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Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Drive Supply Planning Agenda for Chocolate Category across South Asia Markets
• Enabling Best in Class Service through Right Capacity Planning, Stocks Allocation & Distribution across various Distribution centers while maintaining optimum inventories
• Manage Finished Goods sourcing from multiple countries across Australia, Europe, Asia and Africa.
• Drive Supply Network Changes across market and region in line with Market Growth and Sourcing and Financial Strategies.
• Optimizing DIOH across markets for Finished, Semi Finished Goods along with Raw and Packaging Materials.
• Drive adherence of APO & MRP for Finished Goods Replenishment, Production Scheduling and Material Planning.

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Lead and manage Logistics Operations for 2 Distribution Centres and 1 Plant Warehouse and 1 Co-packing Centre, in total >25000 pallet positions including inbound and outbound transportation to enable targeted services.
• Manage Ocean Freight for Imports/Exports to and from Malaysia including shipments to East Malaysia customers (>5000 TEUs annually).
• Achieve >99% Service Levels for Warehouse for customer deliveries through robust infrastructure & procedures in place and working with multiple stakeholders across organization.
• Develop 3 Years Strategic Framework for Logistics Development for Malaysia business in terms of Capacity & Capability, Cost, Service & Organization.
• Ensure all the warehouses are Quality & Safety compliant as per Mondelez Global Warehousing and Quality Expectations. Manage compliances related to SOX & internal controls for all operations. Work with 3PL for periodic.
• Drive Annual Budgeting process, RFQ process & Negotiations with 3PL along with Procurement team. Conduct Monthly reviews with 3PL for agreed Key Performance Indicators and put an improvement plan in place

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Manage warehousing operations for 3 Sites across Malaysia
• Manage all domestic inbound and outbound operations including transportation from Plant to DC and DC to customers
• Ensure all orders are processed and goods are dispatched to customer as per the RDD requirements and effective controls are in place for handling customer rejections and returns.
• Validation/revision of SOPs related to Co-packing, Warehousing and Distribution along with W&D team.
• Work with 3PL for implementation of Quality & Safety standards in the warehouse
• Preparation of annual budget for Warehouse and Domestic Transportation and work with Procurement team for RQF process and participate in negotiations.

Mumbai Area, India

• Lead 5 co-packing sites across India and ensuring service levels >98% for Promotional and non-Promotional SKUs within Optimum cost while building short term and long-term strategy
• Network Optimization & Developing new packaging capabilities in line with the business ambitions and to support new marketing initiatives
• Work with different functions (Demand Planning, Product Supply, PCM, Marketing, RDQ & Co-packing partners) to execute delivery network for NPDs, Promotional and Regular SKUs at 100% OTIF and >98% service levels
• Ensure all sites meet legal, quality and safety compliance - Work with co-packers for periodic audits for gap assessment and agree on action plan for closure of findings.
• Drive Annual Budgeting, Rate Negotiations Process with Co-packers, cost control and deliver yearly productivity targets

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Country Demand Planner, Biscuits Category- 2 Years (Jan 2015- Sep 2015 & July 2016- Sep 2017)
• Prepare short term and long-term demand plan for Biscuits Category through analysis of historical data and arrive an consensus with Sales & Marketing
• Track daily sales across 33 depots and conduct Weekly demand and Supply meeting for handling any demand variation and supply risks, prepare mitigation plans to ensure no service or business risk
• Analyse and drive action to reduce Returns and Write-offs for the Category through initiating liquidation schemes and monitoring actions
• Drive Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Process for Category by conducting effecting Demand Review Meetings and providing inputs to other IBP Process steps

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Deliver >98% customer service through ensuring right amount of stocks at right time across depots/distributors for primary/secondary sales.
• Bottom up demand forecasting for the region across ASM areas taking into account the monthly Field Activation Plans and business strategy for different categories at distributor level.
• Manage 8 No. of distribution warehouses, CFAs, develop warehousing strategy for the region. Ensuring all depots are Safety, Quality & Legally compliant
• Direct involvement in site inspection, cost negotiation and SLA with the land lord for renting out site for warehousing operations.
• Route Optimization for secondary transportation from distribution warehouses to redistributors with dedicated and Non-dedicated transportation model
• Annual budgeting process and drive productivity for the region as per the targets

Gwalior Area, India

• Drive Regional Sales & Operations Planning (Supply Planning) Process Central Region. Ensuring delivery of regional production targets ensuring line level capacities and correct resource planning.
• Production and Material planning 7 production lines (55K tons capacity) and materials planning for over 270 materials and to ensure 100% availability of stocks to ensure Zero production loss
• Lead Product Change Implementation and Integrated Portfolio Management (NPD) process in the region to ensure On Time In Full ambition of 99% on all transitions, NPDs and Promo
• Primary Distribution Planning and Transportation-Distribution planning & timely dispatches of Finished Goods to meet SKU-wise Range Availability for a matrix of 40 SKUs and 33 depots pan India
• Warehousing Operations- Develop overall warehousing strategy, costing and budgeting, preparing SLAs including space and inventory mapping, technology, systems and process orientation for medium and long term for the.

Mandideep, Madhya Pradesh, India

• Leading a cross functional team of 5 people from different functions-Logistics, Manufacturing, Quality and EHS and Finance at site.
• Production Planning & Primary distribution to ensure agreed service and freshness level at depots with minimum lead time
• Transition management & Ensuring On Time in Full delivery of promotional and seasonal SKUs.
• Materials planning for around 35 materials 7 to 10 SKUs including promotional items.
• Establishing and maintaining Quality and EHS standards at site

Research & Development (Mechanical), Design of heat exchangers, Process Development, Erection and Commissioning of Pilot plants,

M.Mgt, Operations And Strategy

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B. Tech., Mechanical Engineering