About

Arushi Srivastava is a seasoned Merchandise Planner with over 7 years of experience in the retail industry. She is currently working at The Popcorn Factory, a division of 1800Flowers.com, the biggest E-commerce gift retailer in the United States. Arushi works closely with the Merchandising Director to develop merchandising strategies by planning, forecasting, identifying seasonality and trends, and managing supply and demand constraints. She is responsible for ensuring the company's organic growth by directly impacting sales. Before joining The Popcorn Factory, Arushi worked as a Jr. Category Manager at MJ Holding Company, LLC, where she led two major toys/trading card retailers to achieve everyday product availability, generating $35M in annual sales. She planned weekly and monthly with changing demand and supply of 500+ SKUs to minimize backorders and maximized fill rates up to 98% in 235+ Meijer and 370+ ShopKo stores across the USA. Arushi also delivered Fiscal Year analysis for strategic business growth and created interactive BI dashboards to monitor KPIs like Inventory turnover, Inventory to sales ratio, and implemented root cause analysis, which helped in reducing OOS by 83% for 500+ SKUs. Arushi has a Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from NMIMS. She has experience in using Parts-of-speech and SQL. Arushi also worked as a Supply Chain & Manufacturing Engineer Intern at Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc., where she implemented Kaizen, Kanban, and proposed 5S methodology to upgrade storage space, reduce bottleneck & delayed production, alleviated obsolete inventory, improved lead time to 21 days, and re-designed Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) and Reorder Point (ROP) by optimizing Max-Min inventory holding and ordering cost. Arushi's experience in the retail industry, coupled with her technical skills, has made her a valuable asset to any organization. She has a proven track record of delivering results and driving growth for the companies she has worked for.