Skills: SAP MM, MS Excel with VBA, MS Project, MS Access.

SOHAM S DESAI

**** * ******* ** # ***, Dayton, Texas 77535 Phone: 916-***-**** Email: *****.***@*****.***

Objective:

Seeking employment in the field of Industrial Engineering and application of Supply Chain

Education:

Masters of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering

University of Florida Dec 2008

•Major in Inventory and Supply Chain & Minor in Lean Manufacturing

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering

S V N I T Surat, India May 2006

•Major in Supply Chain & Minor in Manufacturing Engineering

Professional Experience:

Industrial Engineer: Agri Bio Fuel Feb 2009 - Present

•Resolve shop floor technical issues to achieve shop throughput and quality goals

•Responsible for increasing productivity through combined work steps, removing non-value added tasks, adding automation and the development of effective work practices

•Filter promotional volume from history to obtain baseline forecast and suggest appropriate statistical models to improve forecast accuracy

•Minimize cost through maintaining low inventory level of raw material for internal processing needs

•Perform 5s implementation and lean manufacturing principals in day to day activities

Supply Chain Intern: Southern California Edison (LA, CA) May 2008 – Aug 2008

•Bi-weekly expense forecasting analysis and company wide volume forecasting for quarterly and full year

•Benchmarked the procedure for company wide forecasting of annual sells

•Maintaining project schedules, tracking associated cost and critical paths for on going projects

•Prepared vendor master from legacy system in MS Excel with use of macro programming for SAP implementation

•Prepared Cost Benefit Analysis through market research to determine price of product or service

•Conducted Simulation for procurement and logistics with SCM team for developing Interim Procedure

Senior Buyer: Ispat Industries Ltd. Mumbai, India July 2006 - July 2007

•Led a team of three members in purchasing contracts having annual budget of 8.7 to 10 million dollars

•Ensured optimal inventory level and cost reduction through converting the contracts into annual rate contract and implementation of min-max and desktop contracts

•Enhanced cost benefits through application of category management concept, negotiation, reverse auction

•Collaborated a detail project on vendor analysis to benchmark selection and assessment process for vendor

•Achieved cost reduction through detail analysis for the surplus inventory

Academic Project:

•Developed a Project in M.S.Excel using VBA to solve the Economic Lot sizing problem to achieve minimum inventory holding cost at maximum profitability

•Developed a new design for Ladder Steadier as a course work in Product Development

Software Skills:

• SAP R/3 MM Module • M.S. Excel with MACRO programming

• M.S Access • M.S Project

• E-Procurement • Lotus Notes

• M.S. Visio • Reverse Auction

Leadership & Activity:

• Member of APICS

• Committee member of Institute of Industrial Engineers

• Core committee member of a national level symposium at college in India

Work Authorization:

Presently working on H1-B Visa.

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