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Dubai, AE

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Heading Commercial & Supply Chain for Biggest Fragrance eCommerce in GCC.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Manage omni channel inventory worth USD 6 mn and 2 big sale events clocking USD 2 mn per event
• Supply Chain and Financial Metrics management
• Achieved a 50% reduction in enterprise out-of-stock levels (6% revenue addition)
• Built fungible inventory management systems ground up and drove a 30-basis point reduction in CTE inventory
• Solution owner for developing Vendor/Brand portal
• Streamlining MIS/data sharing

Mumbai Area, India

• Operations Transformation – Vendor Eco-System
• Analyse the material movement of existing PAN India apparel vendor base (400), with yearly inbound of 65 million eaches
• Design the network for inward movement to MDC to streamline fill rates across 203 retail stores
• Independently generated P&L from the project; clocked topline of 0.25 mn USD a month within 5 months of operations, maintaining gross margin above 35%Solution Design and Execution
• Prepare baseline for modern trade supply chain network of leading luggage manufacturer and retailer
• Explored opportunity to increase shelf availability by 33% and reduce lead time by 10 days, maintaining supply chain costs pre-GST and achieving cost savings post-GST implementation

Mumbai Area, India

• Develop Solution Supporting Pre-Sales Activities, build customised solutions and leading engagement across levels with closing last leg discussions
• Product Flow Modeling and production SKU optimisation for leading Label Manufacturer
• Multi time period analysis post production capacity and flow path optimisation
• Annual reduction of 0.6 mn USD post optimised scenarios generation using Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru
• Design Distribution Centre for Leading Apparel Retailer India
• Mapping the current process to understand bottlenecks and re-designed process to handle the automation by use of single touch flow and PTL systems/Conveyors and Chutes

Mumbai Area, India

• Operations Analysis
• Worked with the top management to bring about visible operational improvement, cost reduction, process improvement, man-machine utilization improvement, supply chain enhancement, productivity improvement and manage EPC
• Implemented Management Control Systems to facilitate design of operation strategy based on sound data and real-time operations analysis and developed KPIs for various management levels
• Identified considerable opportunity by isolating the issues related to improper manpower distribution and lower efficiency in process
• Performed gap analysis, reporting and opportunity identification for system workflows
• Carried out shop-floor studies such as RCA, Impactibility, DILO etc.

Kolkata Area, India

• Designing Procurement Management System (Purchase Management & Vendor Management) to streamline the system and procedures and removal of non-value adding activities.
• Worked on assessment of the current procurement process and procedures thorough review of practices followed
• Designed Vendor Management System for local vendors
• Framed and presented report to supplement the future strategy for better performance of procurement process and vendor relationship management

Gurgaon, India

• Developed application for production operations, workflows and management reports (followed Agile Methodology)
• Responsible for requirement collection and analysis

Gurgaon, India

• Key Responsibilities:
• Analyzing and Verifying the release requests received from development team for production or acceptance testing release.
• Microsoft Visual Source Safe administration activities such as user management on the projects and the versioning control after every successful release.
• Process Compliance, Metrics Management and Status Reporting for the project.
• Coordinating routine audit activities for the project.

Gurgaon, India

• Key Responsibilities:
• Interacting with client to collect the requirements and development/coding for the change requests and bugs.
• Preparing System Test Cases.
• Delivering the application and providing UAT (User Acceptance Testing) support.

Master Of Business Administration, Operations

B.E., Civil Engg