GEO GEORGE

adc3la@r.postjobfree.com 437-***-**** Patrice Crescent, Thornhill, ON www.linkedin.com/in/geogeorgecpscm™

Authorized to work in Canada and available to start immediately

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A result-driven & dynamic professional with 7 years of experience in Inventory Management & Retail & Export Supply Chain Management and Operations. Offer track record of capability to identify business problem areas and implement concrete solutions to improve service, efficiency & quality standards. Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability of analytical thinking and problem solving along with excellent communication and interpersonal abilities across boundaries.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Inventory Planning and Control Demand Planning and Forecasting Transportation and Vendor Management

Replenishment and Allocation Logistics and Distribution Procurement and Retail Buying

Data Mining and Extraction Supply Chain Management (SCM) Order Creation and Processing

Project Implementation Promotions Planning Product Management

Agile and Scrum MIS Reporting Item Data and Set up

Cross Functional and Cross Location team management New Product and Market Launches

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Office Excel ERP/SAP MS Access JIRA Plan visage

WORK EXPERIENCE

1. HIMATSINGKA SEIDE LIMITED

Bengaluru, India

The Himatsingka Group is a vertically integrated Home Textile major with a global footprint. The Group focuses on the manufacturing, retailing and distribution of Home Textile products.

Manager – Planning (International Operations) August 2017 – February 2020

Review sales projections and work out purchase and availability plans, streamlining to make it a biweekly process and creating daily and weekly reports

Timely invoicing directions of direct sales orders, with a compliance of 93%

Partnering with the finance and sales team to build holistic plans, with check on market sales and OTB limits

Liaising with off-shore partners and clients to have well defined (2 weeks to 2-month inventory) checks and balances of inventory based of reports created

Constant monitoring of warehouse and intransit inventory, open sales orders and purchase orders to maximize efficiency

Vendor management to ensure OTIF delivery, improving for top ten vendors to 95% from an average of 87%

Implementation of Planvisage software

Single Point of Contact for a third-party vendor in US making pillows for the firm (annual sales ~ $14mn) – received CFO’s recognition for putting SOP in place

Supply Chain coordinator for the New York and London teams, from India

Reduced inventory in US warehouse, along with finance and production teams from $95mn to $58mn

Vendor negotiations to get favourable MOQs and reduced production lead times (20 vendors)

Transition support for new accounts and new hires

Coordinate with master data and order processing teams to create new vendor orders, within 24hrs of requirement generation and release POs to vendors

Principal stake holder in expansion into new geographies of Europe and Middle East, implementing new processes and standard operating procedures

Working environment included Material and Supply Chain Management in SAP

Partnering with Brand Managers and Product Development Managers to understand and share material specifications and standards with vendors

GEO GEORGE

adc3la@r.postjobfree.com 437-***-**** Patrice Crescent, Thornhill, ON www.linkedin.com/in/geogeorgecpscm™

2. TARGET CORPORATION INDIA LIMITED

Bengaluru, India

Target Corporation is a US retailer having more than 1800 stores within the US, across different formats.

Planning Analyst (Item Data) February 2017 – July 2017

Agile work methodology

Value Stream Mapping for current & future state of item data flow with regards to Supply Chain (400 data points)

In depth analysis of present processes and procedures (Root Cause and Gap Analysis)

Focus on clean and accurate data across entreprise

Collaboration across five teams

End-to-end item data management under review which helped determine key metrics such as Flammable, Hazardous, Lithium content and DOT regulated items

Sharing learnings with technical teams for development of future state systems

Defining stakeholders, accountability and check points for item data

Planning Analyst (Jewellery and Accessories) April 2015 – January 2017

Liaising with off-shore partners to improve profit margin while providing the best assortment to customers - received Senior Vice President’s Award

Vendor engagement to ensure that the right assortment reaches the stores, with minimum repacking

End-to-end supply chain analysis for product flow from vendor to store

Identifying and troubleshooting bottle-necks in supply chain

In online space, communicating with vendors directly so that the products are available on the website, reducing Digital OOS to 7% from 33% - received Senior Vice President’s Award

Leading cross techno-functional team collaboration to understand the system transitioning for drop-shipping/vendor direct ship/direct fulfilment

Coaching new hires and training new batches in Drop Shipping

Business Analyst (Grocery) November 2013 – March 2015

Allocation and forecasting of inventory for fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen meat and dessert.

Determine inventory needs to proactively plan Open to Buy (OTB) dollars

Supply chain and inventory holding expense optimization, increasing instocks from 72% to 80% - received Senior Vice President’s and Best Team Awards

Handling promotional sales so that maximum sales can be generated

Logistical control of shipments between warehouses and to store, and truck-load optimization

Monitoring special shipments to meet seasonal demands

Getting multiple vendors to ship their products together

Assiting in contingency sales plans from dynamic forecasts to meet customer demands at a particular store

EDUCATION

Master’s in Business Administration, Lean Operations and Systems 2011-2013

Christ University – Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering 2007-2011

Amal Jyothi College of Engineering - Kerala, India

OTHER ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS

CPSCM™ (Certified Purchasing & Supply Chain Manager) from Center For Purchasing & Supply Chain Management Excellence

LEAN: Certified through trainings at Target India

Successfully completed Foundation Course in French (Christ University)

Successfully completed Green Belt training program on Six Sigma methodology from KPMG

Volunteered in Community engagement drives arranged by Target and Himatsingka

Pursuing CSCP from APICS

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