Supply Chain Project

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*******@****.*** SRIKANTH COONTOOR

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Avent Ferry Road,

Raleigh, NC-27606

Professional Experience - Supply Chain/Procurement

Objective: Looking for a full time opportunity in supply chain/operations where I can

apply knowledge gathered in graduate school and skills gained through internships and

projects.

Education:

Master's in Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering, North Carolina State

University, Raleigh, NC

Minor in MBA - Supply Chain

Co-Minor in Industrial and Systems Engineering

Courses: Supply Chain Logistics, Logistics Engineering, Database Applications in

Industrial Engineering, Modeling and Analysis of Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource

Planning (ERP), Production Planning and Inventory Control

Graduation Date: May 2013. GPA 3.42

Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering and Management, Visvesvaraya Technological

University, Bangalore, India

Courses: Operations Research, Advanced Operations Research, Materials Management,

Statistics for Engineers, Engineering Economics

Graduation Date: July 2011. GPA 3.5

Experience:

Strategic Sourcing Intern: RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC

(June 2012-April 2013)

Skills acquired: Strategic Sourcing, Spend Analysis, Risk Mitigation, Developing RFx's,

Cost Modeling, Working with SAP, Getting the work done.

Product Procurement: deploying strategic sourcing initiatives (by working with cross

functional teams that includes legal, finance, risk management, quality, Production

Planning) for direct and indirect categories including Manufacturing Services,

Facilities Services, Contingent Labor and Printed packaging (labels, cartons, etc)

achieving 30% average project savings.

Partnering with internal customers to drive cost savings and maintain continuity in

supply through purchasing strategies and techniques, supply market intelligence and

supply base rationalization.

Closely worked with and supported buyers, by providing insights and project specific

analysis to support negotiations and cost savings initiatives. Headed the Vendor

Performance Management initiative by performing spend analysis and developing supplier

scorecards.

Graduate School Projects:

Project Associate: Lenovo, Morrisville, NC

(January 2012-May 2012)

Initiated and led efforts to identify and implement a conflict-free supply chain.

Researched and traced the conflict mineral supply chain from mine to smelter to

consumer.

Identified actionable, step-by-step supply chain traceability strategies in response to

the proposed regulation by the SEC.

Research Associate: Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, Raleigh, NC

(November 2011-April 2012)

Assigned the challenge to bridge gaps between a company's Clinical Study team and

Global Demand Supply division for better decision making and avoiding stock out

situations.

Developed a risk assessment scorecard and designed a simulation package (tool) in excel

representing the clinical trial supply chain.

The tool depicts the impacts of poorly communicated day to day decisions. It simulates

scenarios such as delays in importation, forecasting errors, stock outs to motivate

teams to chalk out contingency plans.

Project Associate: Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, Raleigh, NC

(January 2013-April 2013)

Developed a database application in MS Access that brings together 13 years of data for

the SCRC.

The database will enable administrator to search and retrieve relevant data,

continually store and maintain data henceforth. Data includes faculty and student

information, research project information, grading, etc.

Projects on Supply Chain Network Design

Designing and analyzing supply chain networks by working with factors such as currency

fluctuations, import duty fluctuations, plant capacity constraints to understand their

impact on costs to identify cost reduction initiatives that may involve operational

hedging, financial hedging, redesigning the supply network.

Understand, track and forecast material needs. Applying appropriate forecast methods,

keeping track of forecast accuracy to plan inventory requirements.

Skills:

SAP: Certified by SAP University Alliance in SAP ECC 6.0 transaction flow and

configuration.

Tools: Proficient in MS - Excel VBA and Access, Matlab.

Extra Curricular Activities:

Journalist, The Times of India Group ('08 - '11)

Student Publicity Chair (Founding Team), Society of Automotive Engineers, BMSCE Chapter

('10-'11)

Student Journalist, Technician (2011)

Science Activist, Breakthrough Science Society ('08 - '11)

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