Vaneet Bhutani Email & Phone Number

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

• DroneUP is a Technology startup solving last-mile delivery and data collection with drones. Currently in this role, I report directly to the CFO, and work closely with FP&A, Sales and Operations as major customers to.
• Lead Business Intelligence and Analytics projects, and influence business and product development strategy to meet company goals.
• Collaborate with SMEs, identify key drivers, create business plans and financial models projecting Revenue, COGS, Cash flow, and CAPEX.
• Collaborate with SCRUM master to define product vision, create product roadmap, manage backlog and prioritize features.
• Influence product and data strategy focusing on the key business drivers, building KPIs, and improving operational and financial reporting.

Glendale, Arizona, United States

• Elite Roofing Supply is an Independent Roofing Distributor and a fast-growing startup with over 20 branches across the US. In this role, I reported to the Director of Operations and later to the COO and CFO and worked.
• Led the supply chain strategy to improve the company’s bottom line.
• Led cross-functional projects, focusing on increasing contribution margins and reducing procurement, inventory, and logistics costs.
• Created customer and vendor scorecards, categorized SKUs as ABC, revised safety stock, reorder points, and reduced aged inventory.
• Provided data-driven recommendations for pricing strategy and alternate products with higher margins to boost sales and margins.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Circle K is a Fortune 500 Convenience Store Chain that spends over $600M annually on hauling fuel from terminals to 14000 gas stations worldwide. As an analyst and later a manager, my objective was to reduce the fuel.
• Directed optimization of fuel supply logistics, minimizing total landed cost and managed $450 M in annual freight spending.
• Analyzed fuel logistics spending, forecasted expansion costs, and developed operational and financial KPI reports.
• Optimized internal fleet operations network improved driver performance, and asset utilization and saved over $10.5 M.
• Evaluated vendor proposals and optimized the fuel supply and logistics RFP to minimize the total landed cost.
• Analyzed fuel logistics spending, forecasted expansion costs, and generated operational and financial KPI reports and dashboards.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Collaborated with over 100 external carriers and multiple departments of Circle K to build a platform for integrated logistics planning.
• Created rolling sales forecast for each site, predicted stockouts based on the live tank volume and used this to improve dispatching.
• Developed interactive, insightful and actionable reports with drill-down visuals to improve operational visibility and pinpoint issues.
• Developed carrier scorecards, penalized stockouts, cross drops, and split deliveries while incentivizing OTIF and Arbitrage savings.
• Implemented Fuel Arbitrage program, leveraging daily oil price fluctuations, saved over $8M in the first year and $12M in the second.

Stillwater, Oklahoma

• Taught Advanced MS Excel – VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to 180 undergraduate students over 4 semesters
• Developed Macros/User-forms & extensively used Pivots, V-lookups, Index-Match, & Conditional-Formatting for projects
• Led a team of 13 teaching assistants and effectively administered the course by setting up exams, projects and assignments
• Recorded lecture videos for various topics - Assisted in coursework design and improvement for 600 students.Skills:VBA programming (Macros), Excel (Advanced) - Solver, Goal Seek, VLookUp, HLookUp, Index/Match, Pivot.

Mumbai Area, India

• I worked closely with the business and technical stakeholders to help create functional specifications and unit test cases, and I was the go-to person for tackling those tricky technical issues related to JDE security.
• Ensured compliance with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) control standards, meticulously aligning our processes and procedures with regulatory requirements.
• Actively managed the Segregation of Duties (SoD) controls within our systems, implementing measures to prevent conflicts of interest and maintain operational integrity.
• I didn't just crunch numbers; I also created insightful actionable reports that senior management relied on for decision-making. I whipped up reports on the fly too, whenever they needed them, using Excel and other BI.
• I was pretty proud of this one: My team not only met but exceeded our Service Level Agreement (SLA) goals, hitting a 99% compliance rate. I even built an Excel tool with VBA automation that made our lives easier.

ERP (JDE) Technical Analyst.

Pantnagar

• Objective: To remove bottleneck stations and improve productivity of Manufacturing Line 2 for body in white welding shop
• Identified MUDAS (waste/non-value adding activities) for bottleneck stations and pin pointed root causes by 5 Why analysis
• Implemented 16 Kaizen to fix the identified root causes of bottlenecks resulting in 33 % reduction in Cycle time

Gurgaon, India

• Objective: To improve spot/person (SPP), spot/minute(SPM) KPIs at Nut Welding shop and conduct Time-Motion study for Press shop
• Conducted Time-Motion Study at 20 workstations and prepared Yamazumi charts to improve process flow by eliminating waste
• Participated in TPM activities, identified non-value adding activities, cause of delays and implemented 7 Kaizen, improved SPM by 25%

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial Engineering And Management, 3.51

Activities and Societies: Alpha Pi Mu, APICS OSU Chapter, APICS Oklahoma City Chapter, Indian Students Association

Master Of Science - Ms, Project Management, 4.0

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Industrial And Production Engineering, 3.6

High School

studied here from KG to Senior Secondary.