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Supply Chain Manager - Job description
The Supply Chain Manager plays a fundamental role within the Supply Chain. He/she is the main guarantor of flow management between the various players in the upstream and downstream supply chain, from suppliers to customers. Within the company or site, he/she coordinates and synchronizes all logistics activities with production activities, and acts as a link with sales teams as required.
The Supply Chain Manager covers the entire activity of a plant within a large Group, or the entire Supply Chain in a small or medium-sized business (or multiple sites).
Their mission is to manage all logistics flows, based on demand assessment and planning.
They manage all supplies, controlling and optimizing inventory levels in real time, for both components and finished (or semi-finished) products, as well as the status of orders and the production plan. He supervises distribution.
He ensures that his program (originating from the site or centrally) is carried out correctly, and adjusts it according to unforeseen circumstances and the external environment
. He adapts the production plan to optimize the load/capacity ratio, and increases the flexibility of production units to absorb occasional or seasonal overloads.
He also manages all internal physical flows, in particular line-side supplies.
He defines the transport master plan, negotiates with service providers, defines incoterms and supervises customs issues.
He decides on the outsourcing of certain activities (Production, Warehousing, Handling, Transport) in order to reduce logistics costs and lead times, while increasing productivity and guaranteeing greater reliability at all levels.
As the guarantor of the quality of service provided to customers, he is systematically challenged on the optimization of the performance of his scope and pilots the associated improvement projects. He/she is also responsible for implementing Group policy and the resulting reorganizations in the field.
In certain structures, he/she may manage the Sales Administration Department.
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