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 experience for the associates.• 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.• Achieved $200K monthly revenue increase by expanding dealer network by nine service stations in two years, and outreaching to an additional car park of 70,000 customers.• Directed two successful car launches for 3,000 new cars by training 50 sales and service executives on product specifications and customer relations.

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.