Principal Consultant
Neev Consultancy Inc.
Total years of experience :30 years, 1 Months
Working with SMEs and MSMEs in apparels categories to set up their businesses for e-commerce and provide end to end solutions for development of business from various portals. Presently working with three clients from the industry and looking to add business value for more MSME who are vary of adding business through e commerce lines due to various mind set and fundamental issues.
Prince Corp. Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai as Head Sourcing.
Accountabilities.
• Responsible for sourcing of travelware products across categories in India for the two brands of the company, Princeware and Pronto.
• Also heading product development functions for new product category of backpacks for the two brands.
• Developed a range of products across price points for the brands in various price points as per the brand needs.
• Managed a team of professionals undertaking development, merchandising, sourcing and production activities in India for travelware business.
• Also involved in procurement and sourcing for travelware from China for the two brands.
• Involved in sourcing of house ware plastic products from China for the Company’s flagship brand: Princeware.
• Managing entire supply chain of raw material for procurement of travelware products being outsourced from various vendors across the country.
From Feb’11 to May ‘15 with VIP Industries Ltd., Mumbai as Head India Sourcing
Accountabilities.
• Developed the infrastructure for the procurement of luggage and allied categories including hand bags category from India which was practically non existent prior to 2011.
• Added new capacities to service product categories like uprights, backpacks, duffles, duffle trolleys to achieve the sourcing quantities and start new products in India and add value to the business of the company.
• Single handedly achieved a volume growth from over 4000 pieces per month in joining period of Feb 2011 to about over 125000 pieces in January 2015.
• Personally developed a team of professional handling 14 vendors across the country across all product categories and these vendors are exclusive to VIP production. Besides these there were about a dozen empanelled suppliers who took care of sudden spurts in demand from market including institutional business.
• Achieved business growth from Rs.4.5 Crores in 2010-11 to Rs.74.00 Crores for the year of 2014-15 for India Sourcing business from all categories. (FOB purchase values).
• Responsible for developing infrastructure across locations in India for manufacturing including a exclusive unit for backpacks in Rudrapur in Uttaranchal in non excise zone with a capacity of 50000 pieces per month.
• Responsible for launch of new products in all major brands of the company like VIP, SKYBAGS, ALFA and ARISTOCRAT as well as a new value line for Ladies hand bags range in CAPRESE which got a good response in the market.
Role in Bangladesh Project.
I was on the board of VIP Industries Bangladesh Pvt. Ltd. which is 100% owned subsidiary of the VIP Industries Ltd, Mumbai, India formed in 2012 for setup of soft luggage manufacturing facility in Bangladesh for 2013-14. This involved frequent visits to Bangladesh and interaction with various government agencies to get the project moving ahead as per budgeted time lines.
• Actively involved in the project from the stage of plot selection up to the final closure of the construction in September 2013 and commencement of commercial production in November 2013. This involved the team selection, raw material supplier selection, logistics service provider selection and all modalities to get the project up and running.
India Sourcing.
• The challenge of this assignment is to develop the vendor base across India and recruiting new vendors for the company’s brands, nurturing them and making them work towards achieving efficiency in production along with best quality standards and most importantly making them cost competitive compared to China Imports.
• I was responsible for development of vendors supplying good quality backpacks in Skybags and ALFA brands resulting in exponential growth in the business of backpacks procured from India. Also the growth of sales in the backpacks category in Skybags and ALFA brands was the highlights of the company's performance in 2013-14 & 2014-15 & India sourced products were almost 50% of the product portfolio to the tune of 45000 pieces in December 2014.
• We developed suppliers across category of ladies hand bags in CAPRESE brand launch in 2013 and was also successful in launching the value line for hyper markets from India vendors in summer of 2015.
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Career Contour
International Sourcing
Accountabilities.
•Developing sources from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia & Thailand for procurement in categories like plastics, crockery, dinnerware, cook ware, Luggage, toys & sports, stationary for GM category in Big Bazaar.
•Handling commercial and logistics aspects of business for the imports into Big Bazaar as an additional responsibility.
•Interface between the vendors, buyers and overseas offices for execution of business and development of new categories with focus on value enhancement in existing categories of Big Bazaar.
•Headed sourcing activity for imports of product lines like luggage (Milestone), Toys, Sports, crockery, glassware, stationary, kitchenware and other non apparel categories for the Big Bazaar product team. This responsibility entailed all the imports for this category right from selection of supplier to delivery at central warehouse for all imported non apparels (GM) category of Big Bazaar.
•Actively involved for procurement through imports and planning for special promotions of 26th January and 15th August Big Day promotions of Big Bazaar.
Highlights.
•Successfully executed the suppliers for the gifting & promotions category for the Pantaloons & the Central Chain of stores in the group for Festive
Sourcing & Procurement Apparels
Managed garments division of the company which was involved in manufacturing and retailing Cameo Brand of Mens shirts.
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