Seeking opportunities in Supply Chain leadership

Global Supply Management

· Project lead- restructuring and GSM projects of CMOs which involves establishing “center of excellence” model and execute product transfers/new launches for India (8 sites)

· Part of India core operations team and managing operations/relationship with 9 active CMO sites for supply to India and subcontinent markets (~ 110 UINs). Leading S&OP with India business units for external manufactured products.

· Streamlining external manufacturing sourcing processes and operations for India & sub region

Key Achievements

- Outlined India CMO strategy for project Fortify (CMO base consolidation). Successfully contracted for 2 CMOs (11 products) restructure and transfer work resulting in productivity of ~ $0.2 Mn (7% of spend)

- On time & successful launch of new product (Advanto) ~ $1 Mn revenue for India (Appreciation awarded by India GM). Leading sourcing approvals/work for other transfers & new launches ~ $3 Mn revenue.

- Was able to complete productivity projects with $0.1 Mn cost savings & other supply risk mitigation strategies to avoid supply disruptions.

ALLERGAN/ABBVIE, Bangalore              Sr. Manager                            38 Months (3-Apr’17 to 5-Jun’20)                   

Supply & Distribution Management

· Established S&OP process for new BU division at Country level-20+ product categories, 100+ SKUs.

· Leading supply planning and new product launches for third party product purchases (4 sites). Successfully executed projects for two product tech transfers/launches to Contract manufacturers.

· Implemented MRP in SAP for domestic & Import SKUs.

· Also, leading team to manage Primary (Import & Domestic) and Secondary distribution, inventory across India through CHAs & CFAs –Commissioning, Contracts, Operations management, Audit & Compliance.

· Had successfully handled product recall process till distributors/hospital chain level and Re-launch.

· Pivotal in restructuring of Allergan’s India distribution network -Consolidation from 19 to 6 DCs resulting in reduction of ~20% distribution cost. Awarded “Certificate of Excellence” from AVP (Global) & MD of Allergan India team.

· Revamped Distribution & Reverse Supply chain SOPs on pan India level across all CFAs

· Strengthened commercial contracts with logistics partners there by securing improved service levels at benchmarked industry standards.

· Contributed in GST implementation team for SD module.

  Sourcing

· Contributed in implementation of Spend application tool for end to end procure to pay process

· Leading team to manage operational procurement for promo-items and services

BIOCON LTD.                                 Associate Manager                     48 Months (15^th Apr’13 to 31^st Mar’17)             

Formulations Division (36 months)

Planning & New product launches- from Jan’16 (15 months)

ü Lead the team of Demand and Supply planning for 150+ SKUs for domestic and export market, strategic products (includes managing external supply from overseas sites)-

ü Managed new product launches planning for Biosimilars products.

Project Management-  from Apr’14- Dec’15 (21 months)

ü Worked on capacity development (Domestic external supply) for Biocon’s flagship products as Project    

     Manager. Lead cross functional team for technology & site transfers. Awarded “Biocontribute for excellence” for successful project completion by Kiran Majumdar Shaw (CMD)

ü Worked on long term capacity planning and annual budgeting exercise.

ü Managed strategic improvement initiatives in Procurement and Planning: De-risking of sites/Alternate vendor development for primary/secondary packaging materials

- Improvement of planning cycle and KPI metrics- Resulted in 30% increase in OTIF (~ 90%) & established controls for inventory management

- Helped team in creation of SOPs for site selection and development, Vendor evaluation/scoring, legal agreements etc.

Warehouse Management and Material Planning (12 months)

ü Lead a cross functional team to successful completion of streamlining the procurement & management of consumables- resulted in cost saving of 2+ Cr and reduction in purchase transactions up to 70%.

ü Handled material planning & inventory control (Process & general consumables)

ü Executed process improvements projects across the warehouses and RM/PM Planning- Re-Order Point based inventory control, MIS improvement, Harmonization of SOPs etc.

ü Conceptualized central warehouse project for Small molecules and Biological vertical’s RM and PM    

INFOSYS LTD.                                 Associate Consultant                              11 Months (May’12 to Apr’13)             

Department: Consulting & Systems Integration                    Project- APPLE Supply Chain (SAP-MFG)

Roles and Responsibilities: 

Business Analysis/Requirement Gathering:

ü Involvement in customer interaction, requirements documentation, functional analysis/development plans, timely communication to business, and quality of project deliverables

ü Collaboration with functional partners and development of appropriate solutions as per business process requirements in SD and MM Domain.

ü Customer interfacing, analysis, planning and execution of change requests raised by end users and other support activities

INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LTD.            Sales Engineer (KAM)             23 Months (Jul’08 to May’10)

Roles & Responsibilities- Handling Institutional lube sales of volume over 1300 KL annually in Kutch.

ü Monitoring S&D Activities-Forecasting, order processing and management, credit management, inventory control through Demand Module and SERVO SMS Software

ü Business development activities for institutional segments and Servo stockiest

ü Conducting technical services activities like PLS/CLS, Condition monitoring, seminars & workshops Farida

Pursuing

Project Title: Implementation Of Scientific Norms for Inventory Control and Management

Project Title: Development and implementation  of framework  for new vendor selection and Evaluation  

ü Event Co-coordinator of “STRUCTAFLOAT” in National Level Technical Fiesta MINDBEND (2007)

ü Executive Member in the crew of AUTOFEST, a National level Technical and Automobile Symposium (2007)

ü Core Committee Member of Shanti Eva Jayate Team, NITIE (2011)