Supply/Procurement Sourcing - Warehouse - FTL Internship

As an Intern, your primary responsibilities will involve identifying, evaluating, and onboarding suppliers for warehousing-related materials and services such as storage racks, pallets, packaging materials, and handling equipment. You will be responsible for sourcing and managing Full Truckload (FTL) transportation vendors, ensuring availability, service reliability, and cost-effectiveness across required routes and locations. Additionally, you will coordinate with internal teams such as warehouse, operations, logistics, and projects to gather sourcing requirements and plan procurement activities across multiple locations. Your role will also include planning and executing the procurement of FTL services for inbound and outbound movements, ensuring timely dispatch and delivery in alignment with operational needs. You will oversee the end-to-end procurement process, which involves handling purchase requisitions (PR), purchase orders (PO), goods receipt notes (GRN), and coordinating invoicing with the finance team. Furthermore, conducting regular market research and benchmarking to stay updated on material pricing trends and freight rate fluctuations will be essential in identifying cost-saving opportunities. Monitoring supplier and carrier performance, promptly addressing issues related to delivery delays, quality deviations, or service breakdowns, will be part of your daily tasks. Ensuring compliance with procurement policies and documentation standards to support audits and internal reporting requirements is crucial. You will need to align sourcing activities with warehouse expansion and operational timelines to ensure timely availability of both materials and transportation resources. Verifying that all sourced materials meet quality and specification standards and coordinating with vendors for replacements or corrective actions as needed will also fall under your responsibilities. Developing and maintaining strong relationships with both material vendors and FTL carriers to support long-term sourcing stability, flexibility, and service improvement is another key aspect of this role. About Stockarea: Stockarea is a digital warehousing ecosystem catering to e-commerce, OEMs, and importers. The company assists businesses in securing optimal on-demand warehousing contracts through its logistics network. Stockarea offers flexibility and scalability to supply chains by granting access to a partner network, order management, inventory visibility, seamless system integrations, single support, and a cloud-based platform for comprehensive management. The company's objective is to empower e-commerce players by providing access to a logistics network that rivals existing marketplace giants, and to support OEMs/importers" supply chains with a logistics network that enables scalable growth. Stockarea's services encompass storage/warehousing services, fulfillment services, warehouse leasing, warehouse possibility reports, and first-mile and middle-mile services.,