Assistant Manager-SCM
The Waterbase Ltd
Total years of experience :18 years, 5 Months
• End to End handling of logistics & Warehousing operations across PAN INDIA via a distribution network of 8 warehouses and 2 production units spread across Pan India and Parallelly acting as an SAP SD-Supporting role for any enhancements and error resolving issues.
• Managing transportation of Primary & secondary operations for the entire pan India region for both FG & RM.
• Ensuring Stock adequacy through STO’s & monitoring the Inventory Aging across all WH’s and coordinating with Marketing for liquidation plans.
• Co-ordinating with QC for regular QC checks and liquidation plans against Non-Moving Inventory
• Negotiation of Freight’s and Finalizing Freight Contract’s for every 6months.
• Leading the team of 16 highly qualified TWL managers and 10 3PL managers and 60 laborer’s team.
• Ensuring On-Time-In-Full Delivery to customers as per distribution plan with freshness through FMFO / FEFO adherence and on time stock connectivity as per replenishment plan at all warehouses.
• Co-ordinating with all cross-functional team’s such as planning, production, marketing & HO teams to avoid stock out situations and for any Non-moving stocks and for vendor payments and for clearance of pending shipments.
• Managing and ensuring the reverse logistic operation against returns and coordinating with QC & Accounts & Production to account the same and to finalize the liquidation plan.
• Cycle Counts & Monthly stock audit’s and ensuring periodical quality checks and ensuring immediate corrective/control point actions to prevent inventory losses.
• Yearly negotiation and execution for all space, warehousing, Laboure’s, and transportation agreements.
• Review, benchmarking, and control of cost of logistics for the region spend on Infrastructure, warehouse management and transportation.
• Learning and implementation of best practices from industry, resulted in zero transit damages.
• Ensuring compliance to SOP & all statutory requirement, EHS and Hygiene.
• Improvement of warehouse space utilization through layout redesign by using ABC, MTM, and improvement in storage practices / norms.
• Worked on projects of WH changeover, 3PL Implementations & changeover & ERP Implementation.
Significant Achievement:
Project: Athena - SAP Implementation
• Act as liaison between the ERP Implementation Partner /support team and business unit for the development and implementation of SAP- SD.
• Representative for SD & MM module for conducting business process analysis and data validation processes.
• Requirement Gathering, Business Process descriptions, use cases, test scenarios, tasks, and workflow analysis.
• Collaborated with developers to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs of business.
• Conducting UAT ‘s and analyzing and enhancing the required process flows.
• Testing the developed changes and maintain test cases to help end users.
• Trained and involved the teams in UAT itself to bring the operation online with in a span of 15 days.
Key Achievements:
• Redesigned the warehousing network which resulted in reducing the warehousing & transportation cost of 1Cr.
• Continuous improvement in same day(D-1) deliveries from 45% to 68% & eventually improved on-time deliveries to 84% to 97%.
• Implemented a 3PL Warehouses in GUJ & WB & AP in the system that drove optimal customer service and revenue enhancement 8%.
• Reduced the freight rates by 15 % from the existing rates by doing proper route optimization & Shoot Costing and introduced a new vendor for transportation services in turn brought the per kg cost from Rs.3.2 to Rs.2.72.
• Successfully handled the unionized Transporters environment and smoothly improved the vehicle placement performance and improved the LTL transportation.
• Appraised by Management as an INNOVATOR in the company in 2018 & Bagged CEO’s Award for an outstanding performance.
Job Profile:
• Spearheaded functions related to Picking, Sorting, Packing, Labelling & manifesting of more than 120-150 orders daily; managed 5000 SKUs with an Avg. of 2 lakhs quantity of stock on hand, belongs to furniture division & ensured appropriate products are sent to the customer and to retail outlets and the orders delivered were accurate.
Highlights:
• Managed 3, 00, 000 Sq. Ft. warehouse with G+3 racking and with an automated warehouse system, with more than QAR 50 million worth of inventory.
• Improved Inventory Record Accuracy from 56% to 99%.
• Responsible for managing COD & Retail Store Distribution operations.
• Administrated 60 staff strength of multi nationalities and coordinating with Department Manager and Showroom Managers to streamline the retail operation.
• Led the set-up of KPA's for the staff and reviewing and analysing on quarterly basis.
• Distributing the daily reports of warehouse efficiency picking and put away fill rates and dispatches to warehouse manager & Optimum utilization of the sources to control the over time.
Project: Genesis Project of Oracle WMS Implementation
Responsible for Warehouse readiness activities as per the standards of ORACLE WMS.
Played a key role in picking system design and re-designing of complete warehouse layout into zoning in WMS implementation.
Member of Use Acceptance Test (UAT) Team
Trained the entire team in WMS, to ease the process and to improve the efficiency of the picking, put away, staging, and delivering in OTIF to the customer and to retail show rooms.
Job Profile
• Managing the entire Telangana region logistics operations along with BLE via 4 warehouses measuring 4.5 lac SqFt managed by WSP/3PL.
• Daily close coordinating all the logistics operations for the region and ensuring on-time delivery 100%
• Managing 100% fill rate’s at QFR & LIFR wise against all traditional dealer network and Key/Modern trade customers.
• Driving all warehouse manpower productivity and implementation of best practices across the warehouses.
• Analysing the utilisation (both Volume & Weight) of vehicles handled every day.
• Frequently analysing the FDOS (fixed days of shipment) and rationalisation.
• Monitoring and analysing the Stock aging and alarming the HO for the liquidation plans
• Analysing and implementing the best practices to reduce the time in transit and TAT for all vehicles.
• Space planning, Manpower planning and training the WSP team to improve the warehouse operational efficiencies.
• implantation and continuous monitoring of company SOP & all statutory requirement, EHS and Hygiene.
• Periodical analysis and revalidation of warehouse layout, for optimum space utilisation.
• Periodical performance review of WSP, Transporters and other service agencies of the region.
• Responding to customer complaints/queries in a time bound and efficient manner.
SIGNIFICANT ACHEIVEMENTS:
• Improved Inventory Record Accuracy from 60% to 100% at SKU level and Batch level in Bengaluru (Bangalore) Warehouse by Implementing IMF & BIN& Bay Control systems and the same has been implemented in Hyderabad WH.
• Reduction in TAT from 5 hours to 3 hours through material zoning and process optimization.
• Freight Saving of 25Lacs /Year through route & shipment optimization.
Job Profile
• Maintenance of Vending Stocks across Depots as per ECD and stock cover
• Interact with production with manufacturing of stocks.
• Interact with Sourcing for the procurement of flavours.
• Co-ordinate with Vending ASM's for the movement of stocks.
• Co-ordinate with depot to ensure the freshness of stocks and ensure removal of expired stock from the system.
• Processing Sales order as per the requirement and the stock availability.
• Planning, scheduling and vehicles route planning as per the dispatches.
• On time order execution, IRA monitoring.
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courses: Green belt certified from Exemplar Global & Benchmark Six Sigma (G15030184510)
