Atul Kumar

Leading India market entry across sourcing, product development, manufacturing, distribution, and go-to-market. Coordinated the end-to-end value chain to establish the operating approach for market entry and commercialization.

Provided supply chain and manufacturing operations leadership for a new F&B company and led recruitment. Designed and operationalized end-to-end procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, and go-to-market operations.

Built an organization supporting academic consulting and early-stage professionals. Generated funding and business opportunities and provided mentoring support.

Led customer service, replenishment, customer planning, DTC, and sustainability across 3,000 distributors and multiple channels. Achieved 93% OTIF, 95% on-shelf availability, and 95% distributor stock availability.

Led development of a global replenishment system with Accenture and launched a customer satisfaction survey worldwide.

Designed and deployed a South Asia O2C organization and processes covering order capture, fulfillment, master data, claims, and credit management.

Led end-to-end supply chain planning and execution, supporting double-digit growth and fill rates above 96%.

Led distribution-network redesign, transportation, warehousing, 3PL/vendor management, and KPI frameworks.

Established S&OP processes and led transport, distribution planning, and factory capacity-utilization initiatives. Reduced logistics costs by more than 16% and improved on-time delivery from 72% to 90%.

Led 100 employees across biscuit manufacturing operations. Reduced downtime by 50% and shortened changeover from 8 hours to 1 hour through manpower and machine optimization.

Completed Executive General Management program.

Bachelor of Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Punjab University, Chandigarh.