I am a Supply Chain Professional with over 3 years of academic and professional experience in Supply Chain. Over my short but illustrious career, I have successfully undertaken and performed various Supply Chain functions such as Forecasting, Demand and Supply Planning, Procurement, Inventory Management, Logistics & Transportation Planning, among others. I am also also acquainted with data and Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau and Power BI, which enable me to gain data-driven insights.
On the academic front, I have earned my Master's in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Supply Chain.
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Experience
Lonestar Freight Systems, LLC - Supply Chain & Logistics Specialist - Houston, TX
• On a day-to-day basis, I monitor, optimize and execute on-time delivery of Import & Export shipments from customers, freight forwarders & distribution centers (DC) to shipping facilities & vice versa.
• I am responsible for planning, optimization and service execution of over 100 shipments weekly, comprising of LTL, FTL and flatbed truck shipments.
• I have applied linear models to reduce transportation cost by over 21%. Utilized routing techniques such as Shortest Path and Savings Algorithms to devise the most time & cost-effective routes for freight movement.
Valiant Commodities - Supply Chain Analyst - Houston, TX
• Being involved in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), I worked cross-functionally to balance demand and supply, plan inventory, procure materials, etc based on sales forecast.
• On an average, I was responsible for processing around 2,500 metric tons of materials monthly. I successfully handled all inbound and outbound logistics and transportation operations to keep the business running.
• I have reduced the logistics cost (domestic freight cost) by 14% through carrier selection and improved loading strategies.
• I have conducted data analysis exercises and developed analytical tools and performance metrics (KPIs) to monitor logistics performance of carriers, suppliers and transportation service providers.
• To ensure fastest delivery at lowest cost, I collaborated with Carriers, Third-party Logistics (3PL), Transportation service providers and Freight Forwarders.
Distinct Productivity Solutions - Supply Chain Engineer - Bengaluru, India
• Working in a precision manufacturing firm, I drove continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cost (COGS) by 23%, decrease lead time by 34% and improve quality by 18%.
• Using historical sales data and current market trends, I improved the forecast accuracy by 42% by developing accurate forecast (Time Series) models.
• By reviewing demand forecasts and MRP requirements, I collaborated to develop supply plans for raw material procurement and inventory replenishment.
• Sighting regular material stock-outs, I developed Re-order Point Inventory model to maintain optimum inventory levels, which reduced material stock-outs by 65%. Calculated ideal safety stock levels as well to support manufacturing operations.
• I tracked supplier performance through key performance metrics (KPIs) such as order fill rate & on-time delivery.
• To support manufacturing and other general operations, I reviewed Purchase Requisitions (PR), created and tracked Purchase Orders (PO) and resolved invoice discrepancies with suppliers.
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Projects
Amazon.com - Improving the Logistical Efficiency through Trend Analysis - Houston, TX
•Proposed Statistical Process Control techniques to optimize bottlenecks sighting inefficient delivery times of goods in a milk run transportation setup. Performance of carriers and their lanes/routes were determined through Trend Analysis.
•Plotted Control Charts (CC) using Minitab. Conducted Root Cause Analysis of the problem at hand.
•Identified under-performing carriers & lanes. Suggested padding on lanes and carrier alternatives, if required.
Supply Chain & Business Intelligence Simulation Game - Houston, TX
•Won the competition by executing Supply Chain concepts - Forecasted demand based on historical records (Regression Model, Time-Series), made necessary capacity expansions, balanced supply & demand, balanced on-hand and incoming inventory.
•Using data visualization tools such as SAP Lumira and Tableau, created dashboards to analyze current sales, decode sales trends by product and region.
•Executed Product Planning, MRP, streamlined multimodal logistical operations to ensure on-time fulfillment of products.