
Accomplished business consultant with extensive experience in strategic sourcing, ERP implementation, and demand forecasting. Demonstrated expertise in conducting KYC assessments and providing insights on EUDR compliance, contributing to sustainable sourcing practices. Proven track record of generating significant savings through central MOUs and enhancing supplier relationships across Tata Group companies. Recognised for exceptional forecasting accuracy at General Mills, earning multiple Supplier of the Year awards from Walmart. Adept at managing complex operations, including inventory management and distribution planning, with a focus on efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Career goal: to leverage analytical and critical thinking skills to drive innovative solutions in supply chain management.
Conducted KYC assessments for new logos in Canada and forest paper pulp packaging.
Provided insights on EUDR compliance for industry stakeholders.
Delivered perspectives on sustainable sourcing practices across various verticals.
Worked with Tata Group companies to synergize the group requirement for different categories resulting in better bargaining power with the suppliers. Helped to create central MOUs with the suppliers for various categories forTata Group Companies by aggregating their demand volumes which generated crores in savings.
Implementation in several small and medium sized companies which helped to meet their revenue targets. Understanding the business requirement, providing relevant solutions in implementing the ERP at the customer end. Transfer of data from customer’s legacy system to Ion ERP. Training the users at the customer end to use the transactions, to transfer and input data and to make configuration changes in the system.
Understanding the customer need, managed day to day operations and resolving the Business & Application issues.
Forecasted the Sales number at SKU and weekly level. Received Supplier of the Year awards from Walmart for three years in a row for forecasting their demand with considerable accuracy.
Planning of Distribution of products from the manufacturing plants and warehouses to Customer Distribution Centers. Received award for a SKU transition project which I executed effectively and well within the budget. I completed the project in $72000 though the budget was for $200000.
Managed Outbound and Inbound Transportation, Warehouse management and Inventory Management. Helped to implement the Model “Logan” Distribution Project.
Managed the Vendor Inventory and Stores . Monitored and highlighted the ageing inventory to the SCM team