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Monika Srivatsa

Auckland

Summary

Dedicated Supply chain professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Supply Network Planner

Fonterra Co-operative Group
Auckland
08.2018 - Current

Work closely with commercial and operations teams to drive and deliver the best for business decisions across the supply chain.

Manage supply network plan for Cheese and Butter categories to ensure delivery of the targeted customer service level using the demand plan as the major signal for customer requirements.

Key Tasks:
Inventory for Category:
➢ Achieve targeted inventory levels.
➢ Manage supply network-related issues with the support of Logistics.
➢ Delivery of stock availability at the lowest effective cost and inventory (waste and working capital).
Mid to long-range planning:
➢ Supply Network plan maintained in line with supply chain strategy.
➢ Capacity Planning for source sites, Identify risks and opportunities.
➢ Product sourcing across the whole horizon.
➢ Highlight capacity constraints and work cross-functionally to remove
constraints and/or advice of constraints to key stakeholders.
IBP Supply Review Monthly Cycle:
➢ Key support and driver of monthly pre-supply and supply reviews.
➢ Ensure all documentation and analysis are prepared before the review meetings.
➢ Identify risks and opportunities and work through options with a wider
business team via the IBP process.
➢ Lead weekly ITP meetings and pack presentations & Drive continuous improvement:
➢ Identify opportunities for improvement in daily, weekly, monthly processes
➢ Work through and implement improvements to close gaps identified.

Demand & Supply Planner

Diplomat New Zealand
Auckland, AUK
08.2017 - 08.2018

Key Tasks:

Financial Perspective:

➢ Ensure forecasting and planning are done cost-effectively.

➢ Contribute to cost-saving targets of the company Customer Perspective:

➢ Conduct planning to ensure alignment with the forecasting by the vendors.

➢ Engage with vendors to manage shortfalls in certain categories/SKU's to

Ensure speedy recovery from shortfalls.

Internal Processes:

➢ Work towards achieving individual KPIs as per the company's growth and performance.

➢Conduct monthly meetings with KAMs to validate category as well as SKU

Forecast.

➢ Analyze SAP data to identify risks and opportunities in sales, and where

Possible to recover lost sales.

➢ Present historical vs actual analysis in line with annual budget as well as

Promotional plan.

➢ Monitoring and reviewing the performance of 3PL, so that cost-effective

Planning is achieved.

Supply Chain Coordinator

Samsung NZ
Auckland, AUK
11.2015 - 04.2017

Key tasks:
Sales & Operation Planning.
➢ Demand planning and forecasting.
➢ Sell-out Planning/forecasting with monitoring.
➢ Relevant steps are taken for recovery of shortfall of factory supply.
Sales forecast/Analysis.
➢ Worked with Development/Product manager to launch new product range and ensure the development schedule is reflected in the demand planning.
➢ Assist in the planning of the annual budgets.
➢ Co- ordinate Export sales from NZ.
Distribution Planning.
➢ Coordinate the internal order process with the order desk to be passed to 3PL.
➢ Coordinate deliveries with 3PL to fulfill the delivery requirement for the
customer.

Global Demand & Supply Planner

Bendon NZ
Auckland
05.2015 - 11.2015

Key Tasks:

➢ Forecasting of sales and stocks.
➢ Analyzing sales data, tracking against budget, and LY reviewing the performance of each brand.
➢ Liaising with suppliers (Delivery time negotiation and MOQ)
➢ Working with finance, logistics, procurement, and sales team ensuring stock and sales requirements are achieved in the deadline-driven environment.
➢ Work with key well-known retail partners ensuring accurate stock and
sales forecasting of indent and replenishment lines.
➢ Reverse supply chain management.

Stock Controller and Merchandise Planner

Tesco Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
06.2013 - 11.2014

Key Tasks:

➢ Forecasting the orders and getting the stock and sales data.
➢ Preparation of Availability reports helping in forecasting orders.
➢ Allocation of goods from Warehouse to stores.
➢ Replenishment planning for perishable goods.
➢ Ensuring the ideas and processes are implemented, as decided.
➢ Process improvement and streamlining the critical areas.
➢ Maintaining the team KPI matrix and ensuring the same is available to the
leads when required.
➢ Preparation of business Performance reports on a weekly basis, Weekly
business Review with Senior Managers.

Education

Bachelors of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Bangalore University
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05.2015

Skills

  • Demand Planning
  • Supply Chain & Inventory management
  • Logistics & Distribution Planning
  • Financial Planning &
    Analysis: Supply Chain
  • MS Excel expert
  • Process budgetary planning

Accomplishments

Project: Block Cheese Optimization.

Coordinated with wider operations team to Implement a key strategic initiative that efficiently impacted the production performance.

Purpose: Move block cheese production to monthly production (was running weekly/fortnightly).

Key Deliverables :

  • Worked through Master Data changes required.
  • Revised inventory planning and safety days for the SKUs.
  • Monitored storage and inventory levels during the transition and took necessary decisions to keep the project running smoothly.

Outcome: Reduced costs of up to $1m for the business.

Project: Truck & Container optimization.

Identified & worked with the vendor on achieving efficient usage of trucks & Containers.

Key Deliverables :

  • Worked alongside the vendor team in conducting trials on double-stacking of products and gathered feedback from various logistics teams.
  • Based on the feedback, Improvised the ordering cycle & presented it to the higher management for the sign-off.

Outcome: Implemented the new improvised & efficient ordering cycle.

Timeline

Supply Network Planner

Fonterra Co-operative Group
08.2018 - Current

Demand & Supply Planner

Diplomat New Zealand
08.2017 - 08.2018

Supply Chain Coordinator

Samsung NZ
11.2015 - 04.2017

Global Demand & Supply Planner

Bendon NZ
05.2015 - 11.2015

Stock Controller and Merchandise Planner

Tesco Ltd
06.2013 - 11.2014

Bachelors of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

Bangalore University
Monika Srivatsa