Civil Engineering Supply Chain

Nikhil Ravindra Darda

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***********@*****.***., 832-***-****, www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-darda EXPERIENCE

Uber Technologies Inc. Houston, TX

Sr. Distribution Specialist - Americas (Supply Chain) December 2019 – Present

● Responsible for supporting Distribution and Supply Chain in 14 countries across Americas for multiple business units.

● Led inventory planning and sourcing strategies by forecasting and demand planning.

● Incorporated projects on Continuous Improvement and Implemented efficient warehouse management techniques in pursuit of low cost and save processing time.

● Monitor supplier KPIs like on-time delivery, order value and lead time fluctuations to help the business hold sufficient buffers and safety stock in times of inefficiencies.

● Weekly meetings with teams from every region to discuss key issues and identify possible solutions, future plans and strategy.

● Lead all communications; identify key issues and resolve conflicts by partnering with Global Head of Distribution and other Executive Leadership Team, along with presenting procurement solutions and monitoring its execution across Americas.

● Worked with 3PL vendors to execute order prioritization, resource allocation, and inventory management.

● Planned launch (NPI, PDP, EOL) of products in new regions and orchestrated operations and warehouses setup in the new regions.

● Engaged with multiple internal teams, to align strategies, analyze their procurement needs, and find opportunities to develop cost effective solutions for smooth operations.

● Executed procurement and distribution of Covid supplies to the Uber and Uber Eats employees and driver partners in the US and Canada.

MRC Global Inc. Houston, TX

Supply Chain Analyst August 2018 – December 2019

● Send out Request for Quotations(RFQs) to Domestic and International vendors for inventory and customers’ direct orders.

● Data analysis using the previous sales data for analyzing the market trends for decisions regarding inventory stock.

● Created daily and weekly reports and graphs based on analysis of large data sets and conducted ad hoc analysis to understand the market and predict the future trend. Presented updates and recommended actions to the executive management team regularly.

● Responsible for gathering, merging data from multiple sources in order to generate conclusions through analysis, and take decisions regarding procurement needs for the upcoming two quarters. Make decisions regarding obsolete stock at warehouses and yards regarding additional work, repairs or scrap.

● Understood the trade-offs between cost, volume and quality in order to strike agreements with vendors globally.

● Optimized supply chain strategy performance through cost-scenario analysis, benchmarking and identifying key potential supply issues that can affect strategy.

● Devise a supply plan for the customers yearly demand forecast and work cross functionally to align it with inventory constraints, seasonality and financial objectives. Simulate supply forecast to cope abnormalities in demand using data analysis and monitor constraints to deliver maximum commitment against supplier demand. Accu Turn Engineers Pune, India

Supply Chain Operations Analyst/Manager January 2015 - June 2017

● Lead Supply Chain team to plan optimized sales and operations planning (S&OP), inventory flow and level management to support end-to-end supply chain.

● Implemented the principles of Just in Time and Lean Manufacturing. Inventory holding costs were reduced due to JIT by 15%.

● Improved timeframes for more than 50% of projects by predicting the requirement of raw materials by analyzing historical data.

● Found areas of improvement and Worked on projects driving to completion eventually leading to saving more than 500,000 INR.

● Studied the existing manufacturing data and processes to suggest improvements in the existing facilities and reduce the average time by 3 min. and defects reduced by 10%.Redesigned the layout of the production line to decrease in-process time by 52 sec.

● Analyzed and developed GANTT charts for all the machines, thus making the process more efficient. PROJECTS

● Superior Energy Services Present: Presented Value Stream Mapping of Completion Services to minimize the lead time with the adoption of Lean Manufacturing. Identify potential Kaizen bursts and work on the possible solutions for it.

● Sorting of Objects on a Conveyor Line using PLC programming: Developed a prototype and actual sorting was done for time domain analysis to increase the post production efficiency and used Siemens PLC S300 as the controller. Publication: “Sorting of Objects based on color, weight and type on a Conveyor Line using PLC” in IOSR Journal of Mechanical & Civil Engineering. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Supply Chain Management, Advanced MS Excel (Pivot, VLOOKUP, Macros), SQL, SAP, Oracle, Business Intelligence,Inventory Management, Lean Manufacturing, NX Cad, AutoCAD, VB, Prezi, R,Tableau, Microsoft Visio EDUCATION

University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering Houston, TX

Master in Industrial Engineering

Supply Chain Management, Project Management Principles, Enterprise Operations & Business Intelligence, Production Planning & Inventory Control, Materials Handling, Advanced Linear Optimization. Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune, India

Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering

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