VARADHARAJ CHANDRASEKARAN

STRONG IN WOVEN AND KNITS PRODUCTS IN MENS/WOMENS TOPS AND BOTTOM CATEGORY

Day to Day Management

• Owning weekly meetings both in person & via ZOOM w. cross functional teams.
• Development tracker population
• Core Fabric Library building, populating, and keeping up to date.
• Execute and deliver on tasks and small projects as guided by manager
• Strict adherence of line plans and addressing deviations before accepting new developments from cross functional teams.
• Partner with Design to ensure timely execution of product development calendar.
• Work with factories to prepare production schedules, cost estimates, issuing purchase orders and keeping progress records up to date.
• Coordinate fit process with technical designer and ensure detailed notes are kept and communicated to the appropriate factory.
• Manage all e-mail communications with factories and suppliers to make sure that established standards and expected delivery dates are met.
• Partner with CEO, Designer and Technical Designer to confirm accuracy of size breaks, tag/labels and delivery requirements.
• Create, revise, input and maintain production orders and transmission to factories. Coordinate tracking of all preproduction samples and stock deliveries.
• Perform daily tracking of goods on order, in progress (WIP) and in-transit to ensure timely delivery according to development calendar; create and distribute production status reports; follow-up with vendors, factories and Design/Merchandising as needed.

Operating System Responsibility (Bamboo Rose & VSR)
• Advocate for PLM system tracking and management

• Oversee the production process from start to finish
• Monitor delivery status, maintain WIP reports
• Manage sample approvals
• Daily correspondence with overseas factories
• Monitoring Cost & Quality
• Overseas travel
• Oversee junior staff
• Built strong customer relationships through effective communication on project progress, leading to increased satisfaction levels and repeat business opportunities.
• Streamlined communication between departments, resulting in more efficient problem-solving and decisionmaking.

• Delivered operating plans and growth objectives.
• Assisted in developing budgets and forecasts, allowing for more accurate resource allocation decisions.
• Designed and implemented new production schedule to reduce loss in labor and inventory.
• Participated in new product launches, coordinating efforts between design, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
• Brief Submission and development monitoring w. vendor partners monitoring
• Read, understand, and follow the department calendar.
  Ensure deadlines are met to actualize seasonal calendar successfully.
• Coordinate, assign, and schedule appropriate meetings, according to development calendar
• Analyze development line plans and report workflow needs
• Create and maintain accurate product development WIP report to ensure on time sample delivery
• R&D on seasonal vision(s) w. vendor base
• Vendor management w. a full knowledge of their capabilities, abilities and capacities while being able to identify growth opportunities within assigned categories
• Quarterly calls w. all vendors for business updates
• Weekly reporting and updates for all WIP management.

• Responsible for order placement and delivery confirmation with factories. Follow up on bookings, resolve booking exceptions and partner with logistics and sales to prioritize
  "hot" shipments.
• Coordinate direct shipment, collect carton weight/ sizes (CBM), invoices and packing list from factory.
• Escalate issues that impact delivery, coordinate resolutions with both internal and external partners.
• Review, communicate and align on P.O. change requests made by the customer.
• Follow up on all approvals from Product Development through Quality department.
• Work with cross-functional partners on communication of deliveries and approvals.
• Work closely with logistics team and overseas team to ensure delivery schedules are being maintained.
• Responsible for PO Maintenance & Revisions as needed.
• Responsible for the follow through of the approval process from completed BOM handoff from design, for color and components approvals, technical follow up, fit approvals, pre-production, testing and TOP approvals.
• Support sourcing / costing activities, collect tech packs, artwork, and swatches from design for counter sourcing.
• Monitor, review and communicate fabric and trim liabilities.
  Distribute accessory sheets and troubleshoot and approve packing trims.
• Maintain cost logs cost log with HTS code, wholesale prices, account quantities.
• Partner closely with the sales team on packaging to ensure development is on track and completed

• Oversee the Production process from development to order placement through delivery.
• Responsible for all milestone due dates, work with factories and sales team to receive and manage TNA's, trigger date calendars to ensure deliverables are being met in a timely manner.
• Review WIP with China & Bangladesh office weekly to ensure all critical dates are met.
• Responsible for PO Maintenance & Revisions as needed.
• Responsible for the follow through of the approval process from completed BOM handoff from design, for color and components approvals, technical follow up, fit approvals, pre-production, testing and TOP approvals.
• Support sourcing / costing activities, collect tech packs, artwork, and swatches from design for counter sourcing.