Supply Chain Customer Service

Prakash Venkitachalam **** River View Ave, Apt *, Stevens Point, WI 54481

Cell: 316-***-****, Email: **********@*****.***

PROFILE

* ***** ** ********** ** Operations/Manufacturing/Supply chain

SIX SIGMA Black Belt Certified (ASQ)

APICS CPIM - Certified in Supply Chain management

Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

WORK EXPERIENCE

G3 Industries Inc, WI Continuous Improvement Manager

Current

. Champion for Quick Response Manufacturing program

- Formation of part families for key value streams to regroup

similar processes and machines

- Transition of shop floor to cells and leading training

initiatives for Quick response manufacturing

- Leading a cross functional team to improve key business

processes & reduce lead time by 60%

- Estimated reduction of lead time by 60% and cost savings of $0.5

million

. Champion of lean and Six Sigma initiatives

- Leading kaizen events, and CI initiative in all departments to

reduce variability and improve sigma levels

- Leading a SMED program, TPM and process enhancements in

individual work centers to improve flow

- Estimated reduction of key work centers set up by 50% and leads

time reduction of operation by 40%

- Implementing DMAIC method for lead time reduction in New Product

Introduction (NPI) process by 50%

Northern Wire Corporation, WI Lean Operations Engineer

Jan 08-Sept 09

. Supplier development lean six sigma project with John Deere

- Identified value streams of the whole organization and calculated

manufacturing critical-path time (MCT)

- Led a 12 member cross functional team to reduce overall MCT in

Deere supply chain

- Implemented John Deere smaller diameter cell and kaizen events to

support lead time reduction efforts

- Improved Manufacturing critical-path time (MCT) by 60% and cost

savings of $440,000

- Improved delivery PPM from 2000 to 150 and defect levels from 4

sigma to 5.6 sigma levels

. Business Process Restructuring Project

(Project Presented at International Conference on Quick Response

Manufacturing, June 2009,

http://www.engr.wisc.edu/centers/cqrm/Events/conf_sessions_09_tue.htm)

- Formation of part families for 1700 part numbers with the goal of

achieving lead time reduction

- Quick Response cells were formed after dynamic analysis using MPX flow

modeling tool

- Achieved reduction of business lead time by 62 % and inventory by 70 %

for one third of the business

- Achieved savings of $450,700 and incremental sales of $2 million

through freeing up of available capacity

. Order Capture improvement project

- Implemented quick response strategies to customer quoting and order

capture process

- Pursued a project with customer service for capturing right

information the first time

- Reduced lead time for order capture from current average of 24 days

to 11 days, a 54 % improvement

- Improved customer service sigma levels from 4.4 to 5.7 sigma levels

. Other Projects

- Pursued the introduction of new innovative offline plating mechanism

for the plating department

- Reduction of process time by 50%,savings of $340,000 and implemented

best practices in the industry

- Assisted capital allocation projects, resulted in 2 operator shift

savings of $76,600

. (Cost Savings from above 4 projects estimated as $1,307,300 and

incremental sales of $ 2 million)

Federal Aviation and Administration (FAA)

Aug 2006 - Dec 2007

Process Improvement initiative, Wichita State, Kansas

- Led a team to identify and recommend inspection process improvement

for FAA

- Developed standards for process improvement initiatives to improve

FAA standards compliance

- Developed centralized information system to assist FAA rectify the

problems in inspection process

- Implemented new inspection process in FAA repair stations, achieved

24%improvement& $1.6 m savings

Shakthi Paper Box Industries, India Process Improvement

Engineer June. 2002 - July 2005

. Led projects to optimize operations

- Recommended theory of constraints concepts to reduce inventories

and improve flow of orders

- Led Kaizen events & performed projects to implement SMED,5S, and

kanban in process lines

- Implemented Kanban & recommended change in shop floor layout to

reduce cycle time by 27%

- Pursued six sigma projects to improve quality from 3.5 to 5.5

sigma levels and lead time reduction of 29%

. Supply Chain Design

- Developed an optimal network in strategic supply chain development

- Created a supply chain model to achieve global competence against low

cost alternatives from countries

- Established strategic distribution nodes and developed vendor managed

inventory model

- Reduced the distribution lead time by 45%, cost savings of $ 1.88

million and increases sales of 22 %

PROJECTS

Bombardier Lear Jet Aircraft, Implementation of lean & six sigma concepts,

Wichita, Kansas

- Performed value stream analysis of the operation to identify lead time

reduction of 26 %

- Applied lean techniques for interior process for Lear jet model and

implemented standard work

- Achieved lead time reduction of 24% and cost savings of $200,000 per year

- Improved sigma levels from 4.2 to 5.5 level for the interior process

EDUCATION

. M.S in Industrial Engineering, Dec 2007, Penn State University/ Wichita

State Majors 4.0/ Cum 3.5

. B.S in Mechanical Engineering May 2004, Kerala University, India

Majors 4.0/ Cum 3.9

CERTIFICATIONS

. ASQ- SIX SIGMA Black Belt Certified

. ASQ- SIX SIGMA Green Belt Certified

. APICS CPIM certified in Supply chain management

PAPERS

. V, Prakash; Krishnamurthy, A; Shah,M; Beilke, M; An Integrated Modeling

Approach for Cellular Transformation in a High Mix Production Environment

at Northern Wire, Interfaces 2009 (in progress)

. V, Prakash & Cheraghi; Revenue Management in third party logistics firm,

IIE Conference, Canada, 2008

. Lean Engineering selected as the best paper for academic year 2004 in

mechanical engineering

. Inventory Control presented at National Level Tech Symposium; top 1% of

the nationwide technical papers

HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

. Presenter, International Conference - Quick Response Manufacturing, June

2009, Madison, WI

. Member of Golden Key International Honor Society, Georgia,2007 (Based on

Graduate work)

. Vice President of Strategic Planning, APICS, Wichita, KS, 2007

. Member - Globe Med, Pennsylvania State University chapter, PA, 2006

. Vice President, Organizing committee, Inter collegiate Tech Conference,

India 2003

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