Job Summary:
- Oversee and manage the flow of materials (receiving and issuing), ensuring accurate and timely posting on SAP.
- Maintain up-to-date and precise inventory records through effective stock control systems.
- Plan and supervise cycle counts and physical inventories, investigate discrepancies, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Monitor slow-moving, non-moving, obsolete, damaged, and zero-stock materials and recommend appropriate actions.
- Monitor stock levels, consumption patterns, reorder points, safety stock, and minimum and maximum inventory levels in coordination with Planning and Procurement.
- Optimize warehouse layout, storage capacity, material flow, and the utilization of material-handling equipment.
- Ensure all warehouse operations are properly documented, and records are accurately maintained.
- Follow up on daily material deliveries (Sand, Dolomite, Cement, Filler, Solar, Gas Cylinders) in coordination with the Procurement Department
- Ensure proper material identification, labelling, preservation, stacking, and segregation, particularly for chemicals and flammable materials.
- Manage truck movement within the factory premises, including truck scale operations.
- Lead, supervise, train, and evaluate warehouse supervisors, storekeepers, and workers.
- Prepare and analyze daily, weekly, and monthly inventory and warehouse-performance reports.
- Monitor warehouse KPIs, including inventory accuracy, SAP posting accuracy, stock availability, space utilization, order fulfilment, and safety performance.
- Support continuous-improvement activities using 5S, Lean, SOPs, root-cause analysis, and visual-management tools.
- Ensure full compliance with company HSE policies, procedures, and safe material-handling practices.
Education & Professional Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain management, logistics, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in warehouse and inventory operations, including at least 2 years in a supervisory role.
- Previous warehouse experience in a manufacturing or heavy-industrial environment is strongly preferred.
- Good understanding of material planning, reorder points, safety stock, minimum/maximum stock levels, and consumption analysis.
- Experience managing multiple material categories, preferably raw materials, consumables, spare parts, safety materials, and finished goods.
- Hands-on experience with SAP Materials Management (MM), including goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfers, physical inventory, and stock reporting.
- Good knowledge of warehouse safety, material segregation, safe stacking, and material-handling equipment.
- Working knowledge of Lean tools, including 5S, SOPs, visual management, and continuous improvement.
- Strong leadership, delegation, coaching, and performance-management skills.
- High level of accuracy, integrity, accountability, and attention to detail.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Good command of spoken and written English.
- Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.