Suresh Kumar Raju
Supply chain Procurement/Sourcing Professional
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To brief myself, I am Suresh from Bangalore, India. I have been working in the Textile Apparel Export Industry in the Merchandising/Sourcing/product Development areas for about 15 years handling different products like Kids, Mens, Ladies, Uniform/Industrial Wears etc.. including abroad experience of Bangladesh. I have skill set into Procurement, Order Management, Product Development, Negotiation, Outsourcing, Vendor Management, Client Management, Costing, Quality Management, Auditing, Communication.
ERP exposure.
Experience
APRIL’22 TO APRIL’23
SENIOR MERCHANDISER (Sourcing & Product Development) – KOLOUR KONCEPTS
INTERNATIONAL/KESKAN INDIA PVT LTD (BUYING OFFICE), Bangalore, India.
Involved in all the Merchandising/Sourcing activities for the account.
Vendor Sourcing and management.
Cost negotiation and Order Confirmation
Develop and manage Buyer accounts as per requirement.
Communicate with Buyers for Trend Boards for kids wear and Girls/Women’s wear.
Provide Inputs to Design Team for new collections.
Develop Fabric Hangers for Buyers Meeting.
Coordinate with factory and internal QA team.
Order follow-up and Team management with a complete supply chain function.
NOVEMBER’12 TO JANUARY'19
MERCHANDISING MANAGER - GEEBEE (BANGLADESH) LIMITED, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Managed a team of Merchandisers.
Direct and co-ordinate team from order confirmation stage to final shipment.
Development of New Products, Fabrics, Samples and Accessories.
Costing of new developments, negotiating with customers and getting order confirmations.
Ordering of fabrics/trim materials for developments and bulk programmes.
Planning the sample programme, capacity planning of bulk production and follow-up.
Communicating with Buyers/Buying House through emails/call.
Ensure proper coordination from team to stores, purchase, sampling and production team for smooth operation.
Vendor Sourcing and management in respect to job work, capacity and quality assessment of the products.
To make sure proper arrangement made/on time request sent for QA review in Photo Shoot samples, Mock Shop samples, Gold Seal samples etc..
Follow-up of TNA and ensure approvals for Fabrics, Washes, prints, embroidery are on time.
Ensure production files are released on time and conduct production meeting for all the styles.
Monitor and motivate junior staff/team to ensure all assigned jobs are completed on time.
Co-ordination with shipping personnel to ensure timely departure of shipments.
Monitoring the data for activities such as critical path, sample status, approvals, costing, WIP,
trim chasing and fabric chasing sheets, etc...
Exposure to ERP systems - SAP, NOW, MOVEX
Buyers handled – NEXT, BHS, Burtons, Greenwoods, Alexandra, ARGOS, Stuncroft,
Berendsen UK, Berendsen Sweden – Men’s & Ladies Wear
Overseas Travel – SWEDEN, MALAYSIA – For Order review, Working procedure and Future business
NOVEMBER ’09 TO AUGUST '11
SENIOR MERCHANDISER - BOMBAY RAYON FASHIONS LIMITED, Bangalore, India.
Executing the garment order from fit sample stage to final shipment.
Ensuring the product delivered in right quantity, right quality and at right time.
Planning new objectives on trends for the season.
Costing for the new developments and TNA plans for the orders.
Arranging presentation samples for the meetings.
Developing and sourcing supplier base for fabrics and trims and negotiate prices.
Develop prints and embroidery as per requirement.
To follow up with sampling, PPC, quality and production department for achieving the delivery on time.
To solve quality issues in terms of garment making, fabric and production.
To ensure all fabrics are tested and comply with the required/approved standards.
Co-ordinate with garment technician for better fit and looks of garments.
To alert quality team in advance for fabric shade problems and quality defects.
Arranging inspection for the buyer’s quality team.
Tracking the sales and stocks.
Preparing reports for all above activities.
Exposure to SAP ERP system
Buyers Handled – C & A (Germany) - Ladies Wear, Men’s Wear and Guru Brand (Italy).
DECEMBER ’07 TO NOVEMBER '09
MERCHANDISER - BHARAT TISSUS PVT LTD, Bangalore, India.
Handling sampling till shipment of orders.
Follow up of proto samples, salesman samples, size sets, pre-production samples and sealer samples.
Fabric sourcing of cottons (Solids, Yarn dyed and Printed fabrics), polyester and acetate fabrics.
Enquiring on Trims, Prints, and Embroidery.
Co-ordinating with sampling, PPC and production for achieving the delivery on time.
Alerting the PPC teams on production, quality, and delivery.
Arranging quality inspection for buyers.
Checking on stock and keeping track of sales.
Keeping track on new developments for the next season.
Getting order confirmation from buyers.
To make an effective costing to achieve better profit.
Preparing reports for all above activities.
Buyers Handled – LEVIS (LADIES WEAR), ESCADA (CWF KIDS WEAR), JEAN BOURGET
(ZANNIER KIDS WEAR), COAST (OASIS), ELLE (CWF KIDS WEAR), MARESE (KIDS WEAR)
– Europe and US based.
OCTOBER ’06 TO OCTOBER '07
FABRIC ASSISTANT(SOURCING) - COLORLINES INCORPORATED, Bangalore, India.
Follow up and assist in sample making like proto samples, SMS, Size sets, pre-production samples and sealer samples.
Assisting the team with all sample making, report making and new developments.
Sourcing/Arranging fabrics for sampling and arranging trims.
Negotiating prices with suppliers to make an effective costing.
Keeping track on fabric stock and despatches.
Co-ordinating with designing department in sample making.
Inspection of fabrics and grouping the shades accordingly.
Alerting the teams on the quality issues.
Taking care of the fabric and garment testing parameters for all shipments.
Analysis for the parameters like GSM, EPI, PPI, Count (Warp and Weft).
Preparing reports for all above activities.
Buyers Handled – C&A (KIDS WEAR), KIABI (KIDS WEAR), MATALAN (KIDS WEAR), MEXX
(KIDS AND TODDLERS).
JUNE ’05 TO '07
OFFICER(Total Quality Management - Fabrics)- WELSPUN INDIA LIMITED, Gujarat, India.
Visual shade matching of the towels against the buyer standards and approved lab dips.
Decision making to approve or reject the lots based on the lab test reports.
Computer colour matching of towels against the standard sample.
Online inspection of the towels at finished fabric stage.
Online monitoring to ensure process control.
Controlled weight loss study from greigh to finished towels.
Grey inspection – offline and online at grey stage.
Fabric Analysis for the parameters like Pile density, Pile height, Pile ratio, GSM, EPI, PPI Count
(Warp and Weft).
Sample analysis and suggestion for further improvement towards buyers’ sample.
Preparing reports for all above activities.
Customers – KOHLS, TARGET, TESCO, WALMART.
Education
B. TECH (TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY)
