🌟 Leadership and S&OP Process Alignment: Inspired and unified the team around a comprehensive planning strategy and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes, fostering collective engagement and seamless execution.🌟 Cross-Functional Best Practices and Forecasting: Championed the S&OP process and cross-functional collaboration, leading research initiatives to address significant variances. Refined forecast models to align with updated sales, marketing, sourcing, and financial plans.🌟 Strategic Insights and Risk Management: Provided the CXO leadership team with detailed visibility into demand plan KPIs, proactively identifying short- and long-term business risks.🌟 Strategic Inventory Planning: Collaborated with the supply planning organization to develop strategic inventory plans for existing products, new launches, and product phase-outs. Implemented ABC/XYZ Product Classification and managed annual budgeting processes (ABP).🌟 Process Innovation and Service Enhancement: Introduced innovative processes and reporting tools for sales and supply planning teams, enhancing serviceability and customer experience.🌟 Stakeholder Engagement and Alignment: Maintained consistent communication with stakeholders to ensure alignment on lead times, inventory days, liquidation strategies, and aging inventory, fostering a cohesive operational approach.🌟 KPI Management and Exception Handling: Linked finance and supply chain KPIs, tracking alerts and managing exceptions to take proactive measures, thereby preventing losses from obsolete inventory or stockouts.🌟 Inventory and OTB Management: Orchestrated inventory and Open-to-Buy (OTB) management across various channels, ensuring adherence to budgets and strategic objectives.

🌟 Led Supply Chain Operations: Orchestrated and managed all aspects of supply chain activities, including identification, acquisition, production, and distribution of Johnson Marble & Quartz products.🌟 Optimized Capacity Utilization: Evaluated and recommended an optimal product mix to maximize capacity utilization at each plant, aligning with inventory norms. These efforts led to enhanced sales realizations and improved profit margins.🌟 Market Analysis and Product Development: Conducted in-depth analysis of competitors' portfolios to identify market gaps. Successfully introduced and developed new premium Quartz series with competitive pricing, including the Highly Premium Super-Fine 20MM 1600*3200 Multicolored Quartz with Marble body.🌟 Performance Tracking and Feedback: Monitored the performance of new products, assessing overall movement, dealer engagement, sales per dealer, and key customer off-takes. Provided regular feedback to the business head, highlighting critical observations.🌟 Communication and Incentive Design: Effectively communicated the unique selling propositions (USPs) of new products to the sales team and channel partners. Designed targeted dealer schemes and incentive structures to align with volume-price combinations and drive sales.

🌟 Demand & Supply Planning System Implementation: Led the implementation, rollout, and adoption of the Planvisage Demand & Supply Planning Tool, enhancing demand and supply forecasting capabilities.🌟 Gap Analysis and Forecast Accuracy: Initiated discussions for gap analysis between actual demand and forecasts, assessing future demand implications. Developed exception reports and action guides to ensure proper Days of Inventory on Hand (DOH).🌟 Inventory Management and Financial Budgeting: Monitored and managed inventory levels across distribution channels, flagging exceptional low or high inventory for resolution. Balanced inventory management with financial budgeting requirements.🌟 Policy Transformation and Process Improvement: Transformed policies and procedures related to Demand Management, Safety Stock, S&OP, and Production Planning, aligning them with best practices and organizational goals.🌟 Inventory Optimization Projects: Launched inventory optimization initiatives, defining Min-Max cover and Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs) within the Planvisage system to streamline inventory management.🌟 New Product Integration and Process Re-engineering: Facilitated the integration of new products (NPDs) into demand and supply planning, forecasting, and process re-engineering, including adjustments for changes in Market Retail Prices (MRPs).🌟 Production Planning and Auto-Replenishment: Developed inventory level plans for manufacturing, advancing towards auto-replenishment and improving production planning efficiency.

🌟 Inventory Management and Reconciliation: Led the inventory team to ensure physical stock alignment with system records for Finished Goods (FG) and Raw Materials (RM) across warehouses and remote locations.🌟 Quarterly Stock Audits and Recovery: Planned and executed quarterly stock audits for various Exclusive Brand Outlets (EBOs) and Large Format Stores (LFS) across India. Recovered full value for unjustified shortages identified during audits.🌟 Inventory Optimization and Cost Reduction: Periodically reviewed store and warehouse inventory levels, identifying optimization opportunities to reduce working capital. Achieved a 31% reduction in overall departmental costs.🌟 Mitigating Revenue Leakages and Claim Management: Reduced revenue leakages from 0.130% to 0.060% by addressing pilferages in dispatches (Goods In Transit losses) and Returns to Vendor (RTVs). Successfully secured full compensation for marine claims related to transit losses and damages from insurance partners.🌟 Ledger Reconciliation and Financial Recoveries: Led the ledger reconciliation process for LFS partners, achieving mutual sign-offs and recovering amounts related to short receipts and overcharged discounts.🌟 Pan-India Asset Management: Directed an asset management project to account for all assets located across India, ensuring accurate records and accountability.

🌟 Leadership in Supply Chain and Replenishment Services: Led a team of supply chain analysts and demand planners in managing outsourced supply chain and replenishment services for Canada's leading retailer.🌟 Forecast and Inventory Management: Recommended adjustments to forecasts and inventory targets in response to changes in demand and market trends, ensuring optimal stock levels.🌟 Vendor Management and Product Introduction: Focused on vendor transitions, opportunity buys, new product introductions, and promotional activities to enhance market offerings.🌟 SKU Management and Rationalization: Monitored SKU levels and recommended future SKU rationalization initiatives to optimize product assortment.🌟 Service Level Improvement and Inventory Turns: Improved inventory turns and increased service levels (On-Time In-Full, OTIF) by 14%, ensuring timely and complete deliveries.🌟 Implementation of Advanced Analytics and Automation: Deployed analytics, automation, and machine learning solutions to enhance the client value proposition and streamline supply chain processes.

🌟 Forecast and Production Planning Management: Successfully managed forecast and production plans for various vendors across India, ensuring alignment with business requirements.🌟 Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinated with different business segments to ensure that plans and actuals were closely aligned, facilitating smooth operations.🌟 Quality Assurance: Maintained high-quality standards to deliver superior products to customers, enhancing customer satisfaction and trust.🌟 Vendor Purchase Order Execution: Executed all vendor Purchase Orders (POs) within agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs), ensuring timely and complete deliveries (On-Time In-Full, OTIF).🌟 Order Monitoring and Customer Satisfaction: Monitored all in-transit orders to ensure timely delivery and achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction.

🌟 Managed warehouse end to end operations including Inbound & Outbound.🌟 Customer orders executed within agreed timelines with zero in-transit pilferages or damages.🌟 Statutory compliance relevant to the warehouse well maintained.

🌟 Inventory distribution and management on SAP ERP🌟 Ensured re-ordering of materials as required by distributors and dealers to ensure satisfaction and cost-effective operations🌟 Successfully handled a team of 4 Computer operators, 2 Supervisors, and 8 laborers

🌟 Maintaining inward & outward status of computer spare parts & assembled computer systems🌟 Coordinating with corporate as well as an end-user customers for service related issues