Vinay Kavde

Consulting partner and part of the sales and transition team for outsourcing of application estate. Helping client with product and platform strategy

Assisted US Foods with evaluation of new channels for B2B and B2C leveraging drop ship vendors. Helped define the capabilities, roadmap, software solution selection (Commerce Hub, Dynamics 365, custom) for drop ship vendor integration, order management and ecommerce areas.

Provided advisory services for organizational SAFe agile transformation.

For a Safe agile Global Manhattan WMS rollout program, part of Lean portfolio governance team. Set-up and led team with 100+ resources to enable tracks for integration, conversion, dev-ops, automation, testing, etc.

Collaborated with the CXO, leadership team and their CPG partners to define B2B portal capabilities as a new selling channel and enhance customer experience, by defining the roadmap, target customer segmentation and offering product recommendation.

As Program director, led Omni-channel fulfillment for distribution center (DC), customer service center and retail store. Collaborated with CXO, business leaders and IT Leadership to develop rollout roadmap, select software vendors and system integration partners. Defined product capabilities while leading the implementation team.

As delivery executive set-up global B2B spare parts marketplace for the automotive company, its dealers and end customers. Guided the team on product capabilities and program governance and execution.

Led the Omni-channel fulfillment product design leveraging a new order management platform, enabling order capture from online, stores and contact center, while overseeing iterative release planning, team ramp up, and governance definition. Offered guidance to the business and IT leads on the program with industry best practices.

Led strategy engagement for Omni-channel capabilities for online, retail and wholesale channels. Provided SME support for roadmap definition, business case definition, package selection, and architecture definition. Partnered with the CIO and IT senior management to research and identify the best package suited for their business needs.

Managed replacement of the legacy Point of Sale system to Oracle Mobile Point of Sale in 5 months, providing the foundation of enabling Omni channel in College Campus Bookstore Retailer stores.

Worked with CIO for a Home Improvement Retailer and client executives, defining the financial justification for moving e-commerce and order management platform in-house from an externally hosted platform.

Worked with the CIO and Sr. Management to identify, prioritize the business capabilities in the digital, customer and store associate mobility, Omni-channel space. Helped define the roadmap for board presentation.

Led digital transformation program across multiple areas including setting up new digital marketing platform, new order online - pick-up in restaurant capabilities, and customer data management across the 7 brands, check level analytics and employee portal project. Led alignment across company executives on program objectives, governance and guiding principles, roadmap that were foundational to launching the program.

The migration of the online channel in-house from Amazon was one of the largest programs in the industry, led a key track for order management and fulfillment. Helped the retailer, enable order fulfillment to meet customer promise at least cost.

Executed the business transformation engagement for setting up a new business model, implementing Oracle OTC solution between the distributor and its sister Grocery 3PL concern with expected annual cost savings of $100M. Worked with the COO and his senior leadership team on business case definition and organizational re-alignment for consolidation of multiple divisions, leading to FTE rationalization with a projected savings more than $20M. Led business re-engineering initiatives to transform… Show more

Executed the business transformation engagement for setting up a new business model, implementing Oracle OTC solution between the distributor and its sister Grocery 3PL concern with expected annual cost savings of $100M. Worked with the COO and his senior leadership team on business case definition and organizational re-alignment for consolidation of multiple divisions, leading to FTE rationalization with a projected savings more than $20M. Led business re-engineering initiatives to transform from a paper based to digital organization in procurement and merchandising areas. Show less

Created a B2B e-commerce for channel partners with expected annual revenue of $6M and 24x7 available channel.

Oversaw multi-channel strategy and process definition for buy online pick-up in store process across various functional areas like order management, store operations, and merchandising.

Drove simplification and consolidation of Configure to Cash processes across two business units, leveraging industry-benchmarking tools from APQC for process re-engineering.

Led implementation of transportation and logistics projects in the area of Manhattan freight audit and pay, freight bid management and transportation planning and execution.

Led solution design for OMS and WMS solution for a 3PL spare parts logistics division across 300 global DCs.

Defined multi-channel store and inventory processes using Mantra’s multi-channel OMS