AKASH TAYAL

**** * ****** ****, **** A, Chicago, IL-60607

312-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/akash-tayal/ ac6l7u@r.postjobfree.com SUMMARY

Lean Six Sigma Certified Industrial Engineering graduate student with work experience at Saint-Gobain Sekurit and TI Automotive. Inclined towards pursuing a career in Supply Chain, Inventory Management and Production Planning with a passion for optimizing and improve manufacturing processes. SKILLS

• Technical: Supply Chain Management, Quality Control, Operations Management, Design of Experiments, Stochastic Processes, Operations Research, Probability & Statistics, WCM, 5S, Production Planning and Inventory Control, Logical thinking, Data Science, Plant Layout and Material Handling, Process improvement.

• Software: Microsoft Office, Minitab, Python, Julia, R, AutoCAD, ProE, Tableau, SQL EDUCATION

• University of Illinois at Chicago Aug 2016 - May 2018 Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, GPA: 3.8/4.0

• University of Pune Aug 2011 - May 2015

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering

EXPERIENCE

SAINT-GOBAIN SEKURIT May 2017 - July 2017

Supply Chain Planning Intern

• Played a key role in reducing the inventory from 129,000 m2 of glass to 102,000 m2

• Reduced the inventory cycle from 22 days to 19 days by segmenting products into ABC category and improving the implementation of FIFO. Modified plant layout and created a dedicated space for the older materials in inventory

• Closely examined inventory levels and defined new levels of buffer stocks according to the consumption

• Assisted the marketing team to better forecast the demand using historical data and the current market condition

• Created and monitored daily reports to ensure optimal inventory levels and developed easily updatable visual inspection board to keep track of the inventory level TI AUTOMOTIVE Feb 2016 - May 2016

Industrial Engineer Intern

• Improved efficiency of machines by 13% with the help of implementing corrective actions and reducing the downtime

• Reduced 22% of the rejections and a total savings of $260 within a span of 1 month using DMAIC tools and conducting root cause analysis

• Achieved a high MSES audit score of 67 by improving 5S implementation, workforce training in the plant and assisted in maintaining documentation for internal & external audits

• Reduced machine the cycle time by 6 minutes for pipe bending process by analyzing different samples for different time frames with & without cooling water treatments CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified in Production and Inventory Management(CPIM), APICS Expected – Aug 2018

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, IFQ June 2017-July 2017

• Supply Chain Operations by Rutgers, Coursera Dec 2016 PROJECTS

Airfare prediction model using Data Science techniques Sep 2017- Nov 2017

• Analyzed the data and performed data-preprocessing to reduce the attributes from 50 to 11

• Performed XGBoost and Deep Learning techniques on the dataset and compared their results Demand and Price Risk Hedging in Supply Chain Feb 2017 - April 2017

• Analyzed the data for food industry and forecasted the demand for 3 years

• Quantified the level of risk present using VaR and CVaR approach and evaluated different contracts to minimize loss

• Evaluated critical decisions like optimal ordering quantity, inventory & safety stock to reduce future risk Design and analysis of the factors essential while buying a car using design of experiments Aug 2016 - Nov 2016

• The experiment analyzed the effects of various factors and its interactions that affected the price of car and help understand the purchase intent of the customer.

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