SANDIP KUMAR BALMIKI

Manage and coordinate in-season replenishment and rebalancing activities based on business needs to maximise sell through.

• Recommend and execute rebalancing of inventory based on shifts in sales performance, keeping in mind store capacities and visual merchandising requirements

• Evaluate assortment changes and update parameters within the system

• Communicate with regional and store teams regarding product requests and special event needs.

• Conduct in depth style, color, and size analysis to make actionable changes at a store level

• Create and maintain weekly reporting on sales, shipping status and seasonal allocation status at a theme/store level. Team *

• Perform as a team player and participate in all activities contributing to the overall objectives of the department.

• Contribute to and maintain a positive and collaborative work environment.

• Lead by example and adhere to the company’s policies and procedures.

• Maintain a high-level standard of customer service, professionalism, ethics, and confidentiality.

• Additional duties and responsibilities as required and communicated by management and/or the Company.

• Achieve desired In stock level across sites for the products within the category.
• Contribute to business working capital by maintaining Days of Inventory for the category.
• Vendor fill rates of +80% for top vendors.
• Raising STO if required for internal transfer.
• Ensuring closure of pendency for payment related issues at Purchase & WH Level Coordination with Warehouse team & RE/Category team.
• Resolving the inbound related issues while inward the stocks if any.
• Raising POs for the high demand articles wherever found gap.
• Healthy Relationships with Vendors and build local intelligence against supply disruptions and Plan Contingency Troubleshooting Operational issues internally & ensuring smooth supplies.
• Monitoring the capacity of the FC’s and managing the plan accordingly.

• Managing Purchase Operations and scheduling operations for the cluster of FCs.
• Maintaining Assortment availability and fill rate.
• Healthy Relationships with Vendors and build local intelligence against supply disruptions and Plan Contingency Troubleshooting Operational issues internally & ensuring smooth supplies.
• Continuously enhancement in Vendor efficiencies through an intervention like Buying frequency changes.
• Monthly meetings with key Vendors to identify the key gaps and sharing of Fill Rates and Performance with Vendors.
• Ensuring closure of pendency for payment related issues at Purchase & WH Level Coordination with Warehouse team & RE/Category team.
• Apply PO cycle changes as per the company requirements if needed.
• Resolving the inbound issues like discrepancy and RTV issues for smooth operation.
• Monitoring the capacity of the FC’s and managing the plan accordingly.
• Taking care of Local Buying Assortment and activity.
• Looking for new vendor launch as per the seasonal buying demand.

• To take care of Replenishment for Pan India.(General Merchandize & Non Food)
• Collating all the indents from the company for pan India.
• Raising manual orders for pan India & Follow up for the supply from the vendor.
• Raising STO’s if any stock laying at DC whose CPO is not generated.
• Following up with the vendor smooth & timely transfer of stocks in store.
• Resolving the discrepancy issue for Pan India at the time of receiving the stocks.
• Checking line item & quantity fill rate of our respective category.
• Checking the availability of top selling & promo articles.
• Highlighting nonmoving articles in store which is blocking the inventory.
• Doing hygiene check for masters & Preparing the purchase tracker against the PO issued.

• Job responsibilities:-
• To maintain the all documentation of stock transfer movement from DC to Store..
• To maintain the efficiency of DC in 100 percentage regularly.
• Managing goods movement report to the DC manager regularly.
• To resolve the discrepancy report as soon as possible.
• Efficiently stack and store the merchandise in the appropriate areas.
• Ensure outbound shipments are accurate and free of damage Report quality variances Timely Shipments.
• Pull and prepare product for shipment as scheduled.
• Local Trips & Shuttle Trips – creation & closure & monitoring Business partner development.
• Looking after the entire operation of TMS - systems.
• Looking after the entire operation of OUTBOND - systems.
• Maintain GAP analysis, Indent generation, Non-schedule indents monitoring, SIT monitoring as the target is < 7 days. (Intra state stores), < 20 days (interstate stores)