Jijesh Kumar

Responsible overall for Sales Forecasting, Demand Planning, Export/Import, Inventory Management, customer service & Fulfillment.

• Planning demand of multiple time horizon distributors/channels based in Middle East & Africa.
• Apply planning and forecasting techniques to review historical sales trends & research demand drivers in order to prepare 12months rolling forecast data, evaluate forecast results based on sales, inventory, and other information.
• Established inventory targets, stock level and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
• Ensure forecast accuracy by collaborating with the cross-functional team to gather updated sales and marketing information.
• Mitigate future customer service risk and work with cross-functional departments to quantify and reduce impact to the customer.
• Establish and maintain SOP for the team to effectively communicate with HQ by creating PO for replenishing stocks, Invoices, shipping information, ETAs and other necessary information.
• Track all movement of stock shipments for on time delivery to warehouse, analyzing KPI data to monitor performance against relevant agreed lead times.
• Check whether the team has updated database of customers, pricing & product details regularly in SAP MM & SD modules.
• Monitor the maintenance of necessary documentation required by ESMA/KUCAS/SABER/SONCAP/COTECNA etc during exportation.
• Responsible for analyzing and interpreting monthly reports on demand/sales forecast accuracy, ageing, new product contribution & others as necessary.
• Achieve or exceed the identified goals and KPI Targets, supporting corporate/department goals and KPI targets as directed.
• Responsible for managing suppliers, logistics & 3PL service providers according to agreed SLAs.
• Planning of different assortment products according to the niche market standards.
• Develop, measure and continuously improve key Supply Chain Planning KPIs
• Investigate and evaluate the impact of relevant constraints and factors that could impact the demand plan & ensure to align with objectives of inventory optimization.
• Establishing data visualization (Power BI/SAP BI) and reports to monitor SKU performances.
• Deploy new techniques and procedures to improve the business plans.
• Handling of new project related to packaging & customization of products In-house.
• Conduct monthly Inventory reconciliation and annual stock take to maintain accurate inventory levels.
• Supervised staff members tasked with handling materials management, planning, purchasing and customer service duties.
• Oversaw demand planning, purchasing and logistics.

• Controlled entire store operation, preparing SKU roaster, staff duty roaster.
• Reconciliation of daily sales cash,100% implementation of planogram.
• Responsible for conducting monthly stock, daily count of PIHV stock, posting of TO/TI/GRN & returns to vendor, supervising offloading & loading of delivery trucks from DC, & preparing list of near expiry items for mark down pricing (as per FEFO terms).
• Send purchase order, maintaining MBQ level, ensuring check-in of stock, reporting discrepancy during arrival, dump management (D/E), maintaining all administration registers, and replenishing store.
• Run SOD & EOD, generating daily & monthly sales report and other miscellaneous reports, staff recruitment & training.
• Periodic surprise cash check and reconciliation of daily sales cash.

• Monitored and controlled warehouse and showroom inventory, responsible for entire warehouse operation, space utilization, periodic bin location cleanup, bin to bin movement, registering SKU’s in the right bins, posting of TO/TI, SO, PO, DGR & GRN (Invoices).
• Identifying obsolete & surplus stock, assorting damaged stock, reporting damaged & excess stock arrived in shipment, quality control checks performed, ensured correct picking by pickers, proper packaging of stock before shipment, packaging & correct barcoding of all SKU’s, and uploading data into database through PDT’s.
• Generated inventory valuation reports, ageing report, sales report, discontinueditems report, damaged report, discrepancy report, fast & slow moving itemsreport, KPI report, on weekly-monthly-yearly basis.
• Conducted stock take, participated in internal auditing, posting of physical inventory journal, coordinated with accounts for closing of open statements and reconciliation of stock every month.
• Preparing documents for export/import shipments, logging ETA of shipments, arranging customer deliveries as per the OTIF principles, maintenance of deliveries, communicating with customs officer for offloading containers, follow up with customers during deliveries and recording complaints.
• Solved IT issues related software, hardware & networking, training and recruitingnew staff.
• Assigned duties to warehouse assistant in the absence of warehouse manager
• Assisted warehouse manager in the clearance of SECONDS stock.
• Ensured accuracy of inventory following the inventory norms and procedures.
• Configuring Emails in Microsoft outlook.
• Installing and configuring client operating system, printers and scanners.
• Used PDT’s to upload scanned stock during annual stock take.
• Tracked bookings for customer deliveries from warehouse and shopfloor.
• Ensured that correct stock is loaded for customer deliveries.
• Preparing staff working schedules on monthly basis and allotment of lieu days.

• Coordinated with concerned parties for clearance of goods imported or exported.
• Prepared Bill of lading & bill of entries, clearance of bill payments, filing & maintenance of all relevant records.
• Prepared export & import status reports to provide details of shipments expected for arrival and departure.
• Prepared invoices & packing list for import & export shipment. Coordinating with customs officer for clearing goods.
• Received and inspected all incoming materials and reconciled with purchase orders ; processed and distributed documentation with purchase orders ; cross checked documents , tracked damages and discrepancies on orders received.
• Prepared weekly & monthly reports on operations and activities.

• In-charge of classes VIII and X. Teaching biology.
• Conducting board examination, co-curricular activities, conducting practical exams, counselling, excursions