revathi udayashankar

• Collaborated with Global category leads to analyze supply markets and develop a category playbook, supporting a spend exceeding $500 million • Engineered and executed an excel tool with 1000+ cost models, aiding in understanding fluctuations of raw material price and its impacts on cost of final product • Actively participated in Integrated Business Planning, providing historical and forecasted raw material price data and supporting category strategy planning, including agricultural commodities hedging

• Played a pivotal role in analysing raw material procurement costs, devising procurement strategies, make or buy decision, improving the supplier relationship, managing contract and optimizing payment term • Led a project alongside the Executive Director and Group Production Director to benchmark batch-wise production costs, resulting in a 4% increase in Contribution Margin II

• Mapped demand/supply trends through primary and secondary research focusing on industry structure, market price and forecast, supplier landscape, and value chain analysis for agricultural products • Curated 100 + customized market and supplier intelligence reports for Fortune 500 companies specific to procurement business problems • Conducted supplier survey and interview for vendor profiling and analysed supplier’s financial risk to support clients in market understanding and negotiations

• Successfully on-boarded new suppliers and reduced the cost of procurement by 10% • Supported in preparing raw material specifications in collaboration with internal production, quality team and US FDA and ensured the ingredient meet US export norms • Played a pivotal role in conducting primary market research of organic pulses exports from India. Helped the company to increase its product portfolio from 10 to 12