Upendra Kumar Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Kansas City

Jeffersonville In

Started in Pathways program as front-line leader managing a team of 140 associates. Spend eight months learning nuts and bolts of operations and supply chain, and mastering people leadership skills by focusing on employee development through coaching and feedback, employee engagement and fostering positive team culture. As Outbound Operations manager, my focus shifted to developing a leadership pipeline, creating robust processes to improve safety, quality and productivity, and running process improvement projects that were implemented across the Fulfillment network; these efforts resulted in +37% throughput improvement during the peak season. Concurrently, I served as the Subject Matter Expert in the Pick Department and helped the team to improve pick rate performance +10% YOY.

Lansing, Michigan Area

Chunar, India

Managed day-to-day operation with focus on process improvement projects. Led a $40MM Cement Plant capacity expansion project collaborating with different engineering and supplier teams and completed expansion in 74% of scheduled time.

Chunar, India

I was part of a team for $90MM turnaround project of a manufacturing plant, which was closed for 8 years. During this brownfield project, I collaborated with different engineering teams, suppliers, contractors and support teams. My key responsibilities were Project and Material management, and streamlining inventory management process. At later phase of project my responsibilities shifted to process improvement and increasing machines up-time time by analyzing complex machine performance data and creating action plans.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering