Headline

Head of Fulfilment Operations - Warehouse and Logistics at PUMA

About

A logistics & Supply Chain professional with 12+ years of experience in driving change and continuous improvement in India, and GCC across various industries like Retail, FMCG, Fashion, and Oil & Gas. Currently, I head PUMA India’s supply chain, and am leading the transformation of the department through Network Design, Digitization of operations, WMS, Lean Management, health & safety and sustainable initiatives. These efforts continually improve PUMA’s customers’ experience while reducing, rationalization cost and carbon footprint. I manage a team of 25+ supply chain who are deeply rooted in running operations better everyday and keeping an eye the future. In the past, I have worked in key operations roles spanning the entire Supplychain lifecycle, from Sales and Operations Planning to Solution design and execution of core logistics operations including setup for multiple warehouses across India. As a Lean-certified professional, I have successfully delivered Lean Six Sigma and strategic projects, optimizing distribution networks, improving inventory management, and enhancing capacity planning.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

openai

perplexity

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Head Warehouse and Logistics at Puma Group, Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring of overall Supply Chain Logistics strategy to achieve sales growth. To develop strategic plans to improve productivity, quality and efficiency of all warehouse operations (B2B and D2C) while reducing the footprint through optimized solutions. Build, develop and maintain relationships with internal customers (Planning, Merchandizing and CS teams) and external partners like 3PL’s, Logistics Partners, Marketplace and C&F Agents.

Lead- Integrated Planning at Croma, Oct 2022 - Dec 2022 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Lead Supply Chain Operations and Strategy at Welspun Group, Jun 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Managing Global Supply Chain, Demand Planning and e-commerce S&OP operations at Welspun

Lead - Supply Chain & Logistics Operations at Reliance Retail, Sep 2019 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Senior Manager at DHL Supply Chain, May 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Design and delivery of End to end Supply Chain projects as part of new business pursuits, BPR & consulting engagements covering Network design & Transportation for both domestic and international DHL clientele • Champion Transport Optimization & Network Design solution by leading and training a team of consultants and analysts to deliver e2e projects • Focal point for regional demand generation and resource allocation through service dialogue and capability development to meet DHL customer demands • Good knowledge of Network Optimization & Transport Optimization (VRP) tools like Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru, Viamente, Workwave & Paragon

Manager at DHL Supply Chain, Nov 2016 - May 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos, Mumbai Area, India, Designing Supply Chain solutions covering transportation solutions and network optimization for DHL clientele spanning both domestic and international customers • Champion Network and transport optimization projects for multi-product and multi-modal environment • Trained on Network Optimization tools like Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru, & Transport Optimization (VRP) tools like Transportation Guru, Workwave & Paragon • Establish a local team of supply chain engineers and analysts to support the design of supply chain solutions with a broad range of discrete and integrated services in data analytics and solution design • Lead, and train a team of 7-8 business consultants and analysts to deliver e2e projects for transportation and analytics, and focal point for regional demand generation and resource allocation through service dialogue and capability development

Education

MBA, General Management, IIT Bombay - Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, University of Mumbai