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 build the analytics suite of operational and financial reporting.Work Experience• 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 closely with FP&A, Sales, and Operations as major customers to build operational and financial reporting.Work Experience• 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 logistics spend and prevent stockouts for over 9000 North American sites.Work Experience• 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.• Identified improvement areas, established ownership of the KPIs, and trained the teams on using the dashboards and action planning.• Leveraged Internal Fleet as a competitive advantage in the challenging markets by providing flexible, low cost and reliable service.• Acquired a regional carrier, identified $2.5M in overcharges due to incorrect pricing and was able to recover around $1.5M.

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 table

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 tools like Tableau, etc.• 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, cutting down on manual tasks by a solid 25%.

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.