Girish Ramachandran Nair

Managing Spare Part logistics for Household appliances, coordinating with PAN-INDIA branches, local vendors and OEM’S.

• Managed inventory systems in central and branch warehouses, enhancing storage efficiency.
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• Established and maintained a network of local vendors in India for essential supplies.
• Facilitated efficient movement of spare parts for improved accessibility.
• Implemented operational system enhancement for field support, vendor payment reconciliation, and sourcing of operational support equipment.
• Boosted Central warehouse delivery success from 61% to 94%.
• Streamlined processes to achieve a 50% decrease in pan India distribution lead time TAT.
• Oversaw tenders for warehouse enhancement throughout India with Grade-1 standards.
• Handled nationwide logistics and warehousing contracts for BSH locations.
• Administered refund and exchange initiatives for pan-India customer base.
• Evaluating and finalizing logistic vendors for all primary and secondary distribution from the central warehouse to all the BSH warehouses and secondary distribution from BSH warehouses to all the B2B Locus points, within the respective states, along with reverse logistics.
• Maintain, evaluate and review all logistics contract for pan India operations.
• Procurement of all essential consumables required for warehousing and logistics operation in all the branches of BSH.
• Operated within budgetary constraints, participated in development of annual budget forecasts and reconciled operating budget for the annual business plans.
• Managing distribution for our online D2C platform effectively across 19000+ PIN codes.

• Defining inventory levels for service department, product-wise and branch- wise, which includes eight brands owned by Videocon such as Sansui , Kenstar, Electrolux , Kelvinator for across 76 locations in the country through an integration of 60,000 types of different components.
• Weekly/monthly stock taking (PSV) and spare adjustments after thorough reconciliation.
• Revenue achievement against targets through reverse logistics.
• Charge back for in warranty consumption.(Vendor/sales/factory/logistics).
• Effective transport/cargo management on minimum cost, across 76 Pan India branches.
• Costing/pricing of parts (CBU + local) (Revision quarterly for SPD/half yearly for all parts.)
• Planning of MSL spares in new model lineup and securing the stock.
• Effective logistics planning and measured control with minimised operation cost and higher OTD.
• Maintained inventory level control not exceeding more than one month of branch MSL stock.
• Settlement of all insurance claims within time, not exceeding greater than 30 days.
• Conduct and coordinate for Monthly PSV at Central and Branch Warehouses.
• Revenue generation through reverse logistics and claim to be maintained at less than 30 lakhs INR per month for warranty spares.
• Planning and maintaining MSL stocks across all India branches less than 1.25 times the average consumption of the respective branch.
• Logistics utility target, greater than hundred percent for pan India supply and maintain logistics ratio less than 3% of the ship goods value.
• Launching of advance, rolling plan, indent, and PO’S to the respective manufacturers for every quarter for procurement.
• New model spares planning for phase-in vibs across all branches on the basis of historical consumption pattern.
• Liquidation of non-moving/slow, moving or okay, goods in every quarter, either by sale or scrap as feasible.

• Lead a team of 10 for Stores / warehousing & Logistics Division
• Transportation development & negotiations for better cost effectiveness
• Meeting the Delivery dead lines for the end customers
• Approval of production outbound issue requisitions on daily basis.
• Verification of Inventory for major A & B class components and maintain the permissible stock level.
• Getting the perpetual inventory done week wise for selected components to counter measure the correct stock level.
• Cross verifying the system controls with Audit requirements.
• Planning the dispatches of FG as per the marketing requirements.
• Coordinating with the customers for meeting their Logistics requirement.
• To ensure movement of goods in Cost Effective manner, targeting the transportation cost.
• Arranging Warehouses for the factory at different locations.
• Responsible for entire control of Warehouse Operation. (Receipt /Inventory /Outbound / statutory requirements etc)
• Responsible for ensuring disposal of Non Confirming goods received from suppliers, approving the action plan
• Spare parts management across all India Branches & Service Franchises.

• Overall responsibility for ensuring inbound/outbound transportation, modes and operations are in full compliance for all applicable client policies and government regulations.
• Coordinating and controlling the order cycle and associated information systems.
• Analyzing data of logistics to monitor performance and plan, improvements and demand.
• Prepare and execute contingency plans in case of product availability delays.
• Prepare inventory reports and take action on Slow moving, non-moving and damage stocks.

• Responsible as Shift Engineer for production of appliances CCBD/ commercial cooling business division ) of Voltas Ltd.
• Remarkable increase in production quantities from 55 chest freezers to 96 chest freezers/ Coolers per shift., through various operational changes.
• With success in production line, undertook the role for procurement of RM ( raw materials) as Purchase engineer.
• Achieved 91% of timely material supply fulfillment from an existing 83%.
• Was a prime lead in the entire plant shifting from Hyderabad to Pant Nagar, and thereby successfully creating new vendor bases there.

• Process improvisation and equipment engineering.
• Handled the planning and distribution, centralized from Singapore for South Asian countries.
• Planning and dispatch schedules for pan India.
• Equipment qualification and buy off for production cycles.

• Handled the responsibilities of being a production engineer for production of valve parts.
• Capacity planning for the individual shifts in terms of manpower and parts production
• Training the operators towards multiskilling for equipment handling