Created a Labor Planning Model across Gopuff's MFC that decreased annual variable warehousing costs by 50%, allowing the company to achieve break even EBIDTA.
Formulated a Labor Planning for Gopuff's Retail Stores on the West Coast, decreasing variable retailing costs by 10%, amounting to a $4.5m annual saving.
Launched Workday Scheduling and Labor Optimization across 250 Micro-Fulfillment centers (MFCs), saving $2m annually and increasing MFC manager productivity by 30%.
Head Of Operations
TATA STARQUIK
01.2017 - 04.2021
Conceptualized and implemented a supply chain as well as designed 14 apps to power StarQuik's backend system, making a plug and play system that allowed the store setup of 20 Starquik stores across 5 Indian cities over a period of 2 years
Oversaw an online grocery operation that provided customers on time delivery of grocery within the customer's desired time slot 98% of the time
Attained an order fulfilment rate of 96% by creating a live inventory correction app allowing inventory checkers to correct mismatched inventory of SKU's with precision - 96 out of 100 items in every customer order were picked and efficiently transported
Accomplished a 10% month on month reduction of picking, delivery and warehouse costs, resulting in profitable unit economics for grocery deliveries
Increased Orders from 300 orders/day to 3000 orders per day over a span of 2 months
Senior Manager, Supply Chain
GROCERMAX
01.2016 - 01.2017
Delivered profitability across all grocery warehouses in Delhi NCR, within 18 months from operational commencement allowing the company to operate at lower costs and diminish dependency for raising money for operational upkeep
Negotiated operational rates with 10+ vendors during the commencement phase to achieve lowest in industry backend operational unit costs, profitability per order - 40% of total delivery costs
Created a backend/picking allocation app based on android platform with a technology team, leading to an operational efficiency increase of 60% over 2 months
Territory Sales Officer
CAVIN
01.2015 - 01.2016
Enhanced Product Placement of products across poorly performing sales regions for those products by about 25% by focusing on the position of stock placement in retail outlets and retraining salesmen in the field to present products through brochures and new apps to retailers
Decreased Backlog Of Payments from retailers - A retailer payment default reduction of 30% Increased credit line for retailers from 2 to 4 weeks to boost clearance percentages in payment collection
Cut Down cases of damages to products and returns to less than 1% of net sale across key areas of East Bangalore by instituting crate implementation and stopping piece-wise sales of full case products that retailers used to request
Education
Master of Supply Chain Management -
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
06.2022
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
Anna University
06.2015
Skills
Classically trained in the Mridangam, an Indian Carnatic Instrument for over 10 years
Aided and helped dog and cat adoption drives Personal record of getting 20 animals adopted over a period of four years