Kaustubh Kale

About Kaustubh Kale

A Business Planning & Supply Chain Leader with MBA in Operations from SPJIMR, 14 years…

Experience

1. Sr Manager- External Fulfilment

   Amazon

   Mar 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Lead 42 member team incl 4 Managers & 7 TLs- consistently delivering 99.90% order processing & pickup success for 17k sellers across external fulfilment - Seller Flex, Direct Fulfilment, Multi channel. • Drive network speed initiatives through sellers’ Sunday & festive Holiday working conversions > 65%, order rollover minimization, seller capacity revisions, maximizing supply chain capacity utilization. • Sponsor for projects by managers driving: supply chain digitalization, process automation, AI adoption.• Optimizing seller support & team productivity through meticulous classification of sellers into Proactive team (call downs to sellers to maximize performance), Reactive (Inbound seller support) & Autonomous.“Head- Planning & Inventory Mgmt” Leadership role at Amazon India’s Partner Sellers:RK Worldinfocom & RetailEZ• Reporting to COO- implemented framework for cross functional Plan alignments for Beauty, Baby,Grocery, Kitchen, Luggage & Furniture (1.5 Bn$) with CXO, Biz-Fin, Amazon Category & Planning.• Mentored Senior ISMs as SMEs for delivering-VLT reduction, Forecasting excellence, OOS & Speed,UHI reduction- through Big Rocks PM with Category leaders, VMs, Top Vendors & Amazon Core• Led 30 In-Stock Managers to deliver- planning & procurement automation (>90%), OOS reduction(<10%), Diwali Inventory ramp-up, Unhealthy inventory reduction, Working capital (-10%)• Led project for Speed improvement (+5%) and Long-zone ship-cost reduction- by driving channel mixoptimization of Vendor Flex, Cross-dock & Direct, and overstock rebalancing• Aligned AOP with Amazon leadership & delivered improvements through T2T connect, Scorecard, MIS & Value stream Projects with Vendors, while supporting JBP alignments.• Drive SCM digitalization- Power BI, Power Automate, SQL, Forecasting & Buying automation

Education

• Bhausaheb Firodia High School, Ahmednagar

  High School, Science

  2002 — 2004

• SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

  PGDM, Operations and Supply chain management

  2010 — 2012

• COEP Technological University

  B.Tech, Electronics and Telecommunications

  2004 — 2008

• COEP (College of Engineering, Pune)

  B.Tech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Skills

• Demand Planning
• S&Op Implementation
• Vendor Managed Inventory
• Inventory Management
• Team Management
• Demand Supply Planning
• Supply Chain Management