Supply Chain Management

Sahil Seshadri

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919-***-**** • ********.*****@*****.***

EDUCATION

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Master of Business Administration, Supply Chain Management

GPA: 3.7, GMAT: 730, Scholarship recipient and Graduate Assistant 5/2013

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics 5/2007

EXPERIENCE

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, Elyria, OH

Strategic Sourcing Buyer, Electronics 6/2013 - Present

Developed NA and global sourcing strategy for Electronics and Harness commodity, managing a spend of around $20M .

Established cost standards to reach a consistent approach to supplier selection, thus consolidating supply base by 10% YOY.

Managed supplier transitions and facilitated supplier integration to new product development process reducing cost by 15%.

Restructured Electronics Contract Manufacturing supply base of a business acquisition by working cross-functionally with

engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing, eliminating quality and delivery issues.

Negotiated annual productivity and cost with focus on supplier's implementing continuous process i mprovements.

Selected to lead the Quick Response Team and assist Senior Leadership in impacting key organizational metrics.

Sears Holdings, Hoffman Estates, IL

MBA Intern – Inventory Management 5/2012 -7/2012

Identified gaps in the current product setup process and devised a strategy to reduce issues such as inaccurate weights and

dimensions in the system, thus saving over 600K annually.

Partnered with IT and internal customers to define business requirements for implementing the future product setup process.

Developed an industry leading Vendor Compliance Program to ensure accurate supply chain data throughout SHC, improving

quality of item information data by over 65%.

Collaborated with cross functional teams including transportation, warehousing and purchasing to develop a comprehensive

compliance process that benefits all stakeholder and significantly impacts the bottom line.

Formulated a holistic vendor scorecard that measured vendor performance and aided s upplier evaluation.

Delphi Automotive Systems, Bangalore, India

Project Lead -Validation 12/2008-7/2011

Led a team of 4 engineers performing functional verification on an automotive safety product which received the 5 -Star Safety

Rating from NHTSA, USA. Increased product quality by 35%.

Created formal project schedules, staffing and workload estimation for multiple programs and received the Excellence Award

for Customer Focus-2010 for increasing team productivity by 22%.

Pioneered a Six-Sigma Green Belt project on test cycle time reduction by decreasing engineering effort by 500 hours and thus

reducing costs by $25K annually.

Validation Engineer 7/2007-12/2008

Collaborated closely with multiple OEMs on vehicle diagnostics specifications for future platforms and received Excellence

Award for Customer Feedback–2008 for optimizing the validation process.

Conducted requirement analysis, systems testing and product quality control to reduce number of inherent design defects in th e

highly safety critical product.

Developed building blocks for a Simulink and Python based software testing architecture, reducing testing cycle times by 75%.

Developed manufacturing test software to eliminate defective units duri ng production, improving product delivery and quality.

LEADERSHIP & SKILLS

Technical Skills: Six Sigma, Product Development, Project Management, Process Improvement, SAP

Conducted research on Backsourcing in the IT industry and developed a framework that enables organizations to back-source

successfully and efficiently.

Developed multiple tools utilizing the software language Python to aid research at MSU.

Assistant editor for the conference on “Socially Responsible Operations” held by Production and Operations Management

society (POMS) in Chicago, IL.

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