Sapan Gandhi , London, United Kingdom

Having completed Bachelors in Engineering (Biotechnology) and Masters in Business Administration (General), Sapan has 9 years of cross-functional experience spanning across supply chain operations (pan Europe for direct to consumer business), sales and operations planning, international logistics, customer service (4 countries), business transformation, business integration, operational excellence, business development, and sales. Sapan has:
• A passion for creating a lean, swift and efficient supply chain operations with an unrelenting focus on compliance
• A proven experience in managing a complex supply chain environment with particular experience in organization design
• International work experience across (India,) Croatia, Belgium and the United Kingdom
• Leading supply chain, logistics, customer service and ERP (IT) operations teams with accountability to deliver and excel on the KPI performance
• Managed the supply chain for Germany, UK, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Czech, Slovakia and Norway market
• Designed the S& OP process for the firm in 2013 (in a project along with McKinsey & Co.) and Implemented the process across the organization
-Led to significant improvements (and thus reliability) in the KPI scores, resulting in high negotiating power of BU in the trade-off decisions (during executive S&OP)
- Led to optimization of raw materials inventory (resulting from
• Part of several regulatory audits (MHRA and FAGG) with a clean track record
• Led the sales and operations planning of Cipla Europe
• Project managed an 8 months long program (sponsored by the top management) on changing the business model of the firm in Europe- deciding and implementing some key (and tough) business decisions
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