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The Logistics Director is in charge of all logistics for all Group sites.
He or she covers all component and finished product warehouses , and all intra- and inter-site flows. He or she may, in fact, manage site Logistics Directors or Managers.
He or she differs from the Supply Chain Director in having a smaller scope, focused on resource and operations management.
He/she has supervisory and coordinating functions, and is in direct contact with the company's Production, Supply and Sales Departments, as well as with service providers.
He/she is responsible for designing andorganizing logistics strategies to ensure the smooth flow of a product from production to distribution, with a constant concern for optimizing the quality/cost/time triptych. Decides whether to outsource storage and transport. He/she manages relations with service providers.
In addition to his/her operational responsibilities, he/she acts as a referent within the structure for performance improvement methodologies and tools. He/she implements action plans to reduce costs, lead times and inventories, and to optimize customer satisfaction. Once again, the main trends observed are the deployment of Lean concepts and, in particular, the implementation of a pull-floworganization. At site level, the effects can be seen in the reduction of component and finished goods inventories , theoptimization of procurement and theimplementation of line edges.