Vishal Honavar (M.S, Lssgb, Ctl) Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Global material planning for Packaging and Plastics commodities
• Optimizing distribution flow across Americas, Europe, and Asia to right size inventory.
• Implementing PFEP strategies to increase inventory turns, reduce idle time on non-value add inventory and reduce material shortages on a 24x7 flow.
• Collaborating with commodity management and suppliers to develop lean flow procurement strategies and finding opportunities to increase inventory turns without potential material shortages.

Fiorano Modenese, Modena, IT

• Global Planning and Distribution
• Oversaw and reported directly to Stakeholders (VP, C-x management) to effectively run operations on supply chain for products manufactured and procured (Americas + Global)
• Product portfolio of 1,000+ products for the Americas market, spread across 4 channel brands and 5 product categories.
• Created advanced report publishing tool for inventory position of products and customer commitment success % for global sales team.
• >=94.87% product availability from 76.84% service level across product catalog by developing complex what-if simulation modeling tools in order to be proactive to demand planning opportunities and challenges.
• Created an interactive tool to interpret and refine operating decisions from simulation dashboard to evaluate production requirements during planning over Q cycle period; optimized on requirement metrics and plant.

Cleveland, OH, US

• Strategic consulting, including business plan & logistics and operations strategy development
• Collaborated as a team lead of 5 resources and communicated directly with client regarding requirements gathering
• Delivered project analysis, scope and risk definition, project plan and schedule, and resource planning and ensured on-time completion and milestone attainment through structured coordination
• Used descriptive analysis to analyze past data and build hypothesis and predictive analysis
• Analyzed process map and provided supply chain optimized business recommendations based on order management, EOQ theory, and fill rate during stock out of raw materials.
• Provided process improvements of raw materials handling through lean 6 Sigma procedures - Fishbone, ABC and Pareto Analysis

Richardson, Texas, US

• Actualized a change management process to lessen the customer hold up time by 4 minutes, increasing revenue by 3%
• Dealt with the day by day stock to guarantee an adequate supply for the duration of the day
• Streamlined storage room to give most extreme adaptability keeping in mind the end goal to meet changing stockpiling and taking care of necessities

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Lead a team of 17 for 5 business units in end-to-end project management and delivery, translating business needs into technical specifications
• Conducted weekly meetings with client program manager to convey project status and key performance drivers
• Mentored clients with performance improvement related to the planning and execution of the flow of products
• Created reports with Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and inventory module
• Increased customer service level from 70% to 95% and maintained resource utilization at 90%
• Enabled value savings of $1M for 1 BU through supply chain optimized solutions and reduced 8% on supply costs

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Worked for Automotive business unit under Engineering and Industrial Services Group with a team size of 35
• Coordinated with onsite program manager through weekly meetings on performance metrics and customer requirements
• Delivered innovative and quick solutions by designing of prototype concepts and 3 dimensional modeling for hydraulic brakes using CATIA V5 and AGILE PLM
• Evaluated the feasibility and cost savings of products designed through model customization and value engineering
• Was involved in the product life-cycle planning of deliverables.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Induction Learning Program - New Product Development (NPD)
• Coordinated as a team lead of 7 during development and presentation of overall sales pitch to senior management.
• Product designed – Conceptual Solar Air Cooler
• Was responsible for market analysis, positioning, segmentation and, targeting
• Prioritized demands and quality indexing using Quality function deployment index (QFD)
• Found potential failure modes using Failure mode effective analysis (FMEA)

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Trained under Manufacturing of Elements for Fuel Injection Pumps and supply chain of BOSCH.
• Manufacturing of - Delivery Valve, Pin and Barrel and Assembly of elements in Fuel Injection Pumps. Understanding vertical integration of manufacturing.
• Quality tests underwent during inspection of assembly and handling of supply chain work in progress inventory
• Brief introduction on material management and inventory storage system of BOSCH

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• Training under Design aspects of Rotating Machinery.
• Brief introduction, design principles and application of- Gas turbines, Compressors and Pumps.

Master’S Degree, Supply Chain Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Cbse, Science