Highly accomplished professional with extensive knowledge and experience in supply chain management. Astute in identifying requirements, implementing plans and effectively coordinating with cross-functional teams to achieve objectives.

Summary of Experience:

High impact team player with proven ability to implement best supply chain management practices and procedures

Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource

balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational

structure

Exemplary track record attained while minimizing inventory levels and maintaining 100% on time deliveries

I have expert knowledge and experience of SOP/Demand/Production/Materials Planning,

Logistics, Purchasing, Inventory Control, forecasting, Customs Compliance, 3PL Management & ERP systems

Professional Experience:

DIRECTOR OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

01/2013-PRESENT Director of Supply Chain, North America, Mobile Climate Control Inc,

03/2010-01/2013 Director of Supply Chain, Canada, Mobile Climate Control Inc,

Currently working as Director of Supply Chain for North America reporting to President, for a HVAC products manufacturer. I am providing leadership and direction for all aspects of supply chain management. Responsible for customer service, planning, procurement, on time delivery, inventory and logistics management.

I am responsible for:

•Improved the on-time delivery performance from 80% to 98%

•Reduced the DOH inventory by 30% in last 7 years

•Was able to reduce both incoming & outgoing premium freight

•Implemented new KPI's for all the supply chain teams

•Introduced new supply chain procedures for continuous improvement

•Working with cross functional teams to achieve new project's completion within time and

budget constraints

•Implemented many cost saving ideas

•Improved the customer service ratings

•Actively involved in many lean initiatives

•Proposed and implemented many changes to the existing ERP system resulting in smooth flow of products

•Improved the lead times by negotiating with both customers and vendors

•Reduced salaried staff by 10% when sales increased year over year.

•Negotiated carrier discounts, and managed 3PL and international freight along with Customs compliance for many countries in NA, EU, Asia, Africa and South America

•Directing all North American plants for supply chain performance improvements.

MATERIALS MANAGER

01/2008 – 03/2010 –Materials Manager, Tenneco Inc, Owen Sound, Ontario

11/2005 – 01/2008 –Materials Department Leader, Tenneco Inc, Owen Sound, Ontario

I was working as Materials Manager for Tenneco Inc, a automotive tier-1 manufacturer of sales of over $180 Million. Tenneco is world leader in manufacturing of shock absorbers and Clean Air systems with sales over $7 Billion a year. I was providing leadership and direction for 38 associates of materials department that support the entire flow of material, from receipt of customer order to shipment of the order. Responsible for production planning, materials planning, shipping, receiving and purchasing.

I was responsible for:

•Generating Sales and Operations plan every week and suggesting the operation plans for various departments, reacting to customer demand

•Reduced total DOH to 18 from 27 days, and reduced productive inventory to 7.4 DOH from 16

•Managing the performance and development of materials department personnel to support achievement of plant key measurables.

•Reduced the freight cost by $1 Million and continuously analyzing the freight data to optimize the shipments

•Implemented capital project for returnable dunnage program

•Improved the delivery performance to 98.9% to OE customers and also improved after market delivery performance to 92%

•Participated in many value stream teams and assisted in maintaining Kanban parts

•Coordinated in successful product launch of GMT 900 program and Chrysler JK program

•Gained extensive knowledge of SAP MM, SD & PP modules. Assisted functional analysts in designing and implementation of many reports

•Assisted in implementation of many suppliers on SRM(supplier relationship management) tool (Infor’s Supplyweb)for SMI and Kanban vendors

•Produced adequate measurements to ensure inventory levels, inventory turns, shortages and supplier performance is measured and monitored for appropriate performance

•Achieved considerable reduction of incoming and outgoing expedites which resulted in positive variance of more than $500,000 which helped target TVM savings

•Directed complete annual physical inventory counts and also maintaining the cycle counting program with 97% plus accuracy

•Assisted in successful implementation & maintenance of warehouse program for overseas suppliers.

•Managed budget of $3 million for the department and continuously working on expense and wage savings

•Was steering committee member of $100 million North American Logistics spend, represented 6 major ride control plants from Canada, US and Mexico for logistics issues

MASTER SCHEDULER

9/2004 - 11/2005 Tinnerman Palnut Engineered Products, Hamilton, Ontario

I was working as Master Scheduler for tier-1 automotive fasteners manufacturing company responsible for planning of $75 million producing nearly 2 billion parts with 5000+ SKU’s.

I was responsible for:

Development of the Master Production Schedule and supportive Production Plans for all parts consistent with customer/market/forecast requirements, company commitments and available resources

Communicated with Sales, Manufacturing and Purchasing to ensure schedules are adhered to and prioritize schedules as needed and at the same time to minimize interruptions to the processes

Reviewed capacity to identify and communicated bottleneck areas and managed over/under capacity situations, and maintain optimum inventory levels, including high inventory turns to insure on-time deliveries to meet customer requirements while minimizing production downtime. Essentially responsible for supporting production operations through creating and analyzing forecasts from customer’s past history and current order patterns

Prepared and monitored the Sales & Operations Planning on a monthly basis in order to obtain proper volume levels and optimize resources (men, machines, materials and supplier readiness and capacity). Measured and improved the forecast accuracy

Ensured schedule attainment & achievement of key performance targets

Managed the exception/action messages in conjunction with the production planners and purchasing for manufactured products and raw materials both in-house and out-sourced environments

Continually improved scheduling methods and practices. Actively involved in Lean improvement activities

PRODUCTION CONTROLLER

10/2001 - 9/2004 C To C Group Inc, Orangeville, ON, CANADA

Worked as Production Controller for C TO C GROUP Inc., manufacturing company, directing activities of 35 plus workforce.

I was responsible for:

Production planning/scheduling and materials planning

Created and maintained master production schedule (MPS)

Held production meetings and issued production orders for shop floor

Bill of materials development and maintenance

Scheduling and tracking all work orders of the company

Ensured adequate resources and manpower are available to meet manufacturing and delivery schedules

Ensured compliance to changes in customer requirements

Initiated and implemented improvements to production control methods

Developed templates for production & capacity requirement planning and tracking of project progress using MS Project 2000 software

Involved in project planning and implementation

Handled efficiently all shop floor employee issues

As a certified member of JHSC, ensured safe work practices are established and followed

Education

B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University, Bangalore, INDIA

Mar - '98

Certifications & Training

PMP – PMI certified Project Management Professional Jun - ‘09

C.S.C.P --Certified Supply Chain Management Professional Mar- ‘07

CPIM -Certified in Production and Inventory Management, by American Production and Inventory Control Society(APICS), USA Mar - ‘03

Lean Manufacturing--University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Certification from University of Michigan for completing Lean Manufacturing program Apr -‘06

Attended five day workshop on PMBOK2000(Project Management Book Of Knowledge) conducted by Project Management Institute’s - Registered Education Provider Jan -‘04

Process Excellence Champion Training (Six Sigma Processes) Mar -‘08

HUMANagement - the management course that accentuates the human element Jun-‘ 17

of the science of management.

Affiliations

Member of Project Management Institute (PMI), USA since 2004

Member of APICS, USA since 2002

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