Mohan S

• Drive expansion into new markets by researching opportunities, evaluating risks, and executing successful entry strategies.
• Implemented comprehensive risk management plans to mitigate potential challenges or disruptions in operations.
• Reduced operational costs by optimising resource allocation and negotiating better contracts with suppliers.
• Oversaw supply chain operations, ensuring timely delivery of products while minimising inventory costs.
• Building Sustainable fashion consultancy under brand of EcoFash,
• EcoFash was built to support developing countries apparel brands to drive sustainability and create better world

Sustainable Fashion Manager as an additional responsibility together with Fabric Manager

• Established sustainable strategy and formulated roadmap
• Implemented sustainable strategies
• Traceability, transparency, and product impact within context of supply chains
• Sustainable reporting and disclosures
• Educate and engage internal and external stakeholders on importance of Sustainability
• Measuring environmental impact associated with supply chain while formulating methods for mitigating impacts
• Enhanced efficacy of circular processes by considering factors such as velocity, expenditure, and ecological impacts
• Implementation of Higg FEM and ZDHC across supply chain, further adding Higg FSLM to pipeline
• Waste reduction across manufacturing and repurposing of same
• Encourage product development team to utilise preferred sustainable materials
• Prepare organisations for upcoming legislation across globe
• Collect annual greenhouse gas data for carbon emission footprints
• Organise supplier sustainability engagements, supplier capacity building, and performance improvement of sustainability KPIs
• Regular communication with cross-functional teams in Sourcing, as well as with suppliers and other outside partners

• Fabric Sourcing
  
• Fabric Product Development
  
• Sourcing, Costing,
  
• Bulk order handling
• Managed over 100million USD worth of fabrics every year

• Fabric sourcing and price negotiations
• Finding and Evaluating new fabric mills
• Work with Designer team to source new quality for trends
• Managing Fabric Quality Department
• Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes
• Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximise productivity and profitability

• Established and tracked quality department goals and objectives.
• Applied coaching techniques and tools to support managers and team members in improving performance.
• Tracked quality issues with external customers, suppliers, and internal plant operations.
• Determined quality department standards, practices, and procedures.

• Monitored staff organisation and suggested improvements to daily functionality.
• Expertise in spectrophotometer Colour i7
• Arrange inspections as per production schedule.
• Arranging testing at SGS and BV as per JCP product performance standard
  
  

• Develop and follow up fabric production plan
• Fabric mill evaluation
• Ensure quality of fabric meets company requirements before shipment
• Surface inspection (4-point system), Shade lot segregation, colour approvals, and CSV inspection
• GSM, Shrinkage, and Skew

• Followed quality standards and procedures to minimise errors and maximise customer satisfaction.
• Updated quality control standards, methods, and procedures to meet compliance requirements.
• Conducted employee audits to check production performance against process standards.
• Provided observations, took measurements, and performed tests at various stages according to quality control plan.
• Surface inspection (4-point system), Shade lot segregation, colour approvals, CSV inspections, GSM, Shrinkage, and Skew

• Worked to improve stability of rib-structured fabrics,
• Improved stretch and recovery property of spandex in knitted structures (Sportswear)
• Improved stability in pique fabric after washing
• Clients: Decathlon, G-Star Raw, C&A, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's secret, GAP,etc