Amit Sharma

• Selecting the suitable vendors who have capability of commercial & Technical nature suiting the requirements of the organization for effective execution. • Conducting pre-production meetings with the suppliers to organize on time delivery, on time testing and to predict the problems involved in a particular style and reached for its remedies. • The job also involves ensuring the right product construction is placed with the suitable vendor, Vendor Assessment to review the production process. • Handling day-to-day activities for effective execution of orders maintaining the critical path. • Managing vendor base of more than 20 across India for shoes and accessories including belts/bags/purses for PL/Elle, Steve Madden and Lee Cooper. • Handling technical aspects of Shoe Mart PL and brand as Lee Cooper, Steve Madden and ELLE. • Testing & Production of all the categories with the assistance of the dedicated QA’s for • the individual area. • System implementation in the factories. Responsible for inspection scheduling for the QA’s . • Training of team and the factories for the aspects related to Quality, Production, Product Safety, and Technical & Restricted Substance.

Manage / upgrade the vendor base and allocate the orders as per their capability, to meet demand from Buyers. • Get the product developed and close all the development stages in alignments with buyers, do the final inspection. • Doing Final in-line inspection and ensure to meet the required quality standards of the company, across the country. • Provide all the technical assistance to vendors for quality products. • Ensure all physical and chemical testing for supplied footwear based on Reliance retail testing protocol .Tie up with FDDI lab and Intertek lab for all the testing. • Played a vital role in grading vendors through quality output, timely delivery, and socio compliance. • Instrumental in bringing in technological developments. • Periodically up graded vendors to follow systems of organized retail. • Managing customer returns below 1% with effective quality control strategy. • Assisted vendors in Malaysia, conducted inspection and sample development.

 Managing the vendor base, evaluating vendors, and upgrading vendors in accordance to the Buying/market and quality requirements and order distribution between the suppliers according to their capacity and capabilities  Organizing the socio/ technical audits in the vendor premises.  Negotiate with the suppliers to achieve the best margins.  Managing the selection of vendors and Setting the procedures of technical assistance in various product categories.  Played a vital role in grading vendors through quality output, timely delivery and better price.  Instrumental in bringing in technological developments.  Periodically up graded vendors to follow systems of organized retail.  Assisted vendors to follow new methods and thereby increasing the production.  Assisted vendors to improve the production methods for attaining the required testing standards.

• Deciding/ finalizing the design and range building and communicating with the buyers. • Handled successfully a very good volume of business right from its inception the footwear. • Executing Design Briefs and technical packs for efficient sample development and getting converted them into orders. • Handled day-to-day activities for effective execution of orders maintaining the critical path. • Conducted pre-production meetings with the suppliers to organize on time delivery, red seal / green seal submissions, on time testing and to predict the problems involved in a particular style and reached for its remedies with consensus. • System implementation in the factories. Responsible for inspection scheduling for the QA’s . • Training of team and the factories for the aspects related to Quality.

• Involved in developing the technical Parameters of footwear. • Involved with factories for product development. • Defining and instrumental in making Quality Assurance manuals for various factories. • Doing inspections in various factories. • Providing assistance to the vendors for proper assessment of their quality control procedures, present rate of defects and ways to overcome the defects at different stages of production and providing information on the different areas where maximum faults and rejections occur during production

Liberty Shoes Limited Product coordinator OCR 2000 to MAR 2003 Responsibility • Providing full database to the international customers required for sourcing of merchandise from India, undertaking factory audits, performing inspections as and when required, arranging for vendor display of the merchandise, helping in the costing and pricing of the merchandise to the international customer.