Why Clients Trust WhiteBox SCM
Built by practitioners. Not software developers.
We have sat in the same planning meetings. We understand the same business pressures.
Founded by practitioners from
- Years of Planning Leadership
20+ - Organisations Worked Inside
10 - Sectors Served
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The founders
Co-founder
Manju Mehandiratta
Leads the supply chain practice
View LinkedIn profile- APICS CPIM certified, Planning and Inventory Management
- MBA, Supply Chain and Retail Management
- Cross-border manufacturing structures across China, Italy and Thailand
Manju Mehandiratta has spent a career on the operating side of planning. Nine years at Sony India covering business planning for national operations, then demand planning at Hindustan Unilever, inventory planning across twenty countries at Nokia Siemens Networks, and demand planning management at Whirlpool India, Artsana and Lactalis. Most recently, as AVP of Planning and Ecommerce at Rozana, that meant building a demand planning function from nothing.
WhiteBox SCM exists because of a pattern that repeated in every one of those rooms. Companies arrive convinced they have a forecasting problem. Almost none of them do. What they have is a decision-making problem: unclear ownership, functional silos, weak governance, and execution that quietly drifts from the plan. Better forecasts do not fix any of that.
Where that experience was built
- RozanaAVP, Planning and Ecommerce2024 to 2026
- Lactalis IndiaSenior Manager, Demand Planning2023 to 2024
- Artsana GroupManager, Demand Planning2017
- Whirlpool IndiaDemand Planning Manager2014 to 2017
- Nokia Siemens NetworksInventory Planning Specialist2009 to 2012
- Hindustan UnileverDemand Planning Executive2006 to 2009
- Sony IndiaBusiness Planner1997 to 2006
Co-founder
Samnit Mehandiratta
Owns the technical side of every engagement
View LinkedIn profile- M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence, IIT Jodhpur
- MBA, NMIMS Mumbai
- DPIIT recognised startup, Global 100 2026 for software in India
- Published in IEEE ICRITO on trust and privacy in distributed systems
Samnit Mehandiratta runs NeuralNetworki.ng, the DPIIT recognised engineering company WhiteBox SCM is the enterprise practice of. Previously at Adobe, investigating production failures across APIs and services at global scale, and at MobiKwik building automation and anomaly detection for financial systems where reliability was the product.
The technical side of every WhiteBox SCM engagement is owned directly rather than handed to a delivery team. That matters because most planning software fails at the same point: it works in a demo and never survives contact with real master data, real exceptions and real planners.
What that has produced
- Twenty five projects running in production, not pilots
- A workforce platform tracking over a thousand people across multiple sites, live for more than a year
- Forecasting engines, computer vision and agentic systems for manufacturing and government
- Five hundred professionals trained through the engineering academy
Our Story
Why we built WhiteBox SCM
Everyone who built this practice has sat on the other side of it: the planner explaining a stockout, the manager defending a working capital number, or the director asking why nobody saw it coming.
That experience produced a specific conviction: most companies believe they have a forecasting problem. They don't. They have a decision-making problem: undefined ownership, weak processes, functional silos, reactive firefighting, missing governance, and execution that quietly diverges from the plan.
Forecasts don't fix those. Organisations do. So we build the organisation first: clear ownership, structured planning, decision discipline, strong governance. Only then does automation create value.
The name is the thesis. Not a black box. A white box: planning you can see into, explain, and defend.
Experience Across
Sectors we have planned for
Every one of these is a manufacturing or manufacturing-adjacent supply chain, planned from inside the business rather than advised on from outside it.
- Consumer Electronics
- FMCG
- Dairy
- Retail
- Telecom
- E-commerce
The Company
Where we sit
Part of NeuralNetworki.ng
WhiteBox SCM is an offering of NeuralNetworki.ng.
Made in India, serving globally
Built in India, with founding experience spanning organisations across multiple continents.
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