Experience

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  OnlyHydroponics (Varshney Hydrofarms Pvt Ltd)

  • Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Entrepreneur

    • Jul 2021 - Present
    • Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    www.onlyhydroponics.in

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  SucSEED Venture Partners

  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Angel investor

    • Jun 2018 - Present
    • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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  Amazon

  • Bangalore

  • Senior Manager, product management

    • Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
    • Bangalore

    Leading SCM automation and Analytics for A.in. Leading top class product managers and data scientists to drive next round of sustainable growth for India.

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  Cloudtail India Private Limited

  • Bengaluru Area, India

  • Senior Manager, Buying and Automation

    • Apr 2017 - Dec 2018
    • Bengaluru Area, India

    Responsible for building retail strategy and inventory management vision to drive fastest sustainable growth

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  Amazon

  • Manager of Product Management

    • Feb 2016 - Apr 2017

    • Leading a team of product managers and program managers to develop next generation supply chain processes and systems for India Softlines business• Responsible for annual inventory planning for India Softlines business, overall inventory management, inventory turns & supply chain optimization• Development and implementation of inventory management processes and tools for highly seasonal business like Softlines while maximizing the profits and working capital flow for sellers.• Responsible for managing the biggest sellers on Amazon platform and driving adoption of Amazon CX and Operational efficiency tenets across sellers.

  • Senior In-Stock manager

    • Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

    • Managed buying strategy and inventory control for overall Toys Retail business which resulted in best ever inventory turns for US toys in 2015 with an improvement of 0.98 YoY.• Responsible for S&OP planning for Amazon US toys business for 2015 and 2016 involving top line plan, inventory plan and capacity.• As an automation SME, worked closely with system’s team to automate 96.3% buying for Toys resulting in highly efficient and less error prone process.

  • Program Manager

    • Nov 2013 - Jan 2015

    Leading strategic vendor collaboration projects, part of team designing next generation supply chain initiatives.

  • Product Manager, Sourcing Cost Service

    • Jan 2013 - Nov 2013

    • Studied existing cost calculation process to identify limitations and devise roadmap for the new system to calculate end-to-end procurement cost.• Assumed end-to-end responsibility for the above initiative which included defining the vision and scope, detailing business requirements, leading the design, engaging with development and supply chain teams, developing metrics and rolling out the product across Amazon.

  • Sr. Business Analyst

    • Dec 2010 - Nov 2013

    Driving optimization and improvements of Amazon.com's Supply chain processes & systems, Critically reviewing business policies & strategies.

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  ITC Infotech

  • Lead Consultant

    • Feb 2010 - Dec 2010

    • Team Lead of 5 IT consultants • Analysis of forecasting techniques to select the best suited forecasting strategy for ITC • Implementation of Modified Holts Forecasting model for each Branch-SKU combination• Demand Planning Note (DPN) Preparation• Estimation and Planning for Promotions, Phase-out and Replacement SKUs• Demand-Realignment of new SKUs according to the connecting dates and regions• Calculation of Safety stocks and Inventory norms• Liaison between SAP technical team, SAP MDM team and Business Consulting Group for implementation of business requirements• Formulate a statistical model to predict stock-outs across 57 warehousing locations• Estimate the sales loss due to each stock-out.• Improved the WD Fill rate by 20% for Class A SKUs.

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  NITIE

  • MBA student

    • Jun 2008 - Feb 2010

    • As Alumni Coordinator, Coordinated Sansmaran’2008 – NITIE annual alumni meet and Conceptualized & designed the alumni website• Coordinated Enflammer’ 08 & ‘09 – India’s first Student Enterprise Contest• Winner, All India Paper Presentation on “Business Strategy for M&As” organized by S P Jain• Finalist in various National level B-Plan contests including IIML, IIMC & FMS• Finalist in “Nail the Case” case study competition organized by P&G

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  Gati Limited

  • Management Trainee

    • Apr 2009 - Jun 2009

    I did my summer internship with Gati. I was working on Strategies for GST (Goods & Services TaxMy work included:• Meeting customers to understand their readiness about GST.• To estimate the opportunity for of GATI and suggest a road map for the future Warehousing network.• Identify critical activities and operations specific to different industrial sectors and devised a customized prototype logistics solution proposing action plan specific to each sector.

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  TCS

  • Module Lead

    • Jun 2006 - Jun 2008

    I handled a number of critical projects for LifeScan (A J&J company), a few of the major projects were:•Implementation of Contracts and Vendor Management System•Medicare & Medicaid processing system implementationMajor Job Responsibilities included:•Deputy Project Lead of a team of 14 members•Client interaction for requirement gathering, issues resolution and project delivery•Provided Domain training in the field of Healthcare compliance (industry & 21 CFR Part 11)•Onsite Deputation, J&J (USA) - Liaison between J&J Client and TCS for implementation of medicare after sales processing system