Prateek Chand Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Strategy professional solving critical problems and aiding decision making.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Drove strategy, leadership concensus and execution of a centralized FDA/ temp controlled storage facility in Kansas City; thus solving inventory allocation and capacity issues, with an impact of $77K per month.
• Solved long term storage invoicing gap of $1.8M per month, working with engineering, product and billing teams spread across the globe.
• Helped build the FDA program through analysis, stakeholder identification, legal buy-in, and KPI monitoring, resulting in a business line with an annual projected revenue of $33M in 2023.
• Orchestrated the pricing, legal documentation, and merchant buy in for Lot tracking self-serve on Deliverr seller portal, working cross functionally with growth, engineering, product and operations.
• Program managed just in time fulfillment from B2B reserve to D2C network. Supported and enabled seller onboarding; post analysis and stakeholder alignment, incorporating seller recommendations.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Servant leader leading a large team of over 1100 people who has been able to promote multiple managers by nurturing their skillsets and providing them with a safe failure tolerant work environment.Key highlights:
• Delivered process improvement project for sortation by creating scanner arm layout change resulting in existing cost reduction by 23% i.e. CAD 1M per annum.
• Successfully executed the steepest launch, in Canada, of the largest building in the network, ramping up from 3K to 185K in six weeks, while managing 1100+ employees and working with 6 support teams.

Greater Toronto Area

• Operations professional managing shifts and workflow at a 2M sq ft facility
• Controlling and creating the unit allocation, movement and shipping at the largest fulfillment center of Metro using SAP based WMS system.
• Responsible for handling over 20 daily shipments, comprising of over 100K unit picks and 20K case picks.

Chennai Area, India

• Senior Analyst working on key Supply Chain and Logistics projects for major global clients.
• Delivered a feasibility study project for a major shipping corporation. Strategized their move into feeder shipping business, working alongwith the oil and gas consulting team.
• Led a team of four analysts to create a strategic expansion roadmap for a major middle eastern logistics giant involving investments over USD 10B for market expansion to 60 countries.
• Evaluated logistics park feasibility and created implementation plan for a $ 30M logistics park project by one of the state governments within India.

New Jersey, USA

• Working as a Senior Consultant with a Supply Chain Consulting company.
• Assisted in operational network design for a Fortune 500 client in a multi billion dollar acquisition.
• Created a configurator for a Fortune 1000 client for their high variability multi option products.
• Built planning and forecasting tool for the same Fortune 1000 client.
• Documented the network design from a 3PL manufacturing perspective to shipments to customers for the Fortune 1000 client.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Teaching Assistant in a senior year business simulation course.The course involves training senior year students on operations, finances, marketing and process improvements of a virtual company through a Capstone platform and translating that into real life situations.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Global $107 Billion retail technology-leader, bringing consumers and retailers closer together.
• Proposed a defect detection mechanism through software and conveyor system change, that when implemented would save a projected amount of $3.34M annually for North America Fulfillment Network (NAFC) and ensure better.
• Designed a macro based tool and feedback mechanism that when implemented across North America would save NAFC a projected amount of $0.7M.
• Attained 2% (on average) reduction in unit price of scales and conveyors by developing algorithm for optimized buying on e-bidding portal.

Bhubaneshwar Area, India, New Delhi, India

• $9 Billion manufacturer of automotive vehicles, components and spare parts, and service provider.
• Hastened growth of $50M dealer workshop business by 23% through delivering customized solutions, performance monitoring and analysis, and visiting over 100 customer sites.
• Enriched customer satisfaction scores by 20% through implementing Balanced Score Card and monitoring channel partner KPIs.
• Shrank annual contract liabilities by 20% through renegotiating $120K ad agency contracts after in-depth stakeholder collaboration.
• Developed 300K subscriber Maruti Care app to provide one-stop customer service platform.
• Spearheaded $2.1M revenue improvement initiative by segmenting customers and creating specific marketing materials.

Bhubaneswar/ New Delhi

• Territory Manager, End to end channel partner supply chain
• Sliced lead time by 4 days and saved $400K by perfecting spares supply and re-routing logistics.
• Improved cash flow by $300K for channel partners through inventory optimization by creating a virtual warehouse where deadstock could be transacted between dealers and distributors.
• Averted customer complaints and saved $300K in litigation by executing 3,000 vehicle recalls in 48 hours.
• Steered customer satisfaction team and achieved 94.3% satisfaction score by ensuring 24 hour response turnaround on customer complaints.

Kaniha, India

• Contributed to improvement in boiler efficiency by modifying the atomization of coal and re-routing the effluent gases thus improving output by 15% to 1 MWH per boiler.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: • Graduate Assistant: Capstone Business Simulation, teaching two classes of 55 students each. • Placed in 3rd.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Cgpa 8.20 Of 10, Gpa: 3.67 Of 4(Courtesy: Foreigncredits.Com)

Activities and Societies: Founding Member: Quizzine- The official Quizzing Society Core Team Member: Spring Fest 2009, 2010, 2011 Core.