Warehousing & Distribution Specialist

Philips; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Warehousing & Distribution Specialist to optimize transportation plans for finished products and ensure data integrity across logistics operations. You will coordinate with internal teams and external partners, monitor system parameters, and support inbound distribution activities.

The role requires strong knowledge of SCM, logistics systems, and ERP/WMS interfaces, with a focus on cost-efficient and timely transportation execution.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience in warehousing, distribution, or supply chain roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, SCM, or Operations Management.
• Experience with transportation planning and coordination.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain transportation plans for finished products.
• Communicate shipment status to internal teams and partners.
• Ensure master and transactional data quality across operations.
• Monitor transportation system parameters and analyze daily exceptions.
• Develop short-term transport plans using logistics systems.
• Assist in selecting new transport options and adjusting capacity.
• Add new destinations into transportation plans with stakeholders.
• Support daily inbound activities of the distribution center.
• Oversee outsourcing decisions and interface checks between SAP/Infodis/LSP.
• Report provider performance and conduct data interface checks SAP/TMID/LSP.
• Participate in rework activities and coordinate stock alignment between SAP and WMS.

Skills

SCM

Logistics Systems

Troubleshooting

Data Analysis

Transport Planning

Data Management

Documentation

ERP Systems

Capacity Planning

WMS

Business Acumen

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration/Supply Chain/Operations Management

Tools

SAP

Infodis

LSP Systems

Job description

Warehousing & Distribution Specialist

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Works across transportation and distribution functions to prepare and maintain comprehensive transportation plans for finished products, ensuring alignment with objectives and adherence to established processes, working under general supervision.
• Communicates shipment status, delays, and other transportation and distribution-related matters to internal teams and external partners in a timely and transparent manner, escalating issues for resolution as needed.
• Ensures the quality assurance of master data and transactional data throughout the entirety of his/her operational activities, maintaining a stringent adherence to established protocols and standards to guarantee accuracy, consistency, and reliability across all created and updated records.
• Monitors and maintains subsystem parameters within the transportation system, conducting root cause analysis of daily exceptions and identifying opportunities for optimization, with a focus on enhancing efficiency and minimizing disruptions in transportation operations.
• Calculates transportation capacity and develops transport plans on a short-term basis, utilizing logistics systems to accurately populate data for each destination and calculate transport needs, contributing insights to support decision-making and adjustment recommendations.
• Guides in the purchase of new means of transport, drawing up analysis on available transport capacity and underpinning adjustments to address situations of moderate complexity, while ensuring timely, efficient, and cost-conscious transportation operations.
• Ensures execution of the introduction of new destinations into transportation plans, coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and alignment with distribution center operations, fostering effective communication and collaboration across teams.
• Facilitates daily inbound activities of the distribution center, including priority setting and exception handling such as overdue Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) checks, resolution of delivery discrepancies, and coordination of rework activities as needed.
• Handles logistics-related duties, such as ensuring timely, efficient, and cost-effective transport, including deciding on whether or not to outsource transportation and/or maintenance within a small budget, and executing daily checks of interfaces between SAP/Infodis/LSP systems.
• Reports on the performance of service providers, conducting regular reviews to identify trends and implement corrective actions, while executing daily checks of interfaces between SAP/TMID/LSP systems to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Participates in rework activities, and ensures timely delivery of products, supporting promotional Value-Added Services (VAS) activities and coordinating stock alignment between SAP and Warehouse Management System (WMS) systems as required.

Minimum required Experience & Education

Minimum 4 years of experience with Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management

Preferred Skills

• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Logistics Systems
• Troubleshooting
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• Transport Planning & Scheduling
• Data Management
• Documentation & Reporting
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
• Capacity Planning
• Warehouse Management System (WMS)
• Business Acumen

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

About Philips

Are you ready to do the work of your life to help the lives of others? Learn more about our business, discover our rich and exciting history and learn more about our purpose. If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care. At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success. It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism. To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance. Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace. Know Your Rights