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Paras Bhole

Paras Bhole

Supply Chain Analyst : Inventory And Demand Planning
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Summary

Dedicated and motivated individual with around 4 years of work experience in Supply Chain with knowledge of replenishment buying, inventory management, demand , SAP MM , Six Sigma, JDA DA ,. Currently pursuing executive MBA from NMIMS in Operations and Supply Chain management

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Supply Chain Analyst

Accenture
Mumbai
04.2018 - Current
  • Inventory planning and management: management of inventory and all replenishment flow from vendor to stores
  • Creating buying plans for seasonal SKUs, processing purchase orders, and tracking orders.
  • Manage replenishment to support 100% store availability with optimum DOH at DC & stores, expedite and own goods until physical shipment from distribution centers occur
  • Work with DC operations to balance freight, DC handling, manage inventory carrying costs, and collaborate with transport planners and schedulers for inventory movements.
  • Execute inventory planning, forecast volume, excess management processes, and markdown management. Coordinate with category team to increase sales of slow moving SKUs and clear excess inventory buildup
  • Vendor management, ensuring all forecast and flow requirements are executed to defined targets, standards, and vendor for fill rates, delivery timelines & RTV timelines.
  • Undertake process improvement efforts, primarily with vendors, focused on improving KPIs. Regularly maintain higher store availability, to reduce the holes at the stores level and satisfy the end customer by fulfilling their product demand
  • To develop a monthly forecast by analyzing all the relevant data set i.e. historical sales, market trends, seasonality, promotions at the POS level to create the sales forecast
  • Collaborate with category and vendors regarding the forecast trend and product availability for the next time frame
  • Understand gaps between the latest constrained supply plan and the target, expressed in value as well as volume understand and includes gap closing proposals
  • Suggested improvements to cut costs and improve supply chain process, incorporating asset utilization, performance measurement, and outsourcing approaches.
  • Monitor New Product's weekly performance in first 12-13 weeks and highlight any variance in forecasts to the category/ marketing team & minimize the bias by model tuning in JDA to maximize the product availability at store.
  • Develop forecast at multiple levels of aggregation as part of a demand planning function using time series forecasting via JDA demand workbench
  • Studied movement of goods to identify gaps in efficiency and other areas needing improvement.
  • Improved cycle count discrepancy rates 50% through process improvements and maintaining high levels of data integrity.
  • Identified, selected and maintained logistic suppliers and achieved optimum costs and service qualities.
  • Managed distribution network, logistics, trade compliance and warehouse management.
  • Suggested improvements to cut costs and improve supply chain process, incorporating asset utilization, performance measurement and outsourcing approaches.

Education

MBA - Operations And Supply Chain

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management
Mumbai
04.2021 - Current

Bachelor of Engineering - Production Engineering

Mumbai University
Mumbai
07.2013 - 08.2017

Skills

Inventory management

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Projects

JDA DA opp buy and program planning tool

- Automation for the internal supply planning process for the client to reduce non value added activities for operations team by 3 hours daily with accuracy.


Implementation of Milk Run and Store Direct deliveries deliveries for winter essential products

- Implementation of SDD deliveries, Milk Runs , Rainbow loads , which saved cost to client for more than $ 50K including transportation cost, transit time , space in distribution centers , labour cost and timely palletized deliveries.

Certification

Six Sigma Certification Green belt from KPMG

Timeline

MBA - Operations And Supply Chain

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management
04.2021 - Current

Certified Supply Chain Manager from ISCM

04-2021

Six Sigma Certification Green belt from KPMG

02-2021

Supply Chain Analyst

Accenture
04.2018 - Current

Bachelor of Engineering - Production Engineering

Mumbai University
07.2013 - 08.2017

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