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Front Office/internal Sales Assistant

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Front Office/Internal Sales Assistant in Durban | Other General Employment | Job Mail | 4592433

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Our client based in Pinetown in recruiting for a Front Office/Internal Sales person, the purpose of this position is to man the front office and to represent the employer in customer queries inclusive of any walk-in, in-bound calls and internet / email-based sales enquiries as an internal sales assistant.

  • Man the front desk and all activities as related to front office interactions in a professional, timely and efficient manner.
  • Ensure that all walk-in, telephonic or email-based customer queries are resolved timeously and efficiently
  • Prepare pro-forma invoices and quotations and send to the customer timeously;
  • Create sales orders accurately and efficiently to ensure smooth running of the sales process;
  • Dispatch sales orders, ensuring that goods are not released without correct proof of payment;
  • Liaise with the warehouse as to backorders, always keeping the customer informed;
  • Make outbound lead generation calls to prospective and existing customers;
  • Collect and analyse the data as to why the customer is not accepting a quotation;
  • Follow-up and collect outstanding monies;
  • Maintain customer files in an orderly manner and ensure that it can be easily accessed by any other member of staff; and
  • Any other duties and responsibilities as may be directed from time to time
  • Matric 
  • Proficient in English and one other recognised language
  • Working knowledge of MS Excel and Word (minimum Intermediate);
  • Valid (Code 8) Driver’s license;
  • Experience in navigating and utilising an ERP system (eg. SAP, SAGE)

90% Strong admin background with good telephone and face to face etiquette (Basically a very well spoken individual with admin background) 

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Abap Software Engineer (24 Months Contract)

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ABAP SOFTWARE ENGINEER (24 Months Contract) in East London | Other General Employment | Job Mail | 4677088

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OUTPUTS

  • Analyse, design, and standardise supply chain execution and monitoring processes.
  • Develop and support of SAP applications
  • Support of SAP Business Analysts in day-to-day functions e.g. investigations, testing etc.
  • Integrate into a dynamic team building next generation solutions for Daimler globally
  • Promotion of continuous improvement culture within the team
  • Design, research, develop, analyse and suggest new concepts as well as strategies
  • Lead and direct different cross-functional programs and projects of varied sizes and types
  • Exercise decision-making and independent judgment while being aligned with customers and management
  • Promote innovations to support business requirements through activities that test, pilot and implement innovative concepts for optimal customer experience
  • Manage ideas from design stage through to implementation
  • Roll out and analyse the effectiveness of initiatives that leverage multiplatform technologies
  • Initiate, develop and maintain a range of working relationships, within IT, the business and CoC
  • Perform all outputs in compliance with the Company’s Integrity Codes & SHEQ requirements
  • Perform delegated SHEQ tasks and duties and Inform superiors about deviations

The Job Requirements

  • Extensive SAP ABAP development skills: OO, Webdynpro for ABAP SAP oData services, FIORI / SAP UI5, Integration with MS Office Workflow, Adobe Document integration and development, iDoc development and processing

  • Experience with NetWeaver Fiori/Gateway, Solution Manager, Web Dispatcher, Business Objects

  • Experience using SAP S/4 Hana and SAP Solution Manager 7.2

  • Demonstrated ability to foster an environment for ideation, prototyping and production

  • Demonstrated business acumen to take from design to implementation and preferably experience scaling a concept

  • Must have IT Development and Systems Knowledge

  • Experience with software development methodologies and practice (Agile, Scrum, etc.)

  • Experience in rolling out initiatives that leverage multiplatform

    technologies

  • Willingness to learn new technologies, teach and share knowledge with other team members

  • Willingness to travel nationally and internationally and to work a

    3 shift model

  • Ability to perform the minimum required physical and mental requirements of the function.

QUALIFICATION 

  • Minimum NQF 7 – BSC/BCom/BTech in Information Technology or B. Eng. (Industrial Engineering) or relevant equivalent (NON-NEGOTIABLE)

EXPERIENCE

  • Minimum 5+ Years’ experience SAP ABAP Development
  • 5 years’ experience in IT/Manufacturing advantageous

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News24.com | WRAP | SA’s Covid-19 death toll now at 123, with 6 336 total positive cases

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Covid-19 international news wrap:

Virus infections in Europe climb over 1.5 million: AFP tally 

With at least 1 506 853 infections, including 140 260 deaths, Europe is the hardest-hit continent.

Across the world, 3 350 224 cases and 238 334 deaths have been recorded.

The five European countries with official tolls over 150 000:

Spain:  215 216 cases and 24824 deaths,

Italy: 207 428 cases and 28 236 deaths,

Britain: 177 54 and 27 510 deaths,

France: 167 346 and 24 594 and

Germany 161 703 and 6 575.  

Russia reports almost 10 000 new virus cases            

New infections jumped by 9 623 to 124 054 cases, Russian authorities said.

Fifty-seven people died over the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 1 222.  

Nearly 10 000 inmates freed as virus hits Philippine jails           

Nearly 10 000 prison inmates have been released in the Philippines as the country races to halt coronavirus infections in its overcrowded jails, a Supreme Court official said on Saturday.

The move follows a directive to lower courts to release those awaiting trial in prison because they could not afford bail, Associate Supreme Court Justice Mario Victor Leonen told reporters.  

China condemns US tweet on Taiwan exclusion from UN         

China has condemned a US tweet backing Taiwan’s push for participation at the United Nations as the global body works with its 193 member states to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

Beijing’s diplomatic mission to the UN expressed “strong outrage and firm opposition” to a message on Friday by the United States calling Taiwan’s exclusion an “affront” to UN principles.    

Spain eases strict lockdown conditions         

All Spaniards on Saturday were allowed to go for walks or play sport after 48 days of home confinement to combat the coronavirus in one of the worst-hit countries.

Spain’s nearly 47 million people have since 14 March lived under one of the strictest virus lockdowns in the world, with adults authorised to leave home only to buy food, medicine or walk the dog.  

– AFP

       

Health24.com | Sleep troubles hit healthcare workers during pandemic

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Many healthcare workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are struggling with sleep, a new study finds.

The researchers also found that those with insomnia were more likely to have depression, anxiety and stress-based trauma.

The study included nearly 1 600 healthcare workers who completed an online questionnaire between 29 January and 3 February at the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak in China.

Two-thirds (36%) reported insomnia symptoms. Overall rates of depression were much higher among those with insomnia (87%) than among those without insomnia (31%), and especially for moderate (23% versus 3%) and severe (17% versus 2%) depression.

Less educated may be more fearful

The percentages and differences between those with and without insomnia were similar for anxiety and stress-based trauma, according to the study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry.

The most important factor associated with insomnia among healthcare workers was strong uncertainty about effective disease control among medical staff. Strong uncertainty was 3.3 times higher among those with insomnia than those without it, the findings showed.

Lower levels of education were also associated with insomnia. Healthcare workers with a high school education or less were 2.7 times more likely to have insomnia than those with a doctoral degree, according to the report.

Workers with less education may be more likely to be fearful, study co-author Bin Zhang, a professor at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, and colleagues suggested.

Mentally and physically exhausted

“Typically, stress-related insomnia is transient and persists for only a few days,” Zhang said in a journal news release. “But if the Covid-19 outbreak continues, the insomnia may gradually become chronic insomnia in the clinical setting.”

The researchers noted that the healthcare workers in the study had high levels of stress in general because they were in close contact with infected patients who could pass the disease to them, they were worried about infecting their own family and friends, and they had to wear extensive personal protective equipment for more than 12 hours at a time.

“Under these dangerous conditions, medical staff become mentally and physically exhausted, and therefore experience an increased risk of insomnia due to high stress,” the study authors wrote.

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News24.com | Hypertension, diabetes, cardiac disease most common co-morbidities in SA Covid-19 patients

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Hypertension, diabetes and cardiac disease are among the most common co-morbidities associated with serious Covid-19 cases in the country, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday.

This as 123 deaths were recorded nationwide.

“We have looked at the data for patients who have been hospitalised and found that, consistent with evidence emerging worldwide, hypertension, diabetes and cardiac disease are the three most common co-morbidities associated with serious illness from Covid-19,” he added.

Mkhize said other co-morbidities, which are present in admitted patients, were chronic pulmonary disease, asthma, chronic renal disease, malignancy and HIV as well as active and past TB cases.

“I would therefore like to urge our millions of South Africans who are over 63 years of age and those who live with these conditions, to take extra precaution as we ease the lockdown.”

He reiterated the need for continued isolation from the public.

“I would also like to urge all South Africans to continue to stay at home as far as possible, only venturing out to perform essential tasks as we move through the stages of the gradual lifting of the lockdown.”

The numbers so far

Mkhize said as of Saturday night, the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa was 6 336, adding tests conducted to date stood at 230 686, of which 13 164 were done in the last 24 hours.

“This is the highest number of tests done in a 24-hour cycle to date.”

ANALYSIS | The big problem with South Africa’s official Covid-19 numbers

Seven Covid-19-related deaths in the Western Cape and Free State have brought the toll to 123, while the number of recoveries stands at 2 549.

The Western Cape has emerged as the epicentre of the virus, with the latest data indicating it accounts for 56 of the 123 deaths countrywide.

The province recorded 779 recoveries, but also led the nation with 2 700 confirmed cases, Mkhize said.

Sport24.co.za | Proteas plummet in Test rankings, up to 4th in ODIs

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The Proteas have slipped in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings, but rose in the ODI rankings.

In the latest update that rates all matches played since May 2019 at 100 percent and those of the previous two years at 50 percent, Australia have taken over from India as the top-ranked Test side.

India have yielded the top spot for the first time since October 2016. This is largely because India had won 12 Tests and lost just one Test in 2016/17, the records of which were removed in the latest update.

However, Virat Kohli’s men still lead on the ICC World Test Championship standings, which runs until 2021.

The Proteas suffered the biggest rating fall of eight points as they dropped down to sixth in the Test rankings.

South Africa, who were led by Faf du Plessis, lost eight of their last nine Tests and are almost effectively out of contention in the World Test Championship.

In February, Du Plessis stepped down from his role as captain of the Proteas’ Test and T20 teams.

The Proteas sit seventh on the World Test Championship log with 24 points.

In the ODI rankings, the Proteas are on 108 points, moving up one spot to fourth with Australia slipping back on 107.

The Proteas finished seventh in the 2019 Cricket World Cup standings after only registering three wins in their nine matches.

World Champions England still maintain their No 1 ranking with India behind in second place.

In the T20 rankings, the Proteas remain fifth as Mark Boucher’s side prepare for this year’s T20 World Cup.

Australia is due to stage this year’s global event from 18 October until 15 November but the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has seen the ICC and Cricket Australia exploring various options.

ICC Test rankings

1. Australia – 116

2. New Zealand – 115

3. India – 114

4. England – 105

5. Sri Lanka – 91

6. South Africa – 90

7. Pakistan – 86

8. West Indies – 79

9. Bangladesh – 55

10. Zimbabwe – 18

ICC ODI rankings

1. England – 127

2. India – 119

3. New Zealand – 116

4. South Africa – 108

5. Australia – 107

6. Pakistan – 102

7. Bangladesh – 88

8. Sri Lanka – 85

9. West Indies – 76

10. Afghanistan – 55

ICC T20 rankings

1. Australia – 278

2. England – 268

3. India – 266

4. Pakistan – 260

5. South Africa – 258

6. New Zealand – 242

7. Sri Lanka – 230

8. Bangladesh – 229

8. West Indies – 229

10. Afghanistan – 228

– Compiled by Lynn Butler

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On Vlei Steet Near Goodies for Gardens, Side entrance in development

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Sport24.co.za | Beast: Rassie convinced me to stay in SA

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Springbok legend Tendai Mtawarira has recalled how he was considering a move to French club Racing 92 after the 2017 international season. 

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The Boks had suffered two difficult years under coach Allister Coetzee, who eventually parted ways with the national side, in 2016 and 2017 and it was at that point where Mtawarira was considering his future. 

In an interview posted on the official British & Irish Lions website, however, Mtawarira revealed how the arrival of Rassie Erasmus convinced him to stay in South Africa.

After another two seasons with the Sharks, Mtawarira went on to win the 2019 World Cup in Japan and finished his Test career with 117 caps.  

“Thank God we brought Rassie Erasmus back,” he said. 

“We had a very frank conversation and he said I was a big part of his plans and convinced me to stay. I had a decision to make and thought about why I still play rugby and the answer was to win the World Cup. It’s funny how things work out.

“I had been there in successful teams and then it was all looking down, so I was close to calling it a day.”

Mtawarira, who played in the 2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, went on to praise Erasmus’ approach to coaching. 

“Rassie is very motivational. He is not the loudest guy in the room or gives Any Given Sunday speeches but he does just say it as it is,” Mtawarira said.

“He treats you like an adult and he used to be a player. He told us he used to make a lot of mistakes as a player – although I watched him and he was bloody good – but his Springbok career was cut short because of injuries, so he used to say he didn’t want us to end up like him.”

The Lions are due to tour South Africa for three Tests in 2021. 

– Compiled by Sport24 staff