Delhi, India
Extensive experience in Supply Chain, Logistics, Warehouse, Inventory Management, Commercial Operations, and Distribution. The following outlines key aspects of my profile: - Strategy and Development: Contributed to the creation and implementation of best practices for logistics and supply chain vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to enhance operational performance. - General and Task Management: Skilled in planning, managing, and evaluating logistics operations while collaborating with internal stakeholders, suppliers, logistics providers, and customers. - C&FA & 3/4/5 PL Appointment & Management: Evaluated matrices assigned to monitor service level agreements (SLAs) and managed third-party logistics services effectively. - Remedial Actions: Proactively addressed grievances raised by distributors and super stockists. - Logistics Process Optimization: Analysed the impact of logistics changes (e.g., routing, shipping modes, product volumes, carriers) and reported results. - Order Dispatch (O.T.I.F.): Ensured proper shipment and transportation of products to maintain quality. Managed packaging and provided cost-effective, high-quality solutions to ensure timely deliveries to the correct customers. - Budget Management: Managed logistics costs, developed strategies to reduce expenses, and ensured logistics spending remained within budget. Negotiated rates and contracts with transportation and logistics providers. - Warehouse Management: Ensured accuracy in inventory management and stock movement, resolving discrepancies and tracking slow-moving or obsolete stock. - People Management: Led and developed high-performing teams, achieving objectives and driving continuous improvements. Established departmental objectives and KPIs, consistently reviewing performance and taking corrective actions when necessary. - SOP Design and Adherence: Designed and enforced adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). - Relationship Management: Built and maintained strong relationships with all stakeholders involved in logistics operations. - Customer-Focused: Demonstrated strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, successfully managing multiple projects and competing priorities. - Project Management & Financial Acumen: Possessed a thorough understanding of the business cost implications, production schedules, and customer order fulfilment processes, backed by strong commercial and financial expertise.
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice logistics vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance. General and Task Management • Plan, manage and evaluate logistics operations liaising with internal stakeholders, suppliers, logistics providers, transportation companies and customers. Create and implement best practice logistics principles, policies and processes across the organization to improve operational and financial performance. • Deliver solutions to logistics problems while maintaining high levels of quality and service within budgetary requirements. • Monitor quality, quantity, delivery times, and transport costs. • Negotiate rates and contracts with transportation and logistics providers. Recommend optimal transport modes, routes or frequency. • Select carriers/suppliers and monitor service against performance criteria. Ensure carrier compliance with company policies or procedures for product transit or delivery. • Resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports or customer issues.
• Capacity Planning- Consolidate the long term forecasts from all geographies, review capacities with respect to the long term forecasts, work with Production planning & Sales team. Monitor the execution of capacity augmentation plan, escalate/ report plan deviations and its impacts to the top management and Sales team. • Skillful at managing a complex matrix of products in a large warehouse, innovation in storing, space saving effective utilization of space, location accuracy etc. • Implementation of best practice and exploring cost saving aspects in secondary transportation. • Drive the development and deployment of Manpower plans for the team. • Proficient in developing dynamic and geographical logistics partners or transporters and problem/solving with new solutions. Order Fulfillment & Logistics Management and lead a team to manage the order commitment, order processing and order delivery processes. • Supply Chain Performance Management-Develop, monitor and manage Key Performance Indices in the areas of demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, procurement and Logistics. • RFQ process with logistics costs estimates and delivery service quotes. • Manage the total delivery operation inventory, continually reducing production parts inventory both in transit and in-plant. Also, aggressively eliminate excess and obsolete inventory and optimize end-item marketplaces to meet customer fluctuations.
• Supply Chain Management- Demand Planning Manager for dispatches of 546 SKUs to 14 CFAs across India. Cost saving measures of secondary freight. Man, management with deployment as per the trend and on roll team management across CFAs and evaluation of service level as per agreed “SLA”. Growth of CFA (where Super stockiest) based on the sales turnover. • Central Warehouse Management- Managing Central warehouse situated at Okhla, Delhi, with area approx. 1.00 lacs Sq. Ft. Management of overheads of Central Warehouse management. • Keeping track on Primary transportation & secondary transportation.
• Commercial Management. Inventory management via projection provided by sales/marketing department by all line of items on every month for the purpose of seamless supply of Finished Goods • Set up of new warehouse in the geographic region as per the guidelines and directives of Customer and appointment of CFA for handling of warehouse dispatches of Finished Goods, Sales promotion material, schemes on Finished Goods and sales volumes. • Implementation of system and Standard Operating Procedures pertaining to warehousing norms and validating the SOP against the actual operations in the warehouse. • Define the facility of warehouse in terms of Racks, its design and placement, unloading/loading facility dedicated bay for keeping the inventory. • Conducting periodic audits of stores, verifying stock levels through ABC analysis and performing provisioning of stores as per requirements & inventory levels. • Monitoring the dispatches of Finished Goods by adopting First in First out (FIFO) and First Expiry First out (FEFO) method as per the shelf life of the product.
• Securitizing of dispatches of Finished Goods/Sales promotion material against the billing taking instructions from Head Office for checking pricing and charging necessary tax rates and forwarding the bills to Head Office. CWH Management (Finished Goods & Spare parts) & Vendor Development. Inventory management, Maintaining CWH for Spare parts. Stock stack up in pigeon house with proper bin card mention on the bin for storage of Spare Parts. • Sale and distribution of spare parts to distributors and local engineers with handling of petty cash of spare part and order for replenishment of spare parts to factory. • Liaising with various transporters agents for seamless material movement & effective contract management pertaining to transport.