Akshay P

Bidso is an ODM toy manufacturer that designs, develops, and manufactures toys for consumer brands.

Manager- Planning at Bidso India (2026-05 – Present)

Bidso is an ODM toy manufacturer that designs, develops, and manufactures toys for consumer brands.

• Implemented ABC classification for 800+ SKUs, improving inventory visibility, inventory health tracking, and production planning of child parts.
• Built and deployed a PO Management Tool leveraging AI tools, reducing manual effort by 2+ hours per executive daily and improving inventory and dispatch visibility for leadership

Assistant Manager-Demand Planning at ITC Limited (2025-07 – 2026-04)

• Demonstrated strong ownership and leadership at ITC Food Tech, a ₹250 Cr ARR Food Tech business across 70+ kitchens in 5 cities, ensuring superior service levels and uninterrupted consumer experience
• Led with operational mastery by directing Central Kitchen production for 4 brands/300+ SKUs, implementing daily production and FIFO discipline, achieving zero CK wastage for 5 continuous months.
• Delivered breakthrough value by reducing Bangalore COGS from 41%→37% and improving South Region Gross Margin from 59.5%→60.1%, reinforcing a culture of cost excellence and sustainable value.
• Drove data-based decision making through weekly wastage analytics, ABC segmentation, and dynamic JIT inventories—achieving an 18% reduction in wastage through Q1 to Q2
• Exhibited Result Oriented Mindset by launching and scaling ITC's Pan-Asian brand from scratch, achieving 40% MoM growth, and expanding supply operations to BLR, HYD & CHN—becoming the fastest-growing Pan-Asian brand in southern region
• Built innovation into the system by developing short-/long-term demand and safety-stock models using Excel VBA, Power BI & Python, improving forecast accuracy and enabling better planning decisions
• Upheld a consumer-first mindset by using search-trend analytics to forecast demand for 50+ new product launches—boosting accuracy by ~25% and delivering 99.5% product availability during launch peak days.
• Strengthened transparency & trust by designing Firefly's Live Inventory Module, enhancing real-time visibility for 70+ kitchens and improving forecasting accuracy

B. Tech in Civil – National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (2021 – 2025)

Class- XII – Kola Perumal Chetty Vaishnav SS School, Chennai (2019 – 2020)

Class - X – DAV Senior Secondary School, Chennai (2017 – 2018)