Ashish Dave, M.Sc. (Scm) Email & Phone Number

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

- Recruited in the head office dairy replenishment team, to analyze and replenish dairy products for Loblaws and its 16 different subsidiaries across Canada.- Procure more than 300 products from 22 national and international vendors for the 9 provincial distribution centers (DC) using SAP and JDA (IPFR).- Manage daily inventory worth $10M across all the provinces of Canada.- Review product-level forecasts and analyze the inventory portfolio for the DCs.- Work with Transport, Distribution, and Vendors to coordinate the flow of goods through the network and ensure timely delivery to the respective DC.- Ensure all data management on forecasts, product, and vendor attributes are accurate, maintained, and timely updated.- Undertake process improvement efforts to improve KPIs, vendor service levels, shelf availabilities, and stale date contamination reduction.- Vendor Management, ensuring all forecast and flow requirements are executed to defined targets/standards using Microsoft Dynamics 365.- Establish strong business relationships with the vendors by solving mutual issues through discussions and negotiations.- Created inventory dashboard in MS Excel using macros and nested vlookups, for better visualization and quick analysis of the daily inventory reports.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Assisted team leader in carrying out the warehousing activities of receiving, processing, storing, and shipping inventory according to purchase orders using Deposco WMS. - Lead a team of 7-10 employees for the cycle count checks. Key contributions and achievements• Rectified errors up to $25k, by locating missing inventories during cycle count checks through visual inspections and cross-verifying inventory data.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Selected as a Co-op intern in the Operations Excellence team based on solid academic and cross-functional team experience. - The main objective was to work on a consulting project to develop an optimized product positioning strategy and implementation of the mezzanine at the distribution center (DC).Key contributions and achievements• Increased pick rates by 15-20% by developing an optimized product positioning strategy with product replenishment from reserve to picking area. • Developed scenarios and validated their feasibility by analysis of the stock profile of the warehouse containing 150k SKUs and 1.5M units using MS Excel, Looker, and Deposco (WMS).

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

IGC is an innovative and global academic competition hosted by HEC involving graduate students from around the world. My responsibilities were- Preparing budget of the event- Managing finances of the competition- Co-ordinate with the team in executing the event

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Linking GSCM students to the various organizations of the university- Managing departmental budget- Improving and developing a friendly culture at the university

Dahej, India

- Recruited into the leadership program through campus placement, due to my STEM skills.- Managed and efficiently maintained a captive power plant unit responsible for running 14 other manufacturing plants in the company.- Conducted predictive, preventive, and shutdown maintenance practices on a regular basis.- Performed demand planning of spares based on the plant requirements and initiated procurement cycles based on the planned budget.- Lead a team of 50 employees (approx.) on daily basis containing 42 contract workers, 6 Supervisors, and 3 Reliance executives to perform inventory management and planned maintenance tasks.Key contributions and achievements• Reduced inventory levels by 7% by eliminating storage of extra inventories and implementing the Just in Time approach (JIT) using SAP modules PM & MM.• Performed inventory procurement up to $100k which included spares of heavy machinery, boilers, and turbines, after dealing with suppliers.• Analysed and maintained inventory data of 50k SKUs on a regular basis.• Prepared annual budget of up to $1M which included inventory procurement and task-based manpower demand planning after analyzing the requirements of the plant.• Zero safety incidents during my tenure, due to regular preventive and predictive maintenance practices, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Task Based Risk Analysis (TBRA), and safety training for peers and team members.

Hazira, India

I was an In-plant trainee as a part of an Industrial Internship in the production and welding department and completed two projects:- Designing a layout for the fabrication shop of economizer coils to optimize the material transfer movement, which increased production efficiency by 3%.- Worked on minimizing welding defects from supercritical boiler coils through data analysis.

Master Of Science - Ms, Global Supply Chain Management, 3.48/4.30

• Vice President - Finance, International Graduate Competition (2022) • Student Representative(RO) - Global Supply Chain Management.

Diplôme D'Études En Langue Française(Delf) - B1, French Language And Literature

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.47/4 Or 8.10/10

• Placement Co-Ordinator of Mechanical Engineering Department, PDPU. (2015-2016) • Editor - Mechanical Engineering Department (2015-2016).

High School, Science Stream

10th standard : 91.08% 12th standard : 88.33% (PCM)