Sumeet Dutt Rishi

• Lead logistics sourcing and supplier management activities for transportation, customs brokerage and freight forwarding services across India and selected APAC trade lanes.
• Manage strategic logistics contracts covering road transportation, customs clearance, air freight and ocean freight services with responsibility for supplier performance, pricing governance and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Execute RFx processes for project cargo, ODC, ad-hoc and non-nominated freight movements across North America and LATAM trade lanes, delivering savings exceeding 20% on annual freight spend.
• Drive annual supplier reviews, SLA governance, KPI monitoring and corrective action programs with logistics service providers.
• Support APAC transportation sourcing initiatives through rate benchmarking, market intelligence and supplier evaluation.
• Developed logistics sourcing frameworks and liability matrices for transportation contracts to improve risk allocation and service accountability.
• Lead stakeholder engagement across procurement, finance, operations, customs brokers, carriers and freight forwarders to ensure sourcing strategy execution.
• Participated in APAC Global Logistics Centre feasibility assessment, including supplier evaluation, network design and logistics cost modelling.
• Own India trade compliance governance including AEO-T2, DGFT, RCMC, Advance Authorization and customs compliance programs.

Achievements:

• Delivered greater than16% savings on project and ad-hoc freight procurement.
• Reduced transportation spending by 5–7% annually through contract renegotiation and supplier optimization.
• Implemented supplier governance framework for transportation and customs service providers.
• Participated in APAC logistics network optimization and Global Logistics Centre study.
• Established new drop-ship and triangular trade logistics models reducing lead times and improving flexibility with DHL Express.

Sustainability:

• Managed logistics operations and commercial activities for strategic customers including Metso, JCB, Aptiv and Khanna Paper.
• Managed multimodal transportation sourcing, freight costing, carrier engagement and logistics profitability.
• Led implementation of paperless delivery order release processes with Hapag-Lloyd, improving turnaround time and sustainability performance.
• Managed detention, demurrage and freight cost optimization initiatives.
• Participated in transportation management system implementation (CW1) across North India operations.
• Coordinated specialized logistics solutions including ODC, tank containers, reefer and automotive JIT movements.

Sustainability:

• Led paperless logistics documentation initiatives reducing physical documentation usage by over 25%.
• Supported ISO 14001 environmental management principles through logistics process improvements.
• Promoted digital customs and shipping documentation solutions to reduce carbon footprint and manual processing.

• Managed day-to-day warehouse operations including stock accuracy, forklift operations, replenishment cycles and order fulfillment, supporting growth of 4% YOY.
• Logistics - Arranging transportation for orders across Melbourne VIC/Australia, booking truckers and maintaining Warehouse Inventory for assigned commercial SKUs, through regular buying directly from vendors and transferring from other DCs.