sabarish velyavalapil sreedharan

* Leading a team of 8 members
* Handling the development of Levi's and Dockers, through the Liason office of Levi's in Bangalore.
* Handling production of Buyer called Belk, through Li&Fung - Gurgoan.

Below are my work description.

* Style development once the costs are finalized with the Buyer.
* After the style selection by Buyer, capacity will be blocked planning team as per Buyer required delivery date.
* After receipt of the order from Buyer, Fabric and all other sewing materials will be ordered within 5 days of time.
* Visiting fabric mills for the critical T&A to meet the PCD committed to planning team.
* Working closely with fabric and trims sourcing team to inhouse the materials as per plan.
* For the critical paths, coordinating with suppliers directly to ensure sewing materials are getting inhouse on-time.
* Moving with right time coordination with sample room to ensure samples are sent ontime to Buyer.
* Chase with Buyer for the sample approvals.
* Conducting the PPM and ensure production started ontime to meet the Buyer delivery.
* Visiting factories to ensure production is meeting the T&A provided by the planning team.
* Monitoring the production outputs day to day basis.
* Coordinating with commercial team during shipment to ensure cargo reaches the port ontime to catch scheduled vessel.

 Close follow up with Buyer for monthly orders.
 Filling up the factory’s blocked capacity for my customer on monthly basis.
 Making my Team work proactively to place the orders with fabric and trims suppliers based on the projections received from Buyer.
 Chasing up with sample department for all kind of sample making as per Buyer’s requirement.
 Follow up with Buyer for all kind of approvals like sample, trims and fabrics in order to ensure smooth start of production.
 Working out time and action plans for each style in coordination with planning team and monitoring the progress on daily basis along with team to meet the goods handover dates.
 Sending production reports to Buyer on daily basis and keeping them updated on daily progress.
 Visiting factories on daily basis to understand the production output.
 Motivating and appraising the Team members whenever required to bring the best out of them.

Intimate Apparals Pvt. Ltd., Bangladesh as Merchandising Manager, Jun' 15-May' 18
Labels Handled:
1. Ariela Alpha International (Buying office for Walmart - New York): Handled the below labels.
 Smart and Sexy
 Best Form
 Fruit of the loom
 Secret Treasures
 No Boundaries
 Kohls

2. Hanes Brand Inc. (Liaison office - HBI USA & HK)
 Playtex
 Hanes
 Wonder Bra
 Maiden form
 Ross
 Hanes Europe International

3. BL Intimates (Buying office for Walmart - New York)

4. Naturana - Germany