Supply Chain Manager, Ambasamudram

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Date: 6 Feb 2025

Location: IN

Company: Coats

Title:  Supply Chain Manager

 

Reports to: Supply Chain Director, India

Division:  Supply Chain

Status:  Full time 

 

Location: Ambasamudram

 

Role Purpose

To oversee and manage the entire supply chain operations, including coordination with planning, order management and warehouse operations through effective coordination with key stakeholders from Manufacturing, Procurement, Central Planning, Quality, and HR. The objective is to ensure exceptional customer service, achieve targeted inventory levels, reduce slow moving and obsolete inventory (SLOB), enhance labor productivity, drive cost savings, and maintain health, safety, and compliance standards.

 Principal Accountabilities and Key Activities
  • Responsible for delivering service KPIs (OTIF, SOLT, Strike rate) and analyse ways of improvement
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders to achieve targeted inventory levels in raw material, finished goods, packaging material, dyes, and chemicals. Work on reducing slow moving and obsolete inventory (SLOB)
  • Coordinate with manufacturing, central planning, procurement, and other stakeholders to deliver and support plant-specific KPIs in line with inputs from S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) discussion
  • Oversee the end-to-end movement of raw materials, semi-finished, and finished goods within the plant and ensure their timely transfer to distribution centers or other production units
  • Ensure availability for raw material, packaging material, dyes, and chemicals
  • Manage customer deliveries for both domestic and export markets through distribution centres.
  • Implement and adopt best practices in warehouse operations, focusing on health and safety, labor productivity, and cost optimization.
  • Follow ISO requirements and support certification audits (both ISO and customer audits)
  • Foster team growth and development

 

People Management Responsibility
(direct / indirect reports)

Team of 8 Assistant Managers/Executives.

Team of 150 workers (Company and Contract)

 

 

Global Remit

 

Operates in:

 

 

Market

 

Sub-Region or Region

 

Corporation-wide

 

 

 

Key Relationships

(please attach an organisation chart)

Internal
(direct and indirect team )

External
  • Production Managers.
  • Functional heads and team members.
  • Central Planning team
  • Distribution center and other Mill Logistics team
  • Master data team
  • Group suppliers and other group markets
  • Freight vendors
  • C&F partner
  • Auditors

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Desirable
  • Postgraduate in Operation management with broad supply chain experience in planning processes, systems, tools (SAP environment), warehouse and 3PL management.
  • 5 – 7 years of experience in Supply Chain Manager roles
  • Experience implementing continuous improvement methodologies and programs such as Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC and Change Management.
  • Good Excel and analytics, judgment, and problem solving skills
  • Ability to interpret financial data and estimate costs, and adherence to safety policies and regulations.
  • Demonstrated ability to promote teamwork and coach team members.
  • Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
  • Superior communication skills - written and verbal. Fluency in English

 

 

 
  • Relevant Supply Chain and management Qualification