Sarang Deshpande Email & Phone Number

Wilmington, MA, US

Basel, Basel-Stadt, CH

• Spearheaded rollout of state-of-art customer MDM for Sandoz US combining inputs from multiple data sources by collaborating with cross functional/divisional/geographical teams paving the foundation of CRM, Contract.
• Managed a team of offshore data stewards to maintain the data sanity of customer MDM system and the related dependencies on applications including CRM, data warehouse & analytics platform
• Led discussions with external suppliers as well as internal business stakeholders to establish regional but scalable data/AI/ML landscape across several initiatives like CRM analytics, customer MDM, and extensive data.
• Led POC with an external provider to identify best path forward for NBA-NBC (NGE) for biosimilar market
• Spearheaded the initiative to develop several Power Automate bots (for automating several processes like order allocation & order release, data scrubbing from FDA websites, PDF parsing, processing invoice & rebate.
• Led implementation of several cloud applications for business analytics spanning across activities like S3 data ingestion, enrichment in Snowflake, consumption via Alteryx & Qliksense, migration of Qliksense on-premise.

Basel, Basel-Stadt, CH

• Lead the CMO digital integration initiative by interacting with internal cross functional/geographical teams including SAP architects, master data teams & external supply organization along with external suppliers and.
• Received ‘Digital Spotlight Award’ for spearheading and rolling out Drug Shortage Prediction tool by interacting with data scientists, commercial, supply chain & finance teams resulting in potential incremental benefit.
• Led business fit evaluation of RFID labeler for key injectable products while interacting with various internal & external stakeholders including supply chain, commercial, finance, regulatory, production planning.

Basel, Basel-Stadt, CH

• Engineered the E2E material-batch level tracking across ~60 manufacturing sites spanning ~225K SKUs/~4 MN batches to develop granular visibility enabling network wide supply chain risk identification across supply.
• Collaborated with commercial, supply chain & manufacturing team to identify & help mitigate write-off risks worth $22MN & shortage worth $6 MN during site closure & massive portfolio transfer
• Co-led extreme analytics to define rules & baseline E2E lead time performance & measurement for ~30 manufacturing sites spanning across entire geography
• Piloted, championed & led implementation of Qliksense across entire North America to provide optics across various parameters including planning, forecasting, inventory & financial projection to develop next-gen.
• Co-led pre & EX S&OP discussions to drive collaborations & action items across commercial, financial, site & SC
• Participated in brainstorming, analysis & implementation of customer service level metric across regions spanning entire globe to provide uniform measurement helping baseline current performance & set improvement targets

Radnor, PA, US

- Led one of the biggest initiatives to launch supplier evaluation program and develop performance metrics and goals across several operational parameters. Efforts resulted in sustained improvement across several areas of operation, including improved EDI utilization, reduced fallouts, reduction in leadtime and accurate information flow across various.

Radnor, PA, US

- Redesigned ‘Ariba’ requisitions processing procedure to ensure optimum resource utilization, exceeding desired service level by ~ 10% and improving time efficiency by ~30% resulting in better end-user experience by reduction in turn-around time - Baselined procedure to ensure accurate and proactive order management by interacting with various business.

Rochester, New York, US

-Developed, designed and conducted market research to analyze video recording preferences of customers while recommending product enhancements, positioning and target market for digital video camera

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Base-lined process for identifying top supplier issues while working with cross functional teams. Effort resulted in charge-back worth $40,000, helped identify critical quality issues that resulted in better visibility.
• Established accurate metric for NPI Product Team while automating Field Failure Rate Forecasting tool to identify chronic issues that need immediate attention. Helped identify offset and trend from base-lined and.
• Consolidated process for assembling kits for mobile devices by working with cross-functional team members. Identified and closed 5 while ensuring defect-detection-prevention

NY, US

- Studied the medicine dispensing process- Identified gaps in the medical distribution process- Conducted time and motion study to identify bottle-necks in the process- Applied Six Sigma terminology to reducing dispensing errors using an innovative packaging system to replenish automated dispensing cabinets-Helped eliminate the errors in the batch filling.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

- Primary responsibilities include estimation, resource management and design for the corrosion products.- Analyzed voice-of-customer to baseline the technical specifications of the corrosion products.- Significant contribution in development effort for corrosion products, which were delivered beyond customer expectations.- Led a team to Six Sigma Green.

London, GB

- Responsible for designing and maintaining a web-based application meant for tracking financial dealings where HSBC acted as a third party.- Initially involved in ‘System Appreciation’ process, where I understood the domain and the functionality of the application.- Intensely involved in communicating with the team in London and finalizing the.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

- Initially underwent a rigorous training in various technologies; including development tools like VB, ASP, C++ and the basics of database development.- Worked for logistics domain and was responsible for maintenance of website for DHL-USA (www.dhl-usa.com). - Member of a project team which initially started off at CMM Level 3 underwent a rigorous.

Pune, Maharshtra, IN

It was my first encounter with the corporate world. It provided me with an opportunity to apply my academic skills in real world.I was initially given a small training to gain some insights on production process in the organization. In a team of two, I was involved in designing a boring fixture for hardened crankshaft test pieces. The effort was aimed at.

Master'S In Business Administration, Supply Chain/Marketing

Bachelors Of Engineering, Mechanical