Job Title : Associate - Supply Chain Management
To support respective category manager for carrying put day to day procure to pay transactional activities and achieve cost saving by using various tactical & strategic tools.
The principal accountabilities of a SCM Associate
- 1. Supplier Management: Researching, evaluating, and maintaining relationships with suppliers to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness
- 2. Process and Product knowledge: Should possess knowledge for casting product and its process.
- 3. Negotiation: Securing favorable terms and conditions for pricing, delivery, and contracts by leveraging digital & statistical tool
- 4. Order Processing: Creating and managing purchase orders, ensuring timely delivery of goods and services
- 5. Processing PO/POAM- Ensuring on-time PO placement / PO rate amendments with due compliances/ approvals in line with DOA
- 6. Digitization Ensuring suppliers are following company's digitization drive such as supplier ASN compliance, RFQ management through RFQ portal.
- 7. PLI Declaration -Responsible for on-time availability supplier PLI declarations as per business requirement & adherence to PLI SOP
- 8. Driving alternate material developments Responsible for alternate material development for cost saving & supply chain de-risking & effective tracking of all such projects Coordinating with suppliers & internal stakeholders such as R&D, MPCM, plants for alternate material development projects.
- 9. Inventory Control: Monitoring stock levels and coordinating with inventory control to manage supply needs
- 10. MIS: Preparing MIS against KPI like cost saving, DPO, GRN delay, payment delay, monthly provision, SOB adherence, supplier SOB impact analysis, supplier ratings & rating improvement, etc
- 11. Record Keeping: Maintaining detailed records of purchases, VPA, delivery information
- 12. Collaboration: Working closely with internal teams to understand their supply needs and ensure they are met
- 13. Analytics Import data analysis, Price Indexing, formula based pricing, zero based costing.
Stakeholder management, Time bound activities, Aligning B2B price change mechanism with OEM & supplier