About WhiteCrow We are global talent research, insight and pipelining specialists with offices in the UK, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai, and India. Our international reach has helped us to understand and penetrate specialist markets at a global level. In addition to this, our service is also extended to complement our client’s in-house research. About our client For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

About the role
• Lead and supervise end-to-end supply chain planning for New Product Introduction (NPI) and New Product Development (NPD) projects at the Shirwal plant.
• The role converts project requirements into executable material, production, capacity, inventory, packaging and logistics plans from early project gates through prototype, validation, pilot build, PPAP/PSW, SOP and ramp-up.
• The position ensures launch readiness, timely risk escalation, disciplined SAP planning and structured handover to the regular MRP planning team after SOP. As a Supervisor Supply Chain, you will be responsible for...
• Team Leadership & Governance: Leading the NPI planning team, assigning project ownership, reviewing priorities, and representing supply chain in plant and project launch reviews.
• NPI Planning & Launch Readiness: Owning supply chain deliverables from early project gates through prototype, validation, pilot, PPAP, SOP, and ramp-up, ensuring material and capacity readiness.
• SAP, Master Data & Material Planning:



Ensuring timely setup of parts, BOMs, routings, sourcing, and MRP parameters. Converting project demand into executable material plans and managing shortages and MRP exceptions.
• Supplier & Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinating with Procurement, Suppliers, Engineering, Quality, Operations, Logistics, and Project Management to secure materials, tooling, packaging, capacity, and shipment readiness.
• Risk, Cost & Change Management: Maintaining launch risk visibility and controlling engineering-change, inventory, premium-freight, capacity, and obsolescence exposure through timely recovery actions and escalation.
• Performance Improvement & Handover: Standardizing NPI planning dashboards and routines, improving data quality and automation, and completing a controlled handover to the series MRP controller after SOP. KEY DELIVERABLES / SUCCESS MEASURES:
• Ensuring on-time completion of NPI supply chain deliverables and gate commitments.
• Ensuring material availability and build readiness for prototype, validation, pilot, PPAP, and SOP events.
• Ensuring accurate BOM, sourcing, and MRP master-data readiness before planning execution.
• Maintaining explicit visibility of shortages, capacity constraints, inventory exposure, freight risk, and recovery dates.
• Ensuring on-time PPAP/PSW support, SOP achievement, and stable ramp-up without avoidable customer disruption.
• Controlling inventory, premium freight,



and obsolescence exposure through early risk management.
• Ensuring timely and complete handover from NPI planning to regular series planning after SOP.
• Convert headings to title caseReduce repeated ensuring language. What you already have... Technical Skills
• SAP planning and procurement processes (MRP, stock/requirements analysis, material master, PR/PO and inventory visibility)
- mandatory.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, including analytical models, PivotTables, lookups, dashboard preparation.
• Power BI or an equivalent reporting and visualization tool.
• Working knowledge of BOMs, routings, capacity planning, production scheduling, inventory planning, supplier lead times and logistics.
• Good understanding of automotive NPI/NPD phases, PPAP/PSW readiness.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations or a related discipline.
• MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification is preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and data-management capability.
• Clear communication, stakeholder management and cross-functional partnership skills.
• Working knowledge of automotive manufacturing, launch planning and project-gate governance.
• 3 to 7 years of relevant experience in supply chain, material planning, production planning or NPI/NPD planning within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing material and capacity readiness for recent product launches from prototype through SOP and ramp-up.
• Hands-on experience with SAP MRP, planning master data, shortage management and supplier follow-up.
• Experience coordinating across Project Management, Engineering, Quality, Operations, Procurement and Logistics.
• People leadership or team-coordination experience, with evidence of disciplined follow-up and escalation.

📌 Supervisor Supply Chain (India)
🏢 WhiteCrow Research
📍 India