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Investigate movements on the ageing report and provide feedback on corrective action taken.\n\nGRV Document and Process Control\n\n Verify and sign off pallet slips from GRV’s daily.\n\n Confirm correct quantity, document references (e.g. POD) and GLID numbers.\n\n Report on pallet variances on GRV’s and follow-up on pallets not GRV’d on SAP.\n\nEDI Control\n\n Verify pallet slips against the EDI file.\n\n Report on pallet variances against SAP and Portfolio on the EDI file.\n\n Follow-up / investigate on reported variances and advise the TEMS consultant (CHEP) on corrections to be made.\n\nPhysical Stock Control\n\n Confirm the pallet reconciliations of the physical daily pallet counts per warehouse versus the master control card on the CHEP Portfolio system and against SAP.\n\n Update monthly the CHEP Portfolio inventory audit with the actual physical pallet stock count and exchange customer count.\n\n Present management with a consolidated pallet movement reconciliation, highlighting movement variances between physical CHEP / Portfolio balance and SAP balance per site/depot.\n\n Assists an external CHEP audit identifying any losses bi-annually.\n\nCHEP Account Management\n\n Manage the resolution of all queries on the CHEP account daily (according to effective date or quantity).\n\n Check and confirm CHEP invoices on a weekly basis to ensure accurate billing and that no duplications have occurred.\n\n Check that Replaceable Plastic Containers (RPC) crates are not billed by CHEP.\n\n Verify the monthly CHEP audit reports received from CHEP KAM or retrieved off Portfolio.\n\nGeneral Administration\n\n Raise billing documents for VCS storage and handling.\n\n Raise ad hoc sundry PO’s\n\nKPI’s\n\n Accuracy of pallet control\n\n Accuracy of reporting\n\n EMS accuracy and within parameters\n\n Pallet holding days\n\n Number of pallets on hand within parameters\n\nKey Relationships\n\nInternal\n\n Operations management team\n\n Transport Managers / 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