Ashish Kumar Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru Area, India

·Design analytics solutions for HPE Ops and supply chain teams·Lead predictive, prescriptive or optimization product development and process integration·Engage with Supply Chain Functional leaders to ideate and pitch how data can be leveraged to improve business performance

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Bangalore, India

·Engaged with client leadership to understand business strategy and issues·Designed analytics strategy and identified approaches to meet business objectives·Utilized all available data elements from across internal and external sources to enrich value of insights generated·Identified appropriate analytics tools and techniques to solve specific business.

Bengaluru Area, India

Kuwait

• Led strategic logistics projects team aimed at improved service quality, cost efficiency and business controls
• Led the development of new processes and ensured all end users were regularly trained
• Standardized processes across multiple BUs to enable improved controls and cross utilization of resources
• Monitored process and SLA compliance to highlight deviations from standards and take necessary corrective action
• Defined operations strategies and WMS strategies to align with the objective of space and manpower optimization
• Designed and rolled out an incentive payout system for warehousing & distribution staff to improve productivity & accountability

• Led the finished goods order fulfillment team (store and dispatch) ensuring on time and in full deliveries
• Re-engineered order fulfillment process and systems (SAP SD) in insulation and steel structures manufacturing businesses
• Developed SAP & BI usage with IT to ensure all information flows through SAP and reports generate through BI
• Developed shipment tracking and operations KPI reporting tools enabling visibility across functions and geographies
• Transformed logistics service charges into an activity based unit rate mechanism to measure operational efficiencies financially
• Developed a systems culture throughout the organization and gradually moved to all information flow only through ERP

Kuwait

Plan Storage of all Retail Purchases ensuring optimum space utilization, uninterrupted stock availability and minimal costs

• Identified process improvement areas in a 35k sqm distribution center backed with SAP WMS on RF terminals
• Ensured optimized storage through WMS for every SKU based on the inbound, replenishment & delivery strategies
• Enabled higher space utilization by introducing SAP WMS suggested binning & cube optimization
• Reduced ‘Dock to stock time with enhanced usage of WMS and enabling regular KPI monitoring
• Reduced average pick time by re-designing storage strategies based on ABC inventory classification
• Improved inbound visibility to warehouse and retail stores by designing shipment tracking reports in SAP

• Identified product leakages into grey markets & investigated cases for any channel partners’ contract non compliance
• Audited sales representatives for End user verifications policy for high value discount deals
• Statistically compared grey market prices with HP list price to analyze regional price dispersions
• Awarded “HP-e award” for developing innovative and effective analysis and audit methodologies
• Increased audit effectiveness by enhanced sampling methodology and initiating related changes to the audit policy
• Recovered duplicate / over payments of over $ 700k in 10 months by analyzing payments data of suppliers worldwide

Mba, Logistics And Supply Chain

Project - Analyzing and Quantifying benefits of setting up a Regional Distribution Center at Festo Pte Ltd, Singapore Dissertation - Green.

Pe Ii, Accountancy / Finance / Business

Bbm, Finance

Activities and Societies: Chartered member - Toastmasters International Project - Financial Statement Analysis of Hero Honda Ltd

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