SUMMARY:

• A self - motivated, result driven professional with about 7 years’ experience in technology & supply chain strategy consulting.
• She has in depth understanding in Supply chain planning & forecasting methodologies.
• Demand forecasting, S&OP cycle, Supply planning & inventory planning are her core strengths.
• She has worked in diverse industries including - Confidential, consumer devices, life Sciences & chemicals.
• Attained success in end to end project management for large supply chain solution implementations.
• Well versed with simplifying complex designs and presenting complex design in simple terms.
• She has in-depth understanding in advanced planning solutions - Kinaxis & OM Partners for Demand Planning, Supply planning, Capacity management, Inventory optimization, S&OP and other areas.
• Anaplan professional focused in Supply Chain planning, Supply Chain Strategy, Process improvements, Process mapping & Project Management technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support business in tool implementation for advanced supply chain planning to achieve one single integrated solution for demand & supply planning to attain end-to-end visibility
• Conducting gap analysis & deep design sessions to capture as-is & to-be process with the advanced solution in place.
• Lead and managed the rollout of global planning solution for 4 different product lines in 3 project waves that ran simultaneously. From Project plan to tracking the progress against plan, risk management, developing post go-live support & hyper care plan & BCP plan.
• Planned and managed change management activities for smooth transition for end users and super users.
• Lead and managed gap analysis & solution design activities as part of global planning solution rollout for 4 different product lines in 3 project waves that ran simultaneously.
• Tool implemented - OM partners
• Conceptualization to completion on supply chain design, defining business processes, tool identification, tool design and implementation for a new polymer manufacturer with a projected business
• Conducted a plant Assessment project to measure efficiency & overhead for a life sciences client
• Designed & enabled the successful implementation of a global supply chain planning solution rollout for a Confidential client to bring down 200 different operational & planning tools globally to 2 robust systems. Tool Implemented - Kinaxis
• Conducted and concluded white paper which included external market research on Hi-Tech and downstream industries to caliberate market potential and consulting growth opportunities and delivered $ and staff investment plan for the next 5 years.
• Delivered growth strategy and plan for SP&F ( synchronized planning & Fulfillment) portfolio which defined our growth strategy in planning solutions & assets, 30-90-180 day plan in different business segments, Collaboration strategy with other portfolios & market research on other consulting firms & their strategies

Tools: OM Partners, VSTS Azure, Visio, MS Excel, MS PPT

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing & overlooking solution implementation for modules including Demand planning, Supply Planning, Operational planning, production sequencing & truck scheduling using OM Partners
• Defining L1-L4 business processes for the MSC supply business
• Identifying RACI & SIOC for each business process and validating with the business
• Writing user stories to define the business requirements that was used to build the solution
• Tracking the tool implementation progress using Mantis
• Documenting planning processes in the form of playbooks & standard operating procedures to depict end to end planning processes, roles & responsibilities, best practices, data, interfaces etc.
• Developed standardized process flows that clearly called out integration points with commercial, logistics, pricing & OTC and designated owners
• Planning solution designed to achieve:
• Advanced modeling capabilities to support simultaneous optimization for multiple planning & logistics constraints
• Optimized supply network established for the Buy-Sell model for pre-Marketing
• Intelligent optimization supporting supplier contracts, demand prioritizations decisions driven by market conditions

Tools: used: OM Partners, Mantis, HPQC, Visio, MS Excel, MS PPT

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Data gathering, Building process maps & Templates.
• Build the Capacity water fall Model to classify the planned losses, performance losses, quality losses.
• Develop the cycle time box-plot to capture the cycle time variation for each defined process and identify Bottleneck processes.
• Analyze the FTE classifications for about 150+ activities defined specifically for the site.
• Prioritize opportunities based on size and ease of implementation and develop future roadmap

Tools: used: MS Excel, MS PPT, MS Visio

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• System design and implementation of a complex advance supply chain planning solution - Kinaxis which included gap analysis, design and documentation along with Process mapping
• Identifying process improvement & optimization of logistics business processes & suggesting alternatives, Configuring & customization of the tool.
• End to End Testing the Analytical tool in order to replicate different business cases and ensure that the numbers are logical and meaningful for the business.
• Sprint Updates, team progress tracking in the tool using Rally & HPQC.
• Owned about 40 issues/Enhancements/Process Design mapping and built end-to-end solution from Requirement gathering to Post launch support.
• Built diagnostic reports/Tree maps to show the lost sales, constraint Utilization, Stock variances

Tools: Kinaxis Rapid Response, CA Rally, HP Quality Center, MS Excel

Confidential

Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working on Critical issues/enhancements in S&OP, Demand planning, KPIs & dashboards
• Performing gap analysis and suggesting alternative solutions, preparing Business documents.
• Defining and building test scripts that included working with business users during training, testing, and user acceptance to launch new third-party systems and custom applications across operations.
• Collaborate with global cross-functional teams, vendors and other stakeholders.
• Exploring new and latest upgrades in the tool & share the benefits with the users
• Owned more than 75 critical issues/enhancements in the new solution and fixed it end to end
• Built a complete customized Dashboard for supply planning and demand planning which included data on Inventory, Revenue, customer base, CBP waterfall information.

Tools: Used: Kinaxis Rapid Response, JIRA, MS Excel, MS PPT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and analyzing the business and resource requirements.
• Identify and build the tool & techniques to meet client requirement. This included process maps, flowcharts, Business cases etc to define the implementation stages.
• Analyze the project data, work with different related teams and draw conclusions.
• Collaborated with Vendor, SBUs & configuration team to build the solution.
• Perform Gap Analysis and recommend alternative solutions.
• Planning & estimations of the timelines & budgets
• Led the Closed loop set up in two Confidential sites (SAP - PP sites) and 1 consumer products site (SAP PP & SAP-APO) including one existing APO site.
• This enabled Kinaxis to accept user recommendations and send this data back to ERP system and automatically updating all the linked systems.
• Building Key metrics to measure the success of the implemented Advanced Supply planning solution.
• Set up a proof of concept for using MEIO/SEIO -Inventory optimization techniques using Kinaxis Rapid Response for 10 manufacturing sites for different industries including Confidential, Consumer devices, Energy, Network solutions etc.
• Owned more than 100 issues/enhancement requests during the deployment period and worked with multiple teams including vendor, configuration teams & the business users

Tools: Used: Kinaxis Rapid Response, JIRA, MS Excel, MS PPT, SAP-PP, Oracle database, SAP-APO, JDA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built the current state and future state Value stream maps & SIPOC.
• Analyze and interpret process maps, draw conclusions and develop recommendations based on the result of the specific outputs
• Training users/IT teams on the new methodology
• Led 3 KAIZEN events to analyze the scope for improvement.
• Identify the loop holes in the current existing ticket/enhancement handling set up and build a new work around structure to overcome the complexities.
• An initiative to clean up the 2000+ JIRA issues to assign the right priority & category in order.