Sourabh Lakhmara

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India12 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 5 years of experience in supply chain management.
  • Led significant process improvements in inventory operations.
  • Co-founded a successful hyper-local delivery service.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Supply Chain Management professional with expertise in inventory operations and logistics.

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About

Well accomplished management professional with strong interpersonal and presentation skills. Having more than 5 years of experience in Inventory management, purchase planning, retail, warehouse operations, capacity planning, procurement & supply chain management. Being a decisive and resultoriented leader who has been very successful in delivering effective process improvements and developing innovative programs to drive competitive growth

Experience

12 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 11 mos
Current Experience

Blinkit

Director

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Building cold supply chain

Grofers

4 roles

Senior Manager Inventory management & SCM

Promoted

Dec 2021May 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Manager Inventory operation & Planning

Aug 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Leading end-to-end inventory operations for the East & West region, which contribute 35% of Grofers’ Revenue.
  • Coordinating & implementing supply chain planning with key brands – HUL, ITC, Nestlé, Britannia and Amul. Improved scheduling effectiveness and overall fill rate from 60% to 85%.
  • Led end-to-end capacity planning that is Inbound capacity, transfer capacity & storage capacity planning and its execution across all the business models in Grofers. Now, working on the development of product for the same.
  • Grofers Market – Grofers started a marketplace project in some of the cities to cater the demand where Grofers is a franchise owner of that market store which is owned by third party.
  • Review stock planning and transfer management across all franchise stores in India. These 35 offline stores presently have GMV of 15 cr

Dy. Inventory Planning Manager

Promoted

Jun 2017Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • ● Developed a model to predict all supply chain planning required for Inventory management which is Inbound, Indent, storage, buying forecast & payment outstanding through Inventory simulation. Through this model we use to predict all the parameters for more fluid inventory operations, even was used to plan the first Mega sales event ever GOBD. From this point forward, we use it in our daily planning.
  • ● Managing inventory for multiple vendors which helps in reducing turn-around time for stock connectivity. Development of a model for supplier production planning, where indent was given to suppliers and inventory was maintained at their warehouse. This model showed a good result with an increase in 10% of the GMV contribution of these vendors.
  • Distribution of BOM to trading partners based on actual demand.
  • The system calculates production plans based on the availability of materials and capabilities to satisfy customer demand.
  • Takes into consideration all production constraints (e.g. Resource load factor, production schedule, lead time, etc.).
  • ● Have optimized scheduling of purchase order through a PO priority scheduling model which is based on potential business loss, in-order-to maintain the inventory levels, inbound and storage efficiency.
  • ● Managed procurement strategy for maintaining the ‘Days of Inventory’ to the minimum level. This strategy included optimizing the buying frequency, article level minimum & maximum DOI, along with storage capacity constraints of the warehouse.
  • ● Transfer optimization from back-end facility to front-end facility by building the system that automatically adjusts DOI to counter stock outs based on the volatility of actual versus forecasted sales.
  • ● Formulated and executed Feeder Model to maintain availability during peak customer demand within limited storage.
  • ● Launched the FDD (Fixed Day Delivery) model to maximize the inbound utilization capacity of the warehouse.

Assistant Warehouse Manager

Aug 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Managed the data and established productivity standards from put away to replenishment, picking and dispatch.
  • Significantly improved the process of picking and shipping through the tracking mechanism developed in the system.
  • Managed day-to-day inbound & outbound operations, with 400-500 orders per day, and expected turnaround time of 2 hours.
  • Expanded the company's retail operations (warehouse) in Jaipur.

Farhom

Co Founder

Oct 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Jaipur Area, India

  • Farhom is a hyper-local delivery company, which deliver fruits, vegetables, bakery products, laundry services, and many more within 90 minutes. It began
  • with five university friends in the town of Jaipur. Within 3 months of operation, we raised first funding from our Institution Director and in another 3 months of
  • operation, we had launched our first retail store Farhom Tazza
  • ● Launched application to expand online orders.
  • ● Raised seed funding of INR 0.3 million within 3 months of operation.
  • ● Delivered more than 40 orders per day with 90 Minute delivery challenge.
  • ● Generated total revenue of more than 10 million from B2B and B2C businesses, in the first year of operation.
  • ● Managed a team of 10 individuals and recruited more than 15 interns.

Aiesec

Community Organizer Member

Jan 2014Nov 2014 · 10 mos · Jaipur

  • Coordinated in Bal kalakaar 2014, a social initiative with Rainbow (NGO) to organize a lunch for more than 400 orphan students and organized fun activities for them.
  • Coordinated in Global Village 2014, a cultural summit of international delegates from more than 30 countries.

Education

Poornima College of Engineering

Engineer’s Degree

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Holy Angels School

High School — General Science

Jan 2002Jan 2010

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