AJINKYA SHIRISH JOSHI

Boston, MA, ***** 617-***-**** adk5r7@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn

SUMMARY

Lean academy certified graduate student with around 2 years of professional experience in supply chain planning, strategic sourcing, and lean manufacturing techniques to create business impact in manufacturing industries EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Northeastern University, Boston, MA May 2021

Master of science in Engineering Management, GPA 3.9/4.00 University of Mumbai, India June 2017

Bachelor of engineering in Production Engineering

Certifications – LAI Lean Academy, Tableau Analyst, Tableau Desktop (May 2021), PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vapotherm Inc, New Hampshire, Supply Chain Planner/Buyer Co-op Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

• Proactively managed multiple suppliers to accommodate un-forecasted demand increases during uncertain COVID times, by leveraging ERP data to analyse production plan and expediting vital ventilator components, reducing long lead times

• Spearheaded business process automation project for purchase order requisition (POR), improving cycle time by 50%

• Negotiated with supplier to save $2.50 per component (power supply) by placing blanket purchase orders

• Drove a cross-functional project on a strict deadline, to avert stock-out situations by performing product qualification, new supplier onboarding & evaluation process

• Collaborated with QA team to ensure compliance for REACH & ROHS, performing supplier qualification with scorecards

• Analysed Kanban racks, conducted cycle counts, identified gaps in supply plans and updated MRP, to mitigate risks from vendor managed inventory (VMI) for successful implementation of just-in-time (JIT) production

• Tracked & presented key performance indicators (KPI) to align production capacity plans with forecasted demand

• Resolved PO delivery and payment issues with suppliers and cleared discrepant invoices with accounts payable IDOS Consultants PVT Ltd, Mumbai, Marketing Engineer June 2017 - Sept 2017

• Determined data driven feasibility check of upcoming and new products by conducting market research with customers

• Proposed lean engineering solutions & designed process flow maps to accommodate customers’ production issues SIEMENS Ltd, Motor factory, Navi Mumbai, Graduate Engineering Trainee July 2016 - Dec 2016

• Increased motion efficiency by 30% of Motor Washing station by designing cloth dispensers and waste cloth collectors

• Recommended layout design to commission new caulking machine and established shadow boards at 5 workstations

• Led a team of 4 trainees to draft and install 24 standard operating procedures (SOP) to accomplish Standardized work SKILLS

Supply Chain: Supplier management, Purchase order requisitions, Sourcing, Demand Management, Procurement, Demand forecasting, Supply planning, Inventory analysis, MRP, Material management Databases & Visualization: My SQL, MS SQL, Advanced excel (V-lookup, Pivot Tables, Macros), R, Tableau, Flourish, Power BI Process Improvement: 5S, Value stream mapping, Kaizen, Kanban pull system, TPM, 7QC, JIT, DMAIC, Six Sigma, Lean engineering, Continuous improvement, Material review board, Tools: Epicor (ERP), Auto CAD, Inventor, Microsoft Office, SAP ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Investment analysis for a Film production company – Northeastern University Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

• Developed Tableau data visualizations combining multiple data, for over 10,000 movies to find most profitable genre

• Mastered designing Tableau dashboards with rich visualizations deploying cross tabs, heat maps, box, and whisker charts Vehicle vending machine – Northeastern University Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

• Developed database management system for vehicle vending machine, creating SQL stored procedures, triggers, cursors, views, joins, indexes, functions, grouping, unions, conducted aggregation on vehicle and customer data

• Built dynamic dashboards with interactive views and drill down with comprehensive reports to critique sales data, inventory, strategy plans and sales quota, profit and loss, operating Tableau and PowerBI Economic analysis of heat treatment furnaces – Northeastern University May 2019 - June 2019

• Established most economically viable furnace for 5 year planning horizon, applying cash flows, production reports, annual budget. Evaluated Economic Analysis of 3 options: using discounted payback period, present, annual, and future worth

• Computed RISK Analysis and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) by applying advanced excel techniques Automation of caulking operation & Waste free workstation – SIEMENS Ltd July 2016 - April 2017

• Automated caulking operation, saving process time by 40 minutes and boosted productivity by 45 %, by implementing lean principles 5S, chalk circle exercise and TIMWOOD and designed caulking tool using Auto CAD

• Calculated ROI of new process practicing Maynard Operation Sequence Technique (MOST), yielding a 30% increase in profit

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