Supply Chain Sales

Nick Patel

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DATE OF BIRTH: 5th december1979. ? SEX: MALE

Education

Sept 04- July 06 University of Hertfordshire

M.B.A (masters degree in business administration)

Courses include:

*Marketing management *knowledge management

*Accounting *human resource management

*Finance *business information systems

Operational management

* National certificate for licensees (off-licence) * Quality management

program at NIIT (National institute of Information and technology)

EMPLOYMENT

Company: Reckitt Benckiser

Position: Collaborative Planning Manager- (Tesco Account)

Start Date: 17th June2013 till day

My job is:

. Leading and developing of the Supply Chain planning function

. Leading of the Sales and Operations Planning process

. Leading and support of plant scheduling personnel _ COACH.

. Lead the Supply Chain Optimization Initiative

. Lead the start-up of the Supply Chain Planning Systems

. Development of global production planning policies.

. Monthly production schedule with attendant materials requirements

planning based on the annual sales forecast.

. System to support the production planning process with accurate,

timely information.

. Accountability for the inventory strategy and plan.

. Deployment procedures capacity analysis and capacity plans.

. Strategic and operational planning models. Management of demand,

supply and financial exceptions to meet Business objectives.

. Product transfers between all facilities.

. Slow moving and obsolete inventory.

. Activities between Sales, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and

Distribution.

. Raw material and packaging sourcing

. Production line scheduling

. Communication of expectations

. Integration of finished goods inventories with the sales forecast.

. Development for the Supply Chain Planners for all production

facilities and co-packers.

. The development of technological advancement in Supply Chain

Planning.

. Implementation of regional policies at individual locations.

. Budget analysis related to capacity, production and inventory

. Secure the required stock for customer and ensure highest OTIF is

achieved

. Review root cause of DC to store failures, availability

Company: Tesco Stores Limited

Position: Promotions Supply Chain Manager

Start Date: 10- Feb 2004 till June2013

Duties:

. Create long term demand plans keeping financial restrictions

. Project management and make sure promotions are launched on timely

basis and as per standards for all stores

. Forecast demand for current lines and forecast lifecycle for new lines

. Analyse data to assist forward planning and thus keep obsolete stock

to minimum

. In addition to managing team of 17 people I worked cross functional

with the below department:

Inside my function Outside my function

GFS Buying teams UK Supply Chain Team

GFS Operations Development CE Supply Chain Teams

and Logistics HSC

GFS Finance Analysts Goods In Central

Suppliers

Service Providers

Haulers /Shipping companies

. Managing most high profile area of business (Grocery), I have ensured

to conduct store visit at every promotional launch and feed back the

out come in form of reports to my line manager

. To ensure that all formats of stores launch their promotions in line

with corporate guidelines & plan

. I assist stores to launch successful promotions and help them come out

of promotions with minimum left over stocks from promotions. I have

implied some specific tools and process in place which helps stores to

achieve their stock reduction programme

. Experience in purchasing, commodity, supplier

. Experience in purchasing, sourcing products, performing on-site

supplier assessments and interfacing with outsourced manufacturing is

required.

. Proven experience negotiating with suppliers.

. Understand competitor's actions and prompt commercial team to review

our offers.

. Seating within Tesco supply chain team I work closely with commercial

and marketing team to ensure I achieve my KPI's on regular basis

. Negotiate and manage current supplier relationships, to include

ongoing performance oversight, executive business reviews, and

capacity optimization initiatives.

. Responsible for the day to day activities of demand planning,

forecasting and order fulfillment

. Manage the logistics and planning function to ensure optimal

processing of customer orders

. Ensure project management disciplines are followed to deliver timely

market launches of new products

. Drive process improvement and/or alternate supplier sourcing for cost

improvements, quality control and efficiency

. Drive the implementation and organizational benefits of an S&OP

Process

. Work closely with Sales and Operations to insure alignment on

production capacity and suppliers for medium and long term strategies

and initiatives

. Business owner for all company IT integration and interfaces related

to supply chain

. Oversee and negotiate, along with the CFO, all inbound and 3 rd party

logistics options and agreements

. Lead the manufacturing partners R&D capabilities and activities

. Projects I have managed: 1) launched centralised Promotions in

Republic of Ireland. 2) Improved stock availability and ranging for

1067 express stores. 3) I have worked on project of bringing R.O.I &

U.K promotion in line to reduce cost by 50 %

Company: Sugar and Spice

Position: Store manager/ Trainer

Length of Service: Oct 2001- till Feb2004

Reason for leaving: Carrier Progression

Duties:

. Design of Service and Sales Training

. Manage the role out and on-going delivery of Service and Sales

training

. Manage training follow up and feedback procedures

. Manage regional training delivery mechanisms including Train the

Trainer

. Support Head of Service, Sales and Product Training with development

of new customer service and sales training programme

. Project managed recruitment and development centres of management

. Identified training gaps in adherence to business requirements and

developed creative solutions

. Conducted manager sign off reviews nationwide

. Designed and facilitated induction weeks for managers (Nationally)

Training new managers within the business and develop them up to the

satisfactory standards was important part of my role, working closely with

the business owners it was my duty to conduct and disciplinary and

grievances procedures for the staff within the business.

Reason for leaving: Career progression

VOLUANTARY WORK:

Sep 2001 -Sep2003 student's representative

I have been student representative

whilst undertaking my degree at University of Hertfordshire. I

represented my classmate's issues concerns to the student union and dean

of the university and had resolved my colleague's problems.

COMPUTER SKILLS

. MS Word, MS Excel, power point

. SAP/ AWR/ LM/ JDE

LANGUAGES

. Fluent- English, Gujarati, Hindi.

SKILLS

. Communication, influencing, motivating & negotiating skills

. Team-leading

. Numeric accuracy

. Ability to work with tight deadline and perform at best under

pressure

. Project management & man management skills

. Ability to deliver high standards and train team to deliver

same.

ACHIEVEMENTS, ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

Interviewed by B.B.C radio 2 for being best presenter

in the University

. Had achieved 3 months target in one day working at

baggage factory

. Playing cricket and tennis

. Music, movies reading and travelling.

REFERENCES: Available on request.

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