SANKALP KUMAR

Email: p10sankalpk@iimidr.ac.in ,Phone: +919993353924

Designation: Associate Manager, Procter and Gamble, Product Supply
Education: IIM Indore 2012
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Results-driven Operations Manager with experience in Process Improvement, Quality Control, Warehousing
& Logistics. Demonstrated expertise in reducing costs, increasing revenues and productivity. Proven skill in
negotiating with vendors and increasing production with existing staff .

SYNOPSIS

Associate Manager at Procter and Gamble with MBA in Operations (Class of 2012) from IIM Indore and B.E
(Electronics & Communication) from MIT Manipal
Sector Experience: FMCG-Supply Chain, Hi-Tech, Automotive
Functional knowledge: Process Improvement, Supply chain management, Vendor Management,3P-Logistics, Product
Development
Other Skills: Loss elimination techniques -Six Sigma (Green Belt), Project Management, People management
Received P&G Global Power of You (Gold), Directors Club Award, Innovation and Continuous Improvement Award
for showing passion towards excellence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE : 60 months

Procter & Gamble

Jul'12-Till date

Fabric Care Product Supply Manager & Contract Site Manager

Bhopal

Led a team of 30 employees managing agile demand driven supply network for Fabric care India business.
As an Work Process Improvement Internal Consultant led contractor elimination projects with annual savings of INR
1.5 crores
Led inventory & warehouse optimization strategy to achieve lowest DOH of 15 days for Tide sachet business
Implemented automated manifest system with RFID (radio frequency identification tags) to track materials to
destination points.
Implemented a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Program to support consigned stock of packaging material for Tide.
Spearheaded process improvement initiatives for CM Sites to enable enforcement of Quality & Safety standards
As a Global Benchmarking leader, reapplied transportation loss elimination initiatives from Philippines and Indonesia
market to achieve total delivered cost (TDC) by INR 75 lakhs.
Delivered Case Fill Rate (CFR ) of 99%+ and process reliability (PR) of 94.2% in JFM quarter for Tide sachets business
Supply Manager for 3 contract manufacturing plants at Mandideep and Indore for Fabric & Home Care business unit
As a 3PL Manager for CM sites, led negotiation with 3PL Warehouse-Partners ,Forwarders and Transporters for most
competitive prices/rates and terms
Worked on Value Stream Mapping for manufacturing of Vicks Cough Drops and Vicks Inhaler .Gave recommendations
to improve material utilization and reduce wastage worth $140000

Delphi Automotive Systems

Aug07 Jun10

Software Engineer

Bangalore

Led design and development of embedded software products for automobile infotainment systems for leading OEMs
Actively involved in requirement gathering, functional specification creation and software module design
Led a 6 sigma project aimed at cost and effort reduction during the manufacturing of infotainment systems

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
PGDM
B.E
HSC
SSC

General Management
Electronics &
Communication
Science

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

2.75/4

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University

DAV Shyamli, Ranchi, CBSE
DAV Shyamli, Ranchi, CBSE

9.07/10
79.8%
81.8%

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Finalists in Man Vs Time organized by SIBM Pune in Transcend 2011

Received Certificate of Excellence in iSPARK Internet business plan Challenge in IIFT in QUO VADIS 2010.
Finalist in Master the Market organized by IIM Bangalore in Vista 2011.
Lead organiser: Operations Vertical, Ahvan10 and Mridang11 for IIM Indore

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