Pradhiksha Ganesh Babu

Full ownership of the supply plan for the health category products coordinating with both internal and external manufacturing along with procurement and quality team.
• Direct management of Site Planning Leads globally across US, UK, Europe and Asia to ensure continuity of supply and maximize service to market
• Spearheading monthly supply reviews for the health category with top leadership management
• Coordinating with IMEX Demand planners to ensure that there is a right forecast enrichment done to reflect the latest demand in SAP KINAXIS
• Proactively managing the service to the markets through short term and mid-term horizon plan by acting on distress SKUs on priority to avoid moving into OOS Zone.
• Setting up inventory targets and managing their execution by coordinating with the inputs from the markets and factory and ensuring that the agreed targets are adhered to by the business.
Developed the entire EMO process of connected planning for a seamless supply chain
• Achieved PFR service level of 85% consistently against the target
• Handled the inventory worth of about 10 million across the chain.

Finalizing and updating the collaborative forecast post the S&OP discussions for all the five business divisions in coordination with the Sales operations, marketing team for India and South Asia (BD, NP, PK and LK) which is in line with the Financial latest best estimated units from the Finance team
• Continuous monitoring of Forecast Accuracy, BIAS and MAPE by maintaining clear and open communication with internal and external stakeholders and presenting the constraints to the leadership team regarding the reasons, strategizing ways to alleviate market revenue risks and justifying for the sporadic sales change.
• Being a SAP KEY user as nominated by global MDM team, responsible for ensuring the demand is propagated accurately to the entire supply chain by monitoring the material master parameters in SAP ECC and SA APO and voicing out wherever applicable
• Reviewing and updating the safety stocks according to the market trend, future forecasts, Zfin changes, min stock /max stock, MRP types and other ECC and SNP parameters for each quarter
• Involved in the new product launches by coordinating with the product development team to align the forecast along with the additional inventory requirements to support new consignees.
• Plans for Phase in /Phase out products and the Last Time Buy products.
• Involved in the monthly business review meetings to understand the priorities, highlights, and lowlights for each business division.
• Handling meetings with the cross functional stakeholders regarding the excess inventory presence in all the satellite warehouses by recalling the stocks present greater than 90 days.
• Involved in training and monitoring peers and new joiners regarding the job roles and responsibilities of Demand and supply planning.
Key Career Highlights at Abbott India Ltd
• Achieved a revenue of about $500K USD sales through ensuring on time material availability.
• Achieved $ 12MM + USD Duty savings through the India Penang FTA project by ensuring the imports from the manufacturing plant instead of from the distribution Centre.
• Achieved the forecast accuracy of about 82% YTD against the target of 80% YTD of through extensive checks on primary sales VS secondary sales as well as the trend.
• Achieved $50 K in cost savings by reducing the scrap inventory by recalling the excess inventory greater than 90 days from satellite warehouses.
• Achieved the customer service level than 95% and Line fill rate than 99%
• Achieved DOH of 115 days YTD against the target of 120 days YTD in India.

Responsible for production planning control by supervising, scheduling, and reviewing the release of production orders/work order to the plant in the shop floor as per the customer schedules to meet the SAP finish dates of production.
• Responsible for both direct and indirect procurement through the implementation of purchasing process and systems like SMI and training the suppliers on field during the implementation.
• Negotiating and recommending the execution of contracts for the purchase of supplies, services and equipment taking care of entire P2P process
• Developing the suppliers/service providers for achieving cost effective purchases, reduction in delivery time and ensuring a reliable supply chain; Procurement planning and inventory management of essential commodities and capital equipment
• Involved in spend analysis, contract management, identifying the suppliers and understanding their processes and negotiating the costs associated with to maintain the long-term business relationship
• Working on the Value stream Analysis and Value stream design (Business Process flow) for setting up a value stream Organization to achieve the mission of Operational Excellence of the FESTO Organization. Involved in the Waste hunting process, 5 S, Supermarket Implementation, Supplier Kanban, TAT as per the customer expectations by defining the min and max stock levels through supply chain optimization process.
• Being allocated as a head supply chain planner, supervised the production team of 15 members on production planning, purchasing, inventory management, supplier management, continuous improvements from both the system point of view and process point of view in the shop floor for my lean organization.
• Responsible for both direct and indirect procurement through the implementation of SMI and training the suppliers on field during the implementation.
• Working closely with the SOP and business leadership team to create and manage demand forecasts for supply procurement and distribution through SNP planning to provide the volume requirement for the
• Working closely with the management to analyze the cost variance reports which include both positive and negative variance between the system stock and physical stock in warehouse.
• Responsible for doing root cause analysis using tools such as 5why analysis, Plan Do Check Act Methodology, 8 D reports on problems, ensure that any issues are contained, resolved, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
Key Career Highlights at Festo India Ltd.
• Achieved Avg of 98% supplier performance against the target of Avg 95% using SMI.
• Achieved OTD 95% that is measured in exporting the products to Rohrbach, Germany
• Achieved Cost savings of approximately 20% during the potential excess stock reduction analysis.
• Achieved OEE of about 85% for my value stream organization.

• Negotiating and recommending the execution of contracts for the purchase of supplies, services and equipment for the various manufacturing clients
• Own the RFQ and source right suppliers.
• Conduct qualification & competitive analysis of vendor products / services.
• Develop sourcing strategy/plan on quality, price, delivery, and service necessary to meet requirements.

• Worked as a Tester for the client Legal and General, UK covering the entire SDLC phase starting from the design phase to the delivery phase.
• Worked as a Software developer for the distribution and warehousing team in EDW - ETL for the client “THE HOME DEPOT” Atlanta, USA. The project is about extracting, transformation and loading of data from the db2 source to target Teradata database for which the data is used for sorting of goods and distributed to the various stores.