Vikram Nadar Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Supply Planning to ensure finite & long term supply planning & capacity planning for an FMCG Gaint’s Europe and Middle East Operations.• Production planning by considering the Lead Times, MOQ/Order increments, Pallet Sizing & Batch balancing.• Strategic analysis to create roadmap for manufacturing requirements based on Forecast and lead times.• Monthly inventory analysis in order to maintain optimum inventory and assess inventory Gaps.• Troubleshooting issues in APO-SNP to define checks and validation in order to solve system driven issues.• Ensured seamless system integration between planning (APO,ECC and SNC) systems and the reporting(BW and tableau server) systems.• Support long range planning by creating long range production plans and formulated growth strategies.• Rough Cut Capacity planning based on flex and rated capacity in order to ensure optimum utilization of resources and raw materials.• Monthly performance monitoring via Tableau dashboards on KPIs like Fill Rate, OTIF, Inventory $, Days of supply,etc.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Home & Personal Care, Foods, Beverages, Lakme and Deo Planner. • Develop demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.• Sales & operation planning (S&OP) process for business.• Plan production tasks and schedules according to forecast for Internal & External Manufacturing.• Develop and review production plan.• Monitor the execution of production plan and resolve any potential issues in a timely fashion.• Identify current and potential product shortages, develop and execute recovery. Manage inventory levels to meet corporate goals.• Pan India distribution of product with targeted service level.• Planning and managing logistics, warehouse, transportation and customer services.• Directing, optimizing and coordinating full order cycle.• Liaising and negotiating with suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Key focus area* Distribution planning, demand planning & inventory management for 85 depots across the country.* Key deliverables include dispatch planning, demand planning, master planning, cost per ton of volume dispatchable, reduction in Cross flows, plan correction, customer servicing.Customer ServicingEnsuring smooth Dispatches from 5 Plants and 13 OPCs (Outside Processing Centers).RSL, VSL, Critical SKU Production, RDC push for critical SKU, Cross function support.Forecasting,Production & Distribution planning for purchase product. Short & long forecasting(Qualitative/Quantitative input),Mthly & annual production planning,address issue, productive utilization of man and material,minimize variances, safety stock,dispatch plan, RSL & VSL.Dispatch planning(i2)Generating dispatch plan from i2, analyzing the quality of dispatch plan, correction of production plan, maintenance of i2 tables such as norms, bands, mfg_ind, boddetails etc, deciding the norms, bands and mfg_ind, FM/SM classification, discussion with i2 team for any changes/requirement, resolving issues related to i2 dispatch plan.Demand Manager(i2)Development of models,SMO, DP cycle, history rebuild, creation of depot, transfer of depots between the territories, Forecast accuracy/MAPE calculation, statistical forecast generation, loading of sales plan in SAP, resolving issues related to i2 demand planning(DM).IT projects and RewardsAutomation of Purchase product dispatch planning and forecasting.Core Team Member for new i2 solution for DC Model, avoid dumping dispatch plan, reduce freight cost and to increase service level for slow moving.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Master In Management Studies, Marketing

Master Of Commerce, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Software Engineering[Bse], Computer Software Engineering, Air 1

Intermediate Course