BISWAJIT NANDA
Bangalore
Summary
Supply chain professional with 7+ years of post-MBA experience in demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, and logistics.
Over 4 years of experience in the manufacturing industry, managing shop floor operations, maintenance, and quality.
MBA in Operations Management with a specialization in Supply Chain Management.
Skilled in project handling, team management, and driving cross-functional team engagements.
Excellent communication skills with a proven track record of effective global team interactions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Supply Chain Planning -Process Excellence
Illumina
10.2024 - Current
- Driving Demand Planning Improvements: Currently working on defining forecast models in SAP IBP to enhance accuracy and establishing forecasting processes for spares and refurbished materials.
- Supporting Global Supply Planning Operations: Actively involved in the establishment of a Global Delivery Center project. Contributing to the implementation of the SAP Response and Supply Planning module.
- Advancing S&OP and Forecasting Initiatives: Responsible for improving data-driven decision-making, preparing a roadmap for integrating multiple categories into the S&OP review process, and collaborating with commercial teams to ensure data accuracy and improve forecast reliability.
Demand Planner
Haleon
07.2022 - 10.2024
- Managing demand planning for a Consumer goods category.
- Review historical sales trends, past events impacting sales, identify demand drivers, make statistical forecasting models, and review forecast results to generate Baseline Forecast for forward 0-24 months.
- Develop and prepare demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizon for all Channels.
- Drive monthly Demand Review Meetings (DRM) with inputs from Sales, trade marketing & Brand team followed by exception review against Sales Plan/ Budget to arrive at unconstrained rolling monthly/quarterly demand plan.
- Work with Supply team to arrive at constrained forecast in case of capacity or other constraints and develop short term tactical strategies to mitigate loss.
- Mapping demand drivers like price changes, consumer & trade promotions, events, phase in phase out etc.
- Carry out Forecast Value analysis (FVA) & FA/Bias analysis to identify corrective actions to improve forecast results/process and publish results.
- Review the slow & obsolete inventory and plan for liquidation and suggest inter-warehouse transfer to minimize stock write off.
ERP Process Specialist
Haleon
04.2021 - 06.2022
- Worked as ERP process specialist Supply planning and Warehouse Distribution process.
- Focusing on Complex issue resolution, ERP adaptation and Continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with GPO, Market/Tech teams to drive Continuous improvement Projects.
- Development of new functionalities and handle request from line of business.
- Co-ordinate with P2P and O2C specialists to engage and smooth operation of BAU activities and issue resolution.
- Led SWAT team to accelerate overdue invoice clearing.
- Responsible for Alteryx automation tool transition during split.
- Managing user licenses, approvals, and development of Alteryx in business functionalities.
- Led Supply chain team of 3 members.
Supply Planning Analyst
HP Inc.
08.2019 - 04.2021
- Managed supply planning for the worldwide print business, responsible for Net Requirement Planning (NRP) and generating unconstrained plans, ensuring capacity planning at factories.
- Validated Constrained Response Plans (CRP) to commit to customer requirements.
- Led collaboration meetings with the forecast team and response planners to validate NRP, aligning logistics, warehouse, and regional teams with CRP.
- Managed purchase orders (POs): created new POs, made changes or cancellations, and analyzed daily inputs from logistics.
- Assessed region-wise demand and supply matches, collaborating with regional teams for execution and communicating with suppliers and logistics partners for efficient supply processes and customer order fulfillment.
- Set up material as per BOM explosion for supply and requirement planning for child parts,
- Drove the New Product Introduction (NPI) process, engaging all stakeholders from kickoff to rollout and collaborating with category, engineering, logistics, and supplier teams for progress updates and timeline maintenance.
- Managed End-of-Life (EOL) planning and inventory liquidation in case of excess stock with the help of the sales team.
Business Analyst(Demand Planning)
Genpact India Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 08.2019
- Managed demand planning and inventory optimization for GE Aviation, forecasting commercial aircraft engine spare parts using statistical tools and multiple market intelligence sources.
- Conducted forecasting based on historical demand, special programs, part failure rates, and time series methods, utilizing leading indicators to generate final forecasts using the best fit method.
- Maintained optimal inventory levels by analyzing and tracking forecasts and shipments.
- Collaborated with global supply chain partners to ensure customer satisfaction through precise forecasting and timely shipments.
- Served as the single point of contact for client communications on inventory management and forecasting.
- Analyzed data from various systems ( Spotfire, Oracle R12), generating statistics and preparing status reports and presentation decks in Excel.
- Monitored KPIs including MAPE, Customer Service Level (CSL), and Inventory to meet business targets.
- Utilized forecasting platforms such as Demantra (Oracle) and Servigistics (PTC).
Education
MBA - Operations Management
Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management
Nashik04.2017
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Odisha05.2009
Skills
- Demand Planning
- Supply Planning
- S&OP Planning
- Inventory Management
- Data Analytics
- Project Management
- SAP IBP
- Power BI
- Advanced Excel
- Alteryx Automation Tool
- SQL
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Scrum Master certified by Scruminc
- Six Sigma Green belt by KPMG
- Alteryx Designer automation platform
- Lean certified in Genpact
Timeline
Supply Chain Planning -Process Excellence
Illumina
10.2024 - Current
Demand Planner
Haleon
07.2022 - 10.2024
ERP Process Specialist
Haleon
04.2021 - 06.2022
Supply Planning Analyst
HP Inc.
08.2019 - 04.2021
Business Analyst(Demand Planning)
Genpact India Pvt Ltd
06.2017 - 08.2019
MBA - Operations Management
Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
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