Harish K Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

 Budget volume & Value: > 1 LMT & Rs. 1K cr  Major Agri commodities, Staples, Pulses & Oil  E2E Operations: Sourcing to supply chain  Production planning: Weekly and monthly for manufacturing units  Warehouse: Inventory control, Wastages, FIFO, RM/PM stocks  Logistics: OTIF, 3PL, Dispatch, Order vs Dispatch efficiency  P&L: Monthly cost budget vs actual, Long term contracts, Forecasting  Vendor Management: New vendor development, CRM, Sourcing strategy, Fulfillment,  Reports: MIS, SAP, Oracle, Stock statement, Assortment, SKU availability, Material review, Dispatch reports, Sales, Coverage, In bound & Out bound

▪ Budget Volume & Value, Planning & Replenishment: Raw Materials, Fresh & Dairy category▪ Price Discovery: Staples, Fruits & Vegetables, Cereals & Pulses and Commodities▪ Bench Mark, Fresh DC and Dark Store check to ensure full availability. Competitive prices and margins along with Category and OP’s team.▪ Vendor identification, on site operations management, QA, Operational issues integration and NSO’s▪ Private Label: Share improvement with the help of Co-Packer/Vendor, Replenishment: Ensure Shelf life and pricing corrections if any. ▪ Handling multiple DC at different locations across India. Vendor sourcing & supply, Training on quality & SOP to team▪ Regular tracking and planning MIS, Availability, projection plan, quality and margin and DSD supply▪ Sourcing contribution, Fill rate, Daily flash, Indent vs Supply, Initiatives like SIS, POG, Execution, Monitoring Retails, Wholesale, Wet MarketHighlights:▪ Fresh Warehouse operation started at Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai & Hyderabad for category F&V, Dairy & Bread▪ Cross dock operation started across southern region for Fresh articles movement and smooth operations▪ Vendor Management and Training sessions along with quality team for Category/OP’s and DC

▪ Achieved Budgeted Volume & Value▪ Handling CC along with CPC, direct farm sourcing & supply▪ Training on quality & sourcing/pricing▪ Exploring new farmers/vendors▪ Seasonality cwith availability, projection plan, quantity▪ Competitors benchmarks, DSD supply▪ Budget& RGM- Volume & Value, DOH, Stock loss control▪ Operational Issue Integration, Payment, PO update, Farmer meetings, Fill rate▪ Indent vs Supply, Daily Planning, Execution, Monitoring Retails, Wholesale, Wet Market▪ Meeting with SM/ASM's and Cluster▪ Price Discovery: Commodities, Staples, Cereals & Pulsesand other products.▪ Daily DC and Store check to ensure availability of category.▪ Offer competitive prices and better margins without compromising organization values & behavior.▪ Vendor identification and on time material supply.▪ Quality check to be done in DC before unloading.▪ Operational issues integration: Achieved with the help of DM, BDE, DC and Local vendors for availability of articles.▪ Private Label: Share improvement with the help of Co-Packer/Vendor▪ Worked closely with CNC and VF Distribution center inorder to have better stocks.▪ Co-ordinate with Replenishment: About requirement and inform vendor for fresh product delivery. Ensure MFD, Shelf life and pricing corrections ▪ Localization of assortment, SKU’s introduction and deletion: Periodic assortment review,▪ FPS Project (Fair Price Shop), AP Govt: Ensure supply and availability of articles

▪ Price tracking of commodities, Cereals & Pulses, Staples, Fruits/Vegetables and other products. ▪ Empanelment with Regional & Institutional Players▪ Sourcing, Milling and trading of commodity▪ Vendor identification/ induction and development for material and services vendors▪ Material Management▪ Tacking the prices of Agri commodities.▪ Monthly meetings ▪ Several Mandi visits▪ Work with Govt sectors like KSWC, KFCSC KSCMF for procurement, storage of agri inputs/commodities.▪ Account reconciliation and periodic tally in time.▪ Own branding/packing also done based on requirements.▪ Packaged products of Rice, Sugar, Maida, Atta and Others.

▪ Trading activities of Maize, Paddy, Ragi & Other cereals & Pulses with Institutional Players and Regional Players (Suguna chicken, Vencob chicken & others).▪ Karnataka State Warehousing Corporation: Participated and got the tender for sourcing of Maize, Ragi & Rice. We have procured around 700mt of maize, 100mt of Ragi & around 500mt of rice in Davanagere, Chitradurga & Shimoga.▪ Visited Shimoga, Davengere, Hubli, Honnavara, Dandeli, Banavari and Sirsi to get the infromation of arrivals and market scinorio▪ Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Corporation: Participated and got the tender for sourcing of Rice. Procured around 1000mt of Rice in Mandya, Mysore, Hassan & Other belts.▪ Held Meeting with several Trades & Suppliers of Agri commodities all across Karnataka to capture arrivals and convinced them to do collateral management.▪ Karnataka State Co-operative Marketing Federation Limited: Got the opportunity to procure Agri commodities.▪ Monthly purchase reporting – Purchase efficiency & M2M reporting and Material price variance.▪ Vencob chicken & Suguna Chicken: Sourcing of Maize to their poultry forms and done warehousing & Procurement.▪ Discussion happened with many Players over empanelment and successfully completed the assignment with many (CPF foods, Sri Bhagyalakshmi foods & Siddhi foods etc).▪ Trading done with NCDEX

Core Areas: Sourcing, Procurement, Trading and Inbound supply chain management.▪ Coordination of operations of inbound supply chain of wheat flour – manufacturing and direct purchase of wheat flour and warehousing of wheat▪ Pan India inventory monitoring and replenishment for biscuit and bread manufacturing units and flour mills▪ Monthly procurement planning for wheat and wheat flour▪ Purchase record maintenance as per company policies ▪ Purchase transaction and master data maintenance in SAP ERP▪ Purchase systems automation – Automation of bidding process for commodities ( RFQ automation) and implementation of SRM ( Supplier relations management) systems▪ Supplier account reconciliation and periodic tallying of vendor accounts.Key Responsibilities:➢ Daily price tracking of wheat, wheat flour and byproducts of wheat milling and report back in order to enable decision making on manufacturing or direct purchase of wheat flour➢ Negotiation and fixing of prices for purchase of wheat, wheat flour, by-product realization rates and warehousing & logistics services with suppliers, millers or service providers➢ Vendor identification/ induction and development for material and services vendors➢ Preparation of monthly/ periodic procurement plan and review of plan against actual performance➢ Monitoring of stock levels and material delivery schedules of wheat flour in biscuits and bread manufacturing locations and wheat in milling locations, to identify supply bottlenecks well in advance and take actions to prevent stock out.➢ Creation of purchase orders or contracts for materials and services procurement in SAP and physical record maintenance➢ Master data creation and maintenance in SAP ERP and ensure accurate replication of masters across purchase information systems ( Material & Vendor masters, Info records and condition records)➢ Periodic stock and transaction reconciliation at third party warehouse and milling location

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Agriculture