Tanmay Kumar

>Global Logistics & Customs Compliance: Directed import/export operations with an annual freight spend of ₹30Cr+, managing complex logistics for 30+ containers/month and 25 tons of air cargo, while ensuring full compliance with customs regulations and legal requirements. >Inventory & Supply Chain Optimization: Led efforts to reduce aging inventory by driving liquidation of non-moving stock, collaborating with internal teams to optimize stock levels and align with sales objectives. >Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Championed process improvements through technology adoption (e.g., MRP in SAP), staff training, and the establishment of performance metrics to foster operational excellence.

>New Product Development & Timely Market Entry: Partnered with R&D and regulatory teams to ensure that new products were developed and launched on time, within budget, and in alignment with the business case. >Strategic Partnerships & Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): Managed key OEM/ODM relationships and drove collaboration with R&D for seamless product lifecycle management, ensuring market-ready product launches. >Promotional & Sales Planning: Developed and executed promotional campaigns and new product rollouts, ensuring alignment with sales forecasts and timely supply chain execution.

>Demand Planning & Operations Management: Spearheaded demand planning for 400+ SKUs, driving alignment across sales, operations, and marketing, with a focus on managing a ₹700Cr+ turnover and ₹450Cr+ spend. Oversaw operations in two factories to ensure efficiency and on-time delivery. >Sourcing & Vendor Development: Established and optimized sourcing practices, led make-vs-buy decisions, and drove vendor development initiatives to support business growth. >Cross-functional Collaboration: Led collaboration efforts between teams to ensure successful product launches, meeting time, cost, and quality goals.

>Strategic Procurement Oversight: Led procurement operations for 1,700+ SKUs across direct and indirect categories, managing an annual spend of over ₹60Cr, ensuring business continuity and cost optimization. >Contract Management Excellence: Implemented robust contract management practices to reduce financial risk and improve vendor performance, achieving ₹1Cr in cost savings within a single fiscal year. >Inventory & Operations Support: Provided leadership in managing inventory for critical consumables, ensuring uninterrupted hospital operations through precise planning and cross-functional coordination. >ERP Transformation: Directed the end-to-end upgrade from a legacy ERP to Oracle, driving process standardization, data visibility, and enhanced supply chain performance. >Automation & Productivity Enhancement: Conceptualized and built 10+ automated decision-support systems using Excel VBA, streamlining reporting, improving accuracy, and significantly boosting team productivity.

* Inventory Optimization: Executed ABC and FSN analysis to enhance procurement decisions, optimize warehouse inventory levels, and improve working capital efficiency. * Spend Analysis and Cost Optimization: Performed comprehensive spend analysis to identify key cost drivers, leading strategic initiatives to reduce procurement costs and drive profitability. * Vendor Performance and Contract Governance: Established a structured vendor management and contract governance system, strengthening supplier performance, compliance, and service quality.

>Operations Leadership in a Large-Scale Environment: Led operations in a 1 million tonne capacity underground mine, driving key operational KPIs including daily production output, equipment uptime, and blasting efficiency. >Workforce & Resource Optimization: Managed a workforce of 100+ employees (supervisors and workers), planning manpower, material, and equipment deployment to ensure timely job execution and target achievement. >Contract & Vendor Management: Oversaw annual service contracts exceeding ₹5 million, ensuring timely execution of outsourced work with performance accountability and compliance. >Business Planning & Cost Management: Actively contributed to production and cost planning, and was part of the team that prepared the Annual Business Plan worth ₹250+ million, aligning department goals with company objectives. >Quality, Safety & Compliance Excellence: Spearheaded the implementation of Integrated Management Systems (IMS) and led documentation for ISO and IRQS audits. >Trained 100+ employees on Total Quality Management (TQM), safety, and positive isolation—enhancing workforce capability and workplace safety. >Process Standardization & Continuous Improvement: Developed and institutionalized 20+ Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to standardize critical mining operations, improve efficiency, and ensure safety.