Udaan - Instock Manager

Instock Manager

Job Purpose :

Udaan is looking for a smart, motivated, and self-driven Instock Manager to drive the availability of FMCG SKU's across its assets. This role will be responsible for ensuring availability via right PO placement as per lead times & Cycle times keeping Service levels & health of inventory is on top priority & debottlenecking the issues for short term as well for long term for Instock, Working Capital, Vendor Fill rates & Vendor TATs.

- Timely follow ups with vendors for right prioritizations and appointments and ensuring right inwardings with distance to DoH.

- Maintaining a regular whitelisting/blacklisting list available with stakeholders & city leads to ensure warehouse space availability is not compromised with non-required inventory.

- He or she will have responsibility for ensuring all inventory systems and processes are meeting the needs of the business and implementing controls around these processes from procurement to inwarding and payments.

- Key areas of focus include driving improvement in inventory availability, increasing inventory efficiency and improving product sourcing.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Determining the availability metrics for the Category at City-Brand-SKU level wrt SKU norms & giving insights to replenishment teams for any gaps with short term/long term

- Manage inventory availability and inventory health including improved in-stock, turns, vendor operational improvement (efficiency, fill rates, lead time) and forecasting

- Integrate key Instock metrics with broader business metrics to deliver optimal customer experience

- Have a complete understanding of end-to-end supply chain for Multiple Vendors and complex modelling of workflows, act as key point of contact between Retail, supply chain, and vendors

- Responsible for defining Operational strategy & manage day-to-day operational relationships with vendors and distributors partners, including product lifecycle management, expanding selection and optimizing sourcing recommendations/decisions

- Drive metrics to improve efficiency including inventory replenishment, managing overstock inventory, and operational processes

- Maintain vendor relationships and work on vendor performance improvement through daily communication, training sessions, tracking purchase orders, investigating late deliveries, resolving order rejections, working with vendors on PO automation, etc

- Demonstrate a deep understanding of Inventory Management tools and an ability to work with technical teams to advocate for tool enhancements

- Be an Automation Champion

Role: Manager - Instock

- Determining the availability metrics for the Category at City-Brand-SKU level wrt SKU norms & giving insights to replenishment teams for any gaps with short term/long term

- Manage inventory availability and inventory health including improved in-stock, turns, vendor operational improvement (efficiency, fill rates, lead time) and forecasting

- Integrate key Instock metrics with broader business metrics to deliver optimal customer experience

- Have a complete understanding of end-to-end supply chain for Multiple Vendors and complex modelling of workflows, act as key point of contact between Retail, supply chain, and vendors

- Responsible for defining Operational strategy & manage day-to-day operational relationships with vendors and distributors partners, including product lifecycle management, expanding selection and optimizing sourcing recommendations/decisions

- Drive metrics to improve efficiency including inventory replenishment, managing overstock inventory, and operational processes

- Maintain vendor relationships and work on vendor performance improvement through daily communication, training sessions, tracking purchase orders, investigating late deliveries, resolving order rejections, working with vendors on PO automation, etc

- Demonstrate a deep understanding of Inventory Management tools and an ability to work with technical teams to advocate for tool enhancements

- Be an Automation Champion