Ashutosh Tiwari

-Develop global procurement strategies by engaging cross-functional teams to understand consumer demand and market conditions. -Drive supply chain initiatives that enable speed, flexibility, and agility to deliver profitable top-line growth and gross margin percentage improvement. -Manage vendor/supplier relationship and monitor supplier performance and compliance using company policies and established evaluation criteria both qualitative and quantitative. -Manages and leads raw material, tech design and sourcing teams as they effectively identify, source, develop and negotiate all components of the products (activewear/ sportswear).

- Strong project management and leadership skills - Create and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies - Define, drive and execute seasonal strategy. Maintain, update, and analyze to ensure fiscal quantity and quality goals are achieved by forging and maintaining relationships with vendors.

- Managed business of 2.5 million Euro. - Handled kids, men’s, and women’s Active wear (sportswear) Categories. - Responsible for Vendor panel management: Proactively identify, develop & approve new vendors based on our Compliance norms & product strength. - Define, drive and execute a seasonal fabric strategy. Maintain, update, and analyze fabric projects ensuring fiscal and quality goals

- Managed the order from development to Bulk delivery for buyers - JC Penny, Walmart, GAP and Ann Taylor. - Analyse operation breakdown of the styles before the production to understand critical operations & list methods of controlling them in lines through process checkers. - Managed the development and communication of seasonal time and action calendars and ensures internal and external teams follow required dates. - Coordinate with social compliance auditors, testing laboratories, vendors and suppliers to ensure the execution of corrective action and compliance as per required specifications and standards. - ‘Total quality management’ was implemented in factory via tools like Kaizen, 5S and Lean Management.

- Zonal marketing manager for domestic south zone fabric business development. - Responsible for Business development activities like meeting buyer, cost negotiation and meeting their quality and delivery requirements. - Managed entire supply chain of outsourcing activity of greige, printed and solid fabrics. - Responsible for data analysis of sales performance.

 Have done a project for Freudenberg Nonwovens India Pvt Ltd. and did a market survey for them.