Stock & Inventory Lead

Function:Supply Chain, Logistics

Reports to:Logistics Manager

Scope:Factory Operations

Location:Nuevo León, México

Terms & Conditions:Full Time

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The Stock & Inventory Lead is responsible for restoring and sustaining alignment between Handling Unit (HU), material, batch, quantity, and storage location across the warehouse. The role owns cycle-count governance in SAP EWM, investigates every inventory difference to root cause, ensures timely closure of physical movements in the system, and establishes a permanent risk-based counting programme.

This role safeguards inventory integrity, traceability, FEFO compliance, and operational continuity by using SAP EWM as the official system of record. The Stock & Inventory Lead drives disciplined execution and prevention of recurrence while maintaining clear separation of duties. The role does not replace the accountability of supervisors or serve as the person who repairs SAP after each operational error.

• Restore and sustain alignment between HU, material, batch, quantity, and storage location in SAP EWM and the physical warehouse / Finish goods.
• Investigate HUs consumed in the system but still physically present, as well as stock recorded in the system that cannot be located physically.
• Separate, analyse, and report positive and negative differences independently. Do not rely only on the net inventory position.
• Validate FEFO, batch, shelf-life, and expiry information to protect material usability, traceability, and quality compliance.
• Coordinate the controlled release of approximately 400 blocked storage positions through physical validation, system reconciliation, and approved corrective actions.

• Own the permanent cycle-count programme in SAP EWM, using product- or location-based counting and ABC classification according to inventory risk and business criticality.
• Create and monitor the counting plan, execution progress, recounts, pending approvals, tolerances, and closure of physical inventory documents.
• Ensure counts are executed through RF-supported processes whenever applicable and that SAP EWM remains the official inventory record, avoiding parallel control processes in spreadsheets.
• Maintain segregation of duties so that the person performing a count does not independently approve material differences above the defined tolerance.
• Use EWM difference analysis to investigate discrepancies, maintain evidence, support authorised postings, and ensure complete closure.

• Audit daily incomplete warehouse transactions, unconfirmed Warehouse Tasks (WTs), inconsistent HUs, blocked bins, open physical movements, and location mismatches.
• Ensure physical movements are completed accurately and on time in SAP EWM, including receipt, put-away, internal transfer, replenishment, staging, consumption, return, and shipment-related movements.
• Identify and classify deviations such as movement without RF, unconfirmed WT, incorrect HU, unit-of-measure error, batch error, consumption error, receipt error, or shipping error.
• Escalate inventory or transaction risks that could affect production, service, financial accuracy, traceability, or compliance.
• Maintain auditable evidence of findings, corrections, approvals, and preventive actions.

• Lead structured root cause analysis for each relevant inventory difference and convert findings into corrective and preventive actions.
• Report trends and recurrence by process, shift, and user while focusing on process control, capability, and prevention rather than individual blame.
• Partner with warehouse supervision, Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, Finance, SHE, and Logistics to eliminate operational causes of inventory inaccuracy.
• Coordinate network, RF-device, interface, master-data, and configuration corrections with IT and EWM support teams when system conditions contribute to the deviation.
• Follow up actions to verified closure and confirm that improvements are sustained through subsequent audits and counts.