MONICA CHOUHAN
Supply Chain Professional
Dombivali
Summary
Passionate and results-driven professional with over 16+ years of experience in the chemicals/telecom/food/pharma industry, with operation excellence, supply chain management, data analysis, project management, stakeholder management & inventory management.
Excellent leadership, analytical approach, simplification via automation and digitalization & negotiation skills with proven track record of spearheading numerous cost and time innovation projects.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Head: CS, Planning & Procurement
Thermo Fisher Scientific India Pvt LTD
11.2021 - Current
- Leading Customer Service for LSI business with team of 15+3 CW's
- lead Planning and procurement for LSI business
- Ensuring positive CAS & CCMS TAT maintained by handling critical direct/focus account/GEM customers
- Leading process improvement, automation & digitization projects in Supply Chain
- Order placement and visibility automation via WOP
- Established SIOP processes to bridge with commercial leaders
- Use of SAP APO module to meet forecasting accuracy goals, describe reasons for variance, and strive to improve accuracy
- Reduced excess and absolute inventory by using various strategies
- Distribution restructuring across India for consumables.
Head: Procurement, Planning and Quality
Sapphire Foods Industries
08.2018 - 10.2021
- Headed Procurement of OPEX for KFC & PH for 800cr annually with 240+vendors
- Headed Demand Planning and Sales forecasting for KFC and PH for 385+ stores
- Lead RFPs for Poultry, S &D, packaging, FTF for 20-21 and 21-22
- Finalizing and freezing the yearly contracting with vendors, post price closure
- Maintained healthy competitive vendor count across all categories
- Achieved saving of 7% in Food and 15% in packaging & by establishing the RFP process
- Improved working capital by 1 CR and 8 days by revising the vendor payment terms
- Vehicle optimization planning to avail the price benefit for high value categories price like Floor, packaging
- Designed & Developed Sales forecasting tool in SAP S4 HANA at warehouse level - phase 1
- Customization & configuration for Material requirement planning at the WH level
- Architecture of Store replenishment planning for MRP run at store level - phase 2
- Forecast Accuracy maintained at 74% for both KFC and 69% for PH business
- Achieved DOS and Inventories on targets
- Lead SIOP meetings for KFC and PH with commercial team and parent company YUM
- Headed Quality function also for 2020 for KFC & PH
National Demand & Replenishment Manager
Reliance Jio Infocom Ltd
04.2015 - 07.2018
- Import Planning at Pan India level for 100mn+ Jio and partner brand devices
- Key user in developing replenishment planning model in SAP using MRP for 10k+ warehouses pan India
- Developed and stabilized NPI processes automations
- Automated stock replenishment by maintaining master data in SAP
- Led cross-functional planning meetings with Sales and Marketing teams to align the Managed demand plan for each Demand Group within Device Business
- Monitored aging & liquidation plans for slow-moving stock, reducing 67% of aging
- Improved vendor performance by 27% by optimizing import processes
- Digitalized (ASN)process and trained 60+ onboarded import vendors
- Visited Vendor factories to improve vendor processes and output per hour
- Critical resource while setting up 10k+ warehouses at the time of warehouse automation
- Power-user for designing the EWM process & SME on GRN process issues and ASN issues
- Subject Matter Expert for Tableau Analytics and SAP
- Delivered training on SAP, Fiori, open text, last mile and Tableau across 1000+ locations.
Regional Demand Planning Manager
HCL Info Systems Ltd
12.2012 - 04.2015
- Handled Demand & Supply Planning for Nokia Business
- Managed planning of monthly Rs 100cr of Nokia Handsets and Rs 1.2cr of accessories
- Automated sales forecasting to enhance accuracy and lower risk obsolescence
- Controller and tracked impact of ramp up/ ramp down/ schemes etc with the Sales team
- S & Op meetings on weekly basis and monthly basis
- Managed Cash Flow focusing on Aged Inventory, liquidation with bundling/budgeting support, successfully reduced aging inventory by 94%
- Collaborated planning with Microsoft for ensuring / Streamlining Logistics Processes
- Worked for Mapping of child warehouses and Mother warehouses in SAP
- Was a key participant in the calculation of child warehouse requirements.
National Demand Planner
Huntsman International India Pvt Ltd
11.2010 - 12.2012
- Managed export planning of Dyes and Chemical business for 6.8cr a year
- Facilitated 27% Lead Time reduction for Export across all countries
- Back-order analysis every month
- Order rebalancing based on months cover the basis of sales at the country level
- Demand & Supply planning of dyes and chemical & Inventory Management
- Implemented a Rebalancing system across 6 warehouses
- Achieved inventory target reduction by 93% in 2011 across all warehouses
- Supervised and controlled inventory levels and disposal of non-moving material
- Responsible for new product introduction in SAP
- Created vendor performance report for evaluating material delivery on time
- Reduced vendor material lead time by 33%
Sr. Officer: Planning
Asian Paints Ltd
06.2008 - 11.2010
- SME for SAP reports and development of customized transaction in SAP
- Was an active member of the i2 implementation team.
- Automation of forecasting tool across Pan India
- Managed production planning of 15 outsourced processing units and 1 plant for DECO buss
- Finalized SKU forecast for multiple plants and OPCs
- Was responsible for the planning of Indirect Materials for OPCs
- Finalized Raw, packaging, and intermediate plans by using New Costing System (NCS)
- Was Responsible for finished goods production plans using derivation and correction
- Planned for Non-inventory NPI items
- Costing of Raw Materials
- Built quarterly costing of PMC and RMC by formulating cost
- Ensured minimum cost stroke to be used for production via RPS Handoff
- Led Alternate RM loaded in SAP in case of stockouts
- Checked Cost and RM impact by comparing current & newly released formulations
Education
SAP MM -
SAP
PGDM (MBA) - undefined
SIES College Sion, New South Hamisphire University, USA
PG (ADCSA) - undefined
MCC College, Maharashtra State Board of Technical Institution
B. Commerce - undefined
Model College, Mumbai University
Skills
Planning and procurement
Customer service
SAP S4 HANA
Tableau
Power BI
SAP Fiori
SAP APO
Innowera
Open text
MS Excel
Certification
Six Sigma lean certification
Awards
- Rockstar of Supply Chain at MSC2020 Summit
- Nominated for 'Outstanding Contribution to Demand and Supply Planning - Medical Devices' Award – May’23
Accomplishments
- Awarded for consistent high customer satisfaction scores for LSI business - Thermofisher scientific
- Awarded for heading multi-functional roles (Quality & Procurement) by YUM International - Sapphire Foods
- Awarded for successful replenishment management of New Product Launch of LYF brand - Reliance Jio
- Received Letter of Commendation for Child warehouse utilization up to 90% - HCL infosystems
- Received Letter of Commendation for Simplification of derivation and correction of plans - Asian Paints
Timeline
Head: CS, Planning & Procurement
Thermo Fisher Scientific India Pvt LTD
11.2021 - Current
Head: Procurement, Planning and Quality
Sapphire Foods Industries
08.2018 - 10.2021
National Demand & Replenishment Manager
Reliance Jio Infocom Ltd
04.2015 - 07.2018
Regional Demand Planning Manager
HCL Info Systems Ltd
12.2012 - 04.2015
National Demand Planner
Huntsman International India Pvt Ltd
11.2010 - 12.2012
Sr. Officer: Planning
Asian Paints Ltd
06.2008 - 11.2010
SAP MM -
SAP
PGDM (MBA) - undefined
SIES College Sion, New South Hamisphire University, USA
PG (ADCSA) - undefined
MCC College, Maharashtra State Board of Technical Institution
B. Commerce - undefined
Model College, Mumbai University
Six Sigma lean certification
ML certification
AI for everyone certification
Leadership in 20th-century - certification in 2020 from coursera
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