E-Commerce - Demand Planning, Supply Chain & Logistics Professional With Over 15 Yrs Of Experience With Beauty Brands
New Delhi,
Summary
Skilled, experienced, enterprising and self- motivated Demand Planning and Supply Chain professional, successful in leading every facet of new and ongoing business operations in the E-Commerce and Offline Supply Chain function. Strategic thinker and tactical decision-maker with creative problem solver skills at de-escalating situations and driving results.
Responsible for the Supply chain functions at Activ Beauté, a beauty brand start up, launched in Dec 2021. Launched the skincare brand with 16 products and 27 SKU's in the market.
Worked onsite on Production of the product lines at Manufacturing facility , managing trial batches, Sampling, Preparing documents for COA, Certifications, Testings, FDA approvals.
As part of the core start up team was responsible for RM/PM forecasting, demand planning, cost negotiations, contract closures and timeline management for production.
Responsible for delivering GM % as per Business Plan
Prepared and presented weekly S&OP review with stakeholders including R&D, Design, Sales, Marketing, Purchase and Manufacturing Operations
Responsible for entire process of online D2C orders from order placement to last mile delivery
Directly Managed marketplace B2B order management (Amazon, Nykaa, Smytten, Flipkart, Jio mart etc.)
Responsible for entire inventory management in terms of purchase order to suppliers, controlling the incoming materials and vendor management
Inventory management functions which include forecasting & budgeting, stocks reconciliation, FIFO, labelling & tagging
Dispatch & Delivery management, handling shipments, material movement, coordinating with logistics partner and plant
Processing of GRNs, vendor payments and handling of rejections
Handing 3P warehouse entire warehousing process
Deputy Manager - Demand Planning
Kama Ayurveda Private Limited
NEW DELHI
08.2017 - 01.2021
Responsible for Demand & Supply Planning. Worked closely with the E-Commerce & Retail Stores Sales team for forecasting & demand planning basis historical data analysis of sales, seasonality, regional preferences and product shelf life
Responsible for S&OP for supply chain function
Effective transition planning- phase in , phase out and excess /surplus stock management optimization
Responsible for Replenishments, Inventory Re-order levels & Instock % goals set for the business as per business plan
Responsible for the review of Initial stock planning and Distribution for new store locations.
Ensuring stock audits and inventory day covers for E-Commerce and Retail stores.
Responsible for Demand planning and fulfillment for MBO partners like Shoppers Stop, Nykaa Retail, Airport Retail and other Stand alone retail stores and HORECA sales.
Preparing the financial sales plan into a seasonal buying plan which meets profit and GM objectives
Responsible for Pricing, Markdowns, Stock rotations, reordering & replenishment
Working closely with Marketing team and VM team for successful launch and changeover of campaigns by securing proper stock levels at stores as per projections
Deputy Manager- Merchandising & Buying
The Body Shop || Quest retail Private Limited
GURUGRAM
01.2011 - 01.2017
Worked with Quest Retail for 10 years. Starting as Asst. Manager - Merchandising & Buying.
As Part of the Merchandise Strategy & Buying team, responsible for planning of merchandise assortment based on specific requirement from market research, competition analysis and consumer behaviour trends
Forecasting, Pricing and Buying planning for all categories based on business requirements
Formulate and implement brand promotions based on window events and market requirements
Inventory Management- complete management of inventory to ensure the correct mix of category and classification
Working closely with the international Brand Team to ensure accurate COGS in-order to maintain the right margins
Monitoring all compliance regulation for product Registration labelling and printing in co-ordination with legal team
Liquidation of Non-Moving Stocks and track optimization of the Slow-Moving Stocks
Assistant Manager Retail Planner/Merchandiser
Quest retail Private Limited
01.2007 - 01.2011
Planning & Managing the Inventories at an Optimum level
New Store Launch planning & Occasional Events planning
Setting the MBQ for stores by analysing the potential of the market- place along with Store Development
Planning to ensure the On-time season launch by sticking to the launch dates
Planning & Coordination with SCM & Warehouse team to ensure the timely allocations, replenishment to the stores & smooth RTV
Plan store wise allocation and maintain target stock availability through timely replenishment. Responsible for Planning & executing IST (Inter Store Transfers), Pull backs, RTV etc.,