*Senior Principal Consultant and Product lead for Increff's merchandising offerings - Planning, Buying, Distribution, Markdown Management, and Business Intelligence. Currently one of the leading merchandising solutions in market.*Working directly with more than 100 fashion brands in 7 + international geographies of all scales for product POCs and implementation. Enhancing and automating their merchandising operations leading to better, inventory turns, working capital, top and bottom lines through data-driven algorithms.*Ideating and developing these algorithmic models on key merchandising areas by leading a team of more than 50 highly energized developers and business analysts and consultants to shape them into a Saas product for merchandisers.*SME on fashion retail merchandising and supply chain with extensive experience on ideating and implementing  strategies and projects which have proven business impacts

Leading the supply chain enhancement initiative at Arvind through implementation of products and operations in order to improve inventory turns, availability and sales.Automating Sales &Ops planning for core (rolling) merchandise of ~a million skus per month.Implementation of flexible manufacturing (quicker replenishment for fast fashion) for reduced lead times.OTB Control (Monitoring and phasing inwards)Implementation of Auto Replenishment System integrated with backend manufacturing - to meet demands on time by increased availability and reducing working capital.Streamlining, optimizing and standardizing the entire "Concept to Shelf" processes in multiple brands like Arrow, US Polo, GAP, IZOD, Ed Hardy, Unlimited and many more, working with the Boston Consultancy Group. Further, monitoring the same on a regular basis.Products assessed and implemented -Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment planning & inventory planning.Product Lifecycle Management (Dassault Systemes)Retail Analytics (Kanvas for in-season sales and VM planogram, and Stylumia - for visual sales analysis of products along with market and online sentiment analysis)B2B and B2C portals.Experience in managing the entire project life-cycle right from business requirements, product assessments (business value and ROI), negotiations, agreements, planning, implementation, testing, change management and up till support. Acting Business Consultant for new ERP (SAP FMS) implementation in Arvind. Worked directly with the IT team for planning and testing various interfaces during product integrations Identifying, developing and executing data analysis using strong MS Excel skills.Work with ERPs and other data source providers and technology teams to ensure that key decision data is accurate, automated and timely.Proven ability to manage a team with competing priorities & providing level-headed guidance during unexpected events.

Right from understanding the business requirements, finding opportunities of optimizing existing processes up to implementation and support of solutions as an acting project manager like Product Lifecycle Management, B2B, B2C portals and order management system.

• Sourcing for Brands like Arrow, Calvin Klein and Izod. (~2.5 million pieces per year) achieving 95% and above "On time In full" month on month.• First hand experience of production Planning, Costing and allocation • Vendor management - evaluation and cost negotiations• Capacity planning & Inward phasing• Product merchandising, Sampling & Development, Pre-production & MIS reporting.• Quality management and audit scheduling.• Driving value addition projects in parallel for Process and Vendor Improvements like - VQIP,DPR, QC,etc.

Offered a pre-placement offer(PPO) based on the projects delivered as an intern in Arvind -Developed a website for tacking, scheduling and placing orders and balancing them through lead time calculation.Made an SMV calculator based on GSD data which was later recommended by BCG for product costings.Learned the complete cycle of apparel production and marketing right from fabric to finished and delivered garments. Including sourcing, production and costing of apparel products.

Textile internship - Learned the entire process of production of fabric and its finishing right from its fiber state.