Supply Chain Manager/ Logistics Manager, Procurement Manager

• Reporting to General Manager Supply Chain
• Master Production Schedule (MPS): Manage MPS and drive adherence to the production plan.
• Production Sequencing: Oversee production sequencing to optimize plant capacity.
• Raw Materials Shortages: Manage raw material shortages in line with the production plan.
• Inventory Management: Coordinate all inventory processes, including receiving, issuing, and stocktakes, to ensure inventory accuracy.
• Obsolete Material Management: Manage run-out and run-in parts for better control of obsolete materials.
• End-to-End Procurement: Oversee procurement processes, including sourcing, negotiations, and supplier selection.
• Industry Monitoring: Monitor industry trends and benchmarks to improve supply chain management processes.
• Supply Chain Efficiency: Enhance supply chain processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and minimize waste.
• Future Requirements: Use historical data to determine future business requirements.
• Project Management: Manage complex projects involving integration across departments and new material sourcing.
• Leadership: Provide leadership, continuously assess, and work with senior levels of the organization.
• Strategic Direction: Develop strategic direction and leadership for supply chain activities.
• Supply Chain Evaluation: Evaluate and standardize supply chain processes and procedures across all plants.
• Logistics Evaluation Culture: Promote the Logistics Evaluation (MMOG) culture within the company through internal training.
• Efficiency and Cost Reduction: Analyze data to recommend improvements in efficiency and cost reduction.
• Process Mapping and Standardization: Standardize supply chain processes (warehousing, procurement, sourcing, production planning, and distribution).
• Process Improvement Collaboration: Collaborate with the process improvement function to standardize operating methods across logistics processes.
• Root Cause Analysis and Problem Solving: Perform root cause analysis and problem-solving.
• Stakeholder Relationships: Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including customers and suppliers.
• Research Projects: Direct and initiate research projects to address policy "gaps" affecting optimal business operations.
• MMOG/Supply Chain Audit: Conduct internal and external MMOG/supply chain audits, including 3PLs, to ensure operational standards and product integrity.
• Logistical Requirements: Contribute to defining specifications for logistical requirements (storage, handling, transport).
• Supply Chain Metrics and KPIs: Contribute to defining, measuring, and monitoring supply chain metrics and KPIs, including costs from direct and indirect processes (internal and external 3PLs).

• Direct Reports: Senior Buyer, Stores Superintendent, Warehouse Superintendent, Logistics Coordinator
• Procurement and Production Planning: Directs the planning of procurement, production, inventory control, logistics, and line distribution.
• Process Effectiveness: Ensures smooth functioning of all steps in the process to avoid delays and lost sales opportunities.
• Asset and Spares Management: Involved in managing asset care and spares management.
• 5S Champion: Leads the 5S initiative, asset care team, and problem-solving team, implementing operational excellence.
• Buying and Contract Negotiation: Manages buying functions and negotiates contracts.
• Spend Optimization: Optimizes spend and analyzes total expenditure.
• Warehouse Management: Manages raw materials, spares, and finished goods warehouse.
• Stock Accuracy: Ensures accuracy of finished goods, spares, and raw material stock.
• OTIF Supply Management: Ensures On Time In Full (OTIF) supply of inbound materials with minimal impact on production uptime.
• Supplier and Contractor Management: Manages Service Level Agreements (SLA) with suppliers and contractors.
• Transportation and Warehouse Modelling: Compiles resource models for transportation and warehouse structures as needed. Conducts strategic scenario modelling and transportation modelling.
• Business Opportunity Recognition: Identifies and takes action on opportunities for business improvements across transportation and warehousing.
• Cross-Department Liaison: Coordinates with suppliers, production, sales department, and customers.
• Production Plan Execution: Manages execution of production plans.
• People Development: Oversees the development of logistics personnel.
• Pool Car Management: Manages all pool cars.
• Health and Safety Compliance: Ensures compliance with company standards and legal health, safety, and housekeeping requirements.

• Reporting to: General Manager  (Dotted line report to Group Supply chain director and Group sales Director)
• Logistic manager directs the process which includes the planning of procurement, production, inventory control, logistics and line distribution. The manager ensures that every step of the process is functioning effectively to avoid costly delays and lost sales opportunities.
• Involved in asset care management and Spares management
• 5s Champion for the site, Asset care team and Problem solving team ( implementing Operation Excellence)
• Managing Buying function and contract negotiation
• Managing and optimization of the Spend and analysing the total expenditure.
• Managing the various stores raw materials, Spares and Finish Goods Warehouse
• Managing finish goods, Spares and Raw material stock accuracy
• Ensuring OTIF Supply of Inbound Materials with minimum impact on production uptime
• Managing the SLA with all suppliers and contractors
• Compile resource models for transportation & warehouse structures as needed
• Conduct strategic scenario modelling and transportation modelling if required
• Recognizes opportunities for business or valid applications across the transportation and warehousing fronts and demonstrates ability to take action and exploit such opportunities.
• Liaising with suppliers, production, sales department and customers.
• Management of production plan execution against
• Management of people development of logistics
• Management of all pool cars
• Responsible for the maintenance of health, safety and housekeeping standards to comply with company standard and legal requirements.

• Reporting to: Managing Director (with dotted line to Vice President: EMEA Logistics Operations)
• Direct Reports:
  • Plant Logistics Manager (Warehouse Manager, Planning Manager, Senior Logistics Engineer)
  • Senior Procurement Coordinator
  • Compound Manager
  • Transport Manager
  • Customs Manager
  • Commercial Manager

Current Responsibilities (Project Leader for Logistics & Supply Chain - New Plant Development):

• Inbound and outbound logistics.
• Production planning with ordering process integration.
• Managing packing and unpacking of containers for door-to-door delivery.
• Developing physical and system processes for receiving materials.
• Implementing storing procedure and material allocation (ABC Analysis).
• Line feeding flow process and retrieval system for stock management.
• Development of production plans based on plant capacity.
• Establishing safety stock, reorder levels, and minimum order quantities.
• Development of processes and systems for managing WIP materials.
• Line balancing and establishing manufacturing processes.
• Creating quality standard procedures for the plant.
• Establishing safety and risk management procedures for the new plant.

Main Accountabilities:

• Directing procurement, production, inventory control, logistics, and line distribution.
• Ensuring each step of the process functions effectively to avoid delays and lost sales opportunities.

Job Description:

• Weekly Industrial Feasibility: Reporting towards markets and plant clients.
• Material Flow Management: Managing import/export of materials from Europe and China.
• Customs Responsibility: Managing the customs clearance process for imported materials.
• Assembly Line Scheduling: Responsible for programming assembly lines based on industrial rolling.
• Material Supply for New and Current Products: Managing supply for new products and modifications.
• Logistics Performance Management: Verifying logistics operators' performance for outsourced warehouse and dispatch operations.
• Warehouse & Dispatch Operations: Managing incoming deliveries, warehouses, and dispatches, ensuring proper physical and accounting flow for containers.
• Industrial Indicators: Preparing industrial performance indicators for the plant.
• Collaboration with Process Engineering: Defining logistics parameters for new and modified products.

Warehouse Activities:

• Manage receiving of packaging and raw material, and issuing to the plant.
• Spend time developing and engaging with teams in pursuit of operational excellence.
• Implement World Class Manufacturing Principles
• Ability to enhance team participation and problem-solving
• Managing Budgets
• Maintain safe, healthy and risk-free working environment (Risk Assessments)
• Managing the expediting or buying of raw materials
• Managing service levels with suppliers
• Managing raw forecast
• Managing stock level, packaging and raw materials by conducting four stock takes and doing perpetual counts monthly
• Responsible for the maintenance of health, safety and housekeeping standards to comply with company standard and legal requirements.
• Responsible for the maintenance of health, safety and housekeeping standards to comply with company standard and legal requirements.
• Prepares monthly reports showing costs, statistics, trends and performance measurements.
• Responsible for maintaining redundant stock below the agreed targets.
• Achieving corporate governance
• Ensure the sustainability and improvement of product quality
• Adheres to SHE, ISO 9001, 14001 and 18001 Quality standards.

Inventory Control and Production Planning Accuracy Projects:

• Establishments of Re-order levels and Safety stock
• Daily consumptions of materials VS actual production plan to establish material handling
• Establishing order quantities VS MRP and space availability
• Establishing material usage by determining daily average on production (MRP)
• Establishing JIT

• Planning, Expediting and Raw materials
• Planning efficiency : Compile production plan and determine the accuracy VS the sales demand
• Manage production plan and production output per Plant
• Ensures that manufacturing parameters such as dwell time, service level and performance to plan are met and sustained.
• Managing forecast for raw material, packaging and finished goods 
• Manage SLA with suppliers and customers 
• Manage receiving of packaging and raw material, and issuing to the plant.
• Managing expediting of raw material and packaging from the suppliers
• Managing the release of finished goods and ordering from ITA depots
• Spend time developing and engaging with teams in pursuit of operational excellence.
• Implement World Class Manufacturing Principles
• Optimize Plant & Equipment Availability, and process performance
• Ability to enhance team participation and problem-solving
• Managing Budgets
• Maintain safe, healthy and risk-free working environment (Risk Assessments)
• Managing stock level of finished goods, packaging and raw materials by conducting four stock takes and doing perpetual counts monthly
• Responsible for the maintenance of health, safety and housekeeping standards to comply with company standard and legal requirements.
• Prepares monthly reports showing costs, statistics, trends and performance measurements.
• Entrenches and supports MDWT programs.
• Responsible for maintaining redundant stock below the agreed targets.
• Achieving corporate governance
• Provides the strategy for the further development of plants to ensure BPSA has the capability of meeting future requirements.
• Ensure the sustainability and improvement of product quality
• Adheres to SHE, ISO 9001, 14001 and 18001 Quality standards.

Process Engineering

• Assisting in lean Manufacturing Implementation
• Assisting in Planning of the projects till implementation phase

Lean Manufacturing(WCM) Assessments in Constrain management, TPM, 5s, Kaizen, Kanban, visual management, culture and awareness and Seven kinds of waste

• Training employees in all Lean Manufacturing principles modules
• Conducting manufacturing system Audit in all Lean Manufacturing Principles
• Educating Lower level Employees and Upper level Stuff in Lean Manufacturing principles and Opportunities
• Communicating best practice, tools and techniques of Lean Manufacturing
• Co-ordination the display and Implementations of Lean Manufacturing Strategies in the Plant 
• Lean Manufacturing Project, Cost savings Project, Kanban and Kaizen Project, Just in Time Manufacturing system Project and Value Stream Mapping
• Responsible for Industrial Engineering trainees X2 

Production Process Improvement and Problem Solving

• Provide technical solutions to meet project and product objectives.
• Working hand in hand with purchasing manager and Logistics Manager (Inventory control)
• Perform process, cell layout and material flow analysis.
• Develop manufacturing process, techniques and equipment to improve productivity. Verify the process with actual time studies.
• Investigate and resolve manufacturing problems.
• Implement, update, maintain and audit process documentation.
• Design line layouts.
• Design flexible manufacturing processes to eliminate set-up time.
• Verify Bills of Material on production floor.
• Responsible for continuous improvement for assigned area using Sigma trac.
• Assist with training and coaching the production team from concept phase until implementation to start-up.
• Investigate and resolve Ergonomic issues - PEIL.
• Attend to Quality related customer concerns and Control Plans.

Warehouse improvement

• Design and development of a warehouse. 
• Warehouse process flow analysis, systems Implementation (e.g. ABC analysis) and shelving.
• Storage or warehouse optimisation e.g. Total space utilisation
• Project on retrieval systems in stores e.g. Barcode systems
• Compiling and improvement of Packaging procedures 

• Product development and sample building
• Establishing quality control and quality assurance; standard on product developed
• Process control and process optimization
• Compiling Work instruction and train employees

• Continuous Improvements Projects in Layout development, material handling and Process
• Cost saving projects (Kaizen and Kanban)
• Work measurement, Methods study (Time studies)
• Man assignment
• Line balancing
• Process mapping and Man Mapping.