Mahesh Kumar Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Irving, Tx, Us

• Managed End 2 End product flow in SAP R3 and APO (DRP & MRP).• Led analysis and reduced Supply chain lead-time and inventory.

Sale Account Manager for Lloyds and Alliance,• Customer Development Manager for 6 categories (managing ‘Pampers’, ‘Duracell’, ‘Always’, ‘Tampax’ & ‘Gillette’ • Led annual and long term Joint Business Planning (JBP) with key customers.• Delivered record market share growth in Pharmacy channel for ‘Pampers’ and ‘Always’.• Led and implemented strategic and commercial direction for the business in partnership with Global Business Units. Responsibility included ownership for pricing, product launches, value creation and sustained growth.• Stratergic Consultant to the trade on category management, including optimization of consumer insight converted to in-store sales. • Managing Pricing and promotions for key accounts• Managing forecasting and promotional analysis to understand return on investment (ROI).• Analysing and updating business status internally and externally with improvement plans.• Owning and designing customer growth plan based Market data and Business intelligence.• Owning and managing National budgets for the channel.• Owning and managing Share of Sku and Share of shelf instore inline with market growth.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Won POPAI UK & ROI Bronze award for best-in-class ‘Ariel’ display.• Owned team budget of £1.5 M and managed to save 15% of Annual budget.• Led and managed new supply chains for NPD launches for Ireland Market. (9% of Total UK & ROI business)• Led optimisation planning with external suppliers for competitive price.• Led and managed Suppliers and streamlining the process.• Led and implemented Shopper Marketing master plan by retailer across total Ireland trade.• Sourcing & developing Point of sale materials for NPD launches.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• n-store Communications Manager for Fabric & Home care, Professional and Health Care Categories, covering 40% of total UK & ROI business. • Gold award winner for “Leading Best-in-class FMOT Thinking and planning”. POPAI Bronze award for the “Best display development and increased NPD sales (in value and volume)”.• Led In-store Point of sale (POS) requirement, from designing/sourcing to delivering (end to end) to major retailers and wholesalers in building brands and winning “First Moment of Truth”.• Led creative artwork & design for In-Store POS for major launches (NPDs) to UK & ROI market and won several awards• Managing and negotiating with external suppliers for POS purchases and deliveries.• Led and established process in optimizing and simplifying the Supply chain process, from external supplier to through P&G systems for major customers (e.g. customisation process).• Owned and managed budget for the categories and recommend the cost saving opportunities on regular basis. • Established and key user for the online process tool, for tracking and analysing POS requests, cost savings, performance, lead-time etc.,• Led the projects in optimizing and saving logistics (Storage & transportation) costs.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Vision – “Deliver right product to right customer at right time for right cost”Supply Chain expert and managing Laundry and Cleaner business (£121M Sales). Subsequently managed Cleaners (Home care), Juice (Sunny D) and Snacks (Pringles) categories (More than £ 250M Sales). Led and managed setting up new supply chain solutions for NPDs and short term demand.Delivered outstanding results on Forecast accuracy and inventory management and received 3 times “Market Planner of the Month” award.Consultant for Integrated Business & Strategy Planning (IBP) process with the Market Operations and Customer Business Development (CBD) teams. Own and maintain forecasting in SAP APO DP and DRP systems.Led monthly Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP) process. Subject Matter Expert (SME) in forecasting methodology (Stats Forecast). Led & managed on-going & Long term capacity planning with the Global Business Unit (GBU) and production plants.Led New Product Launches/Promotions (Initiative Planning) with “Execution Excellence”Own and manage local operations teams for Global Business Units (GBU) for major initiatives, providing and developing expertise on supply chain capabilities and constraints;Accountable to set up new supply chain and local manipulation process for new launch. Achieved excellent service results and reduced total delivery cost through efficient time management.Managed different types of customers, eg, Supermarkets, Cash & Carry, Wholesalers with strategy planning & execution of stock flow from production to Customer. Achieved – 99.8% service level in last 12 months and Remnants <2% of total inventoryLed & Managed SLA, KPI scorecard, inventory review process at DC/Plant and customers to minimize over aged stock and remnants.Led the joint value creation project in moving production from local manipulated Non P&G centre to P&G On site production, Moving customer shipments from Ex-service centre to direct plant shipment.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Led the site HS&E department, achieved 95% compliance across the organisation for safe practices.