Core Competencies Soft Skill

Inventory Management.

Stocks & Pricing Management.

Superior planning, decision making

and strategizing.

Inventory Analysis / Budgeting/Sales

Forecasting/Pricing Plans.

Warehouse InBound / OutBound

Operations.

IT level1 Application Support for End

User.

Team Management / Leadership

Liaison & Coordination.

Communicator

Collaborator

Leader

Motivator

Analytical

Team Builder

Career Timeline Academic Details

Executive Profile

Daily / Weekly / Monthly Flashing MIS Reports (DSR/Stock Covers/Sell Thru/Good Seller/Slow Seller/Non moving/Top 100 by Brands.

Ageing Analysis & Plan of actions to clear ageing liquidation. Consolidation Stock review for Top Performance Stores where Warehouse not having sufficient Inventory.

Broken Size analysis by Season & Brand.

Monitoring New GRV allocations gaps and taking immediate action to launch the stocks. Daily Monitoring for Top100 Items Stocks Availability & highlight to fill the zero stocks gaps on time. Main Focus on Top10 Stores/Top 15 brands - Stocks availability. Continuous gaps highlight in replenishment/allocation/buying/selling. Analysis on Over Stocks movement to stores to avoid shrinkage & space concerns. Focus on Stock replenishment Gaps.

Margin Analysis / Event Analysis and Comparisons / Stocks Sell thru. Price Point Analysis at Store Level, Average Stock price per store. Focus on Negative Inventory lines & follow up with store team to clear. Store Visits weekly three times – main focus on Negative Inventory lines / surprise physical count on selected products.

Pending ASN follow up with store team to close without any delay.

Bachelor of Arts (English) from Andhra

University.

Proficient Skills in MS Office.

Having Knowledge Retail Applications

(RMS/WMS/POS/SIM/Retail

Pro/Navision/Epicor/Enterprise Reporting).

Certified in Diploma In Computer Application.

M.SOUNDARYA KUMAR

Inventory Management / Planning / Retail Merchandise Planning / Stocks – Pricing Management

+009**-******** adp8qm@r.postjobfree.com

Targeting assignments inRetail – Inventory Planner & Controller with an organization of repute

o Akken Technologies – Dec’2009 To Jul’2011

o Landmark Group – 19-Feb’2012 To 15-Jun’2020

o The Blue Group – 17-Jun’2020 To Till Date

Internal Transfer Verifications issues “Shipped Vs Received” (Store To Store & Warehouse To Store

& Store To Warehouse) and coordinating with Store Teams to take final physical confirmation. Perform Inventory adjustments (quantity and price variance analysis). Enforced root cause problem solving and corrective action process. Monitoring SED (Shortage/Excess/Damage) within the companies assuring that properly records and disposed of inventory promptly.

Planning Stock Take schedules for warehouse / Stores (Mid Year / Year End). Review documentation and monitor product codes to search for discrepancies, troubleshoot quantity discrepancies between stock and records.

Item Master validation / reclassification.

Previous Experience

Retail Planner at Landmark Group From Jan-2015 To 15-Jun-2020 Dedicated professional (Jan-2015 to 15-Jun-2020), offering 6 years of experience in management of inventory Planner i.e. end-to-end management at “Warehouse & Store” level. Daily Flashing reports “DSR / Subclass Analysis/ Negative Inventory / Stocks / to Stores for more deep dive.

Providing info Margin analysis / Event Comparison sales / Stocks with Sell thru to respective manager on Daily Basis.

Review on New GRN shipments / Costing Sheet Preparation / Price changes / Launching Newness stocks allocations as per the guidelines.

Daily refreshing “Stocks Auto Replenishment” through MINMAX system as per Store Shelf Capacity without any delay.

Co-ordinating with Store teams for Consolidations Stocks for TOP performance stores from Bottom Stores.

Monitoring stock ageing level on weekly & monthly basis and take the corrective action to achieve the agreed Ageing % at the end of the FY.

Planning Event Wise Promotions, Discount Proposals will send to respective manager for approval and same will upload into Systems.

Every Month End Damages write off from systems after physically verification and with respective managers approvals.

Planning Stock Takes Schedules (Mid Year / Year End) / Every Month Department level stock takes to arrest high shrinkage sku’s.

Event Pre Launches – As per the guidelines will happen on time at Stores. Budget Plan – Dept, Store, Day wise Budget planning for New Financial Year with agreed Value & Growth.

Staff Incentive Schemes on Monthly Basis, After considering approvals from Respective Manager / Finance.

Daily Store Teams Coordinating - Product Prices / Customer Orders / Slow moving inventory / Promotion Prices communications / New Launches / Event Plans Etc.. Weekly Twice Store Visits – Monitoring Stocks level at stores and taking feed back of Stocks (Fast Moving / Slow Moving).

Preparing Monthly Plan Of Actions for Top performance Stores / Territory Performance to respective managers.

Warehouse InBound & OutBound Operational Involvement Distribution & Picking Plan for daily stock orders to respective concept stores and assign the manpower as per desired job.

Main focus on daily replenishments order Manual / Auto and maintain Fill Rate above 99%. Creating Appointment Schedules for New shipments and receiving within 1-3 Days and same time dispatching pre allocation orders through Cross dock system process. Daily Tracking of Import In transit goods and following pre-allocation orders to dispatch for stores as per business guidelines.

Performing VAC activities for New shipments Items as per business requirement. Reconcile store returns with store return documents and make necessary adjustments. Schedule and conduct physical inventory recounts and or cycle counts as necessary. Bin consolidation for all concepts with the concern concept supervisor & reduced the aging stocks in WH.

Performing adjustments for Import supplier excess & shortage adjustments with respective approval policy.

Planning New appointments for Local Vendors weekly twice and dispatching same time for stores. Having knowledge of Planning, Inventory Management, Location Management & Space utilization in a warehouse.

Analyzing business and logistic processes and identify areas for process improvement and cost savings.

IT Coordinator at Landmark Group From 19-Feb-2012 To 31-Dec-2014 Spearheading entire gamut of operations related to management of daily operations through Service level Agreement, gathering insight and discussing with end user Preparing MIS report including new reports queries building & modification and data mismatch issues from frontend

Identifying and addressing:

o Data Interface issues in multiple Modules (RMS,WMS,SIM, GDMS &POS) coordinating with RIB support team

o Business Inventory Mismatch issues at warehouse & store level; escalating them to level3 Support Team through conference calls.

Maintaining data related to prices of products (Sale Offers / Promotions) through using application

“RPM and RMS” Applications.

Administering Delivery Management system issues i.e. Global Delivery Management, Customer Relationship Management, Pinpoint, Proof of Delivery and Route Planner Providing charge for:

o Reporting Tools like Enterprise reporting – OBIEE 11g; warehouse & store BIP reports Acknowledging help desk (Level-1) support 24 / 7

Planning and performinglevel-1 analysis issues from frontend and acknowledging major issues; escalating them to Level-2 & Level-3 Support Team

Informing end users about application downtime through messages Designing and implementing inventory norms & updating the same on a regular basis & minimize stock out

Allocating/ transferring material, conducting routine inspection to ensure reconciliation of physical stock at the warehouse

Maintaining high level of customer service by implementing programs like just in time, centralized distribution and delivery and timely settlement

MIS Coordinator at Akken Technologies Pvt Ltd. Dec’09 – Jul’11 Personal Details:

Date Of Birth: 29th March 1987

Nationality: Indian

Languages Known: English, Hindi, Telugu

Marital Status: Single

Visa Status: Work Visa (Transferrable)

Driving License: Yes

Address: Al Sadd, Doha, Qatar

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