LAKSHMANAN BALAKRISHNAN

Functioned as a Key member of the Planning Department involving production planning, raw material procurement, in-house manufactured products, outsourced products & third party contract manufacturing vendors of Balsara assuring 100+ Service Levels to company’s growth centres.
•Involved in Production Planning including in-house manufactured products & third party contract manufacturing vendors of Balsara ensuring 100+ Service Levels to the Growth Centres.
•Efficiently liaised with the Internal Customer Teams like Domestic Sales, International Sales, Neighbouring Countries Sales and Institutional Sales, etc.
•Conceptualized & executed materials budget involving procurement cost, volume budgets and overheads budgeting.
•Administered computing of optimal finished goods sourcing costs based on cost matrix model.
•Vital role in developing monthly unit wise production strategies based on Net Sales Requirement, Production Capacity of units, Guidelines of optimal finished goods sourcing calculations done while annual budgeting, releasing production plan to manufacturing centres with specific date targets.
•Lead all activities involving Production Planning, Costing and Quality Audits coordination.
•Significant contribution in implementing budgetary control on procurement and production costs.
•Resourcefully coordinated with Purchase, R&D, Packaging Development, Factory Operations and Finance Teams.
•Involved in Production Planning & Raw Material Procurement of the in-house perfume manufactured for select products.
•Acted as PTL in MM and SD modules of SAP 4.6 C.
•Successfully managed entire 3rd Party operations of scouring products and various export products.
•Identified areas for improvement to continually drive performance and business results.
•Recognized opportunities to improve customer and business impact through using a process focused improvement approach.

Distinguished efforts in independently handling Erection & Commissioning of 6 Major Water Treatment Plants across India

to CEO & now given the responsibility of Head - Supply Chain (Demand & Supply Planning)
(Joined as Manager-Planning & SCM & rose up to the level of Executive Assistant to CEO)

•Planned, developed, optimized, organized, directed, managed, evaluated and accountability for Supply chain processes for the organization.
•Strategized & executed delivery of 900+ SKU products & engagements across 70 countries ensuring optimum utilisation of Funds, Materials, HR & time Management in coordination with Sales, Purchase, Production, Quality, R&D, Logistics & Warehousing.
•Lead and manage demand planning, customer service, inventory control, forecasting, and other areas as required.
•Strategized & evaluated sales estimation & demand forecasting across geographies based on seasonal & historical demand trends. Developing analytics, systems and data management capabilities including metrics reports.
•Planned and implemented frame work for AOP and periodic review and realigning due to sales or operational issues.
•Distinguished efforts in executing company’s objective of ‘Customer Delight’ through constant interaction with the stake holders of all Group Companies across the 70 countries encouraging complete customer engagement.
•Handled periodic product rationalization & active items through MIS analysis.
•Spearheaded complete demand planning across India & UAE factories involving Production, Warehouse, direct Exports and Sales spoke location for 700 SKU’s across 70 countries in 4 continents.
•Lead execution of Sales & Distribution ERP module JD Edwards Version 9.1.
•Successfully headed the migration & Implementation of Demand Planning module from internal program to JD Edwards 9.1.
•Hold credit of establishing team in multi-tasking environment successfully handled large workload and managed higher responsibilities independently.
•Using process engineering best practices, identifying areas for process improvement or development; build processes, including process maps, to ensure appropriate management and governance of critical processes.
•Directing, coordinating, assigning, monitoring & reviewing the work of individuals engaged in supply chain related duties.
•Identifying potential projects to deliver changes and enhancements to the supply chain .