Interim Lead - Logistics - FMCG/FMCD/Retail

Position: Logistics Lead

Job Type: Interim (on Fixed term basis for period of 6 Months)

Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

- Implement the distribution strategy (route to market) including transportation, warehousing and last mile delivery to support distribution growth on all India Basis.

- Responsible for complete warehousing and CFA management across the region

- Manage transportation from CFAs / distribution centers to final customer including route / vehicle planning for both modern and traditional trade to optimize customer service and freight

- Responsible for ensuring high levels of Customer service (Viz DIFOT, Fill Rate etc.) at least possible -Logistics and Distribution cost, with high focus on order execution at customer level.

- Direct and control warehousing activities to ensure efficient and economical utilization of facilities for storage, repacking and distribution. Ensure appropriate financial, operational, quality controls and statutory / regulatory compliance to ensure operations in line with corporate requirement.

- High focus on operational planning that optimizes Supply Chain Operations' assets to achieve strategic and tactical deliverables

- Responsible for managing performance of all service providers through contracts / service level agreements, monitoring and operations reviews, for his region.

- Responsible for developing suppliers / service providers to provide logistics solutions to support efficient and effective distribution

- Working with leadership to design and tailor logistics processes including customer facing and back office procedures

- Management of Service Level Agreements via scorecard metrics trend analysis including high performance, timely and accurate forward and reverse logistics

- Identify, troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve issues or gaps in logistics operations at program and task order levels

Stakeholder Management

- Work with the SC Planning, Production, Finance and Regional Sales teams, understanding sales forecasts, stock availability and timely execution of Sales order at the billing locations.

- Highlight concern areas in 3PL performance to Track and monitor performance against KPIs; Implement corrective actions to improve performance.

KPIs

- Inventory turnover to measure of how many times in a period a company sells all its stock of a certain product.

- Operating ratio = total operating expenses/total revenue

- Net profit ratio = after taxes profit/total sales

- Financial leverage = total debts/total assets

- Capacity utilization = actual production rates/maximum production rates

- Pick and pack cycle time = time packing is done-time order was picked in warehouse

- Truck Turnaround Rate (Truck Turning) or Average Wait Time (Average Dwell Time

- Lead time = time order was received - time order was placed

- Delivery time = time order was received - time order was shipped