PRAISSY JACOB

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QUALIFICATIONS

Industrial and Mechanical Engineering with emphasis in Quality Process Engineering and Lean Manufacturing.

Proficient Skills in Oracle Financials11i, MS Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Access, Pivot Tables, V-Look Ups, Logical and Mathematical Functions, and ADP.

Experience in Price book specialist, risk analysis and auditing, revenue accounting, financial reporting, accounts payable/receivable, and customer/vendor service and communication.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Inventory Control Supervisor (November 2022-November 2023) Johnstone Supply, Lancaster, TX

Builds a cohesive and productive team through collaboration, inclusion and teamwork that fosters the desired culture that Johnstone Supply promotes.

Ensures a safe work environment by participating as a member of the Safety Committee.

Maintains department staff by conducting interviews in the hiring process and making recommendations; overseeing the training of new employees and cross training of existing employees along with performance reviews.

Supervise inventory control personnel to ensure compliance to cycle counts and inventory procedures.

Assist in maintaining accurate inventory counts by performing daily cycle counts of locations and parts; monitoring put-away activities; monitoring and maintaining data consistency between databases; and research inventory discrepancies found during picking.

Promotions Specialist (December 2019-November 2022) 7-11 Inc. (Irving, TX)

7 11 acquired the whole C store business unit from Sunoco in 2019 and hence most of the responsibilities remains the same after at 7 11

Maintaining the corporate PDI stores pricebook data integrity.

Product set-ups and price changes in costs and retails for merchandise vendors and in-store

Daily vendor file processing for new items, discontinuation of non-active items and cost changes.

Authorization and de-authorization of stores to merchandise vendors.

Purchase and sales report production for management.

Posting of electronic invoicing and communicating to various internal and external customers.

Rebate management of processing and closing out items.

Pricing Coordinator (June 2016- November 2019) Sunoco LP (Dallas TX) acquired by 7-11 Inc. in 2019

·Responsible for the day-to-day activities and results of those activities relating to the operation of the company’s price book database and working with different categories .

·Product set-ups and price changes in costs and retails for merchandise vendors and in-store promotions.

·Enter and maintain all product set UPC, cost, retail, traits and attributes submitted by the merchandising team.

·Authorization and de-authorization of stores to merchandise vendors.

·Research and resolution of accounting and electronic business instrument (electronic price book and accounts payable trade invoicing) issues for vendors.

·Purchase and sales report production for management.

·Posting of electronic invoicing and communicating to various internal and external customers.

·Rebate management of processing and closing out items.

Inventory Control Supervisor (December 2013- January 2016) GameStop, Inc., (Grapevine TX)

Supervised a group of Inventory Control associates that consists of up to 12 employees and 2 leads.

The primary business outcome of this role is to minimize inventory shrinkage and variations in order to maximize profits and in my 2 years in this role have worked with team to reduce the shrink to less than 0.00001% of total annual sales.

Lead with Lean Manufacturing Team, (March 2011 – June 2013) Navistar Inc. /SST Trucking LLC, (Garland TX)

Improved inventory management by implementing lean tools/techniques like 5S, JIT, poke yoke, Kanban replenishment and value stream mapping.

Managed material movement between Sub Assembly Group (SAG) and assembly plant by conducting inventory cycle counts and implementing Kanban in these facilities.

Managed and sustained process improvements in production line and standardized inventory control process using lean techniques like SMED

New 500,000 sq ft Logistics Service Centre (LSC) warehouse material flow analysis, value stream mapping and supply chain implementation.

Developed RFQ’s and Internal Cost Review for projects, Supplier OQM updates, IKS system maintenance for Kanban process and line side replenishment (LSR).

Full time Graduate student at UT Arlington (October 2008– May 2011)

Reporting Analyst, (December 2007– September 2008) Texas Capitol Bank Ltd., (Dallas TX)

•Prepared variance, percentage error, wires checks, and banking summary reports to analyze customer money laundering activities.

•Quarterly reconciliation of BAM look back and BAM summary reports which involves customer bank activities; prepared reports using BAM, Nautilus, WAM, CBS as well as MS Excel/Word.

Staff Accountant, (June 2007– November 2008) Texas Best Care Home Health Inc., (Mesquite TX)

•Prepared Medicare billing of each patient using Oasis and DDE software.

•Oversaw payroll accounts of staff using Allegheny, ADP, and MS office software, audited time sheets of 70+ employees.

Financial Analyst, (May 2004– May 2007) Oracle India Pvt. Ltd., (Bangalore India)

•Analyzed customer accounts data using Oracle Financials 11i ERP customer data management module.

•Researched extensively Duns and Brad-street (D&B) database for classifying Oracle customers into various LOB’s.

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering (2011)

University of Texas at Arlington – Arlington, Texas

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (2007)

Tonse Ananth Pai Management Institute – Bangalore, India

Masters of Business Administration in Information Systems and Finance (2003) Bangalore University – Bangalore, India

Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering – GPA 4.0 (2001)

Mahatma Gandhi University – Cochin, India

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

Completed APICS CPIM Certification.

Completed Fundamentals of Engineering Exam in January 2010.

Awarded Scholarship by Ericsson Inc. for UTA-Ericsson intelligent transport/electric vehicle university project in January 2011.

Member of Golden Key International Honor Society.

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