Vigneshwar Ganapathi

Company Overview: Dairy Manufacturing Industry

• Strategic Planning: Develop and implement logistics strategies to optimize transportation, storage, and distribution of dairy products across Pan India
• Supply Chain Coordination: Coordinate with procurement, production, and sales teams to ensure a seamless supply chain across nine factories and 34 CFA's
• Transportation Management: Oversee the planning and execution of Pan India product transportation to ensure timely and cost-effective deliveries.
• Warehousing & Inventory: Manage warehousing operations for 34 CFA's and plant storage, ensuring proper storage, handling, and inventory control.
• Compliance & Quality Assurance: Ensure compliance with dairy industry regulations, food safety standards, and transportation guidelines.
• Cost Optimization: Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives without compromising service levels.
• Vendor and Stakeholder Management: Manage third-party logistics providers, transport vendors, and internal stakeholders for operational efficiency.
• Technology Utilization: Leverage logistics management software, Data Logger Temperature monitoring system,Automated Crates tracking management, POD automization and tracking systems for real-time monitoring and route optimization.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to improve logistics efficiency and effectiveness.
• Risk Management: Identify potential supply chain disruptions and develop contingency plans

Company Overview: FMCG Oil & Gas Industry

• E2E SCM - Managed supply planning & distribution of 45 billion business operation & 6.5L tons production per year country wide
• Procurement - Identified and onboarded reliable Suppliers, Inbound & Outbound, Raw materials movement, negotiating terms and agreements to ensure competitive pricing and quality standards
• Establish strong relationships with vendors and monitor their performance
• Maintain a supplier performance in deliveries, quality, price, and responsiveness
• Secondary Logistics 3PL/CFA- Develop and executed warehousing strategy, distribution, transportation across South India for 3PL activities
• Plant & Primary Logistics - Lead and manage Plant logistics, Customs Compliance, FTL transportation, Multimodal logistics, Inventory depts
• By developing effective strategies
• Costing - Compile and Analyze Final Budget to meet with the directive of top management
• EHS - Ensure adherence to all regulatory and internal requirements, including EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety) standards
• S&OE / S& OP -Represent a part of SC with the country leadership team, covering E2E supply chain S&OE / S&OP
• Maintaining adherence to KPIs related to OTIF, and order fulfilment and Customer service
• Reports - OTIF, NMSM, PRN Vs TI, PR Vs PO, SLOB, Costing, P&L, O2C, P2P & distribution
• FMCG Oil Industry

Company Overview: E-commerce/Retail operations.

• Supervised large logistics team to implement a E2E Supply chain planning & operations across the regions & hubs (Sourcing, Inventory & Procurement, Forecasting & Planning, Warehouse and Transport)
• Responsible for stock levels, sales orders, vendor management and shipment movements from mother DC/FC warehouse (> 200,000 sq ft) to 6 hubs (> 1,00,000 sq ft) and 26 dark stores (< 3,000 sq.ft) spread across Chennai region
• Bulk sales Order management & order processing, managing campaigns, and catalogs
• Customer complaints management manage escalated cases raised by the customer service team & other internal teams, ensuring the closure of tickets within TAT
• Continuously tracking the sales data/stock levels and taking corrective actions to ensure no stock-out events
• Lead transportation team to monitor, analyze and improve the KPI's on: P&L, sales margins, O2C, P2P, cost, delivery, PRN Vs TI, transportation, OTD, OOS, NMSM, and SLOB movements
• Responsible to drive CAPEX requirement and control budget for the team
• E-commerce / Retail operations

Company Overview: FMCG Manufacturing

• Managed the full spectrum of Secondary logistics activities and analytics for business volume of 6 crores sales per month across south five 3PL/CFA's and plant
• Execution of Reverse Logistics for Overhaul Orders, Strong knowledge on MTS, MTO, ETO business scenarios
• Vendor relationship management, interactions with freight forwarders customs agents and make recommendations to improve service
• Exposure in handling secondary and primary logistics, Cycle Counts, Perpetual Inventory, Basic Hygiene, OTIF [Fill rates] MIS Creation (Ageing Reports, Budgeting, Cost analysis, NM/SM, SLOB inventories)
• Handled Internal customers - Sales, Commercial, plant, DP Team External Customers - C&F agents, Transporters, Distributors
• Contact : Reported to Mr.Nitin Saini - Vice President

Company Overview: Manufacturing

• Directed the activities of all functions involved in the purchasing, planning, warehousing, and logistics for three plants and six 3PL copackers across the South.
• Developed and led end-to-end logistics to achieve required on-time pick up & delivery of goods through contract & dedicated movements
• Contributing to project as a team member in establishing 3PL manufacturing units, supplier network, vendors, and legal assessments
• Responsible for supplies of raw material, dispatches of finished goods to customers, distribution of packed goods to warehouses and various inventory related compliance
• Worked in close coordination with Purchase team, Logistics and Planning, 3PL, plant production and QC functions
• Contact : Reported to Mr
• Keshav Bhende - AGM Logistics South

• Company Overview: Freight forwarders
• Provided customer service-related functions for domestic and international accounts
• Responsible for tracking and clearing Air / Ocean imports and arranged for timely delivery of cargo to customers
• Generating / Creating POs, Invoices, Handling Credit Collection, Queries, and issues of customers
• Coordinated the efforts of vendors, freight forwarders, and warehouses to ensure the smooth flow of products throughout every phase of the supply chain
• Freight forwarders