VIKAS GAVARA
Nowra,NSW
Summary
Experienced highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Successfully delivered different projects on resource utilization, controlling cost factors, optimizing pick layout and Inventory levels.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Logistics and Planning Coordinator
MANILDRA GROUP
Bomaderry
12.2022 - Current
- Responsible for managing of daily/weekly/monthly delivery requirements
- Maintaining effective working and professional relationship with Truck contractors, Ports and Rail operation team
- Scheduling and planning around production and plant producing capacity
- Planning all transportation schedules based on customer demand (sales orders), considering export shipping ETD, plant capacity and inventory availability
- Supporting logistics administration functions regarding on time processing of transport and third-party invoices
- Identifying and analyzing best cost-effective procedures for transportation
- Managing daily inbound/outbound operations for site through rail and road
- Working with logistics manager, site manager, production manager and other management team to improve metrics
- Maintaining and ordering accurate inventory levels, containers, booking trucks and rail operations in order to maintain continues workflow without any disruption.
INVENTORY MANAGER
COLES DISTRIBUTION CENTRE
Launceston, TASMANIA
02.2022 - 12.2022
- Delivering great targets by working together with the team and leading, developing, and mentoring them throughout the process
- Analyzing sales vs forecast vs inventory data to improve service level for stores
- Meeting commercial budgets through optimized operating costs by analyzing daily, weekly and monthly reports
- Working through WMS (Manhattan), supply chain management (Oracle), ERP systems and several other Software to control Inbound, Outbound, and Inventory
- Day-to-day interactions with various internal and external contacts, working closely with our third-party logistics (3PL) suppliers, inventory management, and queries that are raised by the customers
- Leading change management and continuous improvement in the existing process
- Communicating to all levels of the business to rectify issues that occurred during the supply chain process
- Took responsibility for various operations and became the subject matter expert.
- Developed, implemented and maintained inventory control systems to ensure accurate record keeping.
- Identified discrepancies between physical counts and computer records; investigated causes and took corrective action as needed.
GROCERY DEPARTMENT MANAGER
COLES SUPERMARKETS PVT LTD
Launceston, TASMANIA
03.2021 - 02.2022
- Communicating and implementing company policies and procedures to a high standard
- Developing team members' skills, people management, rostering, visual merchandising, understanding, and delivering commercial results
- Achieving business targets and metrics in sales, profits, and loss by delivering KPIs
- Training team in visual merchandising, department scheduling, stock control, customer service, people management, and coaching techniques
- Managing the implementation of layouts and delivering new lines to the market
- Communicating business directions to team members to achieve goals.
- Prepared weekly budget forecasts for the grocery department based on projected sales figures.
- Conducted weekly meetings with team members to discuss goals and objectives for the week ahead.
- Supervised staff in the grocery department including hiring, training, scheduling and evaluating employees.
FRESH PRODUCE DEPARTMENT MANAGER
COLES SUPERMARKETS PVT LTD
09.2019 - 03.2021
- Leading and coaching team members across the department to provide exceptional customer service
- Develops and implements localized merchandising plans and sets up and creates displays for new or seasonal items to drive sales
- Develops and maintains communications with other departments and store managers to devise cross-merchandising plans, to meet financial objectives
- Follows established procedures for receiving merchandise including inspecting deliveries, pricing products, and restocking cages to ensure freshness and quality, accuracy, and rotation
- Enforces and follows food and human safety laws and policies
- Maintains an effective sanitation program
- Keeps merchandise clean and fresh to meet health department regulations, pass sanitation inspections and meet company standards
- Ensures compliance with local, state, and government weights and measures laws
- Focuses on continuously improving customer service and Department functions
- Implements changes to increase customer satisfaction, lower Labor costs, and maximize profits.
Education
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (ADVANCED MARITIME AND LOGISTICS) -
UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
12.2018
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY (INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING) -
GITAM UNIVERSITY
04.2014
Skills
- Great Relationship Management
- Strong Negotiation Skills
- Impeccable Time Management
- Strategic thinking
- Flexible and Adaptable
- Critical thinking
- Conflict resolution
- Scheduling expertise
- Supply chain management
- SAP S4 Hana
- Wave/task reporting
- Excel
- ERP Systems
- Shipping software's
- C3 applications
- Microsoft office
- WMS (Manhattan)
Projects And Industrial Training
- Project on cost's that involved in the operations and eliminated unnecessary elements.
- Improved warehousing operations by implementing changes in the layout design which helped to improve efficiency of pick rate, inbound and outbound.
- Analysis of the effect on the production parameters with the installation of a new concast machine in the TMT Manufacturing Company. The main aim of the project is to reduce the lead time in the production cycle and increase the production level.
- Exposed to Industrial training in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), Vizag, during which studied various stages involved in Quality Management, Layout, Production Planning, and a bit of view on Operation Department and their processes.
- Internship, RASHTRIYA ISPAT NIGAM LIMITED (VSKP steel plant) on Maintenance Management also investigated production plan and manufacturing.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Logistics and Planning Coordinator
MANILDRA GROUP
12.2022 - Current
INVENTORY MANAGER
COLES DISTRIBUTION CENTRE
02.2022 - 12.2022
GROCERY DEPARTMENT MANAGER
COLES SUPERMARKETS PVT LTD
03.2021 - 02.2022
FRESH PRODUCE DEPARTMENT MANAGER
COLES SUPERMARKETS PVT LTD
09.2019 - 03.2021
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (ADVANCED MARITIME AND LOGISTICS) -
UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY (INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING) -
GITAM UNIVERSITY
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