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United States

United States

Farmington, Michigan, United States

• Developed costs model for daily Inventory Reporting of 7 International Sites to identify trends, capital risks due to covid, inflation by analyzing complex organizational data for Inventory Control with Advanced Excel.
• Categorized 5000 SKUs with ABC-XYZ classification for excess inventory planning, reducing slow, obsolete (SLOB) by 28%.
• Achieved 13.2% cost reduction in a Inventory Management project. Examined 25 suppliers to initiate business strategy based on performance standards, backlog, lead time, order fulfillment, consignment, allocation.
• Led call-off reduction as per EDI from an established past order, resolving discrepancies with supplier by managing Year to Date, Open Orders, balance on hand inventory, saving 10.82% quarterly.
• Optimized MRP tracker for Global Supply and Demand Planning valuing 120M quarterly, using Data Management, Data Visualization and forecasting product family demand, safety stock, and WOH by site maintaining service.
• Assisted in MRP planning (PFEP), product launches and coordinated cross-functionally with finance, sales, supply chain operations, sites to evaluate and prepare reports, powerpoint presentations to senior management.

Houston, Texas, United States

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Processed purchase requisition (PR), purchase orders (PO) and executed order management, material tracking with ERP SAP and supporting documents, Goods Received Note (GRN), Request for Quote (RFQ), service bill for.
• Achieved 8% in savings to procure materials and services from preferred vendors on contract using pricing analysis. Managed invoice discrepancies, licensing of different types and supervised on time payment to vendors.
• Performed supplier addition and supplier assessment on response time, customer service and discounts offered.
• Conducted Inventory cycle counts of 2000 SKUs for warehouse management and inventory control managing service levels.
• Handled complaints, breakdowns, service requests of internal/external customers and achieved solutions within a time frame.

Palghar, Maharashtra, India

• Saved 5.1 % in procuring raw materials by analyzing MRP master data for material planning, tracking, creating PO using Syteline, advanced excel and coordinating with vendors for on time deliveries, shipping and.
• Reduced 4.5% in inventory cost quarterly, by monitoring KPIs such as inventory turnover rate to eliminate inventory variances, implementing ABC analysis, economic order quantity (EOQ), managing safety stock, lead time.
• Improved mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) below 6.2% for a 12-month rolling demand forecast leveraging statistical models, time series methods, considering historical sales trends, business trends and seasonality.
• Performed raw material, Bill of Material checks weekly to help determine part shortages and supervise inventory stock control.
• Supported quick product changeover to help production planning by routing, planning, executing new material flow plans as per customer requirements and running material review reports, pivoting data using advanced.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Designed, manufactured a RC Plane leveraging SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD securing 6th rank in Design Report, 15th overall amongst 80 teams from worldwide at SAE AERO Competition.

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering