Supply Chain Quality Control

ANUP V. GHATE

E-mail: ********@*****.*** Ph: (***) 586-***-****

SUMMARY

. Engineering experience in various industries and sectors.

. Utilized team building skills to ensure satisfactory project performance

. Defined and forecasted needed skills to meet project objectives

. Prepare project plans/schedules/materials to achieve project quality,

reliability, cost and timing objectives

. Experience in Supply Chain Strategy and Operations Planning

. Willing to travel domestic and International as the work demands

. Likes to work in Challenging environment

. Good analytical skills and understanding of Financial concepts

EDUCATION

Masters in Industrial and Operations Engineering

Dec

2008

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

GPA: 3.3/4.0

Related coursework: Inventory Analysis and Control, Statistical

Quality Control, Benchmarking productivity analysis

and Performance Measurement, Work Organization, Linear Programming,

Manufacturing Strategies, Supply Chain

Management, Time Series Analysis, Simulation, Principals of

International Finance, Portfolio Diversification,

Risk Management in Financial Institution, Financial Accounting,

Options Futures and other Derivative Securities.

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering

May 2005

University of Pune, Pune. India.

First class

with Distinction

Related Coursework: Production Engineering, Production Process,

Manufacturing Management, CAD CAM and

Automation, Internal Combustion System and Automobile Engineering,

Design Engineering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

F3 Engineering. Paterson, New Jersey.

June

10 - Present

Operations Planner

. Responsible for operations planning and production scheduling to achieve

monthly shipping targets.

. Responsible for weekly plan of action for recourse utilization to

optimize operations.

. Responsible for the S&OP agenda for the weekly cross functional meetings

and implementing the plan of action across the departments.

. Actively involved in all the operations functions within the company

. Responsible for successful time cycle reduction for raw material

procurement by doing rate contracts with suppliers and initiating vendor

managed inventories.

. Working as a liaison between sales and production function to maintain

the expectation by strategizing operations.

. Currently working on developing a decision support system for determining

the demand capacity status at any given time. This would help in

determining business strategies in recourse constraint situations.

Forbes Marshall Private Limited. Pune, India

Jul 05

- Aug 06

Product Management Engineer.

. Designed the supply and distribution network architecture for product to

reduce inventory buffers.

. Developed Vendor Scorecards and dashboards to establish the Tier 1

suppliers based on KPI matrices.

. Developed Optimal Ordering Quantity models for inventory replenishments,

based on resource constraints and SKU variance analysis determined by the

inventory audits.

. Developed a model for dynamically sizing the Fill rates for inventory

replenishments based on, statistical analysis of the sales forecast data,

revised holding cost and historical underage and overage data at the

distribution centers.

. Performed capacity planning for the manufacturing facility to determine

optimal human and material resources.

. Consulted with production supervisors to schedule production runs in a

cost and time-efficient manner.

. Compiled detailed worksheets and specifications from customer orders to

facilitate the scheduling of raw material.

. Member of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) team to achieve

synchronization between demand and supply.

Thermax Limited. Pune, India.

Jan 05 - Jun 05

Intern - Industrial Engineering Department

. Automated material handling trolley system to achieve 32% reduction in

handling time in the work flow.

. Designed and implemented a shop floor layout of a mini boiler

manufacturing plant, to achieve the daily production capacity of 3 units

per shift. Educated workers with the 5S philosophy to maintain work

stations.

. Performed value stream mapping on the coil winding unit to identify the

non value added operations, thus making the process lean. Participated in

Kaizen Event to reduce WIP and enable one piece flow of product on

assembly line.

. Performed a simulation project to identify and nullify the lean

operations in the fabrication and assembly of the boiler input headers

thus achieving 15% reduction of the cycle time and making process lean.

. Worked in the planning department for determining material requirement

based on BOM and maintained the records on the ERP system.

Gabriel Limited, Nasik, India.

Jul

03 - Dec 03

Intern - Quality Engineering

. Worked in quality control department as an analyst in the warranty

department.

. Carried out analysis of the warranty returned shock absorbers to

identify, the reasons of failure and contribution of sub manufacturing

departments in defects. Analysis identified some manufacturing processes

critical for quality.

. Created and maintained a statistical database of the failure analysis to

assist time series analysis of the failure patterns.

. Analyzed and modified coolant purification system as a part of the

process improvement initiative by introducing magnetic separators,

improving efficiency by 10%

. Developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Kaizen for the

assembly work stations.

. Worked with the procurement department for assisting in the performing

the documentation for invoicing and generating

Purchase orders.

GRADUATE PROJECT WORK

External Analysis of an organization:

. Analysis of the effects of external factors like, Market trends,

Technology on the organization functionality.

Demand Forecasting and Production Planning for Antonio's Nut House:

. Analysis of Historical Demand Data using tools like winters method

and fill rate to come with predictions for future

demand and production planning.

Benchmarking, Productivity Analysis and Performance Measurements of

Flexible Manufacturing Systems:

. Performance analysis of flexible manufacturing systems using Data

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) software implementing

robust frontier estimation techniques to identify the best

practice units (BPU) within a group.

Value Stream Mapping and Future State Planning of a Tuttle Spring

Manufacturing Shop Floor:

. Performed value stream mapping of the existing manufacturing set

of the tuttle spring plant.

. Designed a new layout for the manufacturing facility to attain

lower lead time by reduced non value added operations.

Carbon Foot Printing of a Aluminum Beverage Can Supply Chain:

. Analysis of the current supply chain in the Aluminum tin Industry to

calculate the GHG inventories at the various

nodes in the supply chain.

USD Vs AUD Currency Report:

. Report on the prediction of the future currency exchange rates on the

horizon of 1 year, 3 year and 5 years.

. Implemented theories like RPPP, CIRP and RIRP. Used Regression Analysis

models considering various

macro economic factors like Inflation, M1 supply, Unemployment rate,

Interest rate etc.

. Predicted the exchange rates with R2 of 0.25 and positively complementing

the market forecast of rates.

Global Asset Allocation / portfolio Diversification report:

. Diversification of a portfolio containing stocks, bonds and currency to

minimize the risk for a level of return.

. Did Portfolio diversification using CAPM models and portfolio optimizers

with regression analysis of various

macro economic data like Interest rate, M1 Supply, Inflation etc.

. Predicted an optimal asset allocation report for 3,5 and 10 years

subjected to the constraints of non negativity

of weights of the assets with a pre specified deviation of 10% from the

world portfolio.

Benchmarking, Productivity Analysis and Performance Measurement of

Economies:

. Performance analysis of Economies around the world using Data Envelopment

Analysis (DEA) software.

. Identifying the best economy for returns over investment of a portfolio

diversified among different industry sectors.

. Analysis based on various macro economic factors.

. Based on the analysis, suggesting improvement measures for the other

economies to benchmark the best

COMPUTER SKILLS

Tools: MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor 8, Ansys,

Matlab, C, C++, SQL, Supply Chain

GURU, DBA Manufacturing.

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