SANDEEP AGARWAL

• Develop Supply Chain strategies & Operational Plans for the company
• Participate in strategic initiatives driven by the Top Management by providing analytic insights & identify potential bottlenecks.
• Liaise with government / regulatory departments for conducting business, permissions and trouble shooting.
• Spearheading the entire S&OP planning starting from Forecasting, Demand Planning, and Production Planning & MRP.
• Improvement Projects w.r.t. Supply Chain
• Negotiate commercial terms & Contracts/MoU
• Procurement / Purchasing
• International Logistics Management
• Imports & Exports
• Liaison with Shipping Lines, Freight Forwarders, CFAs & Customs Authorities
• Oversee Bonded Warehouse facilities
• Central Stores

• Handling International Supply Chain of clients
• Import - Export documentation process
• Customs Clearance process
• WTO Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Certification
• Overall management of operations in Gujarat region

• Develop Supply Chain strategies & Operational Plans for the company
• Participate in strategic initiatives driven by the Top Management by providing analytic insights & identify potential bottlenecks.
• Liaise with government departments for conducting business, permissions and trouble shooting.
• Keep track & be abreast with the national & international developments impacting investment climate including policy & economic trends.
• Spearheading the entire S&OP planning starting from Forecasting, Demand Planning, and Production Planning & MRP.
• Improvement Projects w.r.t. Supply Chain
• Risk Management within Supply Chain
• Negotiate commercial terms & Contracts/MoU
• Design cost saving initiatives & monitor performance
• Procurement / Purchasing
• International Logistics Management
• Imports & Exports
• Liaison with Shipping Lines, Freight Forwarders, CFAs & Customs Authorities
• Manage Bonded Warehouse facilities & Handling Annual Customs Audit.
• Insurance Matters related to Claims and ultimate disposal.

• Demand Planning & Production Planning centrally for 3 sites and its continuous improvement projects.
• Sales / Demand Forecasting SKU wise and Region wise.
• Material Requirement Planning - Planning of all production materials for 3 manufacturing sites across the country on a monthly basis.
• Building & maintaining extensive data on various sales & production statistics to assist an effective Demand planning process.
• Implementing & Managing monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, driving consensus & sign off of the aligned Demand Plan.
• Measuring and reporting of various KPIs such as Forecast Accuracy, Adherence to Production Plan and its continuous improvement projects.
• Planning of all imported finished goods such as beer & spirits from Uganda, Kenya, Mauritius, Europe and South Africa.
• Inventory management.
• Importation & International Logistics Management
• Liaisoning with Shipping Lines, Freight Forwarders & Customs
• Material Scheduling with all the suppliers for OTIF availability to production
• Ensuring all Purchase Orders are raised, tracked and delivered to warehouse

• Responsible for total sales turnover & revenue of the company
• Demand Forecasting / Sales Forecasting.
• Planning of sales targets region-wise, salesmen-wise and item-wise.
• Distribution setup
• New geographies & new customer Development.
• New Product Development and its launch.
• Debtors Monitoring and Recoveries.

• RESPONSIBLE FOR SOURCING MATERIALS OF APPROX. US$10 MILLION P.A.
• Demand Forecasting / Sales Forecasting.
• Material Requirement Planning of all raw materials & packing materials required for the manufacturing process.
• Procurement of all the above materials either imported or local.
• Price negotiations and annual contracts.
• Maintaining optimum stock levels - inventory management.
• Maintaining the Bill of Materials.
• Identifying and Validating new and old suppliers - Vendor management.
• Identifying critical products for sales and co-ordinating for production.
• All activities related to Tendering & Bidding for government tenders.
• Inventory & Distribution Management.
• Importation & International Logistics Management
• Shipment Tracking & Monitoring
• Inward & Outward Logistics
• Costing for Pricing Decisions
• Implementing & managing monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
• Inventory management.
• Liaisoning with Shipping Lines, Freight Forwarders & Customs
• Ensuring all Purchase Orders are raised, tracked and delivered to warehouse

• Computerized the entire activities of almost all the departments in the factory in the 1st year.
• Handled production planning, production processes and export orders follow-up.
• Managed the inventory of the basic raw material (Grey) which forms 75% of the cost of the finished product.
• Supervised the quality checking of Grey fabrics and took decisions regarding approval or rejection of the quality.
• Controlled, managed & monitored a staff of 8 printing, dyeing, shop-floor supervisors and 11 contractors (in packing dept., grey fabric dept. & specific machine contractors)

JOB PROFILE:
* Handled all the daily activities of Sales, Sales Accounting, Cash, Management reports,
Computers, etc.
* Handled Excise and Sales Tax matters up to assessment level. This included liasioning with
respective government departments and lawyers.