Chemical Engineering Manager

Rahul Rathod

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Summary

PMP Certified, Supply Chain Project Management professional, Implemented scores of strategic projects, Strong analytical and operations management skills. Ability to collaborate cross-functionally, manages stakeholder expectations, develop clarity out of ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and communicate.

Project delivered in Countries: USA, France, Middle East, North Aftrica, India.

Industries: Engineering, Medical Device, Healthcare, Retail – Apparel, Furniture, Accessories, Footwear, Food, Distribution, Consumer goods & Freight Forwarding industries.

Accomplishments (Highlights)

Managed distribution centers operations serving different countries up to 5000 pallets positions and annual throughput of 21600 TEU containers for multinational retail groups.

Successfully implemented project governance measurement & monthly monitoring led to improved disciplined execution of business processes to 90%.

Successfully Implemented software systems to digitize the business operations – MS Project, Version One, FinancialForce, Salesforce, Tableau, JDA, ORACLE R12, VOXWARE, Signavio

Successfully implement lean six sigma initiatives to reduce wastage in the operations up to 20%.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Business Tools: Version One, Tableau, Signavio, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Suite – Advanced Excel,

Business Skills: Business Definition Requirements, Business Process Analysis, Gap Analysis, Use Case Modeling & Analysis, User Acceptance Testing and Business Environment, Kanban, JIT, MRP II, VMI, Inventory Management, Distribution & Logistics, Forecasting, Procurement, Warehouse management, Auto Replenishment, Import & Export documentations, Procurement strategy development, Contract negotiations, Hazardous material handling, CE mark, ISO 9001, Lean management, Project management, Budgeting & forecasting, Optimization models, Risk management, Six Sigma, Communication Management Plan, Earned Value Performance Management.

Methodologies: Joint Application Development, Software Development Life Cycle

Operating Systems: Windows 10, 2000/NT, XP, Vista, Sharepoint

Databases: SQL Server 2014

Languages: SQL, R Script, SAS (beginner)

ERP PeopleSoft, Oracle WMS, JDA WMS, SalesForce, FinancialForceALDATA

MRP ASPROVA – Production planning and Scheduling

Decision Analytic Pallisade@Risk, Precision Tree, Comparion – AHP, Monte Carlo

Quality Standards ISO 9001, 14001, 13485

Certification PMP

WORK EXPERIENCE

EASi, LLC Engineering & Sciences consultancy company Maryland

Project Manager – PMO Sept’17 to Present

•Single Point of contact from PMO for Digital Transformation Projects.

•Currently managing implementations for – PeopleSoft, FiancialForce, e-QMS SharePoint, VOC and Customer Satisfaction Survey

•Managed activities of the PMO to ensure programs and projects quality meet Customer and organization goals and requirements.

•Responsible for governance and improvement of EASi Service Management Framework.

•Executed Organization-wide Knowledge management strategies, designed and rolled out cloud based digital tools to support root cause analysis, Lesson learned and case studies.

•Designed and implemented Customer Satisfaction survey to collect feedback on project closure.

•Managed qualitative analysis and implementation of Customer VOC survey.

Eniware Washington, DC

Supply Chain Research Associate May2016 – Present

Eniware is located in Washington, District of Columbia, primarily operates in the Sterilizers, Hospital and Surgical business / industry within the Measuring, Photographic, Medical, & Optical Goods, & Clocks sector.

Sourcing for Transportation & Packaging Planning. Coordinated research and analysis that identified packaging and global transportation supplier alternatives for medical device and created close alignment between requirements and decision making criteria. Resulted in the selection of partners who are successfully supporting the product launch which are HAZMAT registered. Conducted drop test to validate risks are mitigated correctly.

Project Scheduling: Initiated project schedule monitoring in MS Project software for CE mark compliance. Managed resource allocation and generated Earned Value Performance Management & EDM reports for review meetings. Project involved launching a new product via collaboration with technology supplier, US -FDA department and third party contract manufacturers, ISO- 13485 auditors.

Project Analysis. Supported East Africa market entry strategy by developing a weighted index in alignment with the company’s objectives. Analyzed and researched trends for medical devices, health care, political and social infrastructure indicators, and accurately communicated their impact.

Landmark Gulf Group Dubai, UAE

Supply Chain Manager Jan 2009 – May 2015

Overall responsible for Management of Operations, Global Transportation, Stowage, and overseeing timely and successful delivery of products to global end users

Data Analysis for Construction of Mega Distribution Center. Organization planned to invest $ 15 million to set up automated the distribution center. As a part of supply chain excellence team, I was part of collecting and analyzing the transactional data from 40 warehouses. Data capturing and improving the methodology to improve the data collection quality. I standardize the report formats, collected the data, removed the outliers, conducted quantitative analysis and started weekly, monthly reports in the form of Dash boards to the senior managements.

Transportation Planning: Sea Freight contract negotiation, managing daily operations of DCs to reexport daily 80 FEUs with KPI of 3 days from receipt to dispatch.

Implemented Oracle WMS in distribution centers: Prepared BRD and FRD, AS-IS & To- Be Process flow, Process review, facilitated training to warehouse employees as super users. Prepared budget & Initiated change in the physical layout of receiving, dispatch and storage location to align with the Oracle WMS process requirement. Initiated smooth transition of capturing warehouse transaction on ORWMS’s hand held terminals from paper based operations.

ERP solution: Implemented TOREX ERP software’s customer order replenishment and inventory management module with expiry date management for frozen food distribution division. Collaborated with TOREX’s functional consultants, internal IT department, finance department and warehouse team to map physical business process. Conducted pilot test and rolled out for daily operations.

Implemented Web based, In-house Supply chain portal in 4 distribution centers. Increased the data accuracy from 80% to 98% and ensured all transactions are captured in the portal.

Voice Picking: Core team member of supply chain excellence team to implemented Put to light (Oracle) and pick by voice – Voxware technology in distribution centers across 10 countries. Gathered business requirements from business owners, collaborated with Oracle and internal IT team, prepared business requirement document, conducted user acceptance tests, conducted pilot study, trained users and rolled out the solution in phased manner. This helped to improve the productivity by 12% and inventory accuracy to 99% from 90%.

Best Practice - Lean warehouse management. Improved open carton distribution activity by 11%. Implemented lean management principle in 4 warehouses to identify the waste and continuously improve manpower merchandise distribution productivity from 1180 pieces/hour to 1310 pieces/hour.

Continuous Improvement. Led a supplier performance evaluation initiative for the ‘Shoemart’ retail operation in collaboration with buyers, finance mangers and the warehouse team. Substantially improved supplier quality, leading to a 20% reduction in stock receiving time. Implemented standards for data collection, communicated analysis to stakeholders, conducted review meetings and set measurable targets leading to a successful handover and sustained performance.

Business Process Re-engineering. Simplified Import - Export invoicing process by analyzing the current requirement, implementing unique data attribute fields like Dimension, Weight, Material composition and customer specific attribute.

Sourcing Strategy. Developed a $2.1 million strategy for a 6 SKU line of private label frozen vegetables. Analyzed market trends, selected product line to be introduced, selected and developed global sourcing suppliers, selected packaging design, coordinated with food control authority to ensure compliance with regulation and standards.

Procurement of Warehouse Storage system. Led an initiative to change the layout of material storage zone of distribution center in Oracle WMS environment by installing automated storage/retrieval machine. This increased the throughput capacity by 57%. I brainstormed the idea, researched available technology by discussing with existing supplier base and attending national material handling exhibitions, prepared bids specifications, initiated RFP/RFI process and selected a supplier post negotiation process for capital investment of $ 5.5 million.

Centralization of Consumable Procurement. Saved procurement cost by $ 12,000 annually, by successfully integrating consumable procurement of 4 distribution centers by aligning procurement cycles (PO), negotiating better rates with suppliers, initiating resource sharing within departments.

Procurement of Third Party Logistics Service Provider. Led the successful establishment of the ‘Iceland’ frozen food retail brand with a cross-functional team involving supply chain, marketing, finance, and legal personnel. Developed and executed detailed project and risk plans. Delivered a non-capital based supply chain model featuring outsourced warehousing with partner APL Logistics.

Symphony Services (Harman Telecom) Apr 2008 – Dec 2008

Sr. Functional Analyst

Project: To take over the Product Support Service (PSS)and QA operations from ALDATA, Paris team as a part of outsourcing operations. As new outsourcing partner, objective was to take over the operations and train QAs and developers.

1.Written and validated test cases from Retail giant - Carrefour. Manager defect reporting and resolution in CLEARQUEST.

2.Provided functional training to QA and developers.

3.Strong functional experience in Retail domain (GOLD product)

4.Proficient in Merchandise Assortment Planning, Supplier Management, Orders (return, transfer of goods), Pricing, Cost, billing or invoice matching, inbound and outbound interface.

5.Experience in analyzing the requirements and writing functional specifications for SCM (Retail domain).

Shoppers Stop Mumbai, India

Senior Executive – Distribution & Logistics Aug 2004 – Mar 2008

Automate Dispatch Module: Written BRD, FRD for updating dispatch information about shipments in JDE. After customer order is picked and shipped in the JDE WMS, additional process has been included in the system to update the dispatch document details, date and time of dispatch,

Reverse logistics module: Project aim was to include returns and damage stock in system from manual process. I have lead the project of writing a business case, collecting the requirements and coordinating with the developer lead in the coding phase. This project systematized the flow of returned stock and provided visibility to B&M (buying and merchandisers) and accounting team.

EDI program - Automated style set & SKU code generation for item purchase from suppliers. SKU codes are later used as primary key for all transactions - purchase, transfer, sales, return

Standard Operating Procedure. Successfully implemented SOP for new retail store opening process in collaboration with Buying & Merchandising, Accounts, Projects and Store Planning departments. The process helped to streamline new store openings and reduce the lead time from property lease to opening from 45 to 30 days.

PROCTOR & GAMBLE Mumbai, India

Executive January 2004 – August 2004

Trained CFA’s to run profit centers at Optimized Inventory holding, control & monitor damages.

TNT Mumbai,India

Executive – Operations May 2002 – December 2003

Strengthened Business Associates team (from 150 to 300 numbers), Implemented uniform & transparent payment policies, Initiated BA Training programs

EDUCATION

MS Project Management, 2017, GPA: 3.9 George Washington University

MBA (Operations), 2002, GPA: 3.8 Mumbai University

B. E (Chemical Engineering), 2000, GPA: 3.0 D.J.Sanghvi COE

PROFESSINOAL ASSOCIATION – CHAPTER: WASHINGTON, DC

PMI, Core committee member of PMI for PMP exam development & PMBOK standards, Beta Gama Sigma

Awards – The George Washington University - Service Excellence Award 2017

Dubai Special Economic Zone’s Best Distribution Center – Re-Export Category – 2012

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