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 capacity• 86.34% reduction in analysis time by creating product inventory, sales and production databases using complex queries and database tables identify bottlenecks, measured on performance indexperformance.

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• As a part of process improvement, Improved process time on timeline tracker by 50% using pivot tables and VLOOKUP• Reduced average service level agreement period from 3 days to 2 days by conducting weekly knowledge sharing sessions with staff• Coordinated rework materials with supply and control of inventory management and RoHS, Pb-Free Conversion, Bill Of Materials review to keep in compliance with policy. • Interfaced with product engineers and suppliers (contract manufacturers) during development stage by coordinating with buyers for proper consuming of old versus new components, monitoring status and deliveries• Top performer in the team for 1 Quarter.

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