Reports to: Chief Purchase, Stores and Inbound Logistics
Function: Purchase, Stores & Inbound Logistics
Purpose of the Job: This role is to ensure effective inventory management by monitoring inventory control systems to provide required supply of spares and consumables to plants.
Key Responsibilities:
Inventory (Spares and Consumables) Management:
- Monitor inventory control systems and ensure adequate supply & requisite movement of spares and consumables.
- Interact, frequently with Purchase Department to ensure timely availability of spares material, equipment and consumables.
- Coordinate with all stakeholders to maintain inventory levels within the predefined minimum and maximum range.
- Oversee ongoing inventory especially critical spares/parts to provide the desired level of internal customer service.
- Communicate daily with internal stakeholders such as PPC, Plant operations to provide spares for O&M; as per schedule.
- Convince critical internal stakeholders to provide requirements in time so that required support to deliver against timelines can be provided.
- Logging of cumulative inflow and outflow of spares and consumables.
- Reports spares and consumables inventory as per scheduled plans and highlights any critical demand.
- Interacts with Logistics to check availability and quality of the incoming raw material.
Stores Management Practices
- Insure First in first out (FIFO) in Inventory Management.
- Establish item wise min max levels & adhere the same and Maintaining system versus physical stock and 5S in store area.
- Training to workforce through meetings, training classes internally to monitor discipline, Continuous improvement and other systems in stores for better Results.
- Maximum utilization of resources (like men, machine, material) particularly space is very Vital resource in stores and positive in housekeeping.
- Preparation of SOP's, Work instructions, check lists &charts; for stores as per ISO 9001:2000 standard
Internal Coordination
- Coordinate with plant (maintenance & process team) for maintaining spares inventory at plant.
- Ensure adherence to minimum and maximum inventory levels in plant and follow up with delivery schedules.
- Handle key escalations from internal customers pertaining to quality of the delivered materials to enhance internal customer satisfaction
Logistics management
- Adhere to defined processes, systems and checks to ensure delivery of spares and consumables to consumption centers as per desired service levels.
- Ensure no line stoppages at plant because of spare availability.
- Participate in training to observe better operation practices.
- Ensuring TAT for receiving spare parts and materials remains within the defined limits.
Education: MBA in supply chain management/operations management with 10-12 years of inventory management (Spares and consumables) experience.
Experience:
- Role requires in-depth knowledge of store operations so that spares can be provided in line with business demand.
- In-depth understanding of inventory management.
- Role requires knowledge of functioning of plants