Responsible for East and South India CL-Operations partnering the multiple front-end Retail formats of the Future Group & Organisations in the consumer logistics space e.g. ITC, Reckitt, Indus League Clothing, Wildcraft, MAN trucks, Herballife to name a few. Lead the team to Manage large format and multi city DC footprint and Deliver Customer SLAs with Cost, KPI & Profitability.

Define Supply Chain Strategy Drive the S&OP process, Responsible for a) Demand Planning; b) Production ticketing c) Replenishment & Supply Plan, d) Logistics / Distribution - Domestic & Exports, e) Depot management of 140 Depot PAN India & Customer delivery, Supply Chain KPI, costs & efficiency,Lead the Supply Chain team across all verticals within the Organisation.Participate in projects around Network optimisation, Inventory / SKU benchmarking, Secondary distribution, deploy best practices and system & process improvements.Achievements: Improved FG fill rates, reduced Truck detentions, reduced FG stock points & Line item stock outs

Responsible for Supply Chain Operations & support various Retail formats of the Future GroupLead the team to manage 4.50 lacs sq feet of multi city DC footprint & with Cost & KPI focus & accountability. Manage start up - set up & manage operations in mega DCs with Fully Integrated & technology-led storage & movement environment – SAP, WMS, Transport Management Systems, VTS, Wireless Handhelds, Wi-Fi connectivity, Put-to-light sortation, 3 Tier shelving and SPRS for Storage, Multiple Docks.Fixing the size & the number of DCs to cater the Retail formats as per business requirement.Finalisation of all transport contracts – in-city, Home delivery, milk run, upcity in FTL & PTL mode.Material Supply Planning & Cost optimisation - Primary & Secondary - Plan efficient Hub and Spoke model of replenishments to the stores to ensure timely deliveriesDesigning DC / Store SCM manpower structure & Recruitments, Employee Recognition & Training programme.Shrinkage control, improved the transport efficiencies through optimized milk run strategy.SCM activity based Budgeting, Cost optimisation & cost tracking.Monthly Cost analysis with causes of change and control & corrections.First zone to achieve Gross Margin of 50%; Achieved 96% plus replenishment efficiency.

⇨ National Supply Chain o Lead the national Sales & Operations planning for the Pre-paid business & Carry out planning for material requirement & ensure availability at all the circle DCs pan India.o Coordinate with the Marketing & Business Operation teams for ensuring proper availability of kits & handsets for schemes & marketing requirements.o Procurement finalisation of Starter kits RUIM cards & kitting activity to avoid any stock out situationso Aligning the logistics of distribution & movement in line with the plan & demand projections across all the operating circles – PAN Indiao Generate efficiencies in the procurement of equipment necessary for the circle project roll out.⇨ Circle Supply Chain activitieso Infrastructure & network indents in coordination with the Project team, issuance of the service contracts for ensuring infra roll out, bill clearance & vendor payments.o Coordination with the vendors for inbound material and services availability & ensuring deliveries, stocking in the warehouses and subsequent delivery at the Project / Cell Sites as per project schedule.o Release PO / WO on time against the request received from internal functions of Sales, Marketing, Customer Care, IT & HR.o Creation of monthly MIS and analysis for the circle SCM efficiency parameters.o Logistics & warehousing operations in the circle thru 3PL operations & supporting Business requirements & Timely delivery of material at the sites based on the project scheduleo Managed the reverse logistics and refurbishing activities of the defective & churned handsets by appointing & managing the Authorised Service Centres