Alpit Kale

Procurement · Supply Chain · Applied AI

Advisers don't build. Builders miss the domain. I sit in the overlap.

I'm Alpit — a procurement and supply chain transformation consultant in London, currently a Manager at a Big 4 firm. Six years across Big 4 and specialist consultancies, with one consistent thread: I don't just advise on AI and automation, I build and ship the working product.

Selected work
alpitkale@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/alpitkale London, UK

01 About

I grew up in Aurangabad, in the industrial heart of Maharashtra — playing guitar in the school band and spending summers leading expeditions to national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and the Himalayas. Before university I spent a semester at sea: one floating campus, fourteen countries, and a permanent taste for seeing how the world actually works up close.

These days I'm a consultant in London. Off the clock I DJ, dive, and photograph wildlife — and I build production software for my family's manufacturing business in India, which keeps one foot on the factory floor while the other is in the boardroom.

That combination is the point, not the biography. A factory floor in India and a consulting practice in London answer each other's questions — one keeps the advice honest, the other keeps the software ambitious. Most of my best work comes from refusing to choose between them.

02 Journey

Four cities, one ship, fourteen countries at sea. Scroll — the route draws itself.

    03 Experience

    Six years across Big 4 and specialist consultancies. The thread: own the problem end-to-end — from definition through build to adoption.

    Strategic Procurement & Sourcing

    Category strategy, supplier rationalisation, spend analytics

    Contract Lifecycle Management

    CLM implementation, migration, contract intelligence

    AI Product Development

    Problem definition, prototyping, enterprise deployment

    Process Automation

    Workflow design, CLM tooling, guided buying, RPA

    Workshop Facilitation & Change

    Stakeholder alignment, adoption, training

    Applied AI & LLM Systems

    RAG, agents, tool use, LLM-powered applications

    2022 — Present London, UK

    Manager — Deloitte

    Supply chain & procurement transformation, AI-enabled delivery

    Procurement transformationCLM AI product developmentPython Stakeholder management
    • Manager in the supply chain and procurement practice, leading AI-enabled transformation delivery for global pharma, FTSE 100 TMT, and UK telecoms clients.
    • Nominated AI Change Champion by senior leadership, with a firm-wide remit for AI adoption strategy and practitioner capability building; firm-wide Innovation Award nomination (2026).
    • Delivered demand planning analytics (SQL, PowerBI) for a global technology client's devices supply chain; mapped multi-tier supplier networks for an Australian enterprise; formulated a post-merger supplier strategy for a UK telecoms client.
    Case study: AI Contract Inquiry → Case study: AI Intelligence Briefing →
    2020 — 2022 London, UK

    Senior Associate Consultant — GEP Consulting

    Strategic sourcing, category management, process automation

    Strategic sourcingSpend analytics Category strategyProcess automation
    • Optimised the supplier base for a German pharmaceutical multinational to streamline buying and category management.
    • Supported PMO and strategic sourcing for a FTSE 100 firm delivering a national-scale public health programme.
    • Implemented robotic process automation to amend contracts at scale and maintained PowerBI reporting dashboards.
    2017 — 2019 London · Copenhagen · Hong Kong

    Earlier roles

    Investment research, communications, startup research

    Investment researchCommunicationsMarket research
    • Investment Research Summer Analyst at a London wealth manager — emerging-market macro datasets and bottom-up equity valuations.
    • Digital communications at a global energy engineering firm in Copenhagen — 25+ published articles, 35% LinkedIn traffic growth.
    • Startup ecosystem research across Hong Kong and India.

    04 Projects

    Things I designed and built end-to-end — each one shipped, deployed, and used by real people.

    Currently building
    Claude Code Workflow System Ongoing
    Claude CodeMCPSkills
    Obsidian Knowledge System Ongoing
    ObsidianPKMDataview
    Knowledge Insights Dashboard In use
    SQLiteFTS5Claude Code
    Client delivery ~40,000 cases/yr automated

    AI Contract Inquiry Solution

    A global pharma client's procurement team was manually answering tens of thousands of contract queries a year. I designed and led an AI-enabled inquiry solution that eliminated ~40,000 manual case responses annually — redirecting the team to higher-value procurement activity.

    LLM pipelinesCLMEnterprise delivery

    The problem

    Contract queries arrived in volume, every day, and each one pulled a procurement specialist away from real work. The answers lived in the contracts — but finding them was manual, repetitive, and slow.

    What I built

    An AI-enabled inquiry solution sitting inside the client's existing CLM workflow: routing logic to triage queries, LLM pipelines to resolve them against contract data, and escalation paths for the cases that genuinely needed a human.

    The hard part

    Reliability, not capability. Handling ambiguous queries, getting the routing edge cases right, and earning enough trust from procurement colleagues that they actually stopped answering manually. The design constraint throughout: fit the existing workflow — no process change on the client side.

    Outcome

    Roughly 40,000 manual case responses eliminated per year, with the client team redirected to higher-value procurement work.

    Client delivery ~5,000 contracts migrated

    Contract Migration Programme

    Owned the technical architecture and stakeholder engagement for a FTSE 100 TMT client's contract data migration — roughly 5,000 contracts moving through a structured pipeline with daily client governance, on schedule for an August 2026 go-live and presented at a partner-level showcase.

    Data migrationCLMProgramme leadership

    The problem

    Around 5,000 contracts needed to move into a new structure — with zero tolerance for data loss and a client team that had to approve every structural decision along the way.

    What I built

    Client-approved mapping workbooks are the single source of truth — a code generator turns them into the full SQL pipeline, so every transformation is signed off before it exists, and validation gates run before any batch is exported. No hand-edited SQL, paired with a daily governance cadence that kept the client team confident and unblocked.

    The hard part

    Data quality and stakeholder confidence. Migration programmes fail quietly — a field mapped wrong, a clause dropped — so the discipline was in validation at every stage and in keeping decision-making visible to the client rather than buried in the pipeline.

    Outcome

    Migration batches in delivery, on schedule for an August 2026 go-live; presented at a partner-level showcase.

    Internal product 200+ practitioners

    AI Intelligence Briefing

    A fully automated weekly AI intelligence briefing for consulting practitioners — a two-model LLM pipeline that aggregates sixteen sources, scores for relevance, deduplicates against past issues, writes a structured strategic brief, and ships itself as branded HTML and PDF. Approved by practice leadership; nominated for a firm-wide Innovation Award (2026).

    GenAILLM pipelinesProduct thinking
    View case study →
    Built solo Company KPIs run on it

    Procurement & Margin Intelligence Dashboard

    Full-stack BI dashboard for my family's HVAC manufacturing business in India — half a million rows of transaction data, BOM-level unit costing, a live commodity price feed, and role-based views for executive, marketing, and purchasing teams, refreshed unattended every night. The business now sets and tracks its annual team KPIs through it.

    PythonSQLProduction deployment
    View case study →
    Built solo V1 + V2 shipped in a day

    PlannerOS — Supply Chain Simulation

    A browser-based supply chain planning simulation for consulting workshops. Players run four quarters as Head of Supply Chain Planning, trading off service level, inventory, and cost — with a real-time shared leaderboard and an end-of-simulation debrief mapping decisions to six planning archetypes. Play the pocket edition below ↓

    JavaScriptSupabase RealtimeSimulation design
    View case study →

    05 How I work

    i

    Ship the tool, not the deck

    Advice that ends in a slide is a draft. The work isn't done until someone uses the thing daily and would complain if it disappeared.

    ii

    One source of truth

    Most operational pain is the same data living in five places. Whether it's 5,000 contracts or a factory's ERP, the fix starts with making one version true.

    iii

    Prototype in days, harden what survives

    V1 in days, in front of real users, then production-harden whatever they keep using. Speed of iteration beats elegance of plan.

    iv

    Keep both worlds

    A factory floor in India and a consulting practice in London answer each other's questions. The unusual combination is the advantage — don't sand it off.

    06 Play

    A 60-second pocket edition of PlannerOS, the supply chain planning simulation I built for consulting workshops. You're Head of Supply Chain Planning. Four quarters, four calls to make. Your decisions reveal your planning archetype. Play the full simulation ↗

    07 Skills & education

    Functional

    • Procurement transformation
    • Supply chain strategy
    • S&OP & demand planning
    • Margin & cost analytics
    • Commodity & supplier intelligence
    • Contract lifecycle management

    AI & LLM

    • AI product development
    • RAG systems
    • Agentic workflows
    • Prompt engineering
    • Claude Code

    Technical & tooling

    • Python
    • SQL
    • N8N
    • RPA

    Education

    King's College London
    BSc (Hons) Business Management

    Copenhagen Business School
    Finance & Economics

    Semester at Sea
    Global studies across 14 countries

    08 Contact

    Always happy to talk procurement, supply chains, applied AI, music, or where to dive next. If you're building something where domain depth meets hands-on AI delivery, even better.

    alpitkale@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/alpitkale London, UK

    Off the clock: DJ, advanced scuba diver — sixty-odd logged dives across sixteen countries — and wildlife photographer. Grew up in India, studied in Copenhagen, interned in Hong Kong, settled in London.