Logistics Specialist
at Hiring for a leading Medical devices firm in Chennai
Position: Logistics Specialist
Experience: 8 - 12 years in logistics and warehouse
Work location: Chennai
Roles and responsibilities
- You will be responsible for the inventory management, warehousing and logistics activities associated with the distribution.
- Coordinate end to end Warehouse Operations Inbound, Outbound ,Transportation and 3PL operations
Drive efficient processes to enhance warehouse operations - Controls inventory levels by conducting physical counts; reconciling with data storage system
- Experience with SAP order to cash process.(MM&SD Module) Excellent spreadsheet modeling skills required.
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Pre-requisites for the Role
- Job ID -EMSM0120
- Primary skill : Sourcing Manager & Procurement
- Secondary skill : ERP System (ideally Oracle and/or SAP S/4HANA)
Focus in Operations, Supply Chain, or related experience
- Years of Experience : 1-8 Years
- Location : Hyderabad (WFO)
- Position 1
NP- Immediate-15 days
Job Description:
Senior Sourcing Manager:
- 8+ years directly applicable Supply Chain experience
- Possess a working knowledge of manufacturing principles, particularly in the technology industry
- Working knowledge of Quality Principles, Continuous Improvement and Process Implementation (DMAIC, Lean Mfg, Kaizen)
- Experience with contract management, project management, and supplier relationship management
- Proven experience with detailed data analysis leading to strategic sourcing recommendations and decisions.
- Strategic Sourcing skills: SOW Development, Request for Quote/Proposal/Information, Total Cost of Ownership analysis and Supplier Relationship Management
- Experience with negotiating supplier agreements and knowledge of Terms & Conditions
- Self-starter with the ability to adapt, improve processes, and find solutions.
- Must have excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation skills including the ability to influence all levels of internal stakeholders.
- Experience in an R&D setting with highly technical products and and ability to engage /manage a complex engineering-centric effort from concept to delivery
- Required: M/S Office and Major ERP System (ideally Oracle and/or SAP S/4HANA), including Web-Based Supplier Interface
- Preferred: Experience with cloud P2P applications such as Coupa and/or SAP Ariba and/or Icertis Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)
- Bachelor’s Degree with focus in Operations, Supply Chain, or related experience
- Ability to travel up to 40%
Systems Access Needed
- Tableau
- Oracle/SAP (required)
- Ariba/Coupa (preferred)
- Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform experience (preferred)
- Agile PLM
Time Zone
- TBD; likely IST w/ partial EST crossover
Reporting To
- TBD; likely Duluth Procurement
Current Open Req Number
- N/A
Job Description
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About Role | Operations Head/Supply Chain Manager
• Managing Supply Chain Operations for a leading B2C eCommerce firm
• Collaborating and directing the activities of all functions involved in the
purchasing, planning, warehousing, and control of materials.
• Complete Understanding of end-to-end supply chain and complex modeling
of workflows for Category
• Provide specific cost reduction and waste removal opportunities within and
across categories
• Identify and articulate strategic importance of metrics as a basis for
managing tradeoffs, improving the customer experience, and making
decisions with internal and external stakeholders
• Leading projects impacting Supply Chain transformation (ordering process,
service levels, inventory, logistics, packaging, etc.)
• Work closely with vendor leadership and/or operations senior leaders on
strategies to reduce cost, lead time, and waste across the end-to-end supply
chain.
• Deliver maximum product availability in the category ensuing healthy
inventory level and optimal supply chain set-up.
• Be solution-oriented & integrate strong and clear data analysis and business
rationale into sound decision-making and problem-solving.
• Ability to manage data and coordinate growing daily order volume.
• Managing and coordinating on-demand manufacturing.
- Inventory Specialist (Req 2)
Must have skills:
Should have experience as End user in SCM
Expertise in Supply Chain Management (SCM) Oracle preferred
Experience in Inventory Management
- You will coordinate and route the flow of material between contract manufacturers and distribution centers in North America, Europe, and Asia.
- You will expedite parts to remedy any shortage problems.
- Perform purchase order receipts, create travelers, and maintain records of material flow.
- Updating logs, databases, maintaining files, project reports, specifications, product information, and documentation.
- Preparing processes and status reports, assigning and monitoring documents/databases, and reviewing documents/databases for accuracy and completeness.
- Responsible for incoming and outgoing material flows primarily supporting global distribution activities.
- Monitor the flow of material and parts between various suppliers and internal departments to meet tight schedules.
About the Role:
Order & Inventory Management Lead (OML) supports and enables the delivery and execution of the Sales order for ConvaTec India along with financial credit / debit note and product evaluation sample management for our distributors.
This is an incredibly diverse and challenging role that will require a diverse and practiced knowledge of an ERP system along with very good skills in excel.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Order Management
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Capturing sales order entry in SAP, check for special pricing & approval validity, save documents in drive, create output, share with customer
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Check for payment receipt via bank statement/ mails, messages
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Order release from finance and tracking of pending orders
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Create delivery order and share with the warehouse team
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Review dispatch details, follow up with customers for logistics partner
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Backorder management and apt stock allocation
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Samples for product evaluation order entry in SAP
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Tracking sample shipment to sales team
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Expiry stock management data MIS
Inventory Management
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Support stock queries from sales team
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Communicate pending order status to sales team/ customers
Credit & Debit Note Management
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Coordinate with the external claims processing vendor and internal stakeholders
Others
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MIS - pending orders in system region wise
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Product evaluation sample processed monthly reports
Language Skills Required
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Speaking: English
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Writing/Reading: English
Education/Experience/Qualifications:
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Minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required with preferred focus in supply chain order management or a related discipline
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Minimum of 5 years of experience related to supply chain or similar functions
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Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills
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Willing to work to tight deadlines
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Demonstrated track record of taking the initiative
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Executive presence and ability to influence stakeholders
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Excellent analytical skills
Desired and required:
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Working knowledge banking operations
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Strong and wide understanding of Excel & Report writing
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Computer literate including good understanding of any ERP system, preferably SAP
Currently it has over 300 employees on its rolls and caters to customers through a hub office at every 100 kilometres in Northern India( including Delhi/ NCR , Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir).
The ability to ensure zero downtime for its customers, by providing timely and quality support both in terms of products and services has been the cornerstone of its growth and success.
As a Warehouse Manager, you will be managing the overall functioning of the warehouse including coordinating with the dispatch department & billing department.
What you need to do:
- Working on the shop floor and ensuring efficient running of the warehouse
- Maintaining the warehouse properly and ensuring material is as per billing
- Being responsible for the day-to-day smooth operations of the warehouse
- Building and mentoring a team of warehouse executives and also leading and monitoring their performance on a day-to-day basis
- Maintaining the industrial equipment and spare parts in the warehouse properly, overseeing their pricing, amending to the repairing needs if any and ensuring FIFO and other processes are being followed
- Recording the various warehouse activities, equipment and spares and reporting the same to the company on a timely basis
- Analyzing risk factors involved, analyzing warehouse safety measures and accident reporting system
- Ensuring adherence to all the standard processes and procedures followed by the company
- Strategizing the functions of the warehouse to yield maximum profit
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:
- 7– 10 years of relevant work experience
- Graduation is a must
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent knowledge and experience in managing heavy equipment and spares
- Good staff management skills
Their services are available across the globe, with over 65% of their client base being from US, UK, and Canada. The company's primary focus is on Ayurveda and taking the ancient knowledge to anyone who wishes to bring back balance to their health and apply the tools in their everyday life.
- Tracking, managing and replenishing inventory at all the warehouses and all products of all brands of the company.
- Keeping an eye on the sales targets and making sure that inventory projections are made on a biweekly basis and tallied with the inventory in pipeline to ensure products are never out of stock.
- Managing and optimizing logistics cost constantly by optimizing daily processes and analyzing to find all inefficiencies in the processes currently in use.
- Establishing and enforcing departmental policies in sync with the other teams and their policies to ensure smooth synergy within the organization.
- Overseeing expenses related to packaging and other secondary expenses made by all warehouses and optimizing for any inefficiencies
- Reviewing team performance of all warehouses and solve for any gaps.
What you need to have:
- 1 to 4 years of experience in operations/ logistics.
- Preferably in Ecomm , retail, FMCG Companies
- Bachelor's degree
- Excellent understanding and background working in supply chain and warehouse management
Our client is a producer of superior quality products. Our client is the largest single location manufacturing facility in India with certifications of ISO 9001, 14001, OHSAS 18001 along with other product specific certifications.
- Ensuring strategic product-mix plan deliver Profitability
- Generating raw material requirements in line with production forecast and monitor Working capital
- Identifying and implementing opportunities for optimizing cost, time and quality for the supply & material
1) Planning & Control
- Developing production plans in coordination with Demand Planner driven S&OP process.
- Participating in capacity planning and analysis, highlighting constraints & excess capacity, Product mix-profitability matrix analysis enhancing business growth
- Working closely with Procurement on forward buying, production-exigency controls, etc., in case of shortage of materials/ products Long term visibility for high lead time/ critical raw materials
- Monitoring and continuously striving to improve OTIF levels
- Providing support for ongoing and new automations/ process improvements planned in the supply chain processes. Monitoring accuracy of production plans and variance
- Providing feedback to all concerned teams to ensure greater efficiency of the planning process and minimizing deviation from plans.
- Managing inventory targets (including safety stock levels) for raw materials in close coordination with Demand Planner and Procurement organization
- Developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
- Identifying & leading implementation of optimization opportunities to manage the cost of RM inventory lying at factory, depots, etc
- Maximizing deliveries of finished goods from various units as per given customer orders and deadlines in coordination with Logistics team
- Ensuring the Master data correctness in ERP
- Providing appropriate training to users to ensure timely MRP runs with proper results
- Planning & monitoring performance of subordinates & team & coaching them on how to improve the same in order to meet departmental goals
- Identifying and planning for requisite training & development requirements for subordinates & team to help bridge skill gaps
What you need to have:
- Qualifications - B.Tech /B.E.;MBA / PGDM
- At least 5+ years experience working in a plant
- Have experience as Supply Chain Manager
- Team handling experience
- Should be well versed with Supply Planning, Procurement, Production and Logistics functions
- Excellent handling of respective functional plans and adherance monitoring
- Supervising day-to-day operations in the Supply Chain Department.
- Scaling-up and managing procurement, virtual warehouse and distribution processes
- Following procurement and supply chain processes as per guidelines
- Strategizing and implementing efficient processes to ensure 100% order fulfilment on time.
- Ensuring promptness, accuracy in procurements and maintaining records of goods ordered, received and returned.
- Evaluating potential vendors, negotiating and getting them registered as per set process. Maintaining good relationships with vendors / suppliers
- Regularly doing market research ensuring generic medicines range is enhanced from time to time. Maintaining accurate medicine master data base.
- Maintaining updated records of purchased products, delivery information and invoices.
- Liaising with new vendors and negotiate for the best deals whenever required
- Ensuring that the products and supplies are of high quality and as per set standards.
- Monitoring stock levels and place orders as needed
- Working with internal team members ensuring speed and accuracy and performing other duties.
- Staying informed on the latest industry techniques and methods.
- Preparing training material and conducting regular training to all team members of Supply Chain Management.
- Preparing regular reporting and ensuring timely update to management
What you need to have:
- Pharmacy Knowledge – Ethical, Generic and FMCG items
- Customer Service Obsession
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills. Good understanding of management practices and techniques.
- Process orientation / Accurate and precise attention to detail
- Market Orientation / Vendor Knowledge
- Ability to negotiate
- Ability to prioritize and manage time efficiently
- Ability to work well with staff / other teams and manage stressful situation
- Compute Knowledge
- Working discipline
• Willing to work at from early morning shift (starts at 6.30AM).
• Ability to understand the business.
• Do the market research for the products.
• Need to work with the different supplier across the globe.
• Ability to negotiate the price & maintain company standard.
• Maintain good relationship with suppliers.