Bishwa Choudhary

* Goal to diversify manufacturing to 'Make in India'. * 5 year goal to establish 7% of total business in pair and around 90 million USD in FOB. * Applied WM concept of EDLP (every day low price). * Contribution to company global target of 10 billion USD export from India by 2027. * Searching for OPP suppliers in different types of footwear. * Intensive supplier matrix- Started with 2 factories and grown to 8 factories or orders in upcoming season's. * First footwear specialist to join the team, and be part of the "start-up" footwear sourcing team for WM Global sourcing in India. * Oversee and Follow-up with all daily activities, including samples, costing, negotiation, order receiving, order placing, Production Planning and Timely up-date and communicate with related buyers. * Check the daily Production progress to ensure On-time delivery. *Provide technical and development support to factories. * Visit of supplier production facilities to supervise that everything going smoothly to ensure quality / on time shipments etc. * Sourcing vendors and suppliers across price range. * Buyer dealings, attending buyer's meetings and cost analysis.

Product Development for Brands like Zara, Massimo Dutti, Lefties and Pull &Bear. Fashion and Trend analysis, Build up seasonal calendar for development, Follow spec sheet, Communication with designers from Head office-Spain, Make sure samples are send within target deadline. Handling Proto samples, Development sample, Confirmation sample, Fitting sample and Salesman sample.

Whole Commercialization process, start from Prototype Sample review-Kick off meeting. Fit trial meeting, Fit and Confirmation sample review, CDT, Material approval, test production, Production Process. PLM handling. Leading team of 10-12 members and communicating with other departments. Delivering smooth work flow. Project Leads- Best Practice= Collect best practice in Industry. Document it. Start 2016 May- September. Continuous improvement= Understanding and implement of CI. Start 2016 September- April. Defect rate= Defining Defect rate. Start 2018 Jan-April. Defect book= Categories defects. Start 2019 April- September. Other projects includes- schedule breakdown, Process improvement and line building/Balancing, Fitting and Wearing of shoes, Sourcing optimization in terms of product quality, capacity, schedule and pricing, Channel Signal, Claim performance. Proactively controlling 1st day production, In process, implementation of Caleres *5* star QA system, Training of QA team, Guiding QA’s in factory, weekly internal QA team meeting and Quality circle meeting with factory and team. Visiting suppliers as required, push for quality and on time deliveries. Driving team to risk proactively. Claim handling,Weekly and daily reporting to top management by in person and through VC, KPI generation. Hiring of Team Members- Have hired 5 talents for team. Actively participating in team budget allocation and headcount based on management requirement. Brands work with- ladies and Casual- Sam Edelman, Neutralizer, Life stride, Franco Sarto, Blowfish, Vince. Sports shoes= Ryka, Bezzes, Dr Scholl’s, Voinic Work with different customers across globe. For example - Wal-Mart, QVC, HSN, Costco, Famous footwear, DSW, Regal, Zappos, Amazon, Nordstrom etc. Implementation and introduction of Lean line, 6 Sigma, TQM, Best Practice, 5S and Process optimization.

Launching and sourcing of footwear production units in Bangladesh and India. 3 units in Bangladesh and 3 in India. Factories name in Bangladesh- FB footwear limited, Ital Techno, Scorpe De Moda- Dhaka India- NMZ-Ambur-Chennai, Imtiaz Tannery-Ambur, Vista Shoes-Chennai. Sourcing of Leather from India to our shoe factories in China- Shipped almost 100k SF in 6-7 months. Production Operation Management. whole process of Footwear Production starting from cutting to shipment, Material approval, In- process control, Inspection, Container loading plans and Daily reporting to Top Management.

 To know client’s requirements via ‘Kick Off Meeting’ and their target market segment before start of any new projects.  Involved in Developments & check all samples before sending to customer. And communicating with clients for their feedback .  Get data’s from customer before starting of production & follow up with production team and supplier’s for the implementation of customer requirements  Window to customer/brand catering on progress of development’s, samples, and production lead time.  Suggesting brands on style to vendor SWOT analysis.  Increased responce time to customer’s within 24 hour’s.  Organising client quaterly meeting on trend analysis and seasonsal meeting for business forcasting.  Brands worked for- Target, Toms, Buffalo girl, Vulcasa, Marco Polo, Dolce vita, Walmart etc.

• Training about Vulcanize shoe making process. • Build report on cost saving initiation for factory and waste management. • Learning about factory development,sample room and its output/head.