Supply Chain Management

Sumanth Pandith, CSSGB

****, * ********* **, ******* KS-67208

Phone: 214-***-****

E-mail: **************@*****.***

Summary Profile

. 5 years of extensive experience in Supply Chain/Manufacturing/Production

Planning & Materials Management.

. Hands on Experience with Demand Planning, Production Planning and

Purchasing in Oracle and SAP ERP Systems.

. Hands on experience in SAP PP and MM modules and good understanding of

SD,APO and CRM modules.

. Experience in Executing MRP, Bill of Materials (BOM) and Master

Production Scheduling (MPS), Advanced Planning System (APS), and Capacity

Planning.

. Lean Manufacturing Experience with Six Sigma, Kanban, JIT and Continuous

Improvement Tools and Techniques.

. Certified Six Sigma Green Belt from American Society for Quality (ASQ)

and Completed CPIM from APICS (Supply chain Management Certification)

. Certified Lean Practitioner by Wichita State University.

Work Experience

Supply Chain Research Assistant: Clients: Boeing, Hawker Beechcraft &

Spirit Aero Systems,

Employer (Wichita State University). Wichita, KS

Aug'07 - Dec'09

. Designed and Developed Metadata Enabled Systems Thinking Tool' (MESTT)

tool for Supply Chain Managers in Hawker Beechcraft, Boeing and Spirit

Companies.

. Managed the Supply Chain data in an existing system like

ERP/PLM/PDM/SCM using the MESTT tool and organizing the complex data in

a systemic and structured way for problem solving and decision making.

. Involved in Developing Supply Chain Model based on SCOR Model using

MESTT tool.

. Determined the complex interdependencies among Plan, Source, Make,

Deliver and Return of the SCOR Model.

. Worked on Access, SQL Database and Excel Macros programming for

developing the tool.

. Using Interpretive Structural Modeling for Supply Chain Logistics Data

and performing Systems Analysis for analyzing complex Interdependencies

of the supply chain network

. Involved in improving the Structure of the supply chain system by

reducing the complexity.

Lean Manufacturing Student Engineer Project: Learjet Bombardier. Wichita,

KS. Aug'07 - December'07

. Detailed present state and future state value stream maps (VSMs)

for materials management department.

. Conducted detailed time and motion study reports for material

handling (from docks to stocks).

. Developed Inventory control strategies and process improvements in

materials management section.

. Implemented 5S and Kaizen for the process improvement in the

materials handling section.

. Reduced Lead time from 8 days to 3 days for the Processes from

docks to stocks.

. Developed storing system by part families (standardization),mistake proofing (Poka -Yoke)

. Ascertained TAKT time for Material Request Vouchers for receiving,

quality inspection, and storing and data entry.

Manufacturing/Production Planning Engineer, Falcon Tyres Limited, India

July' 05 - July'07

. Analyze Demand Forecasts, Review S&OP Documents by Interacting with

Sales & Marketing.

. Measure actual to forecast supply and demand, and provide

recommendations for appropriate inventory levels and decrease inventory

levels by 12-14%.

. Work with Master Production Schedule (MPS), Process BOM & Executing MRP

for Production.

. Evaluating the requirements & processing planned orders into purchase

requisitions.

. Determining lot sizes for ordering with EOQ, reorder point levels and

safety stocks.

. Increasing order efficiency by 18-20% and reducing process times by

10%.

. Increase Customer Service levels by 22% by decreasing the lead time

from Stocking to Shipping.

. Analyzed and measured KPI's for service levels, inventory accuracy, and

many others.

. Working with RFQ's from vendors and performing vendor evaluation and

processing purchase orders.

. Managed ECN (Engineering change notices) and coordinating with

Engineering department.

. Performing Supplier Quality Procedures through PPAP and initiating

corrective actions.

. Scheduling/Expediting Vendor consignment stock materials by interacting

with suppliers on a regular basis.

. Inventory Management of the Procured and shipped materials such as

goods issues, goods receipt by clarifying invoices entering into G/L

Accounts and maintaining the safety stock levels in the warehouses and

SKU's.

. Performed Vendor managed Inventory (VMI) and CPFR methods for

replenishments of stocks using EDI.

. Performing ABC analysis for cycle counting & maintaining physical

inventory documents in Materials management module.

. Managed and supervised people for cycle counting, Material Inbound and

outbound freights.

. Tracking Raw Material, WIP and Finished goods Inventory in SAP and

Optimize inventory levels.

. Sub contracting some parts to 3rd party suppliers (3PL) through

transfer posting & stock transfers to other plants. .

. Involving with cross functional teams for continuous improvement Lean

implementation projects and involving suppliers for Total quality

management.

. Decreasing Overall Lead time by 8% by applying JIT, Kanban, Lean

manufacturing strategies.

Manufacturing Trainee Engineer, Falcon Tyres Ltd, India.

Jan' 05 - July'05.

. Training in Materials Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

and Supply Chain Management (SCM) tools like SAP R/3 for carrying out

business processes in an organization.

. Training in Consumption based Planning, Purchasing, Inventory

Management, Costing/Material Ledger, Invoicing, Vendor evaluation

systems of Materials Management module of SAP R/3.

. Training in Quality, ISO 9000/TS 16949, ISO 14001 Quality Standards,

PPAP and Continuous improvement with Lean manufacturing Strategies and

techniques such as Kaizen, 5S, Reduction in Lead time and Set up time

of the Processes.

. Facilitate the coordination of an integrated Materials Requirement Plan

(MRP) of the supply chain across plants.

. Involved in Capacity Planning for the shop floor activities by

interacting with Sales Department and giving Production schedules for

the Production Department

. Plan, Prepare work schedules for the shop floor and control production

schedules and coordinating with Material requirements to ensure

production requirements.

. Reporting higher management with status of work in progress (WIP),

Inventory, equipments and personnel needed on time for the production.

Education

M.S. (Industrial Engineering) - Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. (GPA

3.66/4.0) December '09

B.S. (Industrial & Production) - Visvesvaraya Technological University,

India. (GPA 3.66/4.0) May '06

Relevant Coursework:

Supply Chain & Logistics Management, Lean Manufacturing, Operations

Research, Quality Engineering, Production & Operations Management,

Statistical Methods, Systems Engineering & Analysis, Project Management,

Industrial Ergonomics.

Certifications, Awards, Honors, Affiliations & Positions of Responsibility:

. Certified Six Sigma Green Belt From American Society for Quality (ASQ)

. Vice President, APICS - S232, Wichita State University chapter

(Platinum Chapter) Spring & Fall '08

. Randall chambers AD Astra Kansas Award for Excellence and innovation in

engineering at the Wichita State University 2008 Engineering Open

House.

Spring '08

. Won 2nd place in the 2008 Graduate competition of paper entry conducted

by APICS Terra Grande and Heartland Districts, the paper was on

'Manufacturing Execution Systems Integrated with ERP & Six Sigma for

Process Improvements'.

Software Skills:

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project), Oracle 11i (ERP),

SAP/R3 (Material Management), eVSM, MS Visio 2003, CORE(Requirements

Management Tool), Basics of SQL Database Software, Statgraphics, SPSS,

Statistical analysis tools, GAMS Optimization software and VB in Excel

Macros, Solid Works & AutoCAD Software.

Note: Can Relocate anywhere in the United States with paid or unpaid

expenses from the employer.

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