Supply Chain Process Improvement

Executive Profile

● Lean practitioner with *+ years of experience in manufacturing and

across support functions.

● Hands on experience in Supply Chain, Supplier development, Process Improvement, KANBAN, Standardized work, Shop floor management.

● Trainer and implementation coach for Carbon Brush manufacturing and new product launch.

● Leadership: Building and managing a team of subject matter experts in engineering process.

● Data Analysis & Consulting: Experience in analyzing, visualization of customer data and providing process improvement inputs.

● Proven capability to build strong relationship across stakeholder groups with the expertise to effectively influence and communicate across various business units.

Education & Credentials

● PG Certification in Data Science & Business Analytics: Great lakes institute (2022-2023)

● BE Mechanical Engineering (2008-2012)

Certification & Trainings

● Lean Six Sigma Green Belt: AU TVS

● Alteryx Foundation Certificate.

● Internal Auditor ISO 9001:2015.

IT Skills

MS Excel (with macros)

MS Power Point & Word

SAP

JDE

Auto Cad

Tableau (beginner)

SQL (beginner)

Python (beginner)

Career Timeline (2013 – Till Date)

Trainee Engineer

Sub Assembly

Layam Flexi Solutions Pvt

Ltd.

0.6 years

Senior Engineer

Production Planning.

Mersen India Pvt Ltd.

3.10 years

Engineer: Supplier

Management

Ford Motors Pvt Ltd.

2.6 years

Engineer: Production

Kay Jay Forgings Pvt Ltd.

1.5 years

Senior Engineer:

Supplier Management

TAFE Pvt Ltd.

0.9 years

Venugopal. N

9+ Years in Supply Chain, Production Planning and Supplier Quality Excellence. Chennai *********.**@*****.*** +919********* *********.*****@*****.*** Dec’13

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Jun’14

Jul’14

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Nov’15

Dec’15

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Sep’19

Oct’19

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Jul’20

Dec’20

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Present

SPC/MSA/PPAP/

APQP

Supplier

Improvements

Process Failure Mode

and effect analysis

Vendor

Developments.

Process and

Product Audit and

evaluation

Shopfloor Visuals

Team and People

management.

Lean

Manufacturing.

Capacity Planning &

Demand

Management

Supplier

Performance

evaluation.

Data Analysis &

Visualization

Six Sigma

Professional Experience

Dec’20 – Till Date Ford Motors Pvt Ltd (Best Engineering Team awarded in 2022) Chennai The Ford brand offers autos and commercial vehicles, and the Lincoln premium brand sells luxury cars Engineer: Supplier Management

Key Result Areas:

● Lead & manage Supply planning & Lean services.

● Drive & continuously improve customer deployment processes.

● Create large scale data samples of time & motion study.

● Perform data-driven quantitative analysis of customer processes to identify trends, patterns and performance.

● Driving continuous improvement of internal processes by using process mapping to identify areas for improvements. Significant Achievements:

● Supplier recovery trough 50% debit on Warranty Parts - 53M$ for the Calendar Year 2021 & 2022.

● 33% Process efficiency through alteryx and Macros and saved 1140 hours annually in Calendar year 2021.

● 1.11% Process efficiency through automation for avoidance of resending debits to suppliers in 2022.

● 2.49% Process efficiency through automation on Predefined AF% debit pack automation. Oct’19 – Jul’20 TAFE Pvt Ltd Chennai

Third largest tractor manufacturer in world and second largest tractor manufacturer in India by Volume. Senior Engineer – Supplier Management.

Key Result Areas:

● Liaise with customers to receive monthly schedules to plan internal production inline to Scheduled MRD.

● Releasing schedules for RM & child part vendors inline to the monthly schedules to meet production on-time.

● Planning and executing the material movement from stores & WIP to production lines.

● Monitor the daily dispatch schedule, material receipt, ASN creation & work order closing status.

● Production & Process planning through ERP as per Order Acceptance booking.

● Production budget Preparation based on Sales budget.

● Capacity planning for the new projects.

● Meet with production team on weekly basis, identify the technical Process issues and resolve the same. Significant Achievements:

Supplier PPM reduced from 1311 to 710 through supplier screening & 7QC tools.

Improved Supplier Delivery Performance from 66.7% to 98% over the years.

Increased SNP in existing model to avoid additional Pallets cost of R.s 7.8 Lakhs.

Achieved Inventory variance less than 0.5% consistently.

Silver Medal Achievement by completing more than 25 trainings in TAFE university e-Learning.

Kaizen through poke yoke implementation in welding process implemented at supplier end and achieved zero defects. Dec’15 – Sep’19 Mersen India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore Global expert in electrical power and advanced material Senior Engineer – Production Planning

Significant Achievements:

● 3 Lakhs Recurring Cost reduction through Packaging modification.

● Maximum Production target of 120 ton for the financial year 2016-2017

● Overall PPM reduced from 15,520 to 5550 through implementation of SPC.

● 4 Lakhs Cost reduction through capacity improvement in bottle neck process and achieved on time delivery.

● Implementation of Sample Study (3 Point Method) before 1 ton batch production and achieved zero defects.

● Overall responsibility in Achieving ISO 9001:2015 Certification through implementation of all standard requirements. Jul’14 – Nov’15 Kay Jay Forgings Pvt Ltd Hosur

Leading manufacturers, exporters & suppliers of forging parts, automobile components and precision sheet metal components. Engineer – Production

Significant Achievements:

● Introduced standard for 5S (Training, Implementation and Assessment).

● Implemented Dock Audit system before every dispatch and improved performance rating from 81.7% to 98.2%.

● Implemented SPC and MSA to reduce process variation.

● Implemented Kanban and reduced inventory from 72 hours to 48 hours.

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