AH Planning Post Extrusion

Birla Carbon; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 500,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Birla Carbon is seeking a Planning Post Extrusion professional for the Alupuram Works. The role focuses on planning and dispatch activities for post extrusion, coordinating with sales and logistics, and ensuring alignment with budgeted costs and OTIF targets.

The position requires managing despatch, inventory, and vendor coordination to support revenue realization and customer satisfaction in a high-volume extrusion environment.

Qualifications

• Plan post extrusion operations to meet production targets within budget.
• Coordinate despatch with logistics and marketing to meet customer requirements.
• Maintain WIP and warehouse inventory as per business plan.

Responsibilities

• Plan post extrusion operations to meet production targets within budget.
• Coordinate with central excise, Production Dept and logistics for despatch and revenue.
• Maintain WIP and packing material inventories as per the plant targets.
• Develop alternative vendors for outsourced post extrusion activities and coordinate with service providers.
• Achieve OTIF targets for the plant.
• Maintain inventory within budgeted levels.

Skills

Planning

Dispatch coordination

Inventory management

Job description

AH Planning Post Extrusion

Organization : Metals

Job Description:

Job Purpose

Plan, organize and ensure achievement of production targets of Post Extrusion meeting targeted quantity, recovery and other efficiencies within budgeted cost and to support despatch and export for the overall achievement of the extrusion P&B

Job Context

The Alupuram Works is having two extrusion presses installed in 1955 and 1965 respectively. Certain up gradations were made to the machinery over the years. The capacity of the plant, which was 8000 tons per annum in 2002, has increased to 13800 TPA during the current year. The competition in the extrusion business is extremely severe. Plant offers wide range of alloys and shapes in India. Business concentrates on value added applications such as Defence, Bridges, Automobile, Marine and other electrical applications.

Job Challenges

This position is supporting the planning and dispatch section, which is entrusted the responsibility of post extrusion activities, dispatch and entire excise functions of Alupuram plant. Alupuram Plant is keeping the finished goods inventory of extrusion products in line with Business targets through effective planning of despatch activities in line with statutory needs of excise. This is being done by co-ordinating with central excise, Production Dept on customer requirements on a day-to‑day basis. Daily meeting with Head of Planning & Despatch, Post Extrusion Section Head & interacting with sales personnel/customers regarding despatch details and order status are part of this. This position is coordinating with logistics department to ensure the dispatch of documents on time to help the organization to collect the revenue from customer; any small slippage can cause huge loss to organization. The position also has to coordinate the material movement across various machine centres in the post extrusion department ensuring minimum lead time and maximum efficiency. Major challenges involve (1) adopting customer specific practice for over 700 customers, (2) maintain in‑sourcing and out‑sourcing activity of packing extruded products, (3) provide value added services as per customer requirement (4) provide cost effective packing methods.

Key Result Areas

KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)

Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

KRA1 i) To plan operations for post extrusion so as to meet targeted production and customer requirements at budgeted cost
ii) To take effective steps to control WIP and warehouse inventory as per business plan
iii) To give inputs related to production figures, cost control activities adopted in post extrusion in regular frequency
iv) Developing alternative vendors for outsourced activities and coordination with existing service providers for post extrusion activities
v) Achieving OTIF targets set for the plant
vi) Maintaining inventory within the budgeted levels i) Daily / weekly meetings with post extrusion regarding packing requirements and despatch according to marketing requirements
ii) Plan packing activities by coordinating with marketing, despatch and post extrusion teams
iii) Maintain minimum inventories and up keeping of book stocks
iv) Developing alternative vendors for cutting and rectification activities, coordination with existing service providers for improving quality and delivery
v) Coordination with marketing and extrusion planning for faster processing of WIP to achieve desired OTIF targets
vi) Maintaining WIP inventory and packing material inventories as per the P&B

KRA2 Safety & Environment SAE Rounds
Strict adherence to SOPs and Procedures
Job Safety analysis
Implementation of Departmental Safety Committee meeting recommendations.
Periodic Audit of Systems.

KRA3 Training & HR Skill development through in-house and external training especially for hard alloys.
On The Job training to workmen and other staff members in the department.