Harikrishnan R Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

S&OP Leader Leading the S&OP process for the enterpriseClose coordination with Marketing, Ops finance, Supply Planning, Sourcing and Product Management teams to drive robust S&OP process. Lead S&OP working sessions to drive one number alignment.E-Commerce Demand Fulfilment - B2C Norms & B2B OF

Bengaluru Area, India

• Set goals and objectives, prepare forecasts, consolidate results, present and explain deviations define and implement corrective and preventive action plans to achieve goals.
• Standardize processes, projects to deliver on KPI - Inventory $ / DSI, Fill Rates, Excess & Obsolete, SKU Management, Forecast Accuracy.
• Train and mentor Demand planners/Supply Planners, champion continuous improvement.
• Make decisions to attain the inventory planning goals and objectives and drive robust S&OP process. Improve capacity planning
• Get involved in operational issues in demand planning and production planning. Identify performance barriers and prepare action plan.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Supply Chain Lead part of Centralized EM (Emerging Markets) Handling multiple business units of SSA (Sub Saharan Africa) and Turkey
• Successfully handled the additional responsibility of Supply Chain Lead for Newell Integration project – Newell is a company acquired by SBD
• Supply Chain Team Member in China Hub project - Project to utilize China DC (instead of European DC) as Hub for Emerging Markets

Bengaluru Area, India

• Supply Chain Lead part of Centralized EM (Emerging Markets) CoE Supply Chain teamDemand Supply alignment and Inventory Quality maintenance
• Responsible for Supply chain metrics - UFR, E&O, Net Inventory ($) and DSI for the portfolio under my profile
• Was the Supply planning representative of the JDA / SAP Go-Live project in Q1 ’16 – a 15-member cross-functional, cross-geographical team responsible for transition of RSA RBU from Excel-driven manual system to JDA.
• Successfully handled the additional responsibility of Supply Chain Lead for Newell Integration project – Newell is a company acquired by SBD last FY which is now being integrated with SBD systems. Product Availability.
• Monthly Product Availability Metric devised and introduced in my portfolio as a pilot initiative in Q2 ’16. Analyzed the feedback, made changes and the modified and final metric and report is now used across the region.
• Took lead in SKU rationalization / range finalization activity for the RBU, worked with Commercial teams and CS team to add / discontinue / supersede SKUs

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Demand and Inventory Planning for 4 Divisions under Safety and Graphics Business group of 3M India LtdBlack Belt (BB) – Lean Six Sigma Project – Supply chain Team member
• Supply chain team member and representative in Personal Safety Division (PSD) Portfolio Optimization mix improvement project
• BB cross functional project aimed to improve gross margin of PSD by 3.5 percentage points by 2014 end compared to 2013
• Arrived at ‘Golden-28’ list of high margin SKUs and working out a higher coverage and service based Supply plan for the sameSubject Matter Expert (SME) – Supply chain
• Supply chain Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Safety stock calculation, Inventory Turns Entitlement and MTO/MTS Analysis
• Undertook Inventory Turns Entitlement calculation for 2 divisions in 2011 & ‘12 which was made the Organization wide baseline

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Demand and Inventory Planning for 4 Divisions under Commercial Graphics Business group of 3M India Ltd- Demand Plan validation / freezing- Finished Goods & Production Planning - for both Locally produced as well as.
• Selected for the Green Belt (GB) – Lean Six sigma training program and completed a GB Project on Improving Product Availability
• Overhauled the entire Material planning process (both Demand / Supply planning) for one business line (Commercial Graphics)
• Improved Product Availability at a SKU – DC level and consistently maintained at 75% levels against 50% earlier

Gurugram, Haryana, India

- Distribution Network Redesign Project- Optimised the design of Distribution Network of Nestle India by minimizing total value chain costs

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Executive in Machinery Design and Project management. Handled various design and cross functional projects during tenure

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Worked for 3 years in L&T Plastic Machinery Ltd, Chennai.Was in Machinery Design and Project management. Handled various design and cross functional projects during tenure

Pgdm, Manufacturing And Operations

B Tech, Mechanical Engineering