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Supriya Bhattacharya

Supply Chain; Logistics; Warehousing
Kolkata

Summary

Versatile SCM professional with 26 years of experience who has managed different departments, large span, built scale & driven matrices. Excellent team leader and analytical problem solver. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Associate Director- Mother Hub & TC Ops-East

Flipkart
Kolkata
02.2021 - Current
  • Instituting and executing high level business strategies and overcoming complex business challenges using experience backed judgement, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity.
  • Managing P&L & leading end-to-end operations including recruitment, people management, budgeting and providing action plans to implement operational excellence, pricing and costing.
  • Driving business growth in terms of value, volume and market share by introducing new ideas & concepts.
  • Conducting in-depth market and customer research, devising advertising and interactive programs, and maintaining important industry relations.
  • Administering projects/programs with key focus on defining Service Level Agreements (SLA’s), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) as well as interacting with prestigious clients, business partners, industry leaders & other key stakeholders.
  • Collaborating with clients & stakeholders while keeping them informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all requirements and deliverables .
  • Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters the development opportunities and motivates the high performance amongst the team of 245 professionals.
  • Driving business growth & expansion plans in terms of value, volume, market share & yield by introducing new ideas & concepts
  • Spearheading and executing process improvement projects, targeting improvement of compliance controls using structured process improvement techniques .
  • Formulating SOPs, KPIs/KPAs, FTEs for smooth business operations; determining areas of improvement by analyzing the reports & trends through KPIs and planning for continuous process improvement .
  • Driving operations to outperform objectives and developing strong business relationships with strategic accounts.
  • Rendering sustained services for high ROI, increasing retention level by achieving quality norms and resolving their issues to attain high customer satisfaction / employee retention.
  • Setting out quality standards for various operational areas, ensuring a high-quality client experience, while adhering to the SLAs and preset work processes.
  • Analyzing problematic situations & occurrences and providing solutions to ensure company survival and growth.

Significant Highlights:

  • Managing 13 sortation facilities comprising of Flipkart and Myntra Business with a capacity of 35 lakh sorts and 12 lakh cross docks a day.
  • Led a team of 5 direct reportees including 245 On Roll Employees and 5200 Off Roll Employees.
  • Reduced Functional Breach from 1.50% to 0.50%, CPD Breach from 7.19% to 0.09%, Mis-sort from 2% to 0.01% , Misroute from 6.94% to 0.01%.
  • Reduced Forward Pendency Beyond 24 hrs. – from 1.55% in Feb'21 to 0.17%, Returns Pendency Beyond 24 hrs. – from 10.41% to 0.19%, Ops Dependent Pilferage from Rs.10 Lakhs PA to 3 Lakhs PA .
  • Improved IPP from 385 (BBD' 21) to 415 (March' 22).

Associate Director-Last Mile & First Mile Ops-West

Flipkart
Mumbai
04.2018 - 01.2021
  • Responsible for First Mile & Last Mile operations of Flipkart , covering 300 locations across Western India.
  • Managed a team of 6 direct reports and 9000 people and kiranas, a fleet of 600 vehicles during peak.
  • Responsible and accountable for resource planning, availability, speed, reliability, customer experience, shrinkage and fake reduction.
  • Delivered 200000 shipments per day in BAU and picked up 1.5 lakh shipments per day in First Mile.
  • Sailed through the entire pandemic by coordinating with different government agencies and administration to ensure reliability.

Significant Highlights:

  • Seamlessly increased Network foot print from 170 to 300 last mile delivery hubs within a span of 1.5 years.
  • Managed 2X volume during peak.
  • Mumbai as a metro city has handled highest Last Mile Volume pan India ; Surat has managed 2nd highest First Mile Volume.

Senior Regional Manager- Operations- East I

Flipkart
Kolkata
02.2015 - 03.2018
  • Managed East-I Last Mile operations that primarily included West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, North Eastern States.
  • Supervised 6 direct reports, 5000 people covering 10 states, 200 delivery hub locations, 2000 pin codes.
  • Delivered 200000 shipments during BAU and 2X volume during peak.
  • Responsible & accountable for speed, reliability, cost, reach, quality, safety and customer experience.

Significant Highlights:

  • Increased Network foot print from 35 delivery hubs to 210 delivery hubs within a span of 3 years.
  • Managed 5X volume increase within a span of 3 years.
  • East-I became the least CPS region pan India.

Regional Operations Manager- East

Drive India Enterprise Solutions Ltd.- A TATA Enterprise
Kolkata
02.2010 - 02.2015
  • Managed captive mobile handset business of TATA Indicom across all East India states.
  • Launched and managed 3P Operations for clients like Colgate and Palmolive (50k SFT), ITC Ltd. (260k SFT), GSK (90k SFT), ABP Ltd. (72k SFT), Godrej and Boyce Ltd. (90k SFT), TATA Hitachi (450k SFT), Voltas Ltd. (70 K SFT), TTSL Ltd. (100k SFT), Exide (50k SFT) across East India states.
  • Responsible and accountable for P&L, Customer satisfaction, Operational efficiency, Service & process quality, and employee engagement of 700 people across all East India states.

Significant Highlights:

  • Developed processes to save on costs and prevent losses.
  • Developed efficient teams and optimized internal policies to increase responsiveness to customer demands.
  • Efficiently handled clients across different industries.

Manager SCM- East

Gati Ltd.
Kolkata
04.2009 - 02.2010
  • Responsible for developing and coordinating all aspects of SC solutions which included design & development of documentation & processes.
  • Supported the procurement or provision of 3PL services, transport services warehousing or other SCM functions- whether in house or outsourced.
  • Managed the solutions team and work closely with other verticals.
  • Responsible for operations for warehousing & secondary distribution operations- mainly Hitachi FMCD Business.

Regional Distribution Head- East

Reliance Logistics Ltd.
Kolkata
12.2003 - 03.2009
  • Launched and managed RIL warehouse projects at Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Patna and Guwahati for Polymer products (Monthly throughput of 15000 MT, Polyester & pet products (1000MT per month)), Reliance Petroleum Project and steady state operations.
  • Secondary transportation planning, vendor selection and distribution of Polymer products across East.
  • Launched Reliance Retail F&V and FMCG operations at Kolkata and Bhubaneswar which included distribution to Retail Stores.

Assistant Manager - Operations

SembCorp Logistics
Jamshedpur
07.2000 - 12.2003
  • Launched & operated 150k SFT Green Field warehouse and 3P operations for TATA Motors Spare parts Division at Jamshedpur.
  • Managed 16k SKUs which included procurement, sales, quality assurance and transport management.
  • Handled a team of 160 manpower.

Warehouse Executive

Jenson and Nicholson India Ltd.
Naihati
11.1995 - 07.2000
  • Managed 40k SFT Finished goods warehouse having 8000 SKUs.
  • Coordinated with planning and transport departments for distribution of Finished goods across 36 states warehouses pan India.

Education

PGDBM - Marketing

IISWBM
Kolkata
09.1994 - 07.1996

B.Sc (Hons) -

Calcutta University
Kolkata
06.1989 - 06.1992

Skills

    Teamwork and Leadership

Problem Solving & Decision Making

Program Management

5S & Kaizen

Fleet Management

Project Execution

Transition Management

Capacity Planning

Timeline

Associate Director- Mother Hub & TC Ops-East

Flipkart
02.2021 - Current

Associate Director-Last Mile & First Mile Ops-West

Flipkart
04.2018 - 01.2021

Senior Regional Manager- Operations- East I

Flipkart
02.2015 - 03.2018

Regional Operations Manager- East

Drive India Enterprise Solutions Ltd.- A TATA Enterprise
02.2010 - 02.2015

Manager SCM- East

Gati Ltd.
04.2009 - 02.2010

Regional Distribution Head- East

Reliance Logistics Ltd.
12.2003 - 03.2009

Assistant Manager - Operations

SembCorp Logistics
07.2000 - 12.2003

Warehouse Executive

Jenson and Nicholson India Ltd.
11.1995 - 07.2000

PGDBM - Marketing

IISWBM
09.1994 - 07.1996

B.Sc (Hons) -

Calcutta University
06.1989 - 06.1992
Supriya BhattacharyaSupply Chain; Logistics; Warehousing