General Manager - Logistics - Auto Ancillary

Looking for a General Manager- Logistics for a leading auto ancillary company. The incumbent would be responsible for:

Warehouse & Logistics Management

- Calculate required storage volume in store to defined safety stock level

- Plan and manage pan-India logistics network, warehouse, transportation and vendor relationships and custom operations

- Implement organization standard work procedures and benchmark with industry in terms of inventory, freight, delivery and distribution

- Manage budget on warehousing and freight in relations to the logistics operations

- Manpower Management - Planning manpower adequately to ensure optimum utilization of work hours & days available

- Capacity Management

- Third Party Management of multiple warehouses

- Exposure to handling huge quantity of part number (4000 part numbers).

Transportation & Freight

- Calculated EDQ (Economic Dispatch Quantity) by designing Logistics Cost Matrix for each customer location to achieve Target Logistics Cost

- To ensure smooth, safe and timely delivery of After Market Sales Business logistics processes with a focus along with freight negotiation, contract finalization with commercial acumen.

- Optimize warehouse and deployment schedules, carrier equipment, mode, lane costs, and customer on time delivery - Cost control initiatives

- Maintain good network with transporters PAN India

- Develop new freight forwarders

- Negotiate rate contracts with preferred clearing and forwarding agents to minimize costs.

- Use of GPRS enabled vehicles for tracking timely deliveries

- Calculate service ratio - dealer order to delivery TAT

Procurement

- Forecasting Monthly Sales Order based on Moving Average Technique & Linear Model for aftermarket CFA Locations

Warranty

- Policy & Guidelines Adherence

- Settlement Methodology - MIS

BEST Practices

The candidate must be able to add new initiatives into the supply chain by introducing best practices through continuous benchmarking.

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