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Manager Logistics
Caterpillar Inc
posted 2 days ago
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Role Definition
Dynamic professional with excellent records in the field of Warehouse management, oversees and managing the entire supply chain cycle, Movement of goods, Receipts, storage, and distribution of goods and materials within a company. Ensures efficient and cost-effective operations, Stake holder management, and optimal coordination between internal teams, suppliers, and customers.
Expertise in SAP WMS module, KANBAN, JIT, PULL, Kitting, Transportation, Packaging, Material Handling Equipments Operations, Grief Management, FIFO, Built in Quality, RPRT, Mentor/Coaching team member and focus on inventory accuracy. Monitor transactions and processes to meet compliance requirement. Demonstrate Safety behavior and set Safety Driven work climate.
Key Responsibilities:
Analyzing and developing logistics plans that affect production, distribution, and inventory
Improving logistics processes through process improvement, prioritization, and project planning.
Collaborate with Demand & Order Management, Operations, SC MRP, MLT transportation to ensure seamless supply chain operations.
Oversees inbound and outbound logistics operations, routing and tracking.
Supervise warehouse inventory activity to maintain accurate inventory levels and efficient storage practices.
Analyse logistics costs and identify opportunity for savings without compromising service quality.
Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies regarding storage, handling and day to day transactions of goods or materials in SAP/CBS.
Track Key performance indicator related to Dock to Storage, Storage Location Accuracy (SLA), Picking, Dock Schedule, OSD, Order Closure, Kitting, SLED, BIQ, RPRT, MPU and Warehouse Occupancy.
Address and resolve issues related to delays, damages, or customer complaints in the Supply Chain.
Degree Requirement
Engineering Degree or PG Diploma in Supply Chain Management/ Warehouse Management
Skill Descriptors
Technical & Operational skills: Combination of hard skills (technical) and soft skills (operational) that enable individuals to effectively manage and optimize processes within an organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Inventory Management: Keeping accurate track of stock levels, orders, and deliveries, ensuring optimal inventory levels to prevent overstocking or stockouts. This includes proficiency in inventory control methods such as FIFO, JIT, and cycle counting.
- Logistics Coordination: Managing the movement of goods within the warehouse and to external locations, including route planning, scheduling shipments, and ensuring timely deliveries.
- Material Handling: Operating warehouse machinery like forklifts, pallet jacks, and conveyors, safely moving, storing, and organizing materials, and understanding proper stacking methods and load-bearing capacities.
- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS): Proficiency in using and maintaining WMS to streamline processes, track inventory, optimize space, and analyse performance.
- Safety and Security: Comprehensive knowledge of safety protocols, including handling hazardous materials, using PPE, and adhering to safety regulations (like OSHA), and implementing security measures to prevent theft and damage.
Managerial and leadership skills: Complementary sets of abilities crucial for success in various professional settings. Management focuses on efficiently organizing resources and tasks to achieve specific goals, while leadership emphasizes inspiring and guiding individuals or teams towards a shared vision. Both sets of skills are essential for organizational success
Level Working Knowledge:
- Leadership and Team Management: Motivating, training, and supervising warehouse staff, fostering a positive work environment, and delegating tasks effectively.
- Planning and Organization: Developing and implementing logistics strategies, setting clear goals, scheduling tasks, allocating resources, and optimizing the warehouse layout and processes.
- Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Identifying and resolving issues quickly and efficiently, analyzing root causes, evaluating solutions, and making sound decisions, often under pressure.
- Budget Management: Managing the warehouse budget, controlling costs, forecasting expenses, and ensuring efficient resource allocation.
- Vendor Relations: Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers and logistics partners, negotiating favourable terms, and ensuring timely deliveries and quality of service.
Communication & interpersonal skills: Ability to convey information clearly and effectively, Involve the broader set of abilities needed to interact with others, including communication, active listening, empathy, and conflict resolution.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Communication Skills: Effectively conveying instructions, feedback, expectations, and information to team members, stakeholders, suppliers, and customers.
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Fostering a positive work environment, promoting teamwork, resolving conflicts, and collaborating with other departments (e.g., sales, purchasing).
- Adaptability: Adjusting to changing circumstances, market demands, and technological advancements, and seeking continuous improvement in warehouse processes.
- Analytical Skills: Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to make informed decisions about inventory levels, order fulfilment, productivity, and identifying areas for improvement.
- Customer Focus: Prioritizing customer satisfaction by ensuring timely order fulfilment, accurate inventory, and responsive communication.
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
- Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.
- Rely on independent decision making to complete job tasks on identified areas.
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving. organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyse risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problem
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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Flexible timing
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