Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Management - Mauli Industry - Nashik, India
(2023-01 - 2026-03)
- Developed and maintained detailed production schedules, balancing customer demand, inventory levels and machine utilization, reducing lead times by 17%.
- Identified inefficiencies in production workflows, implemented data-driven process improvements and contributed to cost reduction initiatives, improving overall manufacturing efficiency.
- Monitored raw material inventory, collaborated with purchasing to prevent shortages and analyzed production capacity to resolve bottlenecks, ensuring on-time delivery of manufacturing orders.
- Actively participate in the regional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) cycle by ensuring requested data is accurate/up-to-date and provided to other stakeholders in a timely manner, explain deviations and anomalies and provide solutions or propositions.
- Drive a better working model and collaboration to optimize supply chain management with other functions (sales, business development, engineering, procurement and warehouse).
Lead Engineer, Demand Planning Professional - Siemens Ltd. - Sambhaji Nagar, India
(2016-11 - 2022-01)
- Conduct purchasing activities in accordance with requirements for both raw materials and semi-finished products.
- Align with the suppliers and freight forwarders to ensure timely arrival of the supplies at the desired destination.
- Dedicated to flawlessly managing operations while consistently delivering desired results in imports and domestic purchases, demand and material planning, supply chain and logistics management, inventory management as well as production planning and scheduling.
- Set and maintain optimal inventory targets to meet service commitments aligned with budget and forecast requirements, while effectively optimizing working capital.
- Managed inventories of raw materials and semi-finished goods for finished products with a lead time of 4-5 weeks, utilizing ABC-XYZ analysis to categorize raw materials.
- Focused on various critical aspects of inventory management, which vary by supplier, to maintain optimal stock levels and achieve maximum inventory turnover ratio.
- Build strong relationships with both internal and external suppliers, keeping them informed of any changes to the supply forecast promptly.
- Regularly monitor supplier performance, focusing on delivery reliability and provide them monthly delivery performance letters using SAP.
- Effectively negotiate forecast changes, delivery schedules, ramp-up quantities and future business estimates to align supplier capabilities with organizational needs.
- Proficient in SAP ERP, including MRP and MM modules, with hands-on experience in tools such as COGI, Kanban and Just-in-Time methodologies.
- Highly skilled in data visualization and analysis using Power BI, advanced Excel functions and macros.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams including business development, engineering, procurement, R&D, product and process quality and warehouse operations as well as regional and global counterparts to develop improved working models and optimize supply chain management for greater efficiency and speed.
Buyer, Supply Chain and Logistics - Bajaj Auto Ltd. - Sambhaji Nagar, India
(2014-12 - 2016-07)
- Manage Material Requirements Planning (MRP) via SAP, place purchase orders with vendors, and maintain an accurate system for monitoring them (ABC-XYZ Analysis).
- Review and maintain SAP data integrity, including material master details such as minimum order quantities, safety stocks, lead times and purchasing info records.
- Provide forecasting regularly as required to ensure seamless operations.
- Evaluate production capacity and material availability to create detailed production plans, ensuring high schedule adherence.
- Analyze extensive data to develop sourcing strategies/alternate source for components and suppliers, ensuring cost-effectiveness and reliability.
- Assess and enhance the current supply chain by collaborating with stakeholders, customers, production, R and D, quality, strategic procurement and suppliers to improve customer delivery reliability efficiency and inventory turnover ratio.
- Resolve issues such as GRIR (Goods Receipt/Invoice Receipt) discrepancies and delays in purchase order processing through a step-by-step approach to ensure smooth operations and timely supplier payments.
Intern, Supply Chain and Logistics - Bajaj Auto Ltd. - Sambhaji Nagar, India
(2014-01 - 2014-05)
- Support the creation and tracking of purchase orders, make accurate documentation and timely updates in procurement systems.
- Communicate with suppliers to confirm order confirmation, delivery schedules and dispatches and resolve basic queries or issues.
- Assist in analyzing procurement and logistics data, preparing reports on supplier delivery performance, inventory levels and delivery timelines.
- Help monitor stock levels, track shipments (sea, air and road), coordinate with customs and EXIM teams and coordinate with logistics teams to ensure timely delivery of goods.
