Chanchal Mehra

Experience

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  SAB Miller,India

  Apr 2009 - Jun 2009

  Summer Trainee

  Develop a sustainable procurement channel for barley in Punjab and adjoining areas. Deliver targeted COGS through crop forecasting and farmer remunerationExecute seamless supplies of barley to mapped breweries avoiding stock outs.

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  ITC Ltd Agri Business Division

  Jul 2010 - Sept 2019

  Commodity Trading and Supply Chain Manager

  Handled Trading and Supply Chain Operations for Soya,Maize and Wheat, managing an extended organisation of about 500 resources and 100 on field ITC team.Integral part of the Pan India wheat procurement and logistics team for Aashirvaad Atta.Handled wheat sales and supply chain operations for reputed brands like Nestle,Mc Donald's,Naga,Dharmapuri RFM etc.Successfully executed Maize operations for export trade and strategic sourcing while venturing into the commodity for the first time.Handled the Soyabean procurement,DOC and oil sales & supply chain business for the Division.Part of the business team handling Soyabean PnL and exchange transactions.Handled Soya DOC export consignments for customers located in Middle East,SE Aisa and African destinations.Handled commodity operations across the wide geography with spread to 7 states handling a manpower strength of more than 100 people on ground.Spearheaded commodity procurement and supply chain network of wheat,soyabean,maize ,maida,soya DOC across varied geographies dealing in both internal trade and export operations.Worked closely with some reputed brands for RM supply while coordinating some novel sourcing and supply chain arrangments with them.Headed the "Logistical and RM supply efficiency" model of wheat supply for Eastern UP and Bihar locations aimed to cost effective delivery to Aata plants.Orchestrated the state of art technology driven initiatives in Quality and Quantity management across geographies. Liaisoned with important stakeholders with strategic negotiations to achieve this end.Headed various procurement and logistics intiatives for the division aimed at achieving sustainable results on a longer run for brands like Aashirvaad,BNatural,Mangaldeep,Sunfeast. Show less

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  RPSG (FMCG) - Guiltfree Industries Limited

  Sept 2019 - now

  Head - Raw Materials Procurement

  Spearheading direct raw material sourcing for more than 80+ commodities and executing the expansion of Guiltfree industries portfolio in the ready to eat and related snacks category with the aim of extreme market disruption.Taking the standards of a New Product launch to newer heights through efficient vendor development, best in industry contract management and applying the ability to make ends successfully meet in an complex agriculture sourcing network in India.

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  Apricot Foods Pvt. Ltd.

  Apr 2022 - now

  Head - Raw Materials Procurement

  Promoted with handling an additional responsibility of heading raw material sourcing function for Apricot foods.Role involves vendor development and team management as added responsibilities apart from end to end handling of new commodities for the varied product range in the Evita brand.Ushering the era of bringing in sourcing synergises, extensive use of IT tools in making sourcing function mm ore transparent and cost effective.