Customer-obsessed supply chain professional with APICS CPIM certification, Six Sigma Green Belt, MBA (Operations). Seasoned in digital supply chain strategy, demand planning, supply planning, logistics, distribution, analytics, and QMS.
MD's Club of Excellence 2019 & Best Supply Chain Professional 2018 at J&J
● End-to-end planning transformation for 2+ Bn USD global snacking major in India. Mapped and assessed the current process and helped build the vision and roadmap for the future.
● Client Account Lead and PMO for 5+ MM USD Kinaxis Implementation for US and Asia Pacific for one of the world's largest FMCG company
● Designed Supply Chain Nerve Centre for one of the largest global FMCG company in India. Defined & instituted Supply Chain Organization to enable digital SC adoption & Nerve Centre adoption.
● Designed and implemented complete S&OP process for a Glass Manufacturing major in India. Implementation of SC Strategy - Segmentation, Inventory norms (Finished Goods & Packing Material), End-to-End Process (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Procurement Planning & Production Planning).
Enhancement of the Assistant Manager role with the addition of the following responsibilities:
● International SCM in 8 countries of South Asia for the entire J&J Medical. An additional $20 MM increase, making total supply chain ownership of $110 MM. Responsible for all export-related processes & documentation
● Quality Management System (QMS) Lead : Supply Chain Lead for all J&J Medical, Supply Chain QMS. Responsible for ensuring compliance and SPOC for all Audits
● People Management: Leading a team of 8 Planners & Ops Associates.Responsible for hiring, L&D
● Managing multiple stakeholders like in Plants, TPMs, Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality, Logistics & Finance
Handling end-to-end planning for over 1200 SKUs / $90 MM of sutures and hernia meshes for India in South Asia, with a supply mix of domestic & imported products from 2 in-house, 1 TPM, and 3 global sources . Driving central planning activities such as Demand Planning, S&OP, Net Requirement Planning, Production & Imports Management, Distribution Network Planning, Distributor Support, and month-end invoicing
● S&OP: Driving country S&OP with stakeholders like Sales/Marketing, Production, Regulatory & Quality
● Demand Planning/NPI Management: Statistical Forecast generation (APO) & monthly forecast consensus with the Sales & Marketing teams with forecasting performance targets (MAPE < 24%)
● New Product Development: 12- month horizon of planning and managing successful launch of NPD.
● Inventory Management: Responsible for 98%+ OTIF & minimizing SLOB across the product portfolio
● Supply Planning: Working with in-house plants & TPMs on S&OP drumbeats for supply continuity
● Tender Management : $20 of $90 MM business with specialized supply chain processes like special artwork, documentation, etc.
Franchise Analytics Lead: Johnson's Baby ($ 0.9Bn) & Johnson's Adult ($ 0.2Bn) franchises for 14 Markets in the Asia Pacific
● Business Planning SPOC: Short & mid-term plant volumes' projections for APAC by consolidating requirements with Plant & Regional Planning team
● Inventory Analytics : Statistical Inventory Planning for (Safety Stock Governance) APAC. Saved $7+ MM & reduced DOS by 1.5 days .
● S&OP & Exec-S&OP : Collaboration with Supply Chain teams, driving Franchise S&OP & Demand Analytics for Executive-S&OP
● Demand Analytics : Demand Governance Analytics for the Regional Planning Team, leading to improved MAPE and BIAS.
● People Management : Led a team of 5 Data Analysts for Analytic support.
● Development of models and analysis tools (using Supply Chain Guru by LLamasoft) in support of strategic & tactical Supply Chain initiatives for Yoplait brand. Capacity Optimization & Network Optimization for lowest Delivered Cost.
● Analytical and modeling intelligence for supply planning, capacity planning & production scheduling problems targeting the lowest cost of the network. Achieved network savings of $700 MM via Optimization Techniques
● Closely worked with Demand & Supply Planning teams for data collection, cleansing, validation, and results analysis.
● Handled Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) module responsibility as the 1st Level Support for 13 Business Units of Bosch in European regions with daily interactions with SAP Users in Plants
● Responsible for ensuring up-and-running APO systems controls for Production Planning, Detailed Scheduling, Capacity Management, Resource Management, Routings, Report Generation processes, etc and their interactions with the Sales, BW, and other Supply Chain processes
Supply Chain Strategy
IBP / S&OP
Inventory Management
Supply Planning
Demand Planning
Supply Chain Analytics
● MD's Club of Excellence 2019 & Best Supply Chain Professional 2018 , Johnson & Johnson
● Mentor, SP Jain, Mumbai, Quest – B-School Competition of Johnson & Johnson, 2019
● Member, Program Review Committee, SIOM Nashik for industry inputs to MBA program review, 2020-24
● Panel Member, Admission 2019 to 2021 at SIOM, Nashik as the industry expert
● Panel Moderator at Optimuz, NMIMS , Mumbai for panel discussion on Changing Scenario of Logistics in India, 2019
● Core member/Initiator, Supply Chain Practitioner's Council (SCPC), an event by J&J, Godrej and IIT-Bombay, 2016
CPIM, APICS