Department, support analytical reporting on
shipments of finished products, process orders for shipping products to the distributor,
create and update master data in the system (RSKU presentation in SAP).
Yuliya
Volkova, Supply
Coordination Manager: “We have
integrated an analytical tool into the
order placement process, which helps us to
efficiently track the stock and prevent absence of
any goods at the warehouse, or the opposite –
oversupply of goods.
Previously, order preparation was primarily on the side of our partner.
Today we have arranged an efficient scheme of work with the Planning
Department of Megapolis that takes into account both parties’ interests:
we daily assess the situation at every direct delivery warehouse and adjust
incoming orders – I think that this is my achievement. I like the fact that if one
timely estimates development of events and takes proper actions, the process
then functions without interruption and ‘emergencies’.”
Your ideal weekend
Due to the work, I cannot pay as much attention to my family as I would
like to; therefore, a family weekend for me is ideal: I don’t like sitting
idle – and even a simple walk in the park is a pleasure for me.
Recommend a book to your colleagues
I can now recollect only children’s books because I read a
lot to my children – from among the recent books,
I have best remembered children’s fairy
tales by the Czech writer Karel
Čapek.
Ekaterina
Sidorova, Supply Coordinator:
“Organization of shipments of our products
to Megapolis takes most of my working time. This
includes not only control over their preparation, but also
drawing up of current reports on relevant shipments and
the inventories available at the factory, as well as monitoring of
fulfillment of the approved sales plan.”
Your ideal weekend
If it possible, to leave the city and get closer to nature, this is already ideal.
Recommend a book to your colleagues
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Aleksievich – this book is
a collection of interviews with women who participated in
the Great Patriotic War that shows harsh, truthful
women’s experience during the WWWII.
Vera
Ivanova, Supply Coordinator:
“The main result of my daily work visible to my
colleagues is formalized orders for supplies. There are
a lot of critical aspects to be taken into account in my work,
and the required speed of input of final data at the end of a working day
reminds me of running through a quite difficult computer game of the ‘shooter’
type. Data preparation before final input of orders through the interface takes most
of my working time. This is a quick operation mainly involving Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V actions and
my style is already similar to the one of a shooter. Yet, the partners have an impression
that this lasts for an infinitely long period of time, everyone is waiting for orders, because
not everyone understands that this requires time-consuming and meticulous work of
several persons throughout a day.”
Your ideal weekend
A weekend without any definite plans as opposed to workdays when I
must perform a list of tasks during a day.
Recommend a book to your colleagues
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?
by Katrine Marcal.
SCHEME OF MOVEMENT
OF IMPERIAL TOBACCO’S PRODUCTS
The factory in Volgograd
manufactures cigarettes
(finished products) and
holds them in safekeeping
at the warehouse in Magnat.
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Imperial
Tobacco Sales
and Marketing
purchases finished
products from the
factory.
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Imperial Tobacco Sales and Marketing receives, processes
orders of Megapolis and inputs them into the system.
Information on orders is communicated to the factory and the
warehouse.
Megapolis provides
vehicles and delivers
finished products
to 70 direct delivery
warehouses in all
regions of the Russian
Federation.
The warehouse prepares an
order and ships it to Megapolis;
the ownership to goods passes
at the moment of their loading
into a vehicle.
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