Nishant Kumar Email & Phone Number

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

• In Isha Foundation, with prime focus on yoga & meditation, I am leading responsibilities encompassing fund raising for environment sustainability, process improvement, new partnerships, operations handling and crowd.
• Coordinated for fundraising for “Cauvery Calling” project, a UNCCD recognized $10mn project for the environment sustainability.
• Supply chain optimization leading to annual cost savings of 5-8% through vendors consolidation and purchase optimization.
• Led several process improvements projects to achieve process efficiencies and man power saving up to 25%.
• Led process re-engineering initiatives to upgrade processes, man power skill sets and infrastructure for new partnerships.
• Knowledge management for Isha Education encompassing curriculum design, knowledge repositories, training material and 100+ training sessions for 50+ pedagogues and 300+ students.

USA And India

• Executed a Supply Chain traceability project for a large-scale US retail client with 100+ Distribution Centers (DCs), leading to process re-engineering opportunities in DCs and import processes.
• Managed complex transition of “Retail Information Systems”, multi-million dollars portfolio, for a large US convenience store client encompassing multi-vendor environment, 3 business domains and 40+ applications.
• Leveraged Planogram Compliance & Inventory Management skills to recommend store automation solutions for a large US convenience store client to address estimated loss of 4% of net sales.
• Led modernization of geographically dispersed supply chain back-office operations for a large UK & Scotland manufacturing client, leading to SAP FICO implementation project and consulting revenue of approx. Rs 20 Mn.
• Optimized the inventory for critical items in “Tissues and Wipes” product category for a large-scale US Consumer Goods client to achieve service level of 98%.
• Developed competencies in Manufacturing and Retail consulting domains by creating process repositories, white papers, assessment tools in 12+ functional areas and mentored team of 10+ consultants.

India

• Business Process: Product Research, Design & Development
• Developed new product concept & design through Modeling, Designing and FMEA.
• Handled performance improvement and enhancement projects of multi model product.Achievements: Reduced product cost through innovative designs leading to annual saving of Rs 300 Cr.

India

• Business Process: Product Development and Performance Improvement
• Worked with Advanced product quality planning (APQP) methodology for new model development.
• Handled cost reduction, quality & performance improvement projects.Achievements:
• Developed new compressor platform that brought 10% additional revenue to the organization.
• Reduced the product development time by 15% through APQP methodology.Business Process: Production planning, scheduling and control
• Worked for Product Planning, Production planning, Capacity Planning, Production Activity Control.Achievements:

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Manufacturing & Operations

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering, Distinction