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Pushpendu Vinod Patel
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Illinois, United States
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Jobs
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- MSr Manager, Global Demand PlanningMAT Holdings INCDec 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 2 months)• Created templates to measure Forecast accuracy (MAPE) & Bias. Successfully improved FC accuracy by 8-9% by improving processes and creating customer data trackers to learn trends and modify statistical forecast models. • Lead monthly CPFR meetings with customers and S&OP to discuss demand forecasts and supply constraints to raise any challenges and gather market intelligence from customers and/or internal Sales stakeholders. • Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Product Managers to understand product life cycles, demand patterns, and short, medium, & long-term promotional activities. • Lead continuous improvement efforts to advance the demand planning and forecasting process capabilities. • Manage demand forecast to align with act
- ESr Manager, Supply Chain & Inventory Management.........................................................................EssendantAug 2014 - Jun 2023 (8 years 11 months)• Developed and implemented E&O processes functionally by identifying key decision-making leaders as gate keepers to reduce excess/spoilage/slow moving inventory, successfully reduced 4-5 MM dollars of excess inventory via promotional sales, returns & liquidation. • Lead team of continuous improvement by creating, reviewing/approval process of SOP's and process mapping of existing processes, identifying gaps to reduce redundancy and increasing efficiency cross functionally. Successfully created and approval process by senior leadership for approximately 107 SOP's & 83 process mapping. • Successfully launched/implemented weekly/monthly Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning process by working cross functional areas and with suppliers to add
Senior Supply Chain ManagerUS FoodsJul 2014 - Jul 2021 (7 years 1 month)• Identified and developed comprehensive strategies toward achieving and exceeding organizational goals for enhanced customer experience, reduction of inventory waste, and competitive cost position to support sales, increase market share, and maximize financial performance. • Directed accountability to achieve optimal key performance indicators (KPIs), including customer service level, purchase order accuracy, days of inventory on hand (DIOH), E&O / spoilage, and freight revenue. • Oversaw various procurement projects to enhance system parameters and reduce spoilage, unproductive inventory, and excess. • Worked closely with IT departments to ensure successful deployment of Blue Yonder/JDA projects.- Inventory Forecast Manager..............................................................................................CVS CaremarkJan 2007 - Jul 2014 (7 years 7 months)• Managed team of Sr. Analyst to generate forecast in SAP and review and adjust to avoid any excess ordering or short orders. Supervised surplus inventory analysis for items worth total savings of $3.4M between 2013 and 2014. • Managed project to integrate forecast and inventory teams to find shortcomings in SAP, initiated implementation plan along with SAP team, and provided feedback by supervising UAT in SAP. • Led projects to analyze inventory turns report for top 100 items based on high DOH & reduced $84.5K of excess OH inventory, conducted lot size analysis and adjusted ordering parameters to reduce $75K OH inventory, finally reduced $140K OH inventory of slow moving/excess OH inventory via returns and/or promotions/liquidations.
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- Diploma Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementUS ARMYAug 2002 - Oct 2002 (3 months)
- Bachelors of Science in Supply Chain & Business ManagementGujarat UniversityMay 1997 - Dec 2000 (3 years 8 months)
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- Army AchievementUS ARMYMay 2006 - Mar 2010 (3 years 11 months)
- Army CommendationUS ARMYMay 2002 - May 2006 (4 years 1 month)