Vikram Deshpande Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Bangalore

• Getting the RFQ’s from various freight forwarders; negotiating contracts to reduce the costs without altering the service• Working closely with internal customers (Sales Team) to get the forecast, new product development activities, customer order preferences; providing the information pertaining to order deliveries Coordinating with purchase team to ensure the stocks at the time of production• Monitoring each consignments moved out of our warehouse very carefully; ensuring that all the cargo’s reaches the desired destination safely• Maintaining customer service and timely deliveries• Implementing transparency in the process and creating a window for everyone to participate• Conducting planning for logistics, transportation of goods to various locations, likewise for inbound of materials as well Preparing monthly sales report, target variance report, production report; availing the reports to top management for their discussion• Liaising with Freight Forwarders, Government Bodies, Banks and so on• Generate periodic reports to cross functional departments• Leading the S&OP meeting every month for the key members of the organisation

Bangalore

• Designed and implemented Production Plan on a daily & weekly basis to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet dispatch dates of customer orders• Worked out the material resources required for the production• Ensured the RM available at factory and further coordinated with SCM / Logistics to get the RM for Production• Updated BOM/Batch Sheet; conducted follow-up to track the current stock of RM in plant• Planned and prepared packing activity and communicated the plan to the entire team• Drafted a timescale for the job; managed General Administration for plant operations• Maintained daily communication with production/packaging team to ensure right time dispatch of the product• Performed forecasting of production and planning for RM to assist SCM and Sales expectation• Coordinated with R&D team members in order to get the new product approvals• Provided weekly reports to the management regarding the weekly updates of the production• Led team of 3 members i.e., sales coordinators in Bangalore, Chennai & Mumbai• Managed key accounts in various parts of the country directly & indirectly• Ensured monthly targets are met/crossed every time in all the regions• Met with the customers regularly to ensure issues are resolved and conducted follow-up for new & fresh orders• Prepared the weekly report on sales achieved V/s target reports, stocks at the distributor, sales plan for the coming• week & various related reports for the director of sale• Monitored payment collection & follow-up from the customers; ensured zero bad-debts write off in the books• Identified new sales and marketing opportunities, maintained healthy relationship with all the distributors

Mba, Marketing & Hr

Activities and Societies: Was chief co-ordinator at State level Inter-collegiate Mgmt fest held at Surana College PG Centre, Bangalore..

Mba, Marketing & Hr

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