Ashutosh Kumar

Vendor Sourcing, Cost Negotiation, New product development, Production & supply management, Order Tracking, Follow ups, Vendor Management, TNA, Critical Path Management, Record maintaining, Written & verbal comunication

• Retail (Buying, Sourcing & Merchandising) inventory stock in warehouse, negotiating on quantities & delivery lead times, reducing
• COGS, meeting with suppliers, predicting sales & profits, launching new collections and range in line with market demand, product Life Cycle management, review competitor brand, buying plans, Sourcing Certified products, 0 OOS

• (Sourcing & Production), Liaison office for Pepco Retails, 3500+ retail stores in Europe (Pepco.eu) and Pep&Co, London
• Ethical & compliant sourcing of certified goods/children wear (licensed characters),
• Travelled to Europe for seasonal buying meetings, Buying meeting with vendors, costing & negotiation, Order tracking,100% ON TIME shipment with no claims from buyers, vendor performance tracking, vendor development, travelling to factories, Critical path management, Handled orders worth $12 million per season, Resource Efficiency for Circular Fashion

• Apparel Export House (Handled account for brands like Miss Etam, Primark, Lindex, H&M, Bestseller) performing all merchandising activities in fixed timeline including PD, sampling, going through POs and documents, approvals & closures of trims and fabric/lab dips/desk loom, ordering raw materials, negotiation with suppliers, communicating with buyers, follow ups, costing, TNA making, BOM, conducting pre production meetings, garment & fabric testing, on time shipment closures without any delay.

• (Production and PD)
• Kauten kraft, Apparel Export House
• TNA preparations, BOM and costing, sampling, coordinating with production department, communication through mail and call, foreseeing problems with design, raw materials estimation, getting lab dips, sourcing of trims and accessories, meeting deadlines, following up with all the concerned departments.

Spinning, Weaving, Testing & Quality Evaluation (06/2013)

Resource Efficiency for Circular Fashion (MDP)