Apr 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• 1 Managed the direct spends and procurement of commodities.
• 2 Budgeting and cost control, leading cost savings initiatives for cost optimization and value maximization; Working capital management both for inventory and credit optimization.
• 3 Contract Management- Agreement and enforcement.
• 4 Supplier financial evaluation and due diligence.
• 5 Compliance and Third Party Oversight.
• 6 Supplier Quality capability assessment and capability building.
• 7 Supply Sustainability, and supply risk management.
• 8 Special initiatives like backward integration and traceability for major commodities.
• 9 Sourcing new products or services, determining timing of sourcing of products to provide for a stable and consistent supply.
• 10 Designing, developing & implementing strategies for establishing long-term partnerships with suppliers; negotiating contracts with domestic and overseas vendors and ensuring strict adherence to budgetary controls.
• 11 Setting strategies related to vendor assessments and purchasing terms & conditions to ensure delivery of products or services on time at the best quality & value.
• 12 Providing in-depth analysis, spend analysis, supplier assessments, financial perspective and market analysis to be used to improve the supply chain and help leverage the supplier base & reduce costs.
• 13 Regularly monitoring metrics such as status of supplier negotiations, sourcing cycle timeline, timeliness of performance, savings realized and so on; identifying & recommending opportunities for policy and process improvements.
• 14 Building & implementing active RISKMAPs for all supply chain risks associated with commodity supply.
• 15 Developing high-potential strategies to become a more competitive procurement function; sharing knowledge, organising training & development programs for vendors and developing a transparent vendor appraisal system.

Mar 2015 – Mar 2019 · 4 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

• 1 Managing End to End Supply Chain activities which include Material Management, Forecasting, Demand & Supply Planning, Purchase Planning and Import Finished Goods from (China/Taiwan).
• 2 Develop and execute Monthly product demand plans as per Business forecast & inventory levels.
• 3 Ensure timely service of critical requirements; To ensure that supply of critical SKUs, e.g. Stock-out, tender, penalty, lifesaving or high profitability are on track and make escalation if any deviation.
• 4 Ensuring 100% schedule release to all suppliers with minimum exception messages and timely delivery material to facility; collaborating with suppliers to meet facility production plans.
• 5 Ensuring timely Primary/Secondary distribution of FG stock from Plant Baddi & Greater Noida to all 3 MG/18 CFA’s depot as per monthly scheduled plan to achieve the monthly target without any obstacle.
• 6 Establish/ Examine accurate forecast for production plans, in co-operation with the Supply Chain teams.
• 7 Purchase/Procurement price negotiation (Lower or Fair), Budgeting and ensuring the availability of material based on MRP (Material Requirement Planning) on monthly basis.
• 8 Identifying and developing potential vendors/suppliers for achieving cost effectiveness; steering the overall activities related to negotiation and finalization of Purchase Contracts with the selected suppliers.
• 9 Developing high-potential strategies to become a more competitive procurement function; Setting strategies related to vendor assessments and purchasing terms & conditions to ensure delivery of products or services on time at the best quality & value.
• 10 Manage all aspects of the imports process (raw materials, packing materials, capital equipment etc.) including Order placement, Customs clearance, Logistics, Imports cost management etc.

Mar 2010 – Mar 2015 · 5 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• 1 Championing S&OP Process to evolve consensual short and mid-term demand plan involving different stakeholders (Marketing, Business, Finance & Supply Chain).
• 2 Drive improvement in Key Demand Planning KPIs (Forecast Accuracy & OTIF).
• 3 Drive supply & inventory plans aligning them with franchise Business Plans to achieve targets.
• 4 Collect & analyze market intelligence (demand trends, sales inputs) to arrive at monthly forecast.
• 5 Improvement in all Supply Chain KPIs and Process Governance Maintain adequate inventory levels of imported products by aligning with source teams.
• 6 Maintain appropriate stock levels for local third party manufactured products by providing monthly purchase plan to manufacturer based on sales forecast and current inventory position.
• 7 Export Business management Supervise the export Supply Chain team in arranging documentation and shipment to service Asia.
• 8 Timely availability of materials as per operations schedule and attaining dispatch and production outputs from manufacturing as per planned volumes.
• 9 Analyze inventories to determine how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste or optimize customer service.
• 10 Ensure capacity planning is in place to address both short and long term growth; Support integration and alignment of acquired entities.

Aug 2007 – Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• 1 Managing overall Primary & Secondary Distribution/Order Execution/Stock Audit with a view to ensure timely accomplishment of dispatch targets within the time and cost parameters at entire WH Pan India.
• 2 Managing Operations of 02 MG HUB and 13 CFA’s depots across the country; Responsible for Order processing, Stock Analysis, Stock Audit, Stock Reconciliation and Inventory Cycle Count.
• 3 Responsible for logistics planning and ensuring on-time delivery of products to the CFA’s and customers by effective and efficient Inbound and Outbound Logistics operations.
• 4 Demand Forecasting and Demand Planning based on demand approach, elasticity of demand, cost, price, field sales demand, Sales History, Stock availability, In Transit Stock as well as Stock available in depots.
• 5 Manage the Inventory level at CFA’s and responsible for making Primary and Secondary distribution from Plant to Depot and secondary distribution from Depot to Customer; ensure Stock available as per forecast plan.
• 6 Planning and executing a Distribution and Customer Service Strategy, Focused on redesigning Distribution Network to achieve low cost, high service and high speed operation.
• 7 Improved Customer’s Satisfaction scores from 93% -97% by suggesting multiple process interventions to the distributors for improvement in service levels i.e. Route Planning / Permanent Dispatch Plan.
• 8 Improve on-time delivery to a sustained 97% up from 93% average & reduce order fulfillment time to 24 hours from 48 hours; inventory accuracy of 99.99% from 90% at each SKU level by devising check.

Jan 2001 – Jul 2007 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• 1 Managing Operations of 01 MG HUB and 4 CFA’s depots across east region; Responsible for Order processing, Stock Analysis, Stock Audit, Stock Reconciliation and Inventory Cycle Count.
• 2 Contributing in Material Requirement Planning (MRP) for complete plant complex, based on material requirement dates, reorder points and procurement lead times.
• 3 Responsible for allocation, transfer of material from plant to MG and CFA’s depot, Maintaining the stock of material without any variance by conducting stock verification; monitoring hygiene and taking safety measures.
• 4 Performed Demand Planning sales forecast management by establishing & utilizing best methods (statistical models and SAP APO tools) to achieve forecast accuracy, in-stock, safety stock, and inventory efficiency goals.
• 5 Material demand & Supply Planning based on the rolling Sales plans, Scheduling of Purchases Order, Vendor performance, and Scheduled delivery time along with cost reduction techniques.
• 6 Responsible for vehicles are placed on schedule for Primary / Secondary dispatches to give on time deliveries to Customers; as well as negotiation with Primary / Secondary freight Service Providers for cost reduction.
• 7 Developed system for proper monitoring of finished goods stock, slow/ idle inventory, FIFO, LIFO in- transit breakages of product, rejection and focus on nonmoving/near expiry materials.
• 8 Monthly plans for around 600 SKUs and achieved 98% accuracy for product availability.
• 9 Managing allocation of material as per plan; conducting physical stock audit versus SAP stock at depot.
• 10 Steered efforts in vehicle capacity utilization in terms of volumetric & weight basis; improved the operations and reduced the cost of transport operations with the execution of the same.