Gagan Gupta

Certified APICS (American Production and Inventory Control – CCIP) professional with 20+ years of hands-on experience and history of driving quality improvements and eliciting cooperation from vendors, management, clients and employees. An expert in synchronizing supply with demand and at developing supply chain strategies that significantly impact on profitability and increase the total value of business. Ability to promote and develop tight integration between planning, logistics and other operations areas and optimize performance in schedule attainment, adherence and on time delivery.

Talented and visionary professional with expertise in cross functional team leadership. Attained a proven track record of accelerating revenue growth through strategic and tactical development of processes and systems through complete value chain in an organization.

Demand Planning Manager

Gulf Extrusions Co. LLC

May 2014 till Present

• Established innovative demand planning and forecasting solutions for Aluminium extruded profiles using creative and collaborative alignment processes across the entire value chain.
• Overall responsible for Demand planning and Supply Planning for 2 Manufacturing plants of the group based in Dubai, UAE and Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Managing Sales forecast process of more than $500mn business. 
• Analyzed Sales trends to assess competitive landscape by using forecasting tools and influenced on short term and long-term forecast development.
• Redesigned business intelligence for forecast and sales reporting, inventory levels and purchasing projections.
• Improved inventory productivity and monitored annual inventory levels and turns.
• Developed monthly S&OP strategy and leadership committee.
• Created cross functional SKU rationalization process.
• Preparing and managing the yearly budget of department.
• Direct Reporting to CEO and preparing monthly MIS reports for TOP Management and Board of Directors.

Head - Supply Chain

Gulf Advanced Lighting LLC

Sep 2010 till May 2014

• Responsible for Purchase Planning and sourcing of LED lamps, LED tubes and LED fixtures and handling purchase volume of more than US$ 50 million annually. 
• Reduced the Finished goods and raw material inventory by almost 50% within a span of 10 months by identifying the new suppliers locally and reduced inventory carrying cost.
• Inventory Management by maintaining the Safety Stocks of key raw materials, engineering items, consumables and finished goods which reduced obsolescence by 40%. 
• Releasing monthly and weekly production plans and maintaining (CSI) Customer Service Index of more than 95% on monthly basis by completing and delivery of sales orders in full.
• Developed S&OP strategy to increase customer satisfactions and reduction in working capital.
• Monitoring and ensuring the supply requirement for IKEA and various other customers to various destinations in Europe, US, Middle East, Africa and Australia.
• Identification and development of new suppliers for CFL and LED lamps to continuously achieve consistent cost reduction of minimum 6% year on year. 
• Executed and completed on time project of re-engineering of CFL production line.
• Interacting closely with the technical and sales team for the new product development. Achieved record time of Product launch in less than 2-month time from design to launch.

Manager - Purchase

Yog Systems India Ltd.

Dec 2002 till Sep 2010

• Responsible to develop the vendor data base of local and overseas suppliers to achieve the best possible price of raw materials like Copper, electrical grade steel, plastic, metal components and Electronic components 
• Responsible for Preparation of RFQ / RFP as per requirements. 
• Responsible for managing material flow and to improve inventory turnover ratio as per set company standards. 
• Ensuring Safety Stock levels and re-ordering process formulation. 
• Responsible for developing value Re-engineering methods for various raw. Maintaining Statistical data of Major Raw Materials like Copper, steel and other non-ferrous metals through various International agencies. 
• Ensuring smooth flow of goods from point of origin till the point of consumption by coordinating with different logistic agencies.
• Core team member for developing Quality Management Systems within Company like ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001.

Sr. Executive - eSource

LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.

Oct 2000 - Dec 2022

• Responsible for the sourcing of Electrical and Electronic Raw Materials such as Transformers, Loudspeakers, Color Picture tubes, PCB etc. for the Color Television and Monitor Production line. 
• Ensuring timely deliveries of raw material on production line and to maintain Zero Idle time in production.
• Regular Cost reduction in raw materials by Value Re- Engineering methods.

Certified APICS Professional

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication

Six Sigma - Green Belt

Certificate Course from George Washington University in Demand Planning, Forecasting and Inventory Management