Sehal Kammukath

+1-682-***-**** admlmu@r.postjobfree.com 1020 W Abram St., Arlington, Texas-76013

PROFILE SUMMARY

• Productivity-oriented and cost-conscious engineer with 2 years of experience in Distribution field related work, focusing on Process improvement, labor productivity and Lean manufacturing.

• Experience in developing strategy for Quality Improvement plans and Implementation of Lean/Six sigma tools in a healthcare milieu.

EXPERIENCE

Industrial Engineering Intern at Williamson-Dickie Mfg.Co (Dickies) July 2020 – Present

• Analyze the process flow in the production facility using WCS to identify the Root cause of delayed e-commerce orders to improvise the service level agreement from 92% to 98%.

• Develop and automate reports using VBA (macros) for the delayed/aged orders by order type and received time and direct it to the planning and expedite department to improve the fill rate.

• Working with vendors to innovate and improve technology solutions to make equipment distribution processes which are efficient, less time consuming and automated.

• Created macros for automating the repetitive tasks that generate service level agreement reports.

• Identified pick locations in warehouse that create bottleneck due to slotting issues and shifted them to a suitable location.

• Identified and eliminated the process error (root cause) that created discrepancies in the fill rate process.

• Evaluated and tested different alternatives of cost-effective storage systems to store products efficiently and improved picking operation. (Decided on the final product, preparing Work Expenditure Authorization) Quality Engineer at UTSouthwestern June 2019 - August 2019 “Reduction in the number of preventable Emergency Department (ED) visits”

• Root cause analysis of the excess utilization of the Emergency Department was established using the Fishbone diagram.

• Characterized the medical reasons that resulted in 103 ED visits which were flagged to be preventable ones.

• Identified the nature of visit corresponding to “Social Determinants of Health” (SDOH) and tabulated their Zcodes.

• Created zip code heat maps to identify the patient group densities and located the closest community care facilities.

• The planning phase of the PDCA cycle was implemented to integrate the resources of the community and clinic. Continuous Improvement/Process Improvement engineer at Janatha Timber Depot January 2017 – July 2018:

• Reviewing stock levels and analyzed lead time to generate stock requests to vendors for various types of lumber, high

& medium density fiberboard, and prepared SOP for the lumber operations.

• Identified bottleneck in the planer machine workshop and reduced customer lead time close to 10%.

• Implemented Lean Six Sigma to the Tool crib arrangement, which resulted in reduced tool pick up time by 62.5% and eventually eliminated idle time of the workers and this also contributed to the increased throughput of the planer process.

• Rearranged the location of products based on the product pick data and reduced the average pick time close to 40%.

• Launched online portal with a team for acquiring more customers and increased the sales by around 15%. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Six Sigma - Green belt (IISE), SAP ERP 6, Oracle SQL, Purchase Orders, Procurement, Supply and Demand Planning, Warehousing, TPM Time study and Motion study 5S, SIPOC, SWOT, Pareto chart, Process Mapping, DMAIC, Root cause analysis, FMEA, Kaizen, TQM, Kanban, Inventory Planning, Forecasting, Capacity Planning, BOM, Production Scheduling

MS Office, MS Excel, Tableau, Pivot Tables Machine Learning Concepts (Multiple Linear Regression) Metrics & Measurement, Facilities Planning & Design, Statistics, Logistics distribution system. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

• Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington [August 2018 - May 2020] CGPA:3.8/4

• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, Anna University [August 2014 - April 2018] CGPA: 8.2/10 ACADEMIC PROJECTS

FACILITY DESIGN AND PLANNING Fall 2019

• Data analysis of Receipts and Outbound operations to visualize the product trend (Wholesale, Festival, E-commerce).

• Re-slotted the products based on SKU velocity (High velocity) which reduced the overall picking time by 42%.

• Facilitated cost savings in labor by 40% which was triggered by the re-slotting of the high pick products in thefacility.

• Determined the number of dock doors required with the help of truck loading/unloading time, safety factor, the total hours.

ERP Configuration case: Configuration case for Global Bikes, Inc Fall 2019 Created the following modules for Global Bikes Inc. using SAP ERP 6: Financial, Accounting, Procurement, Fulfillment, Production, Material Planning.

Designing a Warehouse: Logistics Distribution System Spring 2019

• Identified key performance metrics (KPI’s) to be improvised and planned the space requirements for the plant layout, keeping in mind the specifications of the products, aisle width and the rack height.

• With the proposed design, the labor efficiency in the facility was increased by 18% from the previous value.

• Cost saving in the picking process was achieved and a savings of 10.11% were obtained by rearranging the SKU location. VOLUNTEER WORK

Director of Publicity and Public Relations of APICS at The University of Texas at Arlington August 2019 – May 2020