Supply Chain Customer Service

Nehash Jadhav

Graduate Student at University of Michigan

*******@*****.***

Summary

A self-motivated industrial & operations engineering graduate student with strong critical thinking,

interpersonal skills, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Solid industry experience in operations consulting, quality

compliance and procurement with significant achievements in cost reduction and productivity improvement.

My biggest strengths include the ability to draw from my diverse educational, professional and leadership

experience and apply it to solve challenging problems. I am deeply passionate about analyzing operations and

bringing about a positive change in organisations, with career interests in the field of supply chain optimization,

manufacturing and quality management.

Specialties:

# Supply Chain Management

# Inventory Optimization

# Strategic Sourcing

# Lean & Six Sigma Tools

# Project Management

Experience

Student Consultant at A.T. Kearney - Michigan Student Lab

September 2013 - Present (4 months)

# Develop an optimized inventory strategy to reduce safety stock levels across distribution

centers for a leading multi-billion dollar client

Corporate Quality - Environmental Compliance Intern at Trimble

May 2013 - August 2013 (4 months)

# Generated and implemented Trimble guidance procedures in collaboration with operations team to ensure

compliance with global environmental regulations

# Led an Oracle-Agile environmental data integrity project and achieved 90%+ of the project goals

# Developed a data management tool in excel VBA to ensure corporation wide data consistency and improve

compliance team productivity to realize potential savings of $30,000

Procurement Engineering Co-Op at Lucy Switchgear

February 2012 - July 2012 (6 months)

# Developed a multiple sourcing strategy for procuring relatively low-cost, high variable demand

components to mitigate risk and reduce costs for the company

# Researched and contacted 40+ ISO certified suppliers from China, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam

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through business-to-business e-commerce marketplaces

# Built cost models for key components and negotiated with suppliers to realize estimated annual savings of

$50,000 or 15-20% reduction in procurement costs

Projects

LINKS Global Supply Chain Management Simulation - Gold Medalist

October 2012 to Present

Members:Nehash Jadhav

# Managed 200+ decision variables of procurement, manufacturing, distribution and warehousing,

transportation, customer service, and forecasting for a build-to-plan manufacturing company

# Achieved overall best performance in financial and non-financial KPIs among 46 global teams by leading

in sales, inventory and operations planning, and data analysis using advanced excel tools

ProModel Discrete Event Simulation and Analysis

January 2013 to Present

Members:Nehash Jadhav

# Developed a simulation model to analyze and optimize the UofM engineering career fair in which 2500+

students and 200+ companies participate in a limited time frame and space setting

# Optimized the model to achieve reduction in approximate wait times from 1 hour to 20 minutes for high

demand companies and presented recommendations to engineering career center management

Lean Manufacturing Class Project

January 2013 to Present

Members:Nehash Jadhav

# Developed current state and future state value stream map of a spring manufacturing facility

# Implemented lean principles of cell flow optimization, kanban system, continuous flow, and pull system to

reduce production lead time from 24.8 days to 6.8 days

Society of Automotive Engineers' University Chapter

April 2011 to Present

Members:Nehash Jadhav

# Led the transmission design team of the first BITS Pilani Dubai all-terrain vehicle which was ranked 24th

for design among 115 university teams competing in Baja SAE Illinois, 2011

# Chaired organizing board to host 6 national competitions with turnout of 100+ participants/event

Benchmarking: Financial Statement Analysis for Top 50 FMCG firms

March 2013 to April 2013

Members:Nehash Jadhav, Santosh Surya Prakash

• Analyzed 3-years financial data of top 50 FMCG firms; identified best and worst performers using Data

Envelopment Analysis (DEA – A Spreadsheet tool that measures performance quantitatively)

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• Performed Benchmark analysis and identified best practices of the top performers; recommended strategies

for 3 worst performers in improving their revenue, operating margin, net profit margin and inventory turns

• Analyzed advantages and disadvantages of FMCG firms operating in different continents; recommended

future expansion strategies for firms with high operating costs to improve profit margins

Education

University of Michigan

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Industrial and Operations Engineering, 2012 - 2013

Activities and Societies: Institute of Industrial Engineers

BITS,Pilani-Dubai

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, 2008 - 2012

Grade: 9.1 / 10

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Automotive Engineers

Courses

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Industrial and

Operations Engineering

University of Michigan

Inventory Analysis and Control IOE 541

Global Manufacturing ME 587

Statistical Quality Control IOE 466

World Economy STRATEGY 503

Linear Algebra MATH 417

Global Supply Chain Management TO 620

Scheduling IOE 543

Simulation IOE 474

Lean Manufacturing and Services Strategies IOE 425

Benchmarking Productivity Analysis & Performance IOE 551

Measurement

Skills & Expertise

Matlab

AutoCAD

ANSYS

Engineering

Catia

Microsoft Office

Solidworks

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Supply Chain Management

Six Sigma

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Finite Element Analysis

Project Planning

Electronics

Mechanical Engineering

Analysis

CAD

Lean Manufacturing

Supply Chain

Pro Engineer

Manufacturing

Simulations

Minitab

ISO

FMEA

Organizations

APICS The Association for Operations Management

Institute of Industrial Engineering

September 2012 to Present

Society of Automotive Engineering

University Chapter Chair

September 2010 to June 2011

Interests

Photography, Designing, New Technologies

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)

Hindi (Professional working proficiency)

Gujarati (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Marathi (Native or bilingual proficiency)

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Nehash Jadhav

Graduate Student at University of Michigan

*******@*****.***

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