Prachi Garg

Hello,

I have a experience of 9years as a merchandiser & vendor manager

Documentation Assistant- Vendor management

 

• Liaising with Vendors across the globe for product & price inquiries
• Understanding client requirements & prepare technical quotations
• Conducting market & product research across industries
• Generate shipping documents- Invoice, Packing list
• COO ( Certificate of Origin ) & LC (Letter of Credit ) handling

 

Sunmoon globalshipping services, Singapore- Freight forwarding firm

• Liaising with customers, shipping lines, airlines for smooth imports & exports
• Manage booking with partners for sea shipment, air shipment, hand carry
• Cargo coordination (cargo picking, labelling, drop off to port)
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Merchandising Manager

Aditya BirlaFashion & Retail,Bangalore, India- Peter England brand

• Driven top line & bottom line growth for a leading menswear brand (Both woven & Knitted products) with annual turnover of 28 millionUSD with 20% growth annually
• Worked extensively with cross-functional teams- design, sourcing & retail
• Develop partnerships with vendors for better product development
• Driving category growth through strategic merchandising initiative & deciding diverse product mix in terms of price and innovative product attributes
• Execution of biannual retail marketing events- trade show for sales channel partners- Distributors, wholesalers etc
• Guiding team on Time & action calendar management

Merchandising Manager-Jack & Jones, Selected & Tommy Hilfiger

Laguna ClothingPvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India

• Led team of assistant merchandisers managing high profile European clients
• Managed complete process execution from product development, presentation, order forecasting, orderreceiving, order execution by coordination with cross functional teams
• Handled a total portfolio of 0.2 mio orders p.a. (Tommy Hilfiger) & 1 mio orders p.a. (Bestseller)
• Executed cost estimation and negotiations with clients with exponential growth in orders from 0.1 mio to nearly 1 mio p.a.(Bestseller).
• Collaboration with all internal stakeholders across Production, raw material sourcing, planning, Finance, Logistics and Quality teams
• Continuously worked in a fast-paced environment and achieved lead-time reduction by identifying bottlenecks and use more efficient processes

 

Laguna ClothingPvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India

• Independently handled order consolidation and allocation Coordinated all production related activities to ensure timely delivery of orders
• Release of purchase order (PO) to vendors and ensure smoothissuance of raw material
• Developed SOP for sourcing& vendor management
• Improved & Implemented a module with ERP Vendor for planning & reports generation
• Conducted cost negotiation with vendors

 

Deloitte consulting LLP, Hyderabad, India

• Proficient in Sales & Distribution and Logistics ExecutionModule of SAP
• Requirements gathering, client business modelunderstanding and testing
• Prepared MIS reports with snapshot of client side planning management (e.g. OrdersCreated, processed, shipped)

Master of BusinessAdministration (MBA)

KJ Somaiya Institute Of Management Studies and ResearchMumbai, India

• Specialization in International Business and Strategy

Bachelors of Fashion Technology

National Instituteof Fashion Technology, Bangalore, India

• Specialization in Apparel Manufacturing & Technology