Varun Chavan Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Mh, In

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• S&OP Lead: Service Business by aligning Supplies with Sales & Marketing activities, within financial budgets. Uphold the KPIs of Forecast Accuracy, Supply Reliability, Cash burn, Inventory DOH, SLOB, Distribution misallocation and Fill Rate.• Demand & Distribution: 3-month rolling constraint forecasts of 4 brands (900 SKUs) for D2C, Marketplace, GT, MT and Export including NPDs; at SKU-Channel-WH. Demand shaping to consume NMSM stock and RPM holding at Vendor.• Supply: Plan supplies basis Capacity, Lead time, MOQ, PM and Payout Constraints. NPD, Season and Transition SKUs are thoroughly detailed and adhered to basis required quantity and timelines.• Vendor Management: Renegotiation of Costs, Credit period, MOQ and maintain the ledgers. Weekly Collaboration calls for coverage of desired RPM, resolve Challenges and ascertain support during demand spikes and supply postponements.• Inventory Management & Service: Provide analytical support to Business by dashboarding Metrics for Fill Rates, Availability and Stock Holding. Drive monthly Liquidation and portfolio Rationalization to control Inventory and release Working Capital. • Systems: Maintain PBI dashboards and Act as the Techno-Functional bridge between IT (SAP) and Sales Operations team to implement Systems and Processes, thereby enhancing the value chain involving Customer Service aspects.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai Area, India

• S&OP Lead: Execute monthly Business by aligning Procurement, Production and Logistics teams with the Sales Plan and corresponding Marketing activities while upholding Service Fill Rates and controlling Inventory levels.• Demand Planning: Blending estimates generated using Time Series model with the Causal inputs from Sales and Category Heads team to generate the SKU-Location level Forecasts • Production Planning: Develop rolling 3-month plan for Operations as well as Procurement of RM/PM along with International P2P products having 60 days Lead time. Quarterly activity Capacity Planning to provide an outlook for Capex requirement. • Inventory Management: Provide analytical support to Business, SCM and Finance teams to control inventory obsolescence by identifying Root causes & Action Plans, driving Liquidation with the Sales Team and Write Off of undesirable Inventory. • NPD Planning: Manage Promotions and New Product launches (Volume, Allocations & Time) adherence by ensuring supply chain readiness. Ensure smooth transitions or product revisions due to Grammage, Branding or Pack configuration changes.• Systems: Act as the Techno-Functional bridge between IT (SAP, Power BI) and Sales Operations team to improve Systems and Processes, thereby enhancing the value chain involving Customer Service aspects, especially Modern Trade Channel

Mumbai Area, India

• Develop the forecast for Convenience & Foodservice Division including Wholesale and Restaurant Accounts channels.• Connect with the S&OP Planning team to understand Business insights in terms of promotions, growth rates, Service delivery, New Product Developments etc to reach an aggregate level consensus for the long-term demand for 600+ SKUs• Understand Supply concerns and align the Customer operations to maintain Service excellence.• Control loss due to Ageing of products by proactively communicating to the sales team for early Clear outs or Discounting

Mumbai Area, India

Supply Planning• Responsible for Service, Distribution Planning and Logistics while Optimizing Load and Mode efficiency of shipments for delivery across a network of 22 Plants and 9 Distribution Centre, across Dry and Cold chains for Seasonal & Regular business.• Manage space constraints at Plant, Warehouse, Yard and DCs thus preventing gridlocks and congestion. • Liaison with Demand planning, Production and Carrier partners to deliver right product at the right time to the right place. Analytics & Modeling: • Created a report for the DP team to identify product portfolios experiencing high MAPE and drive Focused Improvement• Developed an Excel Model to monitor Transportation Cost, Age Loss and Forecasting accuracy.• Led the team to formulate a report and presentation to be published monthly to the Supply Chain Director recommending improvements in the Distribution and Logistics processes• Finalist, 72 Hours Visualization Challenge across General Mills

Siom Nashik

Led a team of students to connect with Corporates as the Face of the Institute.Added a list of reputed recruiters with coveted profiles to the campus placements process. Successfully placed the entire batch by leading the Corporate Affairs and Placement Committee in Post Graduate College.

Nashik, India

Reduction in Non-Truck Tyre defect due to Bladder leakage• Identified root causes affecting the bladder - the most expensive indirect component in manufacturing of tyre.• Improved sigma level of the process from 3.05 to 4.15• Eliminated 2 major causes of tyre defects saving 46 lpa for Non-Truck division.

Nashik

Optimization of process involving manufacturing of Control Panels.- Reduced Post-welding time by 6 minutes per beam by eliminating the process of Sandering.- Material cost reduction by suggesting replacement of metal fittings with press fit claddings for panel wiring.- Worker utilization improved by better coordination between bending and punching process.

Bangalore, India

Pune

• Technical Engineer for Routers and Firewalls requiring understanding and re-designing the Client’s network as needed.• Replicate client-side network in cases of new network implementation and formulate appropriate policies for data-traffic optimization while working in Live Production environment.• Learnt the art of Root Cause Analysis and FMEA while working on various network scenarios and challenges.Gained a strong culture of interacting with Customers across International boundaries while performing thorough Analysis under pressure before jumping to conclusions and solutions.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Operations Management, 3.333/4 Gpa

Activities and Societies: - Student Placement Coordinator - Symbiosis Students Consulting Club - Master of Ceremonies, Drishti 2014

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechanical Engineering, First Class

Activities and Societies: Deputy General secretary and Workshop & Seminar head, MESA

Science, Distinction

Distinction

Activities and Societies: Head Boy, 2004