One minute introduction: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KrZ5bCYY4AYAbout : Varun Kakkar is a Senior Supply Chain Leader with 15 plus years Experience in Commanding teams of more than 100 people, successfully scaling up Small Supply chains as well as optimizing giant networks. A to Z (strategy to implementation) experience in delivering group-wide profitable supply chain transformation and First-hand experience of working across Multiple Industries from Baby Care, Fast Moving consumer goods (FMCG), Paints, Construction, Decor and Home improvement.He is a celebrated Supply Chain Domain Expert Inducted in the Confederation of Indian industries (CII) “CII Elite” Supply Chain CXO community. He was Selected as the “Supply chain and logistics leader of the year” at the UBS forms in 2023 and Awarded as the “Supply Chain Professional of the year “by Alden global research in 2023. He has able been honored as one of the Top 3 “Supply Chain Management Champions” in the Asia Pacific region by LogiSYM magazine Singapore. Work Experience : He is currently Leading the development of new Supply Chain Function for Aditya Birla Paints under Grasim Industries Limited. Once in a lifetime opportunity to build and scale green field company Investing 10000 Crore in India over the next 3 years to bring cutting edge Supply Chain Solutions and processes to the Paints Industry. In 2023 he led the introduction of end-to-end Planning Software SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) for the Birla paints business as the project leader for Birla paints. Before that he was employed at Asian paints where his responsibilities included Demand Planning, Supply planning, Inventory management, Warehousing, Transportation, Purchase, Vendor management, Commercials, customer service and operations as Head – Supply Chain Sleek by Asian paints from 2018 to 2022. Throughout his career he has inculcated rich cross functional experience across Project Management, Production, Material Management, Planning, Warehouse management, Distribution, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Supply Chain Modelling, Customer service and Team Management. He has nurtured his skills across verticals of supply chain from Production, Quality and Safety to Purchase, Planning, Warehousing, Distribution, Supply and Demand Planning, Sales and marketing. He is Technically Trained in SAP, IBM Inventory optimizer, Forecast Pro, JDA supply chain Strategist (SCS), JDA fulfil, SAP IBP, o9, SCMWorkx FLO and Oracle TMS.He can be contacted on varunkakkar86@gmail.com