What are the primary responsibilities of a warehouse supervisor or manager?

Warehouse Manager is responsible for organising the safe and efficient receipt, storage and despatch of warehoused goods. He needs to take of all the operations area inside the warehouse including inbound, outbound, WH operations, VAS orders, Resource planning, Effective utilization of the warehouse resources, etc. Warehouse supervisor is responsible for getting the work done from the resources effectively within the planned work objects.

1. Supervise and assist in daily warehouse and shipping areas including:Filling and shipping customer orders, satisfying internal shipping requirements (technical service, vendors, etc.), ensuring accuracy of shipments and supporting documentation, receiving incoming material and routing to appropriate area or personnel, filling work orders from production, packaging assemblies and receiving into finished goods, ensuring inventory transactions are accurately logged and overseeing cycle counts and reconciliation activities.
2. Measuring and reporting the effectiveness of the department activities.
3. Developing and maintaining departmental work instructions for all tasks.
4. Establishing or adjusting work procedures to meet warehouse demands as dictated by production schedules and work flow.
5. Interpreting company policies to workers and enforcing safety regulations.
6. Recommending measures to improve quality of service, increasing efficiency of department and work crew and equipment performance.
7. Continuously improve warehouse operations through the use of lean enterprise practices.
8. Conferring with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments and serving internal customers.