Role Purpose:

Own and define the strategic inventory framework for Schueco India, ensuring material availability with optimized inventory investment, controlled business risk and disciplined KOW/NON-KOW governance. Act as the inventory business-process owner for the planned SAP S/4HANA transformation, covering future-state process design, master-data quality, controls, testing, migration readiness and user adoption.

Core Accountabilities

- Define and govern inventory policies, stocking principles and decision guidelines.

- Own quarterly, annual and long-term inventory plans aligned to demand, growth and supply constraints.

- Govern critical stock, safety stock, reorder levels and major buying decisions.

- Coordinate closely with Head Sourcing on supplier capacity, MOQ, lead time and supply risks.

- Own KOW/NON-KOW strategy and prevent one-time project demand from distorting regular stocking parameters.

- Lead inventory-health reviews covering DOH, ageing, excess, obsolete and free NON-KOW stock.

- Recommend scrapping, return, reallocation, liquidation and targeted stock-reduction actions.

- Lead warehousing, inventory-process improvement, automation and productivity initiatives.

- Drive inventory analytics,



management reporting and working-capital improvement.

SAP S/4HANA Transformation Responsibilities

- Represent Inventory Management as business-process owner/key user during SAP S/4HANA implementation.

- Map current processes and define standardized future-state inventory workflows, roles, controls and KPIs.

- Own inventory master-data readiness, cleansing rules, parameter governance and migration validation.

- Participate in fit-gap workshops, solution design, UAT, cutover readiness and post-go-live stabilization.

- Develop SOPs, user documentation and training; drive adoption and process compliance.

- Ensure inventory reporting, physical inventory, reservations, goods movements and stock controls are accurately reflected in the current solution.

Key Deliverables

- Strategic inventory plan and periodic inventory-health review

- Inventory policy, KOW/NON-KOW and safety-stock governance

- Capacity, MOQ, lead-time and supply-risk recommendations

- Scrapping and excess/obsolete inventory action proposals

- Warehouse and inventory-process improvement roadmap

- SAP S/4HANA inventory-process readiness and adoption deliverables

📌 Inventory Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 SCHUCO
📍 Bengaluru