Contact
Devendra Rawat
www.linkedin.com/in/devendra- Head - Supply Chain & Sourcing at 3M (India Region)
rawat (LinkedIn) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
www.iimcal.ac.in (Other)
www.flipkart.com/about-us
(Company) Summary
An operations and supply chain leader with over twenty years of rich
Top Skills
experience in India and abroad (global exposure includes working
Supply Chain Management
in UK, Europe, Japan, SE Asia and Africa) and with a blend of
Supply Chain Consulting
consulting and industry.
International Supply Chain

Currently with 3M India, working as Supply Chain Head for all

businesses. Responsibilities include Demand & Supply planning,
warehousing & distribution, supply chain process improvement,
analytics and transformation.

Industry experience include e-commerce (Flipkart), FMCG (PepsiCo

& Marico) and durables (Bridgestone & Apollo Tyres). Six years of
consulting experience include McKinsey (Asia Operations practice)
and Ernst & Young (London based Supply Chain Advisory).

Prior to 3M, was with Flipkart in planning function. Was with PepsiCo
India for four and a half years, with stints in both Beverages and
Foods divisions - a two year stint with Beverages running the
demand planning, S&OP process and initiatives in the front end
supply chain and a 2.5 yrs stint with Foods division as head of supply
planning. Earlier with Marico, have done roles in regional supply
chain, central demand planning and distribution. In tyre industry,
have handled end to end planning, production scheduling, industrial
engineering, warehousing and logistics.

A mechanical engineering graduate and an MBA from the Indian

Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta.

Specialties: Team management, Project management, Demand

planning, forecasting, supply chain planning, warehousing and
logistics, supply chain strategy, materials planning, inventory control,
ERP, SCM software, operations transformation, procurement
transformation, strategic sourcing, negotiations, cost diagnostics,
cost reduction & operations diagnostics
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Experience
3M
2 years 5 months

Head - Supply Chain and Sourcing (India region)

January 2019 - Present 
Bengaluru Area, India

Leading India region Supply Chain Operations and Sourcing for all 3M
businesses. Responsibilities include Planning (Demand & Supply), Logistics
(WH and freight), EXIM operations including Trade Compliance and Strategic
Sourcing (including direct & indirect procurement, with inter-company &
external vendor purchases). Working in a matrix structure with reporting to 3M
Asia Supply Chain and 3M India MD

Head - Supply Chain, India Region

October 2016 - December 2018 (2 years 3 months)
Bengaluru Area, India

Lead the 3M India Region Supply Chain - Demand planning, Supply planning,
Logistics (warehousing and freight) and SC Projects & Analytics for all
businesses of the company.

Flipkart
Director - Planning
December 2015 - October 2016 (11 months)
In E-Kart planning team, establishing demand planning function and S&OP
process.

PepsiCo
4 years 6 months

Associate Director - Foods Supply Planning

July 2013 - December 2015 (2 years 6 months)
Gurgaon, India

Managing National Supply Planning for Pepsico India (Foods). Portfolio

includes managing category planning through a team of category planners,
plant production planning through a team of plant SCMs and Modern Trade
(Organized retail) customer service management. With 7 DRs, total team size
of over 35.

GM - Supply Chain (Beverages, Demand Planning and S&OP)

July 2011 - June 2013 (2 years)

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Gurgaon, India

Leading front end supply chain for Beverages division of PepsiCo India based
out of Gurgaon corporate office. Responsibilities included demand planning,
running the S&OP process, developing customer replenishment strategy (auto-
replenishment) and management of glass bottles (tracking glass flow, reverse
logistics etc.)

Ernst & Young

Manager (Principle consultant), Advisory (Supply Chain and
Operations)
November 2008 - June 2011 (2 years 8 months)
London, United Kingdom

Based out of London, the role included leading client engagaments and
leading proposals / bids in Supply Chain and Operations practice

Have done multiple engagements in consumer products, energy and services

sectors, along with internal practice building initiatives.

McKinsey & Company

Associate
July 2005 - September 2008 (3 years 3 months)
Worked with the firm's Asia Operations Practice based out of the Mumbai
office.

Have done profitability improvement, cost reduction, procurement

transformation, supply chain transformation, lean transformation and
investment strategy projects in a wide range of industries (telecom, healthcare,
chemicals, oil & gas, auto etc.)

Marico Limited
Manager - Supply Chain
August 2003 - May 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Mumbai Area, India

Handled the distribution supply chain for India for half of the consumer brands.
Based out of the corporate office.
- Demand planning, forecasting, inventory management
- Initiating and implementing innovations in the supply chain
- Rolled out VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) system in distribution for auto
orders

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Asian Paints
Summer Associate
2002 - 2002 (1 year)
Mumbai

MBA summer internship. Project done with the sourcing team, developed
frameworks for VMI by vendors

Apollo Tyres Ltd.

Asst. Manager - Planning
April 2000 - May 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Headed planning and control of the new radial tyre plant
- Establishing planning dept. including demand planning, production planning
- Industrial engineering standards, establishing the same in the plant

Bridgestone
Asst. Manager - Planning and Logistics
July 1996 - April 2000 (3 years 10 months)
Indore Area, India

Trained in Japan, part of the team that established operations in India

- Developed production budgets, plans and schedules
- Directly controlled dispatch and receipt, co-ordinated imports
- Rolled out the planning, inventory control and logistics systems
- Implemented ERP, ISO/TS standards etc. in the company
- Japanese language & culture training by AOTS, Osaka
- Training at Bridgestone Japan in Japanese management systems

Education
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
MBA, Strategy, Operations · (2001 - 2003)

SGSITS, Indore
BE, Mechanical Engineering · (1992 - 1996)

Kendriya Vidyalaya
High School  · (1980 - 1992)

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