Manufacturing Supply Chain

Nasrin Kaniz

******.*****@*****.*** *** B Battaglia lane, Fairview, NJ 07022 313-***-****

Education: University of Michigan

June 2012 Industrial and Operations Engineering – B.S.E.

Ann Arbor, MI

Gates Millennium Scholar – 1 in 1000 recipient nationwide

University of Michigan college of Engineering – Dean’s List 2011

Experience: Unilever July 2012 – Present

Supply Chain Analyst – Material Planner/Scheduler Englewood Cliffs,

NJ

• Material planning team lead for new turnkey project for third party manufacturing sites

o Created procedures and ways of working with third party manufacturing sites by working with

cross functional teams within Unilever and third party manufacturing teams

o Created Attainment tool to identify production loss at manufacturing sites using SQL and Excel

o Reduced $1 M in inventory waste from three different third party manufacturing facilities

• Monitor supply and demand misalignment using advanced planning systems, and collaborate with

manufacturing sources to implement corrective action plans, ensure timely shipments of orders

• Constant communication with manufacturing team to ensure optimum level of production and inventory

days on hand to be able to minimize inventory cost as well as meet customer demands.

• Determine opportunities to decrease inventory, improve service, and reduce total costs

Unilever July 2011 – Dec 2011

Focus Improvement Coordinator Atlanta, GA

• Led a team of 5 operators/mechanics through a Single Minute Exchange Die team in order to create

standard operating procedure to decrease machine changeover time by 53%, and the downtime after

changeover by 69%.

o Analyzed loss in the current method using SMED/TPM/Kaizen methods

o Trained operators and mechanics in the new standard operating procedure to ensure

sustainability of standard operating procedure

• Analyzed oil loss via inbound rail cars in the spreads facilities (Kilbourn, Baltimore, Sunnyvale, Atlanta)

o Atlanta plant experiences 1-2% oil loss, identified 0.35% oil loss from inbound rail cars

Room Turnover Time Analysis for Interventional Radiology Jan 2012 –

May 2012

Senior Design Project Member Ann

Arbor, MI

• Improved outpatient scheduling by analyzing non-emergent ORMIS outpatient data and conducting

interviews

• Increased patient throughput, facility utilization and physician utilization by 23%

• Created recommendations to improve scheduling communication throughout the facility

Waste Not Wood Dec 2010 – May 2011

Social Venture Project – Marketing Strategy Partner Ann Arbor, MI

• Assisted in implementation of biogas digester for Nicaragua, implemented during spring of 2012

• Conducted customer research to establish proof of concept, user requirements and expectations by

working with consumer data provided by not-for-profit and government institutions

• Used SWOT analysis to identify competitive advantage and create a sustainable marketing strategy

• Semi-finalists in the Dell Social Innovation Competition (won $5,000)

• Awarded The Tomberg Prize in Environmental Sustainability

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Aug 2007 –

May 2008

Research Assistant Ann Arbor, MI

• Researched the impact of Thai culture on home décor products through examining newspaper articles to

assist Professor Wherry’s publication “The Social Sources of Authenticity in Global Handicraft

• Analyzed and coded articles in order to see importance of cultural symbolism in home décor

Skills:

• Proficient in SAP, Interspec, Microsoft Office, SQL, C++, Java, Matlab, Six Sigma trained, SMED

trained, 5s and FI trained, DMAIC, Kaizen Methods, TPM pillars

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