The feed business manager is responsible for directing and overseeing, sourcing, inventory controlling, manufacturing, sales, distributing and overall administrative activities of the feed business unit.

Key Functions

Sourcing

• Ensures quality control manual and procedure is in place.
• Selects and approves reliable, consistent and genuine of feed raw material suppliers.
• Prepare based on the sales and production of chicks forecast, prepare purchase planning.
• Conducts different training and development activities to subordinates when and wherever needed.

Inventory Management

• Ensures that there is adequate level of raw materials in store.
• Ensures that inventories are handled properly and safely.
• Ensures that there is a proper system of controlling of inventories while receiving and issuing.
• Create minimum inventory level and reorder amount for each feed raw materials.
• Create minimum inventory level for finished feed based on the demand forecast.

Manufacturing / Processing

• Ensures that products are produced according to standard.
• Prepare quality control system for manufacturing, like mix timing.
• Make sure GRN and ISSUE vouchers are in place.
• Ensures a smooth and continuous supply of utilities, labor.
• Ensures the readiness of milling machines for proper production all the time.
• Devises proper production control systems.
• Formulation optimization.
• Management of production efficiencies (reducing utility, labor, packaging, downtime, etc)
• Product pricing.
• Gross margin management (protecting our target 25% gross margin of all products)

Distribution/ Sales

• Conducts feed market research.
• Prepares future demand and supply forecast of feed.
• Delivery and dispatch to internal customers and 3rd party customers (layer feed, broiler feed, “non-agent feed”)
• Achieving sales target for non-breeder/ agent feed