In his role as a Manager - SCM Platforms, Ankit is working as an internal consultant where he has to interact with multiple stakeholders to identify the pain areas and design solutions to eliminate them. This solution can be a new product or a process change. Hence his job involves setting up the vision, timelines and feature prioritization for the new product/ process change. The job also demands certain aspects of Agile project management and implementation of solutions as well.Some of his projects are: Conceptualized and developed a Distribution Planning optimizer using Big Data tools to cater to max. possible demand at the lowest cost (inventory cost + freight cost); savings: 2 cr./month Yard Management System: Conceptualized & designed a micro-service-based Yard Management tool customizable for all RIL warehouses; estimated freight savings: Rs.40 per ton of product dispatched Demand Planning: Developing a multivariate demand sensing tool for improved forecast accuracy & responsive supply chain Warehouse dispatch optimization: Conducted Value Stream Mapping (VSM) study for solid product warehouses and liquid product gantries and (a) identified opportunities to reduce vehicle TAT by approx. 50% (b) developed & implemented resource requirement predictor (achieved 30% resource reduction)

Worked on a project to reduce dwell time of a package at sort center (warehouse); including both yard & under the roof dwell: Designed model to align scheduled arrival/departure time of vehicles; potential dwell reduction upto 74% Proposed a new man-power distribution model at inbound docks; potential yard dwell reduction by 10% Developed a dashboard for dwell performance comparison among sort centers (SC) across India and to delve into reasons for higher dwell of a specific SC Proposed a cumulative metric to analyze dwell performance

Project Scope: Identify the actual reasons of open defecation (OD) in several critical areas of Ahmedabad city, recommend actions and develop Community based Organisations (CBOs) to liaise with local municipal body(AMC) to make Ahmedabad a complete OD free cityWork Description: Interviewed more than 500 residents to identify the actual reasons of open defecation Categorized the areas surveyed into super critical, critical and semi-critical; to prioritize the implementation and minimize the lead time to reach maximum chunk of target populationEstimated a population of 11000 defecating in open in the identified 50 critical areas Collaborated with the NGO to form CBOs at two of these critical areas Liaised with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and recommended them the possible solutions for the local problems to expedite the process of facility improvement

 Oversaw operations and optimized production via control systems of Gas Cracker plant (mother plant of petrochemical unit) with a daily turnover of ~INR 77 million  Led a team of 20+ people for routine field operations, equipment maintenance and troubleshooting to ensure efficient plant operation  Implemented Advance Process Control (APC) system for a major section of plant and hence achieved capacity utilization of 110%  Optimized inventory levels of chemicals worth INR 4 million per annum to ensure uninterrupted plant production Conceived emergency mitigation modules and trained 50+ employees for effective handling of plant exigencies and safe evacuation  Recommended process modifications resulting in cost savings of ~INR 1300 million/ annum Prevented production loss of ~INR 70 million by taking prompt actions via control system to prevent emergency plant shutdown