WARNACO, LOS ANGELES, CA 2010 – Present
Public company (NYSE – WRC) engaged in designing, manufacturing and retail, wholesale and online distribution of fashion and intimate apparel, sporting goods, footwear and accessories under brand names Calvin Klein, Speedo, Chaps, Warner’s and Olga • ERP system: SAP with MicroStrategy and Demand Solutions
Vice President, Supply Chain Planning and Demand Forecasting, Swim Division
Leader of 12 people operations planning, demand forecasting, coordination and reports generation team charged with managing and optimizing $55M inventory and 35,000+ SKU in form of performance apparel, sporting goods and footwear. Part of the executive team responsible for strategy, sales, profit and gross margins for Swim division.
• Streamlined and implemented supply chain processes to reduce or maintain costs by improving vendor capacity management, raw-material planning, cross-functional collaboration, product lifecycle management and collaboration with sourcing teams in New York and Hong Kong.
• Negotiated MOQ levels, raw material flow management, capacity availability, yearly quantities, delivery requirements, lead-times and corresponding penalties and charge backs with global factories and sourcing teams.
• Instrumental in process set up and smooth transition with strategy change from cut-sew contract manufacturing to complete package buying.
• Improved inventory turns by 30% (2.4 to 3.1) in 2010 by implementing Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, improving forecast accuracy and fill-rates, setting and maintaining best practice supply chain planning architecture, customer and sourcing collaboration, and reduction in excess stock.
• Increased SKU productivity by 15% and optimized inventory with reduction in excess and obsolete stock by 22% in 1 year by improving information visibility using SAP and Demand Solutions, and collaboration with national retailers, E-commerce and planning teams in Canada and Mexico.
• Boosted employee engagement and the Gallup survey score by 20% with clear strategic direction, strong leadership, setting up process maps and developing decision support tools in collaboration with IT and Business Intelligence teams.

STRATEGIC PARTNERS, INC., CHATSWORTH, CA 2000 –2010
Private equity owned designer and manufacturer of healthcare apparel and supplies, school uniforms and footwear under brand names Cherokee, Skechers, Baby Phat, Disney, Classroom and Rockers • ERP system: Jesta with Oracle and Business Objects
Vice President, Demand Forecasting and Production Planning
Led the 9 people department responsible for sales forecasting, production planning, global supply chain optimization, business intelligence development and coordination to optimize performance of 45,000+ SKUs and $50M in inventory at raw material, WIP and FG levels. Shared responsibilities with Sales and Finance on sales, gross margin and inventory turn goals. Other positions held: Director of Forecasting and Planning, Sr. Manager of Forecasting, Production Analyst.
• Improved gross margins by 9% with moving sourcing from USA and Mexico to Central America and Asia and improvements in capacity planning, manufacturing line efficiencies, SKU management, vendor collaboration and reduction in excess inventories.
• Reduced total supply chain lead-times by 4 weeks resulting in reduction of $3.5M in inventory by progressive improvements in supply chain architecture, raw-material flow planning, vendor communication and increasing information visibility through S&OP process.
• Instrumental with development of the factories from ground up in Mexico, Vietnam and China to produce 20 million units per year representative of 75% of the SKUs and 65% of the unit volume. These factories saved the company average $2M per year compared to other counties.
• Achieved record setting and progressively higher inventory turns while maintaining fill-rate and in-stocks consistently above 95% by setting up effective Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, improving forecast accuracy, setting up supply chain planning architecture, cross-functional collaboration, reducing excess and obsolete inventories to less than 8% of total and developing customized business intelligence tools using Oracle, Business Objects and SQL.
• Conceptualized, developed and integrated the supply chain planning/S&OP system with IT support to create completely customized solution that incorporated statistical modeling, raw-material and WIP management, new product planning, inventory optimization and all the major features and graphical tools of branded systems.
• Developed, implemented and streamlined processes and tools for warehouse consolidation, product lifecycle management, retail SOTC planning, Delphi method of new item forecasting, excess inventory disposal and promotions creation, customer and vendor data exchange, product hierarchy and classification, warehouse slotting, key performance indicator setting and tracking and WIP prioritization.

Master of Science in Operations Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1999
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Gujarat University, India 1998
Diploma in Systems Management, National Institute of Information Technology, India 1998
Six Sigma – Green Belt Certification, Kaplan University 2011

• Advisory Board, Epstein Institute, University of Southern California (epsteininstitute.usc.edu)
• Advisory Board, Department of Systems and Operations Management, University of California at Northridge
• Member, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
• Member, APICS – Association for Operations Management