Manager - Supply Chain - Luggage Sector

Hiring for a Manager Supply chain Manager for a leading firm in Luggage sector.

Role & Responsibilities:

Distribution Planning & Execution:

- Lead and drive the distribution plan from Mother Warehouse to 20 Branch Warehouses across multiple product categories.

- Align planning with business numbers, customer channels, and frequency of distribution.

Product Availability & Planning Frameworks:

- Own availability of 1,5002,000 SKUs by designing robust distribution frameworks, prioritization models, and scenario-based planning to manage constraints.

- Ensure product availability for billing across all channels.

Inventory Management & Policy:

- Define and monitor inventory holding policies and norms, based on network lead times, SKU classification, and channel priorities.

- Drive replenishment planning using rolling inventory norms.

Optimization of Dispatch & Stock Flow:

- Optimize dispatch plans considering FTL loads, promotional priorities, seasonality, and inter-branch transfer reduction.

- Ensure effective stock distribution across the network with focus on cost optimization and availability.

Replenishment & Fill Rates:

- Establish replenishment mechanisms across all inventory nodes.

- Ensure stock availability and fill rate ownership for all customer channels distributors, EBOs/MBOs, Modern Trade chains, and e-commerce platforms.

Slow-Moving & Obsolete Inventory Management:

- Identify and monitor slow-moving / obsolete stocks.

- Design and execute mitigation and liquidation plans to minimize risk.

Stakeholder Management & Warehouse & Logistics Coordination:

- Act as a single point of contact for sales teams on product availability and predictability.

- Manage demand-supply balancing for institutional channels and MTO orders.

- Work closely with warehouse teams to measure and redefine SLAs, ensuring dispatch compliance and reprioritization as needed.

- Collaborate with logistics teams for efficient vehicle planning and load optimization.

- Manage and guide the operational distribution planning team on overall improvements

Reporting & Continuous Improvement:

- Own key functional deliverables: S&OP files, stock availability reports, fill rate analysis, dispatch compliance, and rolling inventory projections.

- Contribute to network optimization frameworks and overall efficiency improvements.