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title: "Vuthoori Manideep - Head - Planning Design in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Vuthoori Manideep, Building systems for scale @Flipkart Minutes || SIBM Pune || IIT(ISM) Dhanbad based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, gemini, and openai."
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# Vuthoori Manideep on Tal

## Headline

Building systems for scale @Flipkart Minutes \|\| SIBM Pune \|\| IIT\(ISM\) Dhanbad

## About

With experience in building processes from scratch and scaling operations along with projects including design thinking, process optimization, program management and cost management, my understanding stays strong in planning, design and operations\. I have worked on establishing processes and executing them in Flipkart Minutes buildings it 0 to 1 to 10 scaleup\. I have headed it's perishable supply chain \(building for the first time for Flipkart\) which now accounts for 60% of the demand by volume and remains the biggest lever for retention\. I demonstrate strong stakeholder management, ownership and problem solving and am eager to take up new challenges all the time\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

gemini

openai

## Work experience

Head \- Planning Design at Flipkart, Mar 2026 \- Aug 2026 · 6 mos, Built automated planning systems for Flipkart Minutes 1\. Systemising the manual process consolidating and creating a master data management module 2\. Streamline auto replenishment system to facilitate the flow of inventory through the supply chain with almost zero intervention 3\. Building Inventory health system that traces and acts on the actionable inventory at the warehouses 4\. Worked on streamlining the vendor management systems for a comprehensive scheduling system 5\. Drawing deeper nuances for ensuring long term compatibility of the systems at scale

Manager \- Design \(Perishables and cost\) at Flipkart, Jun 2025 \- Mar 2026 · 10 mos, Minutes \- Design and Process 1\. Headed process design for FnV and cold supply chains 2\. Building first ever perishable supply chain at Flipkart from scratch 3\. Reduced warehouse processing costs by 22% \(saving around 8 lakhs in P&L everyday\) through enhancements in product, planning, and operations 4\. Established processes for FnV and cold supply chains to improve inventory reconciliation and minimise shrinkage/losses 5\. Developed the receiving flow application to ensure proper inventory handovers, reducing transaction losses from 2\.6% to 0\.3% 6\. Designed a WMS picking module to standardise outbound operations at FnV warehouses, ensuring transparency and increasing productivity 7\. Lowered in\-transit damages for cold products from 2\.3% to less than 0\.4% 8\. Revamped the meat supply chain for Flipkart Minutes to enable better penetration of Meat and Fish products reducing customer returns from 2\.4% to 0\.7%

MT \- Planning and Central Ops at Flipkart, Jun 2024 \- Jun 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, A\. Handling Inventory planning and Mid\-mile logistics: 1\. Built inventory planning systems for the perishables portfolio \(Ambient, cold and Fruits and Vegetables\) across all the dark stores to automate replenishment through templates on a day\-to\-day basis 2\. Implemented various actions and streamlined processes that reduced customer returns of perishables from 1\.6% to <0\.8% 3\. Centralised the planning for smooth flow of inventory from hubs to the stores \(9 hubs \~ 85 darkstores\) 4\. Optimised the space planning at dark stores to fit in maximum SKUs \(15000\+ SKUs\) with the given space constraints 5\. Planned and implemented multiple replenishments at dark stores to improve the efficiency and instock and reduce wastage in case of perishables 6\. Designed the layout of dark stores with space alloted to multiple zones to fit in as many categories as possible 7\. Structured the dark store inbound processes to enhance the productivity of manpower at the stores B\. New store launches: 1\. PMO for all new city and store launches coordinating with all the stakeholders\. 2\. Building Inventory at the new stores in the quickest possible time for making it customer ready

Supply Chain Intern at Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd\., Apr 2023 \- Jun 2023 · 3 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1\. Evaluated and identified new catchments understanding the science behind dine\-in and delivery for new Domino's outlets 2\. Analysed over 25 locations to understand store potential for establishment of Domino's outlets 3\. Worked on GIS \(Geographic information system\) mapping of delivery business and performance giving further insights into fresh catchment locations and sales cannibalization of existing stores 4\. Increased the productivity of manpower in Dough and CLC departments combined by around 7% 5\. Created a manpower optimization model that could bring a potential savings of around 31\.5 lakhs annually by reducing variable manpower 6\. Predicted the manpower requirements for different departments at the commissary which increased the shift manpower utilization from 93% to 98% 7\. Identified and analyzed the corrections and changes to be made the ongoing resource planning tool mapping productivity with the actual requirements

Assistant Manager at Hindalco Industries Limited, Jan 2022 \- May 2022 · 5 mos, Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, India, 1\. Administered shift operations managing a team of 20 members and applied kaizens and process\-optimization techniques 2\. Reduced TAT of pot startup activities by 30% \(from 6 to 4\.18 days\) by removing non value\-added me and upskilling manpower 3\. Executed and monitored action plan on the shop floor to produce P0303, the purest grade aluminum at the plant 4\. Performed critical startup activities during the milestone project of 2nd generation startup of 360 pots after one life cycle 5\. Planned and scheduled day to day operational activities despite backlogs and sudden breakdowns due to equipment failure

GET at Hindalco Industries Limited, Jan 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 1 yr, India

Intern at Tega Industries, Apr 2019 \- Jun 2019 · 3 mos

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology \(Indian School of Mines\), Dhanbad

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