N.

Manikandan
akilamani1979@gmail.com +91 9047833014
Hyderabad, India

Logistics & Supply Chain Management Professional

Dynamic and assertive professional leader with 23+ years of fruitful experience in end-to-end Supply Chain
Management, demand & Supply Planning, Strategic Sourcing, forecasting, Import & Export mgt. Exceptional
interpersonal and communication skills, focused on attention to detail, an in-depth understanding of the business
dynamics with use of cutting edge technology, and always follow the principal of Customer first.

Education Core Competencies

Completed B.Com. in : Annamalai University (AU) Warehouse management

Transport management
Fulfilment center operations
Strength Export Import management
First Mile, Middle Mile, & Last Mile
Ops Quick Commerce Operations
Leadership
Inventory Management
Proven track record of leading multiple teams
across the organization.
Strategic Thinking
Experienced in making long term and short term
Technical Skills
strategies.
WM / MM / FICO/ SAP-B1
Tableau & Advance Excel
WMS ERP (Godam 1.0/2.0,AS400
Achievements Redash (2.0), Vinculum, GOFRUGAL

Saved ₹ 50L on Transportation & transit damage at Delhivery

Saved ₹30L by implementing Secondary packaging solutions at KD

Linguistic Ability: English, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bhaskar Paper Products Dec 2019 to Feb2024

Manager- Logistics & Operations (Hyderabad)

▪ ed E2E FC operations & Productions for almost all categories of Note Books ,
▪ Managed 01 Mother WH of 1.5L sq. Operations.
▪ Developed Smart Trucking Model for across south cities for both FTL and LTL movement and reduced down
the transit damage loss from 7% to 3% within 02 months.
▪ Responsible for P&L and cost centre analysis for manpower, Infra, Transportation by using financial data and use them
to improveprofitability, actively reduce down manpower cost by improving output and IPP ratio.
▪ Leading a team of 325+ (contractual staff) across projects established and implemented short- and long-term metrics and
strategic plans, policies, and operating procedures, monitors and evaluates KPI.
▪ Improved TAT and reduce transportation cost for b2b and b2c client by redesigning the route plan & vendor
Negotiation strategy. (Saved around ₹50L in 1.5 years of FC operations)
• Warehouse Safety & Quality Training Providing Contractor Worker
• Inventory Audit and Daily & Monthly Operation MIS. and sumit audit yearly submitted in ITC .
• Customer complient
 KD Logistics Limited DC Manage (Client Procter & Gamble)
Jan’2015 to Nov’2019

▪ Handled biggest plant DC for P&G. This is second biggest DC for P&G
▪ Area of DC –1.5 Lac Sq. Ft
▪ Team size- 140 fixed staff+ 120 Shop floor staff ( 03 shift Operations)
▪ DC type - Mechanized Drive In.
▪ No. of RT + BOPT – 10 +22
▪ Looking after complete movement from plant to regional locations
▪ No. of SKU handled : 150 (including beauty and consumer brand products)
▪ Achievement : Implemented secondary Packing solution and saved cost of ₹35L in Q3

Coldex Logistics Ltd

Apr’2009 to Dec’’2014
Operations Manager

▪ Managing a team 70 Operators and overall responsibility for warehouse.

▪ Warehouse area handle 50000 sqft with 450 sku
▪ Managing Inbound & Outbound Logistic
▪ Developing, monitoring and evaluating performance as Per Reliance SOP standards and efficiencies for WHs.
▪ Responsible for daily MIS/ Reports / Order to cash flow / FIFO
▪ Working along with Leadership team to design and implement an optimal logistics plan, ensuring most efficient
processes for Outbound.

Kaleeuswari Refinery Pvt Ltd Warehouse Manager - FMCG,

Jul’2006 to Mar’2009 Chennai
▪ Handled a team of 200 operators and 10 TL’s, overall responsibility for in plant warehouse, handling entire packing
from Production & Inventory and Dispatching 900 metric tons stocks to global clients on a day basis.
▪ Implementing and maintaining accurate, up-to-date recordkeeping systems of all warehouse
operations,including inventory, order requests and fulfillment, and returns.
▪ Maintaining the core operations as Per Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
▪ Managing supply chain and inventory control including: inbound freight, warehousing, order fulfillment, tagging &
packaging, distribution, and managing outbound freight to customers and stores.
▪ Working along with Leadership team to design and implement an optimal logistics plan, ensuring most efficient
processes for supply chain and inventory controls, and bar code conversion.
▪ Data churning, data mining, data set extraction, aging stock report to the management for decision
makingfacilitation, implemented Barcode and RFID process to handle real time process failure.
▪ Co inventory management process to meet company goals: receiving and inspecting all inventory shipments andinventory
returns; storing, organizing and accounting for quantity of all inventory items; oversee all activities affecting inventory
(sorting, tagging, bagging, & packaging), space planning and devise storage strategies

Reliance Retail Limited Warehouse Assistant Retail

June 2002 to June 2006

▪ Handled MIS/Inventory and records related to all Operational transactions.

▪ Responsible for reverse Logistics and Transportation planning.
▪ Handled end-to-end warehousing operations including Inventory Planning (FIFO, IRA planning and process.

Warehouse Assistant- Polymer Division

▪ Handled distribution planning across locations with Inventory management.

▪ Handled Transportation for Gujarat, Daman & Diu locations, and vendor management.
▪ Responsible for daily MIS to leadership and Cross functional team.
▪ Maintain the zero errors in dispatches. and follow up the for TAT deliveries.