Jagadeesh Kunchey is currently working with ITC Limited-as Executive Vice President-supply chain & Logistics for all the FMCG businesses, Engineering Projects and part of the Management committee. He manages one of the complex supply chain networks across the country comprising 150+Factories, 2800+ Distributors, and 45 Distribution Centres (6 million Sq. ft.) for around 1600+ SKUs and 32 categories. As a part of this role, he is responsible for end to end supply chain strategy, planning, operations, Supply chain transformation. and getting it\u00a0\u00a0 future ready. He has driven multiple projects on operational excellence, Supply chain digitization, creating company owned fulfilment centres and strategic cost management. He was earlier involved in setting up & nurturing high performing teams and systems and ran supply chain operations, procurement and logistics \u00a0in Reliance Retail, Cargill and Coca cola. Some of the projects \u00a0include\u00a0 delivering\u00a0 \u201cBest In class fill rates through an aligned S&OP process across multiple businesses\u201d, \u201cNetwork design& supply chain strategy for Reliance Retail\u00a0 , \u201cSAP implementation\u201d, \u00a0Creating state of art \u00a0the art Distribution centres and automation \u00a0for ITC\u201d, \u201cImplementation of Lean Inventory Program\u201d and\u00a0 \u201c Testing of\u00a0 different Distribution models i.e. Direct to market, Dark store model and DSD delivery\u00a0 and micro fulfilment \u201d\u00a0 to improve customer profitability and reduce Inventory and\u00a0 costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13429,"menu_order":155,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[45,75,65,76,74],"class_list":["post-3715","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-2024-past-speakers","team_department-2025-macro-speakers","team_department-2025-manufacturing","team_department-2025-micro-speakers","team_department-speakers"],"yoast_head":"\n