ARAHANTH MITHIELESH YADAV

Build trackers of measure sourcing goodness and inventory replenishment

• Headed entire food categories like Sugar, Oil, Cereals, Pulses, Spices and Dry fruits for Karnataka State and managed a team of 10+ members.
• Lead the Marketplace to Inventory model transition. Build a portfolio of 800+ SKUs by doing regular market visits, understanding buyer insights, seasonality changes, brand presence and competition strategies.
• Build and streamlined processes to achieve organizational goals.
• Took daily pricing calls for key SKUs across verticals and ensured correct prices Vs competition and market trends.
• Consistently met margin and working capital targets and ensured growth in Revenue on a Month-on-month basis.

• Managed Bangalore west clusters and handled a team of 50+ members.
• Administer end to end distribution centre operations that include infrastructure, people and processes.
• Drove operational and customer service metrics like on-time delivery and achieved 98% on average.
• Co-ordinate with other ops and project teams on the implementation of different products for driving operational excellence.

• Responsible for setting up the entire operations from scratch, and also handled sales and accounts of the company
• Managed customer relations, was one point of contact for all delivery related queries.
• Handled 15 – 20 members from different departments like operations, sales and software development.
• Deployed multiple strategies and successfully reduced delivery time by 50%.
• Lead the sales team and improved per day sales from 20K to 200K in two months.
• Conducted meetings and derived action plans for the overall development of the organization.

• Managed software and electronics projects and handled a team of 5-10 members.
• Implemented agile methodology in software projects and improved project delivery efficiency by 70%
• Managed vendor relationships and negotiated and controlled contracts.
• Managed project closing and ensured project deliverables were achieved within time, cost and scope.

Major Projects:

BOUT

Nicknamed Uber for boats, A Finland based boat aggregator service – was involved in ideating the features.

TECH4TECHS

A social media and buy/sell marketplace for technicians.

• Responsible for inventory management, material requisition, PO creation/tracking, RFQ management, and checking prices on different materials.
• Introduced the push-pull method to reduce shortages in raw materials inventory by 85%.

• Responsible for overall store operations like scheduling, planning, inventory and accounts.
• On average, handling a team of 15 to 20 people per shift.