Arasumuhaideen Rasik

Co-Founder

Riga, Latvia20 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in textile sustainability and recycling initiatives.
  • Proven track record in vendor management and quality assurance.
  • Passionate entrepreneur with a focus on high-potential ventures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Textile Industry Expert with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

SourcingProduct DevelopmentSustainabilityQuality ManagementVendor Management

Other Skills

Component and Technology EngineeringTextile RecyclingCost ControlFactory EvaluationEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship DevelopmentApparelMerchandisingGlobal SourcingSupply Chain ManagementDenimQuality AssuranceProduction PlanningFashionProject Management

About

Passionate entrepreneur and angel investor with a strong foundation in the textile industry. With years of experience as a Quality and Sourcing Lead, I honed my expertise in vendor management, sustainability, procurement, product development, costing, negotiation, factory assessment, and quality management. My journey has taken me from working with top-tier textile factories across India, China, and Bangladesh to collaborating on textile recycling projects with experts in Lille, France, at Decathlon HQ. These experiences have shaped my approach to business—balancing quality, sustainability, and innovation. Now, as an entrepreneur and investor, I focus on identifying and supporting high-potential ventures, leveraging my industry insights to drive growth and long-term impact. Always open to connecting with like-minded professionals, founders, and visionaries shaping the future.

Experience

Self-employed

Entrepreneur | Angel Investor

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Decathlon france

Component and Technology Engineer (International)

Apr 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Lille Area, France

  • I create and industrialise common, innovative and efficient Component offers which is accessible worldwide.
  • I functionally manage and animate the component project with the sourcing team in production countries.France & Poland(Linen), Italy(Wool), India, China, Bangladesh, Turkey and Vietnam(Organic, BCI& Recycled cotton)
  • I define and apply the strategies and tactics to create my worlwide target offer.
  • I decide my design tactic for my component family and/or component project.
  • I create or source the best technical answer, exclusives and innovative in a collaborative mode.
  • I fine tune my product design in order to allow a good and efficient industrialisation.
  • I validate the industrialisation with the production team.
  • I reduce the environmental impact of my products.
  • I optimise COST , QUALITY AND LEADTIME all along the lifetime of my components.
  • I capitalise and spread around the network the technical know how on my perimeter.
  • Achievements:
  • Textile Recycling: Developed 40 fabrics with 30% recycled fibre in India and China.
  • Sourced 3 Cutting waste shredder in India and China.
  • Reduced 37% of CO2 impact in knitted goods around the world.
  • 3000 Tons of fabrics and 13 Million pieces of garments were made with 30% Recycled fibre from cutting waste.
Component and Technology EngineeringSourcingProduct DevelopmentQuality ManagementSustainabilityTextile Recycling

Decathlon sports india

Quality Production Leader (Vendor Manager-India)

May 2008Mar 2018 · 9 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Managing quality with suppliers:
  • Guaranteeing the quality of the finished products and the components through a quality control at
  • supplier’s and archive the results.
  • Defining a control plan with supplier that guarantees the quality and security of the finished products or
  • the components.
  • Guaranteeing that all security or strategic suppliers (defined by the purchaser) have a production license.
  • Industrialising the products:
  • Validating and committing on a retro schedule and communicate it to the people involved and alerting in
  • case of delay.
  • Controlling the cost price and negotiating:
  • Optimising the cost price of my products: BOM/ routing list, etc
  • Setting the negotiation objectives (Purchasing Policy/Target/Break-even point) and strategy together
  • with the brand purchaser.
  • Sourcing:
  • Monitoring the market and the suppliers
  • Validating the objective of and the need in the sourcing campaign with brand purchaser.
  • Defining the sourcing resources (budget and time) in accordance with the objectives.
  • Identifying potential suppliers and have them validated.
  • Factory Evaluation & Compliance:
  • To observe the factory atmosphere and analyze its production capacity and ensure that the factory is
  • following buyer’s compliance and safety measures. Also to assess the factory on its social compliance
  • and quality level and environmental risks.
Quality ManagementVendor ManagementCost ControlSourcingFactory Evaluation

Intertek

Laboratory Technician

May 2005Apr 2008 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Education

SSM College of Engineering, Komarapalayam

Diploma in Textile Processing — Apparel and Textiles

Jan 2002Jan 2005

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