Leading a Team of 4 Direct + 2 Dotted to Setup the Reporting Suite to Support OMP (FCT/OPR/SOP/IO) Implementation for North America Region (Retail & Food Service).Validate Data Pipelines to Existing Solutions are maintained with the New Planning Implementation.Build & Deploy Operational & Governance Reporting for the Planning Organization to fill Gaps in the Planning Processes.

• Identifying Strategic Data Needs for Analytics and Planning a path to Data Lake in collaboration with GBS/IT• Continuing support on the SC NAR Hub Project – Build L4 WDS Dashboard & L4 Drilldowns (Casefill, Inventory & Waste)• Working on the New Planning System Implementation from the Reporting and Data perspective. Collaborate with the Business & Technology groups to understand Requirements and create a plan to Transition Reporting to the new Planning System at go/live

Leading the Reporting & Analytics team (team of ~ 10) supporting the Demand & Supply Planning functions for North America & Europe-Australia Regions.Identifying Areas for Continuous Improvement via Automation (Internal), IT Collaboration (Data Pipelining), RPA, etc. and Executing Projects to bridge the gaps. More than 10000 hours of Soft Savings & ~$2MM of HMM delivered over the last 2 yearsWorking as an SME/IC/Developer:o RPA (Robotics Process Automation) - Developed 2 bots in AA (Automation Anywhere Client). Supporting bot development as an SME for Other R&A bots. 1 FTE Hard Savings deliveredo E2E (End to End) Metrics Project - Collaboration project with IT to define KPIs. Developed Tableau Dashboards for Transportation & Warehousing Functions of SCo SME for processes on the Analytics SQL Server (creating packages, procedures for ETL in SSMS & managing movements to production)Implementing pieces of Agile Framework (Sprint Planning) for Project Execution

SME in the Age Management and Demand planning areas. Working with the Functions on KPI Definition and developmentDevelop and Operationalize Exception Reporting for Supply / Demand Planning. Analyze Trends & Patterns to identify opportunity areas and support Business GapsDevelop Visualizations in Spotfire / Tableau to help Business perform a Guided Analysis / Root Cause AnalysisPursue Automation to increase Productivity/Efficiency/Accuracy using CI (Continuous Improvement) toolsMentor new hires for Technical & Functional understanding in the Demand Planning and Supply Planning areaMajor Projects: - Individual Contributor• Project Genesis: Age management Process Improvement – Age Management Reporting, Risk Management Recommendation Dashboard & Process Automation with IS• New Item Forecasting – Spring Plan Forecasting for New Items to be launched in FY17 & IPP Weekly Forecasting• CLUB CDP Automation – Managing Automation of Club APO Forecasting Files for CDP• P450: SKU Segmentation Project – Managing the P450 List, P450 Dashboard & Other Service-related requirements• Project Garage: Redesign DP Reports & Automation for driving Productivity (Soft Savings)

Track KPIs for Supply / Demand Planning (Casefill, Repositioning, MAPE) Analyze Trends, Patterns & Issues (Outliers) to highlight exceptions / problem areas.Cross functional alignment with Scheduling, Demand Planning, Sales, Marketing, Transportation for ensuring high level service to customer. Identify areas for Automation to increase Productivity/Efficiency using CI (Continuous Improvement) tools. Execution of Projects to give visibility to Information to the Supply Chain Teams. Age Management Reporting, Project Dolphin, Project Lotus, Customer Forecast Accuracy, Double Touch Reporting being a few examples.Deliver Periodic Dashboards / Scorecard in a timely manner & Perform Adhoc Analysis for Business.Developed a proficiency in Excel, Access, SQL & VBA during my tenure with General Mills.

Currently working in the Business Intelligence Team. Responsibilities include:• Publishing Periodic Dashboards (Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly) helping the management track Category Performance across time periods. Providing Feedback to the Categories regarding Sales / Stock.• Analyzing Sales Trend, Tracking stores performances, Tracking Zonal as well as Category Achievements against Targets. Highlighting Top Performers/ Out-of-Ordinary Instances.• Looking at Year on Year Trends, Comparison of Sales Performance• Highlighting Sales & Stock Parity/Disconnect for Categories.• Creating and Publishing Reports catering to Adhoc Requests from Category Teams. Building up the basis for Marketing Initiatives & Promotion Planning.• Promo Analytics & Promo Effectiveness Tracking for various Events, Festivals & other Marketing Initiatives.• Exception Reporting on Stock/ Sales Trends. Highlighting sudden changes in Sales/Stock across India as well as the Micro level.• Annual Business Planning: Proposing Targets based on Trends as well as Business Guidance. Coordinating with the Zonal as well as Category Teams for Proper Communication of Targets every Quarter.• Incentive Calculations & Maintaining Databases (Sales / Stock / Bill Info / Foot Fall) for Report Requests.

Worked in the manufacturing excellence team at the Bawal plant in Haryana. The project dealt with Analysis & Reduction of NPI of Solvent, Packing Material & Resin at the plant.Objective and Scope:To help the Organization Analyze & Reduce the current NPI levels at the Bawal Plant.Deliverables:Analyze the NPI posted in the system to identify areas of improvementStudy the paint manufacturing process and the excess usage of materials for non production purposes.Suggest improvements to the areas identified from NPI reduction.Achievements:Identified posting errors in Filling Department leading to estimated savings of 46lacs a year.Improvements suggested to the management would reduce non production usage by around 20%.

Contributed to an eight member team working on the Proposal & Contract Processing Applications for Humana.Contributed to development of new functionalities in the Applications as well as improvement of the same.Part of the Production Support team handling the Proposal & Contract Processing ApplicationsAchievements:Rated in the E20 Bracket (Highest Performance Rating) during the Appraisal Process.