Biswajeet Reddy

• Developed and scaled an in-house Warehouse Management System for Asia’s largest eyewear manufacturer.
• Led supply chain automation initiatives across picking, fitting, quality control, packing, and shipping processes.
• Directed product and tech strategy for domestic and international marketplaces (Amazon, Flipkart, Tata Cliq) managing ₹200 Cr INR business.
• Headed supply chain product for Lenskart’s international markets (Middle East, Southeast Asia) with ₹500 Cr INR business.
• Led supply chain product for branded contact lens category (₹60 Cr INR business).
• Built in-house Order management & inventory management systems for warehouse processes, including Goods Receipt Note (GRN) and putaway from 0.
• Headed the program to build an in-house ERP (NexS - WMS) and Order Sensei (OMS), replacing legacy systems and achieving estimated annual savings of ₹15 crores
• SBRT Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Program: Co-led the SBRT SCM program, enabling Lenskart to sell sub-brands as DTC products within a multi-legal ownership setup
• Next-Day Delivery Optimization: Established a new funnel for the next-day delivery program at Lenskart, driving performance improvement from 85% to 99.5%
• Built the new OTC flow at Lenskart
• Order Sync Improvement: Key owner of order sync metrics, reducing the P99 sync time from 120 minutes to 5 minutes

• Global Product Delivery Lead: Spearheaded supply chain and operations transformation initiatives for a tech client specializing in network solutions, driving strategic product delivery and implementation.
• Product & Tech Research: Conducted in-depth analytics, process mining, and benchmarking of new supply chain products to uncover transformation opportunities and implement operational changes through innovative product ideation.
• Thought Leadership: Published internal articles highlighting the importance of digitization, process mining, and supply chain advancements.
• Return Reduction: Achieved a 15% reduction in returns: resulting in combined savings of $0.35 million, with an additional benefit of over $0.2 million through automation, RPA, BOTs, EDI, API integrations, tool enhancements, and workflow implementations.
• Invoice Dispute Reduction: Attained a 20% reduction in invoice disputes through NLP (Text Analytics) root cause analysis, improving turnaround time (TAT), cycle time (CT), and service level agreements (SLA) by 10%.
• Technologies: Proficient in SAP- TM, SAP-MM, P2P, OTC, SD etc
• Design and Development: Experienced in reviewing Figma UI/UX, creating wireframe charts, and developing PRDs.
• API Integrations: Skilled in REST and SOAP API integrations.

Analytics: Utilized NLP for data analysis and insights.

• Senior product manager (Senior Consultant)
• Digital Transformation Projects: Spearheaded the development of products focused on Transportation Management, Logistics, Procurement, and Inventory Control across diverse industries, including FMCG, pharma, tech, and logistics.
• SAP Implementation: Led implementation projects for SAP-MM, SAP TM, Supplier Portals, and reverse logistics, enhancing operational efficiency.
• Logistics Network Optimization: Drove product development programs in logistics network optimization, service delivery planning, and establishing communication systems for ports and vendors through EDI and live tracking mechanisms (e.g., KREM, SmartOps via APIs).
• Cost and Time Reduction: Implemented triangulation, tandem, twinning, short, off-dock, and depot movements, achieving a 13% cost reduction for round trips and a 20% decrease in trip time.
• Optimal Network Configuration: Established and configured optimal network and route optimization for intermodal transport in logistics supplier portals, considering demand, supply capacity, and container production constraints.
• Inventory Optimization: Led analytics projects to reduce out-of-balance inventory, assisting clients in developing exit strategies that saved over $1 million per month.
• Centralized Procurement: Established centralized procurement and contract management for clients operating in multiple geographic locations.
• Business Process Mapping: Performed business process mapping, requirement gathering, and solution design to streamline operations.
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• Associate Manager (Procurement)
• Procurement Product Development: Designed and implemented a new product to streamline the procure-to-pay (P2P) order cycle, enhancing efficiency in procurement processes.
• Process Innovation: Developed solutions for purchase order (PO) tracking, 'Return to Vendor' logistics, and payment reversal processes, improving overall operational flow.
• Contract Negotiation: Finalized contracts for material and service agreements with various vendors across plant maintenance, civil sectors, and logistics, integrating seamlessly with the procurement system.
• Budget Management: Led a team to execute procurement initiatives, owning an annual purchase budget of up to ₹10 crores for mechanical spares.
• Vendor Management: Developed and implemented vendor development and management strategies, including an OEM substitution mechanism in SAP, reducing cash outflow and improving EBITDA by achieving a 17% cost reduction.
• Rate Contracts: Established annual rate contracts with manufacturers to simplify daily procurement processes based on inventory analysis, resulting in an 8% cost savings.
• Inventory Strategy: Conducted inventory analysis and forecasting, creating strategies for fast and slow-moving inventory through ABC and VED analysis, achieving annual average cost savings of up to 12%.
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