Manager Supply Chain

Nilasha Tandon Phone: 925-***-****

Norwalk, CT **851 Email: *******.******@*****.***

Supply Chain and Procurement professional, with 5+ years experience in Planning, Operations & Production. Specialist in Demand planning, Buying & Sourcing.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Decathlon, Bangalore, India October 2017 – November 2019 Demand Planner

●Led the procurement & planning of a 25 million USD portfolio, which was 8.5% of the Indian stores turnover

●12 months rolling forecast & 36 months planning on the tactical horizon, led to better availability & increase in sales turnover by 6%

●Continuous Improvement projects for Lead time reduction along with Supply Planners, resulted in making the switch from MTO to MTS for 3 high volume products to reduce inventory in the warehouse to just 2 weeks

●Proposed the best landed cost - Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to ensure competitive selling prices to customers - Price reduction of 4.2% achieved from SS19 to SS20 despite a +3% global material context

●Well versed with SAP FMS tools such as SAP APO for RFQ management, SAP ECC & BI for data management & Microsoft excel tools like macros & pivot tables

Decathlon, Mumbai, India April 2015 – September 2017 Sourcing Manager

●Validated 3 new compliant vendors in India, in 1 year, to improve exports to other Decathlon retail countries

●Recruited & managed a team of 6 members, who worked on supply, cost, quality & developments with vendors

●Accomplished doubling the turnover of the Business Unit (BU) from 3m USD to 7m USD from 2016 to 2017

●Established the 1st Supplier Partnership Project for the only Recycled polyester yarn supplier in India (PET bottles to textiles recycling)

●Supervised the Profit & Loss (PnL) account for the BU

Decathlon, Chennai, India June 2014 - March 2015

Supply Chain Manager

● Made the right products available at the right time, the right place and at the best cost

● Regulated the supply chain of the biggest portfolio of apparel export in India - 33m USD

● Launched S&OP agreements with global buyers & vendors, mainly to manage component stock

● Capacity planning with vendors ensured smooth order execution during the season

PROJECTS

Internship - Decathlon, Chennai, India Jan 2014 - May 2014

●Ultra Low Cost Products – Combating the Challenge

●Studied of the costs involved at various stages of manufacturing of a cotton t-shirt & achieved an overall cost reduction of 12.11% in the manufacturing of two best selling T-shirts

Internship - Raymond Limited, Bangalore, India Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

●Conducted a study on the jacket manufacturing process from cutting of fabric to shipment

●Achieved an overall improvement in productivity of 7.85% of two jacket manufacturing lines

EDUCATION

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Business Analytics) 2018 – 2019

Institute of Management Technology, Delhi, India, 3.8 GPA

Bachelor of Fashion Technology (Apparel Production) 2010 – 2014

National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai, India, 4.0 GPA

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP APO, SAP ECC, BI, BW/AFO, Microsoft office suite (Excel macros, pivot tables, Vlookup, Powerpoint)

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