The document provides a 3.7 year professional experience summary for a Business Analyst at Target Corporation of India. Key responsibilities included managing replenishment and inventory issues, conducting analyses, forecasting, and planning. Additional duties were researching issues to improve forecast accuracy, analyzing inaccurate forecasts, ensuring proper stock of direct vendor shipment products, and providing updates to top management. Special projects were also undertaken to improve processes and performance.

1. Professional Experience Summary – Total Experience 3.7 years
Current Organization – Target Corporation of India (Duration – Feb 2014 to till date)
(Designation - Business Analyst)
(Department – Merchandise planning (MP)
Managing replenishment, instock troubleshooting, profiling, conducting analyses, forecasting and planning,
handling key business improvement projects for both stores and Dotcom.
Roles and Responsibilities
 Research on Instock Troubleshooting to improve the forecast accuracy, misallocation in stores and
inventory optimization. Prepare, review, analyze and maintain the departments out of stocks issues
during peak season like promotions and regular sales.
 Analyze and maintain the inaccurate base forecasts which can cause inventory misallocations – Improve
and adjust the forecast to match the most recent demand through different suitable methodology.
 Research on Absolute Average Variation – Analyze and compare the historical sales forecasts with
actual sales to see the deviation between actual sales and its forecast by improving the profiles and
deseasonalized demand to make sure future forecast is align.
 To ensure DVS (Direct Vendor Shipment) product to be instock on website with weekly analysis and
regular follow up with buyers and vendors. Quick response on vendor query which can lead to out of
stock situation.
 Analyze and maintain the inaccurate base forecasts and promo forecast for DVS items which can cause
out of stock and service level issue on site.
 Providing divisional and departmental update to leaders (Top management leaders) in a weekly, monthly
and quarterly meeting.
 Making effective and efficient communication with MPLS partners through call, video call and email
such meetings include project related discussion or initiative happening in Target MPLS and Target
India.
 Responsible for performing special projects to improve process efficiency and performance Projects as
assigned by Management or by US counter partners
 Maintain leadtime accuracy between vendor to DC and DC to store. Maintain High OTL related issue
with making necessary adjustment in DD (Deseasonalized Demand).
 Research and maintenance done for new stores in department level to have 96% green instock during
the opening of new stores.
 Perform city transition for City Target stores to have the most recent model stores look.
 Make sure to have right product at the right place through SHM process and right quantity at the right
time through Profile process.
Other Initiatives and achievements
Think Certification
Received Think Certification. Created automation amounting to an annual time saving of 190 hours,
resulting in 19.2 process efficiency improvement and 94.8% time savings with significant reduction in
manual intervention.
Captainships
Assigned as Captain for two business processes, and led Community Initiatives within the division.