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Sukrith Krishnakumar

Assistant Manager

Trivandrum

6+ years of work experience

Bonito Designs
Mar 20267 mosPresent

Bengaluru

• Vendor Ecosystem Consolidation: Managed the commercial and legal alignment of the vendor network following a corporate consolidation event, systematically converting incoming legacy vendor contracts into standardized Bonito Designs frameworks. • Contract Lifecycle Coordination: Manage the end-to-end vendor contract pipeline, acting as the central liaison between vendors, Sourcing, and Legal teams to facilitate timely rate revisions and ensure terms are finalized and accepted prior to agreement expiration. • ERPNext Data Alignment & Safeguards: Transitioned master data from SAP to ERPNext post-consolidation; enforced strict item-creation procedures and collaborated to integrate system validation logic that permanently eliminates duplicate entries, prevents data mismatches, and ensures historical prices are deactivated before new rates are tagged. • Master Data & Price List Auditing: Conducted an exhaustive cleanup of inherited legacy item masters and pricing lists to safeguard company operating margins and establish a clean database.
Vishwa Samudra Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Dec 20232 yrs 3 mosFeb 2026

Hyderabad

• Served as the central functional SPOC for the enterprise-wide migration from Strategic ERP to SAP across the Stores vertical, managing business process definition, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), stakeholder coordination, end-user training, post-go-live hypercare, and issue resolution. • Managed Management Information Systems (MIS) operations by analyzing supply chain, warehouse, inventory, and cost data while developing executive PowerPoint presentations for Monthly Review Meetings (MRMs) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs). • Led an indirect matrix network of 30 site teams across domestic and international operations, driving operational alignment, reporting governance, and material compliance without direct reporting authority. • Designed and implemented an end-to-end Fixed Asset identification framework for construction shutters through asset classification, structural mapping, unique alphanumeric coding, and SS serialization for permanent traceability. • Executed data cleansing, material reclassification, and Unit of Measurement (UOM) standardization for 80,000+ material masters, achieving 99% migration accuracy across 10 domestic and international sites. • Supported stores governance, material logistics, and supply chain readiness across 6 major project sites, 3 domestic sites, and 1 international project in Guyana. • Engineered an FSN (Fast, Slow, Non-moving) inventory strategy that recovered ₹6+ Crores through cut-steel and scrap metal salvage optimization. • Managed multi-site weighbridge operations, negotiated Annual Maintenance Contracts (AMCs), optimized vendor costs, and ensured calibration compliance. • Designed, UAT-tested, and deployed operational digital tools that automated inventory reporting and streamlined cross-functional communication. • Developed SOPs, audited documentation, and coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure ISO compliance readiness and standardized operational excellence.
HomeLane
Jun 20221 yr 7 mosDec 2023

Kerala, India

• Agile Portfolio Scaling: Entrusted with expanding geographical portfolios across 10 strategic cities across India; successfully stabilized and onboarded critical vendor networks across South India (Kochi, Salem, Trichy, Tirupur, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vizag). • Transition & Crisis Management: Deployed by leadership to rapidly stabilize the West Zone cluster (Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat) following an abrupt management vacancy; executed seamless Knowledge Transfers (KT) and maintained absolute operational continuity across the region. • Commercial Negotiation & Margins: Spearheaded aggressive supplier rate negotiations and contract restructurings, successfully driving cost efficiencies that secured gross operating margins exceeding 25%. • PAN-India Financial Operations: Commanded the end-to-end Goods Receipt Note (GRN) processing and invoice verification workflow via SAP on a PAN-India scale for all active service vendors, ensuring absolute compliance and zero payment friction. • Escalation Resolution: Acted as the ultimate resolution point for high-stakes vendor disputes, supply bottlenecks, and cross-functional field escalations to keep project execution timelines strictly on schedule.
Reliance Retail
Oct 20201 yr 9 mosJun 2022

Work from Home/Navi Mumbai

• Multi-State Network Governance: Directed supply chain operations for a comprehensive 9-warehouse network distributing across 8 states; interfaced directly with senior management at 3PL companies to negotiate, secure, and scale required warehouse space and manpower resources. • Logistics Optimization & Cost Simulation: Developed a customized Excel-based volume-to-capacity calculator that mathematically aligned material cubic volume with vehicle dimensions and regional tariff structures; tool dynamically simulated freight cost trade-offs—such as recommending two 20ft containers versus a single 32ft container—to maximize load factors and compress transportation overheads. • Workforce & Shift Optimization: Conceptualized and executed a staggered shift system across high-volume fulfillment centers, successfully aligning workforce availability with peak operational hours while equalizing workloads to minimize staff burnout and lower attrition. • Logistics Optimization Strategy: Drove structural warehouse efficiencies by conducting time-and-motion studies and space optimization planning; deployed milk-run frameworks, freight consolidation loops, and reverse logistics streams to drastically compress transit overheads. • Cross-Functional Strategic Planning: Partnered with executive stakeholders to build the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), utilizing operational data to optimize warehouse capacity metrics and regional vehicle allocation strategies. • Escalation & Analytical Management: Resolved complex logistics challenges, managing data-driven cost analysis modeling, space forecasting, defective product reconciliation, and high-level stakeholder escalation workflows.
May 20206 mosOct 2020

Thiruvananthapuram

• Warehouse Layout Optimization: Engineered a strategic warehouse layout redesign by positioning high-velocity SKUs (such as Bingo! chips) adjacent to the main dispatch doors, drastically improving material picking efficiency and reducing order cycle times. • Stacking Methodology: Developed and executed a specialized product stacking methodology tailored for high-volume, lightweight inventory, maximizing vertical space utilization while preventing product damage during storage. • Digitized Route Planning: Designed a strategic delivery routing framework by mapping retail dealer networks using Google My Maps, engineering a data-driven model to optimize distribution paths and streamline fleet scheduling. • Distribution & Billing Efficiency: Maintained 98% billing and dispatch efficiency across high-volume FMCG operations. • E-Commerce Launch: Structured and managed the end-to-end launch of the company’s e-commerce vertical, including full Amazon Seller account setup, stock provisioning, and direct-to-consumer delivery fulfillment. • Loss Mitigation: Designed a centralized damage consolidation and reporting workflow, streamlining insurance/distributor claims and significantly reducing operational losses.

Sukrith’s AI Stack

gemini
gemini

Education

Balaji Institute of Modern Management

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Operations Management

Balaji Institute of Modern Management

20182 yrs2020

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Heera college of Engineering

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Assistant Manager

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Postgraduate in Operations and supply chain management with 2 years’ experience in warehousing, distribution, inventory management and logistics as well as in conducting purchasing activities and vendor development. Currently working as the Regional Lead (South & East) for SCM, Product Business Group (Kelvinator, BPL & Disney) of Reliance Retail.

Location

Trivandrum

AI stack

gemini

Work experience

Assistant Manager Supply Chain at Bonito Designs, Mar 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru, • Vendor Ecosystem Consolidation: Managed the commercial and legal alignment of the vendor network following a corporate consolidation event, systematically converting incoming legacy vendor contracts into standardized Bonito Designs frameworks. • Contract Lifecycle Coordination: Manage the end-to-end vendor contract pipeline, acting as the central liaison between vendors, Sourcing, and Legal teams to facilitate timely rate revisions and ensure terms are finalized and accepted prior to agreement expiration. • ERPNext Data Alignment & Safeguards: Transitioned master data from SAP to ERPNext post-consolidation; enforced strict item-creation procedures and collaborated to integrate system validation logic that permanently eliminates duplicate entries, prevents data mismatches, and ensures historical prices are deactivated before new rates are tagged. • Master Data & Price List Auditing: Conducted an exhaustive cleanup of inherited legacy item masters and pricing lists to safeguard company operating margins and establish a clean database.

Assistant Manager at Vishwa Samudra Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Dec 2023 - Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Hyderabad, • Served as the central functional SPOC for the enterprise-wide migration from Strategic ERP to SAP across the Stores vertical, managing business process definition, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), stakeholder coordination, end-user training, post-go-live hypercare, and issue resolution. • Managed Management Information Systems (MIS) operations by analyzing supply chain, warehouse, inventory, and cost data while developing executive PowerPoint presentations for Monthly Review Meetings (MRMs) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs). • Led an indirect matrix network of 30 site teams across domestic and international operations, driving operational alignment, reporting governance, and material compliance without direct reporting authority. • Designed and implemented an end-to-end Fixed Asset identification framework for construction shutters through asset classification, structural mapping, unique alphanumeric coding, and SS serialization for permanent traceability. • Executed data cleansing, material reclassification, and Unit of Measurement (UOM) standardization for 80,000+ material masters, achieving 99% migration accuracy across 10 domestic and international sites. • Supported stores governance, material logistics, and supply chain readiness across 6 major project sites, 3 domestic sites, and 1 international project in Guyana. • Engineered an FSN (Fast, Slow, Non-moving) inventory strategy that recovered ₹6+ Crores through cut-steel and scrap metal salvage optimization. • Managed multi-site weighbridge operations, negotiated Annual Maintenance Contracts (AMCs), optimized vendor costs, and ensured calibration compliance. • Designed, UAT-tested, and deployed operational digital tools that automated inventory reporting and streamlined cross-functional communication. • Developed SOPs, audited documentation, and coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure ISO compliance readiness and standardized operational excellence.

Vendor Manager at HomeLane, Jun 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Kerala, India, • Agile Portfolio Scaling: Entrusted with expanding geographical portfolios across 10 strategic cities across India; successfully stabilized and onboarded critical vendor networks across South India (Kochi, Salem, Trichy, Tirupur, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vizag). • Transition & Crisis Management: Deployed by leadership to rapidly stabilize the West Zone cluster (Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat) following an abrupt management vacancy; executed seamless Knowledge Transfers (KT) and maintained absolute operational continuity across the region. • Commercial Negotiation & Margins: Spearheaded aggressive supplier rate negotiations and contract restructurings, successfully driving cost efficiencies that secured gross operating margins exceeding 25%. • PAN-India Financial Operations: Commanded the end-to-end Goods Receipt Note (GRN) processing and invoice verification workflow via SAP on a PAN-India scale for all active service vendors, ensuring absolute compliance and zero payment friction. • Escalation Resolution: Acted as the ultimate resolution point for high-stakes vendor disputes, supply bottlenecks, and cross-functional field escalations to keep project execution timelines strictly on schedule.

Regional Lead SCM (South & East), Product Business Group (Kelvinator, BPL & Disney) at Reliance Retail, Oct 2020 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Work from Home/Navi Mumbai, • Multi-State Network Governance: Directed supply chain operations for a comprehensive 9-warehouse network distributing across 8 states; interfaced directly with senior management at 3PL companies to negotiate, secure, and scale required warehouse space and manpower resources. • Logistics Optimization & Cost Simulation: Developed a customized Excel-based volume-to-capacity calculator that mathematically aligned material cubic volume with vehicle dimensions and regional tariff structures; tool dynamically simulated freight cost trade-offs—such as recommending two 20ft containers versus a single 32ft container—to maximize load factors and compress transportation overheads. • Workforce & Shift Optimization: Conceptualized and executed a staggered shift system across high-volume fulfillment centers, successfully aligning workforce availability with peak operational hours while equalizing workloads to minimize staff burnout and lower attrition. • Logistics Optimization Strategy: Drove structural warehouse efficiencies by conducting time-and-motion studies and space optimization planning; deployed milk-run frameworks, freight consolidation loops, and reverse logistics streams to drastically compress transit overheads. • Cross-Functional Strategic Planning: Partnered with executive stakeholders to build the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), utilizing operational data to optimize warehouse capacity metrics and regional vehicle allocation strategies. • Escalation & Analytical Management: Resolved complex logistics challenges, managing data-driven cost analysis modeling, space forecasting, defective product reconciliation, and high-level stakeholder escalation workflows.

Operations Manager at Ganesh Agency (Distributors of ITC products), May 2020 - Oct 2020 · 6 mos, Thiruvananthapuram, • Warehouse Layout Optimization: Engineered a strategic warehouse layout redesign by positioning high-velocity SKUs (such as Bingo! chips) adjacent to the main dispatch doors, drastically improving material picking efficiency and reducing order cycle times. • Stacking Methodology: Developed and executed a specialized product stacking methodology tailored for high-volume, lightweight inventory, maximizing vertical space utilization while preventing product damage during storage. • Digitized Route Planning: Designed a strategic delivery routing framework by mapping retail dealer networks using Google My Maps, engineering a data-driven model to optimize distribution paths and streamline fleet scheduling. • Distribution & Billing Efficiency: Maintained 98% billing and dispatch efficiency across high-volume FMCG operations. • E-Commerce Launch: Structured and managed the end-to-end launch of the company’s e-commerce vertical, including full Amazon Seller account setup, stock provisioning, and direct-to-consumer delivery fulfillment. • Loss Mitigation: Designed a centralized damage consolidation and reporting workflow, streamlining insurance/distributor claims and significantly reducing operational losses.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Operations Management, Balaji Institute of Modern Management

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Heera college of Engineering