Responsibilities (KRAs / deliverables / job expectations)
- Order Management
- Reviewing business orders and generating Sales Orders in the ERP while ensuring Products / Parts, Pricing and Delivery Terms as per agreed terms.
- Ensuring orders visibility by timely sharing of order confirmations to Customers / Opco Sales Team.
- Releasing delivery Orders / dispatch Plan to the Warehouse team to enable picking & packing activity and ensuring products are shipped within defined time frame.
- Post delivery coordination with customer / sales team.
- Operations
- Driving dispatch operations from warehouse.
- Preparing dispatch plan, inventory allocation as per FIFO.
- Ensuring standard quality packing practice.
- Coordination with logistics service provider to ensure shipment is dispatched as per plan.
- Shipment tracking and monitoring as per standard TAT norms.
- Coordinating and facilitating reverse logistics.
- Ensuring adequate quantity of packing materials at warehouse.
- Customer Coordination
- Providing visibility to customers regarding inventory availability and shipments.
- Coordination for advance payments and credit limits.
- Providing solutions to customer grievances.
- Master Data Management-
- Creation of BOM and related Master.
- Managing the master data & records.
- Stakeholder Management / Coordination
- Engage with the finance team for invoice and related documents for the shipments.
- Communicating & updating the sales teams / customers on operational and mandate arrangements to ensure smooth logistics flow.
- Effectively monitor and measure the risks related to KPI’s like TAT, OTD, Quality.
- Monthly connect with warehouse operations team to review & monitor the gaps and good practices.
- Quarterly connect with domestic logistics provider to review the performance.
- Reporting & MIS
- Maintain regular MIS data – DSR, Sales order reports, Sales revenue reports, Shipment Tracker and monthly operational MIS.
- Monitor the effectiveness of warehouse and service provider through monthly MRM reports and score evaluation.
- Effective cost management on operations like freight : Air / Road, and warehousing.
Critical Success factors (critical / high impact aspects of role)
Keen customer focus and high value driven working approach.KPI driven operations to ensure effective operation management in terms of warehousing, process and logistics.Coordination between internal & External stakeholders of the supply chain.Effective understanding of Inventory and its saleable behaviour of high mix products.Effective and sound understanding of risk management & regulatory compliances subjected to business applicability.Effective liaising and collaboration with the business partners associates.Drive the SLAs with the logistics partners to ensure they meet the set performance standards.Flexibility & Adaptability towards a very dynamic business environment.Academic qualification
Graduate from a reputed institute, preferably B.E. / B. Tech.Postgraduate / Certificate in operations management will be an advantage.Experience (exposure)
7-8 years overall experience in supply chain operations management.At least 6-7 years of experience in managing customers’ orders and sales team.6-7 years of experience in handling warehouse operations preferably in a multi-product company.Experience in working in MNC.Experience in leading as a unit lead or section lead.ERP experience along with other order mgmt. tools is preferable.Key attributes (critical functional competencies)
Warehouse operations management.Order Management & Material Planning.Experienced with ERP system and environment.Domestic outbound Logistics.Understanding of Regulatory norms & compliance subjected to distribution process.Proficiency in MS- Office tools (Intermediate to expert level)Comfortable in adapting dynamic business environment.Experienced in dealing with wide range of product mix.Ability & exposure to analytics tools and platform will be an added advantage.Key attributes (fundamental behavioral skills and attitudes)
High integrity & Transparent.Organized.High quality and process oriented.Customer Focussed.Proactive Ownership and Accountable.Agile and Adaptable.Problem Solving & Result Oriented.Responsive & Collaborative.Collaborative & Team Player.