I am a versatile Supply Chain Management professional with 13+ years of work experience in the automotive, aerospace and semiconductor industry. Demonstrated specialized skills through diverse roles in sales & operations planning, demand planning, material planning, customer order management and end-to-end supply planning using Analytics, SAP and JDA Blue Yonder and Rapid Response Kinaxis system solutions. Executive graduate focused on Business Analytics & Business Intelligence from Great Lakes Institute of Management. An entrepreneurial spirit, enthusiastic and adventurous professional who is always eager to learn something new and solve challenging business problems. My goal is to leverage my skills and knowledge to create value and impact for the team and the industry.
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Sr S&Op Analyst, Integrated Business PlanningMicron Technology Jan 2023 - Mar 2024Hyderabad, Telangana, India• Responsible to create and publish monthly S&OP plan in accordance with corporate strategies and priorities to drive 3-year manufacturing plan, demand & supply plan, and inventory plans. • Highlight and drive resolution to planning issues in S&OP planning horizon - excess and shortage to projected inventory targets, gaps between road-map strategy, manufacturing capability, and market demands. • Partnered with Global Operations and Corporate strategy to develop factory network and fabs loading strategies. • Root cause identified for the gaps between supply capacity and bottoms up demand forecast. • Responsible to build, solve, communicate impacts, and guide discussions of various what-if scenarios for executive approval. • Worked in partnership with Finance to analyze consolidated revenue, margin, and CAPEX impacts of plan changes. • Team up with Master data, Supply Management, Manufacturing, Product engineering teams to collect & analyze impact of yield, quality, technology adjustments, and road-map changes. • Collaborated with tactical demand and supply planning teams to understand near term demand priorities, risks, and opportunities to shape the plan for business improvements. • Go-to expert for supply chain technology solutions associated applications within Micron and collaborate with partners in supply chain and IT to drive technology improvements using analytics and Kinaxis Rapid response system. -
Sr Order Promising/Fulfilment Analyst, Global Supply ManagementMicron Technology Jun 2021 - Dec 2022Hyderabad, Telangana, India• Managed customer order backlog management and tactical supply planning to provide accurate delivery dates and ensure right products are shipped to our customers. • Played an active role in orchestrating to ensure the commitment churns, delinquencies, and open-dated orders to the minimum.• Analyzed shipping requirements and rules against available inventories to ensure the appropriate products are delivered while striving to meet promise dates. • Coordinated for revenue attainment in liaison with site planners to ensure committed delivery dates are aligned with the revenue plan for revenue maximization. • Closely worked with IT on system issues and ensure resolutions are obtained and conducting order promising trainings to cross-functional teams.• Handled digital transformation order promising systems solutions deployment, performed user-acceptance testing, validating & analyzing data to achieve performance indicators. -
Material Planning Lead And Analytics ConsultantAccenture In India Apr 2020 - Nov 2020Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India• Operating Leader in material planning managing span of 25 team members for a leading aerospace industry manufacturer. • Managed delivery assurance for Production and service parts and supporting sourcing activities for new product introductions. • Accomplished end-end procurement process, liaison between clients, suppliers, stakeholders and onsite managers to enable governance. • Ensured timely delivery of monthly SLAs and KPIs within turn-around time & accuracy, business review with both internal and external stakeholders. -
Prototype Material Lead EngineerFord Motor Company Jun 2015 - Apr 2020Chennai Area, India• Team Lead for Prototype programs, Team consisted of 5 or more members based on the commodity grouping. • Delivered successful pre-production builds for multiple regions to ensure smooth launch of programs based on Ford Global Product Development System. • Collaborate with product engineers to set up 100% accurate Bill of Material and Purchasing team for sourcing of parts.• Interfaced with suppliers & logistics service providers for the delivery of parts on or before material required date (MRD).• Lead Part Tracking meetings starting from 12 weeks to Material Required Date (MRD) until 4 weeks to MRD to assist in resolving Material constraints and BOM issues. • Conducted Shortage meetings from 4 weeks to MRD until build completion to ensure to meet on time vehicle builds. • Supported build activities such as resolving suspect parts, warehouse impounds, in- transit damage, replace missing, lost /damaged parts, and disposition of inactive materials.
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Assistant Manager - Customer Order Planning & Logistics ManagementBosch India Limited Sep 2014 - Jun 2015Bengaluru Area, India• Responsible for Demand Planning & Release weekly & monthly Master production schedule (MPS) based on various OEM/after-market customer‘s requirement - Domestic OEMs.• Single point of contact to release 1 Month Firm and 11 Months Tentative production schedule through SAP System, ensured manufacturing and dispatches to meet 100% on-time delivery fulfillment for automotive OEM customers. • Maintained distribution center workflow, ensured in-transit & external warehouse inventory at norm to achieve customer delivery rating, avoid line stoppage and premium freights.• Assisted in handling high-impact Engineering Change Control for Current Programs, New programs and Material Cost Saving Projects. • Conduced perpetual inventory and BOM audit at warehouse and WIP to ensure the variations are within set limits.
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Lead Procurement Engineer - Spare PartsFlsmidth Aug 2013 - Sep 2014Chennai Area, India▪Identify the right source based on Quality, Price & Procurement term through effective RFI, RFP & RFQ and Placing Purchase orders through ORACLE purchasing system.▪Prepared vendor performance chart every month and improved the supplier performance relation to delivery, quality, cost and technology.▪Expedited the list of Purchase Orders from ERP Tools and followed up with supplier for order confirmation and coordinate for in-bound logistics, quality requirements. ▪Prepare vendor performance chart every month and conduct review meetings with vendors to improve the performance.
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Materials Planning EngineerComstar Automotive Technologies Pvt Ltd Aug 2010 - Aug 2013Chennai Area, India• Responsible for release of monthly & weekly schedule based on weekly / monthly production plan - Annual Buy Value of 280 Crores INR through JIT - ERP(QAD).• Followed up of Import / Domestic parts to meet internal customer’s requirement in-time 50+ suppliers (Imports and Local Suppliers), • Conducted perpetual inventory, BOM audits and stock audits and quality problem solving of incoming parts by coordinating with QA department & regularise supplies. • Ensure 100% Material availability and Zero Production stoppage / Premium Freight.• Planning containers for Import shipments and coordinate with forwarders / CHAs for timely container sailing and customs clearance. • Achieved supply performance improvement from 60% to 85%, conducted periodic visit to supplier manufacturing location and performed Product audits & PCA sustenance audits.• Contributed for inventory value reduction from 10 Mil to 5 Mil INR (from 60 to 120 turn times)• Co-ordinate for Engineering Changes, Localisations, Provide Ramp Up & Ramp Down Plan. • Ensured successful implementation of: Milk-run system for 6 supplier parts. (Integrated logistic solution among the supplier parts). JIT supplies for specified 100 parts. (2 Bin & Kanban procurement system). Dedicated container for specified 40 supplier parts to avoid re-handling.
Karthik Rs Education Details
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Business Analytics & Business Intelligence -
Mechanical Engineering
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What is Karthik Rs's role at the current company?
Karthik Rs's current role is Supply Planning |Demand Planning|Material Planning|Sourcing & Vendor Management|Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)|Procurement|Customer Order Management|Inventory Optimization.
What schools did Karthik Rs attend?
Karthik Rs attended Great Lakes Institute Of Management, Sri Venkateswara College Of Engineering.
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