S&O Consultant Mumbai

Arnav Bisht
Consultant
Strategy & Operations – Consulting
E-mail: arbisht@deloitte.com

Arnav is a Consultant in Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy Transformation practice, and an MBA

from XLRI Jamshedpur where he specialised in Marketing and Finance. He has over 2 years of
experience in EY where he consulted pharmaceutical, metals and consumer goods clients on
process improvement, cost optimisation and risk mitigation across. He has also interned at
Future Retail Ltd. where he implemented IoT applications across cold chain categories in three
Big Bazaars while providing a roadmap for pan India expansion. His projects at Deloitte include:
 Integration Management (automobile client) December 2018
 Part of IMO in a cross-functional team (Consulting, Tax, Audit) of 30+ members
 Responsible for IMO set-up, integration planning, validation and tracking
 Team member of seven workstreams, in addition to IMO duties
 Lead for validation of merger synergies and realisation planning
 Procurement Transformation (oil & gas client) August 2018
 Reducing lead times of purchase requisition to order by 50% for tenders
 Commercial Due Diligence for SSLNG (commodities trading client) July 2018
 Estimating demand potential for industries and households using near substitutes
of LNG and could potentially be converted to LNG on the basis of commodity,
logistics and infrastructure costsSelect projects in previous organisations include:
 Distribution Transformation (pharma client)
 Eliminated ₹110MM of in-transit billing by aligning dispatch cut offs across plant,
hub and C&F levels
 Delivered savings of ₹18MM on account of expired / damaged stock returns
 Reduced freight costs by eliminating redundant inter-depot stock transfers
 Integrating IoT in Supply Chain (Big Bazaar)
 Identified cold chain as priority for IoT implementation to reduce F&B spoilage
 Delivered P.O.C. through pilot tests in 3 stores with app architecture
 Demonstrated project viability with cost savings after a 16 month payback period
 Charted a roadmap for future IoT applications and how internal stakeholders
across Future Group could (captively) provide for their IoT requirements
 Logistics (aluminum client)
 Reduced truck turnaround time by 68% & increased vehicle movement by 25%
 Improved export container utilisation by 27% by consolidating deliveries & aligning
delivery schedules