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Krishnamraju Karrothu

Krishnamraju Karrothu

Vizianagaram

Summary

A competent professional with over 7 years of experience in Supply chain management,warehouse management, inventory control, vendor management, cost control, optimum utilization of resources, and manpower management.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Supply Chain Manager

Hyperpure by Zomato
Bangalore
12.2024 - 03.2025
  • Overseeing end-to-end operations of the mother warehouse, ensuring smooth functioning.
  • Implementing best practices for space utilization, workflow efficiency, and inventory accuracy.
  • Optimizing inbound and outbound processes to minimize turnaround time.
  • Maintaining 100% inventory accuracy through regular stock audits and cycle counts.
  • Working with Procurement and supply chain teams to ensure timely stock replenishment.
  • Identifying slow-moving and obsolete products, and developing strategies for liquidation or reallocation.
  • Managing order fulfillment and dispatch planning for effective last-mile delivery.
  • Working closely with logistics vendors to optimize delivery timelines and costs.
  • Monitoring fleet operations and route optimization for timely dispatches.
  • Maintaining a clean, organized, and safe warehouse environment.
  • Assisting in the recruitment and training of new warehouse employees.
  • Generating and analyzing reports on warehouse performance, and making recommendations for improvements.

Inventory Controller

Supertails
Bangalore
03.2023 - 07.2024
  • Conducting regular inventory audits to ensure accuracy and compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements
  • Developing and implementing inventory control procedures to streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve efficiency.
  • Collaborating with procurement and logistics teams to optimize supply chain processes and maintain smooth inventory flow.
  • Utilizing inventory management software to track inventory movements, analyze data, and generate reports for management review.
  • Investigating and resolving discrepancies in inventory records, identifying root causes, and implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
  • Monitoring product expiration dates and implementing FIFO (First In, First Out) and FEFO (First Expired, First Out) principles to minimize waste and ensure product quality.
  • Received incoming shipments, verified contents against purchase orders, and accurately recorded inventory transactions in the system.
  • Organizing and maintaining warehouse storage areas, ensuring efficient use of space, and easy access to inventory items.
  • Collaborated with purchasing and receiving teams to resolve issues related to damaged or missing inventory items.
  • Ensuring inventory health by managing aging risk, expiry risk, and physical risk. Working on providing visibility and automation in the system to reduce expired stock and optimize working capital.
  • Preparing inventory ledgers and computing inventory variance of books to reports from physical checks by brand, by category, by warehouse, and discussing findings with the management.

Inventory Manager

Reliance Retail LTD
Ongole
11.2021 - 02.2023
  • Conducting the daily CC count and closing the discrepancy at the same time.
  • Coordinating with all department managers and taking the required steps to maintain the inventory hygienic.
  • Coordinating with the category team and closing the MRP discrepancies issues.
  • Analyzing the fast-moving, slowing-moving, and non-moving SKUs, and taking action to liquidate the SKUs by coordinating with the sales and category team.
  • Coordinating with the category team and taking the required steps to inactive the zero-sale SKUs.
  • By aging analysis, we are taking the initiative to liquidate the near-expiry stocks in B2B sales, second-sale customers, and RTV.
  • Closely monitoring the bin accuracy in the system and physically to increase the picking and packing productivity.
  • By ABC analysis, designing the storage bins for easy picking to increase productivity.
  • Controlling the shrinkage, storages, and pilferages with the help of the SLP team.
  • Clearing the scrap material on a monthly basis and maintaining hygiene in the FC, helping profit for the company by scrap sale.
  • Managing FIFO and FMFO to avoid expiry at the FC level.
  • Maintaining 99.90% fill late to satisfy the customer order.
  • Handling 25+ Manpower, Hiring and Conducting Weekly the training session for 3PL Team
  • Strictly following the HSE guidelines to avoid zero accidents in FC.

Assistant Warehouse Manager

Meesho
Bangalore
07.2021 - 09.2021
  • Maintaining computerized records of incoming and outgoing materials, inventory levels.
  • Ensuring to check the proper flow (Receiving, Dedusting, Quarantine, Undertest, Approval, and Dispensing) of the materials, with proper identification of every stage.
  • Keeping a check on the store's inventory, ordering levels, and initiating necessary action for the replenishment of stocks.
  • Submitting the stock statement and month-end stock statement to the Accounts Department.
  • Proper maintenance of necessary documents, files, registers, etc. For tractability and audit purposes.
  • Responsible for receiving RM/PM, and consumables materials as per SOP.

Senior Logistics Executive

ITC Ltd
Bangalore
07.2017 - 01.2021
  • Coordinating with the supply chain team and the transport team to ensure receipt of in-transit stocks within the due days.
  • Handling, storage, and retrieval of stocks with more than 1,200 SKUs as per WMS.
  • Coordinating with the branch and sales team for the creation of shipments and the optimization of shipments by looking after possible club routes and vehicles.
  • Coordinating with transporters for vehicles and the execution of shipments on D-1 and D Day.
  • Keeping track of inventory through periodic cycle counts and monthly stock-taking, ensuring inventory aging and accuracy.
  • Clear the problematic invoice, freight bills, and coordinate with the finance team for handling the bill of WSP and transporters, and their appropriate redress.

Education

MBA - Global Logistics and Supply chain Management

GITAM School of International Business
Visakhapatnam
01.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering

Chaitanya Engineering College - JNTUK
Visakhapatnam
01.2015

Skills

  • Certified in Business Analytics by IBM
  • Certified in SAP MM Module

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 07/27/94

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Affiliations

  • Dedicated Vehicles Hiring: Implemented the dedicated vehicles in the Bangalore location to optimize the transportation cost at ITC Ltd
  • WMS Migration : Migrated the Manual Warehouse to 100% WMS for smooth tracking

Timeline

Assistant Supply Chain Manager

Hyperpure by Zomato
12.2024 - 03.2025

Inventory Controller

Supertails
03.2023 - 07.2024

Inventory Manager

Reliance Retail LTD
11.2021 - 02.2023

Assistant Warehouse Manager

Meesho
07.2021 - 09.2021

Senior Logistics Executive

ITC Ltd
07.2017 - 01.2021

MBA - Global Logistics and Supply chain Management

GITAM School of International Business

Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering

Chaitanya Engineering College - JNTUK
Krishnamraju Karrothu