Arshdeep Singh Bhandal

Production planning and materials management professional with 8+ years in precision manufacturing across automotive, aerospace, defense, medical, and HVAC/data-centre cooling compressor programs. Coordinates production and material requirements for 120 active parts, 50+ suppliers, about 30 purchase orders each week, and more than $10M in annual material exposure. Career progression from CNC machining to master scheduling and SAP PP/MM work provides a practical view of production, purchasing, inventory, and customer priorities.

SAP Production Planning & Materials Management Specialist / SAP PP-MM Key User at A. Berger Precision Ltd. (2019-12 – Present)

• Plan production and material requirements for 120 active parts across automotive, aerospace, defense, medical, and HVAC/data-centre cooling compressor programs.
• Turn customer releases and forecasts into production schedules, purchase requirements, subcontracting priorities, and shortage-recovery actions.
• Support S&OP and weekly demand-supply reviews by checking backlog, finished goods, WIP, raw-material coverage, open orders, supplier constraints, capacity, labour, and shipment risk.
• Use SAP ECC PP/MM for MRP and material-availability checks, then follow up on shortages, rescheduling needs, supplier gaps, and delivery risks.
• Balance machine and labour capacity with tooling, raw materials, quality status, outside-processing lead times, and customer priorities when setting the schedule.
• Coordinate more than 50 suppliers and about 30 purchase orders each week, representing over $10M in annual material exposure.
• Worked with the Germany-based project team during the SAP ECC PP/MM implementation. Helped prepare master data, test processes, train users, and support the rollout.
• Avoided more than $50,000 in premium-freight exposure through early shortage follow-up, expediting, split shipments, inventory reallocation, schedule changes, and freight negotiations.
• Helped control approximately $200,000 in obsolescence exposure by adjusting supplier deliveries and material-consumption plans when demand changed.
• Coordinate subcontractor inventory and international shipments, maintain Excel and Power Query reports, and provide SAP support across planning, purchasing, and materials processes.

Master Scheduler & Production Controller at A. Berger Precision Ltd. (2019-01 – 2019-12)

• Prepared weekly production schedules in BAAN ERP, checking customer releases against machine availability, labour, material, tooling, WIP, and quality holds.
• Planned inventory for more than 100 components and reset priorities when demand, material availability, or shop conditions changed.
• Tracked production output, parts per hour, and schedule attainment. Follow-up on missed targets helped improve on-time delivery by 15%.
• Ran weekly production meetings and coordinated schedule changes with production, customer service, engineering, quality, and purchasing. Also supported Engineering Change Requests and APQP activities.

CNC Machine Operator at A. Berger Precision Ltd. (2018-06 – 2018-12)

• Operated single- and multi-spindle CNC equipment, read technical drawings, monitored quality, and inspected parts with precision measuring tools.
• Gained a practical understanding of machining, tooling, cycle time, quality, and production flow that continues to inform planning and purchasing decisions.

Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management – Canadore College (2018)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Logistics & Supply Chain Management – Canadore College (2017)

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science – Gulzar Group of Institutes (2015)