Yogesh Ghorpade
Supply Chain Management Distribution and Logistics
Navi Mumbai,Maharashtra
Summary
Logistics and Distribution Manager overseeing warehouse operations, stock control, and end-to-end dispatch planning across pharma supply chains. Leads 21+ freight rate negotiations per month, vendor onboarding, and route selection to balance cost, service, and compliance, including temperature-controlled movements for sensitive materials. Partners with planning, procurement, finance, and customer teams while using SAP and ERP to keep inventory, shipments, and reporting aligned.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Logistics and Distribution
Emcure Pharmaceutical Ltd.
05.2025 - Current
- Monitor stock levels in coordination with the planning team.
- Supervise warehouse operations, organize storage systems, and enforce quality control measures.
- Freight Negotiation, finalization and new vendor onboarding.
- Ensure proper documentation, safety protocols, and compliance with legal/health standards.
- Prepare dispatch plans considering urgency and geography to minimize delays.
- Decide between Milk Route, FTL, PTL, and multimodal options (Road/Air/Rail) based on urgency and load.
- Select carriers, negotiate rates, and optimize delivery routes for cost and service balance.
- Track shipments end-to-end, resolve transportation issues, and maintain on-time delivery.
- Monitor freight costs, compare shipping rates, and implement cost-saving strategies.
- Develop new vendors, negotiate rates, and onboard them into the system.
- Conduct performance reviews of logistics service providers.
- Liaise with suppliers, transporters, and customers to ensure smooth operations.
- Investigate shortages/damages with root cause analysis and corrective action.
- Address complaints, troubleshoot operational issues, and implement preventive measures.
- Deliver solutions to logistics challenges while maintaining service quality within budget.
- Review team KPIs to drive collaboration and results.
- Provide monthly sales and logistics reporting to stakeholders.
- Conduct day-to-day operational reviews and guide the team with resolutions.
- Supervise staff, assign tasks, and provide training.
- Support career development and foster a culture of accountability.
- Ensure alignment between warehouse, finance, procurement, planning, and quality teams.
- Guarantee reliable delivery and visibility to customers.
- Ensure all logistics operations comply with legal, health, and safety standards.
- Maintain transparency and service excellence to strengthen customer trust.
- Reconciliation of Shortage / Damage recovery from transporter if any
- Tracking of Insurance process from date of intimation till receipt of loss amount from Insurance company
- Conduct regular freight benchmarking for lane exercises to track savings.
- Monthly review meeting with service provider for their challenges if any and performance review and set bench mark
- Monthly review meeting within team for day to day operation related challenges, performance review and ongoing project status.
- From May-2025 to Till Date – Logistics and Distribution | Emcure Pharmaceutical Ltd.|
SCM Logistics and Distribution
Servier India Pvt Ltd.
05.2023 - 05.2025
- Control inventory of CSAs and the central warehouse.
- Arrange transport, negotiate freight, finalize agreements, and manage logistics.
- Plan stamped goods in coordination with the sales team and warehouse.
- Reconcile stock of CSAs and the central warehouse, raising debit notes to CSAs for any losses.
- Plan stamped goods in coordination with the sales team and warehouse.
- Coordinate with Regional Managers, Metro Managers, and Institution Sales Managers to understand their requirements and convey the same to the central warehouse, ensuring timely supply.
- Appoint stockiest and create their codes in the system.
- Coordinate with the warehouse and CSA for the supply of stock discounted rates, tracking the process until billing and delivery.
- Collaborate with the Institution team to process all institutional requirements and supplies to ESI directly and through authorized stockiest of stamped goods of Hospital and Institutional PO.
- Special rate billing hospital, Institutional supply with full proof documents.
- Monitor stock levels, purchase orders received, and expected projections.
- Ensure timely execution of institutional orders with all relevant documentation.
- Coordinate with the factory and production team to track stock status.
- Conduct periodic visits to the central warehouse to ensure operations are as per SOP.
- Track non-moving, near-expiry, expired, and damaged goods. Coordinate the pickup of expired and damaged stocks from all CSAs and ensure proper destruction on a quarterly basis, removing stock from the system.
- Coordinate with couriers/transporters to resolve any issues. Handle queries from CSAs and the sales team.
- Train newly appointed stockist on the processes to be followed.
- Tracking performance of CSA, Stockiest, and Transporter.
- Tracking freight bill payments.
- Coordinate and resolve any issues related to CSA, warehouse, and transporters.
- From May-2023 to May-2025 – SCM Logistics and Distribution | Servier India Pvt Ltd.| Mumbai
SCM EXIM Operations
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
06.2022 - 04.2023
- Manage customs clearance of import shipments under EOU.
- Negotiate and finalize freight agreements, and track freight payments.
- Arrange vehicles based on load availability and product requirements.
- Track shipments from dispatch to delivery and update customers accordingly.
- Handle custom duty payments for DTA shipments and duty-free clearance under IGCRD for EOU shipments.
- Liaise with clearing agents, freight forwarders, and customs for import, export, and DTA sales.
- Prepare and process DGFT billing for Advance and EPCG Licenses.
- Initiate CDTL testing and LG closure, and track advance licenses.
- Track and follow up on import shipments, coordinating with Freight Forwarders and CHAs for timely release of cargo arriving by sea and air.
- Coordinate with transporters for timely loading, tracking, and delivery of LCL cargos.
- Work with the warehouse team for inward stock and inventory tracking.
- Collaborate with the accounts team for import duty payments and verification of bills from CHAs, forwarders, and shipping companies.
- Correspond with overseas vendors and coordinate with extended teams in other countries.
- Prepare pre-shipment export documents and post-shipment documents for closing with banks/EDPMS. Track export shipments and update overseas vendors.
- Handle payment processes and track bills from CHAs, forwarders, and transporters.
- Manage various INCOTERMS like FOB, CIF, DDP, DDU, and handle demurrage/detention issues.
- From June-2022 to Apr-2023 – SCM EXIM Operations | Novartis Pharmaceuticals Ltd.| Mumbai
Senior Manager – II (Distribution/Logistics)
Macleods Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
12.2012 - 01.2022
- Controlling All India CFA, Plants, Central Warehouse Operation Transportation movements all over India Supervising Transport Management:
- Develop processes for optimizing loads and dispatches to reduce freight costs and identify cost-effective modes.
- Collect and review quotations from transporters, negotiate rates and services, ensuring minimum lead time and competitive transportation rates.
- Plan and manage logistics, warehouse, transportation, and customer service. Direct, optimize, and coordinate the full order cycle.
- Liaise and negotiate with suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, and consumers.
- Control and supervise stock movements, receipts, storage, and dispatches at the central warehouse.
- Manage write-offs of finished goods, supervise batch-wise stock integrity, and ensure stock accounting and reconciliation as per SOP.
- Ensure timely pickup of inbound loads from manufacturing sites to the warehouse.
- Arrange logistics facilities for all inward and outward movements of manufacturing sites for raw materials, packing materials, machines, and finished goods.
- Manage FTL, project ODC movements, tanker movements, and temperature-controlled movements.
- End-to-end tracking of allocation and dispatches to ensure timely delivery to CFAs and stockists, and raw materials to third-party and own manufacturing sites.
- Prepare dispatch plans and ensure inventory at each location is as per agreed norms.
- Provide monthly sales reporting to the sales team.
- Interact daily with various internal customers such as warehouse, finance, procurement, planning, quality, and PM.
- Conduct freight comparison and budgeting.
- Arrange reverse logistics for inbound and outbound logistics.
- Plan, manage, and evaluate logistics operations, liaising with internal stakeholders, suppliers, logistics providers, transportation companies, and customers.
- Deliver solutions to logistics problems while maintaining high levels of quality and service within budgetary requirements.
- Monitor quality, quantity, delivery times, and transport costs. Negotiate rates and contracts with transportation and logistics providers.
- Recommend optimal transport modes, routes, or frequencies.
- Resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports, or customer issues.
- Collaborate effectively with internal departments to manage inventory of finished goods balanced against customer service needs and financial targets.
- Ensure that the team has clear objectives set related to KPIs and the divisional group strategy.
- Meet regularly with direct reports to discuss feedback and improvement plans.
- Ensure the integrity of inventory accuracy and manage stock movements with the help of direct reports.
- Identify and resolve any inventory discrepancies and ensure inventory and system records are in agreement.
- Identify savings by removing waste or unnecessary steps in the logistics process.
- Achieve cost savings without compromising service standards.
- Supervise batch-wise stock integrity.
- Manage write-offs of finished goods.
- Manage production and distribution of 200+ items.
- Provide logistic support for movements across India by road, train, and air for ambient and temperature-sensitive materials like finished goods, raw materials, packing materials, engineering parts, and ODC machines for projects.
- From Dec-2012 to Jan 2022- Senior Manager – II (Distribution/Logistics) Macleods Pharmaceuticals Ltd.| Andheri, Mumbai
Officer Logistics and Excise
FDC Ltd.
05.2011 - 12.2012
- Highlights: Commercial / Account
- Reduce distribution expenses through disciplined processing methods, ensuring no compromise on service levels.
- Oversee logistics movement across India for finished goods, samples/promotional goods, engineering goods, packing materials, and raw materials.
- Track transporter performance and conduct CNF auditing.
- Manage inventory PAN India, prepare MIS, and monitor non-moving, slow-moving, and near-expiry goods.
- Purchase:
- Verification of Internal Indent about materials requirement
- Inquiry generation with supplier for Quotation submission
- Verification and Comparison of supplier
- Selection of supplier who can supply material with minimum lead time as per user requirement
- Negotiation with supplier for rate and other relevant terms
- Creation of vendor code in system for the selected supplier
- PO creation in the system for the selected supplier
- Coordination with supplier for PO and they're compliance for right quality, right quantity, right time, the right price
- Coordination with store department for GRN preparation once goods receipt
- Follow-up with account department for timely payment of supplier as per PO after submission of related documents with them
- Development of strong relationship with the vendor
- May-2011 to Dec-2012 – Officer Logistics and Excise (Transportation Management all over India) – FDC Ltd.
Technical Associate (Warehouse Operations)
Sandoz Private Limited (Novartis Company)
02.2008 - 04.2011
- Maintained Receipts, Reservations, and Issuances of Material by use of SHAPE (SAP) & WMS system
- Superintended for fulfilling of requirements of production department by providing them required raw and packing material as per the BMR's and BPR's requirements
- Monitored, updated, and filled the deviation of temperature data by using the Yokogawa system
- Led destruction of materials for which WOFF is approved as per the Organization procedure by following GMP norms
- Assisted the excise department to bring material as duty-free under CT-3 for domestic purchases and PC for imports
- Verification of received goods and documents as per the Excise norms and maintained Excise Bond register
- Applied for Escort order for clearance of imported alcohol from Custom
- Kept the records of utilized of stock of Alcohol
- Ensure SAP APO process and execution
- Ensure training of SAP to new user
- Creation of material code for the new SKU and supervise the proper view maintained for each product
- Leading SAP enhancement through appropriate service request
- Export : Dispatch planning and related documentation
- Palletization of goods as per Export plane
- Coordination with transporter for arrangement of vehicles
- Verification of Preshipment documents (Invoice, Packing list, EVD, SOMET, FEMA, Non-Hazard, SDF, VGM, BL Instruction, Shipping bill, Bill of Lading / Airway Bill, COA, Certificate of Origin.
- Tracking of Export shipment by coordination with forwarder
- MIS Export statement
- Keeping track over Plane verses actual dispatch.
- Export : Dispatch planning and related documentation
Store Manager (Warehouse and Logistics)
Novartis Pharmaceutical Vaccines and Diagnostics Liverpool in London, United Kingdom as international assignment
01.2010 - 09.2010
- Kept the track of Receipted Materials, SAP entries, and GRN
- Warehouse audit for compliance
- Training to new joining.
- Performance review of Warehouse college and training to them if needed.
- Validated the Vehicles before use it for dispatch of finished goods
- Preparation and Implementation of Warehouse safety norms
- Monitored and filled the report about Monthly Warehouse Inspection Zones and investigation of the same if there is any incident
- Physical stock verification monthly basis.
- SOP preparation, amendment, and implementation as per CQA requirements
- Keeping stock ready as per dispatch plane and schedule dispatch
- Dispatch of FG goods as per schedule.
- Inventory verification and preparation of a report about nonmoving, slow-moving, and non-moving goods
- Novartis Pharmaceutical Vaccines and Diagnostics Liverpool in London, United Kingdom as international assignment
Technical Officer (Warehouse Department)
Glenmark Pharmaceutical Ltd. Goa
10.2007 - 02.2008
- Maintained the Inventory & receipt of Raw and Packing materials and by preparing GRN's updating in SAP system
- Kept the track over non-moving, slow-moving, and near expired stock and submitted the data to the purchasing department, QA department, and production department
- Reviewed SOPs in Warehouse Department
- Arranged vehicles for dispatch of finished goods by coordination with the transporters
- Keeping warehouse records up to date as per standard SOP
- Training new staff for the process to be followed
- Export goods documentation and comply
Store Officer / Production Officer (Store Department)
Mediorals Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. (Cipla Ltd.), Satara
02.2003 - 09.2007
- Arrangement of vehicles for dispatch of FG goods and keeping track over the same till delivery.
- Purchasing of goods as per internal department indents
- Verification of transporter documents before dispatch of goods
- Physical stock verification of Warehouse material
- Trained (GMP, Safety, Personal hygiene, Material receipt, Dispensing) to new starters
- Validated and Prepared protocols of capital goods of IQ, OQ, PQ
- Coordination with QA department for required BMRs and BPRs
- Coordinated with QA and QC regarding RM, PM, and FG goods for releasing status
- Preparation of report about slow-moving, non-moving, near expiry goods
Education
EXIM Operation - Import Export
B2B Import Export Management
Mumbai MSCIT -
YC College Satara
Satara PGDBA - Supply Chain Management
Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai
Mumbai01-2010
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
01-2009
D- Pharmacy - undefined
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education, Mumbai
Mumbai01-2003
Skills
Logistics Management
Distribution Management
Warehouse Operations
Inventory Control
Freight Negotiation
Contract Negotiations
Client Relationship Management
Carrier Management
Route Planning
Vendor Onboarding
Demand planning
Sales and operations planning
Transportation management systems
Warehouse management systems
Inventory forecasting
Service level agreements
Freight audit
Vendor scorecards
Cold chain logistics
Timeline
Logistics and Distribution
Emcure Pharmaceutical Ltd.
05.2025 - Current
SCM Logistics and Distribution
Servier India Pvt Ltd.
05.2023 - 05.2025
SCM EXIM Operations
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
06.2022 - 04.2023
Senior Manager – II (Distribution/Logistics)
Macleods Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
12.2012 - 01.2022
Officer Logistics and Excise
FDC Ltd.
05.2011 - 12.2012
Store Manager (Warehouse and Logistics)
Novartis Pharmaceutical Vaccines and Diagnostics Liverpool in London, United Kingdom as international assignment
01.2010 - 09.2010
Technical Associate (Warehouse Operations)
Sandoz Private Limited (Novartis Company)
02.2008 - 04.2011
Technical Officer (Warehouse Department)
Glenmark Pharmaceutical Ltd. Goa
10.2007 - 02.2008
Store Officer / Production Officer (Store Department)
Mediorals Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. (Cipla Ltd.), Satara
02.2003 - 09.2007
PGDBA - Supply Chain Management
Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
D- Pharmacy - undefined
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education, Mumbai
EXIM Operation - Import Export
B2B Import Export Management
MSCIT -
YC College Satara
PERSONAL DETAILS
Languages Known: English, Hindi & Marathi
Additional Information
Work in International Location United Kingdom for One year and Cambodia one month
Achievements/Awards
Awarded “Cost saver and Best Performer” at Novartis Liverpool, Selected for International Assignment at Novartis Liverpool, Grew revenue and profitability by double-digits and saved 13 lakh in Vendor development for Plastic Pallet, Successfully managed Implemented CCTV at Central Warehouse, Rout Optimization which lead to saving of 24 Lac per year