Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Standard Operating Procedure For Footwear Industry-Part 6(Raw Material Store)

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Hello everyone. This is the 6th part of this SOP. If you don't read yet the first 5 parts you can read them from the following links. In this part we are talking about Procurement department.

a.Objectives:

To store all necessary materials well ahead of production in order to give support whenever they need.
To maintain optimum stock level to avoid over/under stock.

b. Main Functions:

To receive material as per purchase order in terms of quantity and quality as per approved swatch.
To store the materials in such a way so that they can remain free from all possibility of damage and can be easily located whenever they are needed.
To maintain a stock inventory as per item.
To supply the material on FIFO basis as per requirement and record it properly.
To monitor the stock level as per standard OTB (open to buy) and communicate with the purchase manager.
To adjust the stock with the new purchase requirement.
To increase the stock turn for regular items.
To remain well informed regarding the stock positions of all the items and participate wherever needed.
To monitor the old stock and propose for the suitable article to use it.