Associate - Operations

Key Responsibilities
1. Inventory Management

• Manage day-to-day inventory and stores operations to ensure accurate stock availability.
• Maintain minimum, reorder, and maximum inventory levels for materials and spare/production parts.
• Monitor excess, shortage, slow-moving, non-moving, and obsolete inventory.
• Conduct cycle counting, physical inventory, stock verification, and reconciliation .
• Match excess parts with system records through SAN and PI and resolve inventory discrepancies.
• Ensure proper implementation of FIFO (First-In, First-Out) and shelf-life management for applicable parts.
• Maintain accurate system and physical stock records.

2. Stores, Receipts & Material Handling

• Manage material receipt, inwarding, inspection coordination, storage, identification, and issuance .
• Ensure proper documentation and system transactions for all material movements.
• Establish and follow standardized procedures for material receipt, storage, issue, return, rejection, and reconciliation.
• Ensure proper bin location, material identification, labeling, and traceability.
• Coordinate with Purchase, Quality, Production, Logistics, and other departments for smooth material flow.

3. Production & Line Feeding Operations

• Ensure timely and accurate line feeding of materials to support uninterrupted production.
• Plan and control material movement from stores to production lines as per production requirements.
• Monitor material shortages and coordinate immediate resolution to avoid line stoppage.
• Ensure adherence to FIFO and shelf-life requirements during line feeding.
• Follow and maintain systems for production material flow and traceability.
• Coordinate material requirements based on production schedules and BOM (Bill of Materials) .

4. BOM / DOM & System Management

• Ensure proper following and creation of BOM and DOM systems as applicable to the organization.
• Verify system requirements against physical material availability.
• Ensure accurate system transactions for receipts, issues, transfers, returns, adjustments, and stock reconciliation.
• Identify system-to-physical discrepancies and coordinate corrective actions.

5. SAP MM & Excel

• Demonstrate good command of SAP MM module for stores, inventory, material movement, and related transactions.
• Maintain and analyze inventory data using MS Excel / XLS .
• Prepare inventory reports, stock statements, reconciliation reports, shortage/excess reports, and MIS.
• Ensure system data accuracy and timely completion of all required transactions.

6. Team Supervision & Manpower Management

• Supervise stores, receipt, inventory, material handling, and line-feeding teams.
• Plan manpower deployment according to workload and production requirements.
• Ensure effective utilization of manpower across shifts and operational areas.
• Train team members on SOPs, safety, quality, FIFO, inventory control, and system procedures.
• Monitor individual and team performance and drive accountability.

7. Quality Control & Standards

• Ensure materials are stored and handled according to defined quality standards.
• Maintain identification, traceability, shelf-life, and preservation requirements.
• Coordinate with Quality teams for rejected, damaged, suspect, or non-conforming materials.
• Ensure compliance with approved SOPs, work instructions, and quality standards .
• Take corrective and preventive action for recurring inventory and material-flow issues.

8. Operational Efficiency & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve stores and material-flow processes.
• Reduce material handling time, inventory discrepancies, excess inventory, and operational losses.
• Improve storage utilization, material flow, line feeding, and manpower productivity.
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures and process improvements.
• Drive 5S, visual management, process discipline, and continuous improvement initiatives.

9. Logistics & Material Flow

• Coordinate with logistics and internal departments for timely movement of materials.
• Monitor inbound and internal material movement.
• Ensure proper staging, storage, picking, kitting, and delivery of materials to production.
• Minimize material shortages, delays, unnecessary movement, and handling losses.

10. Safety & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with all applicable safety, statutory, company, and operational procedures .
• Maintain safe material storage and handling practices.
• Ensure proper use of PPE and adherence to safe working practices.
• Conduct regular checks of stores and material-handling areas to identify unsafe conditions.
• Maintain required records and documentation for audits and compliance.
• Ensure housekeeping and 5S standards within stores and material-handling areas.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strong knowledge of Automotive Stores / Warehouse Operations .
• Hands-on experience in Material Receipts, Stores Management, and Production Line Feeding .
• Strong knowledge of Inventory Management and Stock Reconciliation .
• Experience in Cycle Counting and Physical Inventory Verification .
• Good understanding of FIFO and Shelf-Life Part Management .
• Knowledge of BOM / DOM systems and material requirements .
• Experience in setting and monitoring Minimum, Reorder, and Maximum Stock Levels .
• Knowledge of SAN / PI-based excess and inventory matching .
• Strong SAP MM knowledge.
• Good working knowledge of MS Excel / XLS and inventory MIS.
• Strong manpower planning, supervision, and team management skills.
• Good analytical, problem-solving, coordination, and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of quality, safety, compliance, and standard operating procedures .

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Inventory accuracy and stock reconciliation accuracy.
• Reduction in excess, shortage, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory.
• Production line stoppage due to material shortage.
• On-time and accurate line feeding.
• FIFO and shelf-life compliance.
• Cycle-count accuracy and closure of discrepancies.
• SAP transaction accuracy and timeliness.
• Material receipt and put-away efficiency.
• Manpower productivity and utilization.
• Safety, 5S, audit, and compliance performance.
• Continuous improvement and cost-reduction initiatives.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in Automotive / Automobile Manufacturing Stores and Material Management .
• Hands-on experience in Stores, Receipts, Inventory, Line Feeding, Reconciliation, and Material Flow .
• Experience working with SAP MM and MS Excel .
• Proven experience in managing stores operations and manpower in a production environment.

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