Incharge Road Operations Iu Sidhi

**Designation**:Senior Officer

**Updated**:May 14, 2025

**Location**:Madhya Pradesh, India

**Organization**:Cement

**Job Purpose**:
Ensuring mobilization and control over outsourced logistic resources for adherence to agreed road S&OP plan by using hi tech SCM tools i.e. COF window, GPS, Truck yard management system etc. Responsible for attaining desired Customer service levels for road supplies and improving asset utilization (fleet).

**Job Context & Major Challenges**:
The position is based in each Plant (Integrated Units/ Grinding Units/ Bulk Terminals) where in road operations In-charge is responsible for Outbound/ Inbound road movement of Cement and clinker. Typically a Plant loads approx 300 vehicles a day across 3 shifts (A/B& C) i.e 24*7.

As plants are working at 100% capacity utilization on 24*7 basis, any delayed or inappropriate decisions can directly affect the overall performance of the business as there is no room to recover whatever has been lost.

As cement plants are located in clusters and cluster variables viz Inflow, Outflow, prevailing market freight, demand/supply etc have direct implication of the resource availability or freights impacting capacity utilisation, freight/ logistic cost. The road operations in-charge provides the visibility of these variables and proposes options for mitigation of impact of cluster variables. The entire road logistics is dependent on outsourced resources of which 40% is non dedicated fleet. The biggest challenge is to retain fleet in lean situation and to mobilise extra resources to meet cyclical fluctuation in demand at optimal cost.
Major Challenges:
1. Vendor Development
a) To ensure vendor profitability through asset utilization as organizational responsibility
b) To enable vendors to use technological initiatives for attaining common objective of service differentiation
2. Vendor Management
a) Providing order visibility and getting the truck deployment visibility against each order
b) Getting the desired fleet and right fleet size against each order
3. People Development
a) Drive the team for improved usage of IT systems
4. Logistic Operations
a) Geographical understanding of the various alternate routes and destinations on each route

**Key Result Areas**:
**KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)**

**Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)**
- KRA1
- Compliance to Sales & Operations Planning
- '¢ To monitor pending order sector wise & analysis the aging of orders with reasons for the pendency sector wise and planning for the execution.
- KRA2
- Cost Management
- '¢ Market intelligence on freight trends of peer units, commodity freights and arrival patterns.
'¢ Monitoring of fleet efficiencies as agreed in Cost plus calculations and discussion with vendors to control cost by improving fleet efficiencies and vendor profitability.
- KRA3
- Achievement of desired Customer Service Levels
- '¢ Timely responses for mobilization of defined quantity and achieve capacity utilization of the plant.
'¢ Providing the visibility to vendor w.r.t qty, delivery window schedule & priorisation and scheduling for loading and giving desired inputs to shift for maintaining the desired service level.
- KRA4
- Vendor Management
- '¢ Based upon vendor appraisal inputs, share the same with vendor specially the performance gap and corrective action plan.
- KRA5
- Developmental Activities
- '¢ Evaluation of infrastructure available for truck loading with type and allocating a loading time window sector wise depending upon transit time and other barriers.
- KRA6
- Performance Indices
- '¢ Updation & analysis of performance of road logistics operations & improvement trends w.r.t freight, vendor lifting sector wise, direct vs. stock transfer despatch, type of fleet used, order pattern etc. & providing necessary inputs to PLH for further corrective steps.

**Qualifications**:
MBA

**Minimum Experience Level**:
4-8 Years

**Report to**:
Manager