Ashwin Halappa

3+ years of work experience

Apr 20251 yr 6 mosPresent

Partner with Demand Planning and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business strategy, promotional activity, and seasonal transitions into forecast-driven buy plans for product groups representing approximately $121M, supporting supply-demand alignment. Track and analyze Lag 1 and Lag 4 forecast bias and accuracy to evaluate forecast performance over time, feeding findings back into replenishment and buy-plan adjustments to reduce systematic over- or under-forecasting. Analyze sell-through patterns, order trends, and category performance to identify forecast risk and root cause of exceptions, feeding qualitative and quantitative input into replenishment and inventory decisions. Drive inventory and replenishment strategy for assigned product groups through resets, promotions, seasonal entry/exit, and events, influencing Merchandising, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Transportation, Stores, and Store Support to keep supply aligned to demand. Execute buy plans for major store resets, coordinating cross-functionally to land new product on-time and support projected sales. Monitor the inventory pipeline end-to-end, proactively flagging risk and developing mitigation plans to close pipeline gaps before they affect in-stock, forecast, or financial objectives. Build and deliver weekly vendor performance reporting to leadership, using KPI trends to drive continuous improvement in forecast and replenishment accuracy; collaborate directly with suppliers to keep inventory strategy aligned to demand. Designed and implemented a new SOP for evaluating VMI (Vendor-Managed Inventory) partner performance, standardizing how vendor effectiveness is measured and reported. Achieved 100% SLA adherence while improving replenishment (RP) hygiene and reducing exceptions, strengthening the reliability of the inventory and forecast plan.

Jun 20231 yr 11 mosApr 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India