Head - Warehouse / Material Control

Head of Warehouse:

• Manage overall warehouse operations, including inbound, storage, picking, staging, and outbound activities.
• Ensure timely receipt, inspection, identification, and proper storage of incoming materials.
• Plan and optimize warehouse layout, storage locations, space utilization, and material flow.
• Ensure accurate inventory handling, bin management, stock movement, and system transactions.
• Monitor inventory accuracy through cycle counts, physical verification, and stock reconciliation.
• Establish and monitor FIFO/FEFO practices wherever applicable.
• Manage loading/unloading, material handling equipment, and warehouse manpower.
• Ensure availability and proper utilization of forklifts, racks, pallets, bins, and other warehouse equipment.
• Coordinate with Production, Material Planning, Procurement, Quality, Logistics, and Finance teams.
• Monitor warehouse KPIs such as inventory accuracy, space utilization, picking accuracy, order fulfillment, productivity, and turnaround time.
• Develop manpower plans, shift schedules, workload allocation, and productivity targets.
• Ensure compliance with 5S, safety, quality, and environmental requirements.
• Identify opportunities for warehouse automation, digitalization, and process improvement.
• Control warehouse operating costs and support productivity improvement initiatives.
• Manage 3PL/warehouse service providers, where applicable.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for inventory discrepancies, damages, shortages, and operational issues.
• Prepare and present warehouse performance reports and management dashboards.

Head of Material Control:

Responsible for ensuring the right material, in the right quantity, at the right time and place, while maintaining optimal inventory levels and supporting uninterrupted production.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end material control and inventory planning for production requirements.
• Ensure uninterrupted availability of materials and components to meet the production plan.
• Develop and monitor material requirements, inventory levels, safety stock, reorder points, and replenishment plans.
• Coordinate with Production Planning, Procurement, Warehouse, Logistics, Quality, and Suppliers.
• Monitor material shortages, excess inventory, slow-moving and obsolete materials.
• Track supplier delivery schedules, material arrivals, shortages, and delays.
• Establish material control mechanisms to minimize line stoppage and production disruptions.
• Monitor MRP/ERP transactions, material reservations, purchase orders, stock movements, and consumption.
• Analyze demand and consumption trends to optimize inventory levels.
• Develop and maintain material shortage reports, inventory dashboards, and daily/weekly material status reports.
• Coordinate with suppliers and procurement teams for expediting critical and shortage materials.
• Manage ECN/ECR or engineering-change-related material impacts, including old/new part inventory.
• Ensure effective control of WIP, RM, FG, service parts, and production components as applicable.
• Drive inventory reduction initiatives without impacting production continuity.
• Monitor and improve inventory turnover, days of inventory, material availability, shortage rate, and inventory accuracy.
• Lead root-cause analysis for recurring material shortages and develop preventive actions.
• Support new model/product launches by ensuring material readiness and availability.
• Establish contingency plans for critical materials and supplier disruptions.
• Work closely with Finance on inventory valuation, provisions, write-offs, and excess/obsolete inventory.
• Drive continuous improvement through Lean, JIT, Kanban, pull systems, and material-flow optimization where applicable.