Production Planner

TEJAL POTE

Mobile: 682-***-**** E-mail: ***********@*****.*** LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tejalpote Passionate industrial Engineer with experience in the manufacturing company have ability to increase productivity in the most efficient way. Expert in production planning supply chain management & continuous improvement process and operations with great interpersonal skills.

Education

• Master’s in Industrial Engineering (3.5 GPA) University of Texas at Arlington August 2017 - May 2019

• Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute August 2012 - May 2016 Skills

• Expertise: Lean manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, Time-study, SAP, 5s, Kanban, Financial, forecasting, SPC, ERP, LPP

• Software: SAS, Minitab, Tableau, Advance Excel, MS-office

• Drafting and Modelling: AutoCAD, ZW-CAD, Solidworks, Creo Courses

• Introduction to Industrial Engineering (IE), Statistics, Production and Inventory control (PNIC), Global supply chain management (GSM), Logistics transportation system (LTS), Operation Research (OR), Metrics and Measurement, Advanced Engg. Economy, Applied Regression Analysis, Facilities Planning, and Design Work Experience

• Production Planning Associate Engineer at LG Electronics, USA August 2019 – Present

Made production schedule and prioritizes the models in order to optimize the production plan. Also reviewed capacity of different shops and suppliers to optimize the production schedule.

Participated in rework & quality management events & scheduling rework and communicated with different teams

Forecasting with market trends, seasonality, and demand. Adjustment of moving plan and ensure 100% demand fulfillment rate and 95-100% on-time delivery rate weekly.

Communicated with shop floor management to discuss the manufacturing related issues and efficiencies of each shop to find out the neck items.

Managed WIP & finished goods inventory in the warehouse.

Worked on the ERP system to create, maintain, and update master data in INVM, FPM, OWM & WIPM modules.

Participated in inventory Audit every month and got 100% inventory each month.

Managed a new RAPID system with different departments to match the physical and system inventory and reduced 75% of discrepancy issues. Managed all KPIs above 90%.

Assisted in new product development, reviewed new part drawings, and BOM

• Associate Planner at Panera Bread August 2018- May 2019

Apply JIT for the perishable food items. Reduce wastage by implementing 5s in the store.

Receiving and validating all the materials, assist in organizing it in such a way which will reduce the time consumption. Keep track of inventory levels in store. Create the production schedule & workforce schedule

Analyzed demand by gathering data & assist in forecasting which improved efficiency of the store by 18%.

• Graduate Engineer Trainee at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Ltd. August 2016 – July 2017

Worked as a Research and Development engineer in the new product development team.

Documented the process, Created BOM, Part drawings. Assist in supervising labors in prototype shop, optimization, and cost estimation of products. Managed the assembly line.

Effective use of ERP (BAAN) system in procurement, dispatch, and manufacturing process. Understanding of IS0 9001 standards. Successfully completed Campus to Corporate and various Safety training Certifications

• Green Belt Six Sigma (IISE), Lean Inventory Management, Tableau Essential Training, Logistics Foundation certificate, SAP student recognition award, Operational Excellence Foundations Projects

• Application of DMAIC at the connection café of UTA.

Utilize lean tools (DMAIC) to reduce the waste in the connection café. An overall reduction in waste by 32.5%

Analyze issues with root cause analysis, fishbone diagram. Application of statistical chart for analysis.

• Analyze the real-world data and summarize data statistically.

Application of statistical tools and perform hypothesis tests on real-time data.

Advanced Excel is used to do statistical analysis and interpret the trend in the data.

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