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Director, Global Inventory Control

Canadore@Stanford College

Instructor Supply Chain Management

Longo's

•	Led 6 direct reports and 15 indirect reports for receiving, shipping and warehousing on day to day basis to meet $2 million Logistics budget 
•	Spearheaded Longos on –time delivery performance by optimizing store the delivery schedule, and managing fleet of 8 trucks, 42 reefers and 13 dry vans for 50 ambient and temperature-controlled deliveries per day
•	Established quality control process to decrease warehouse shrink on dock and during transportation to create cost saving of $50,000 annually 
•	Decreased transportation cost by $150,000 annually by route optimization, ensuring full truck loads, decreasing repairs and decreasing 407 usage	
•	Managed employee performance and development, provided feedback, and conducted annual appraisals
•	Managed over 50 vendor deliveries and vendor pick-ups on daily basis to fulfil store and thus customer demand in timely manner by establishing strong communication with supply chain and operations team
•	Successfully established and managed flow-through distribution process for ambient product at off-site location to decrease congestion on dock

Inventory Control and Purchasing Manager - CK

Logistics and Dock Control Manager

•	Redesigned Warehouse Mapping to help create Engineering Labour Standards for warehouse operations and  increase overall productivity by 5%
•	Spearheaded article data improvement project to feed better data to the warehouse management system thus decreasing faults, increasing lot sizes and improving space utilization by 10%
•	Conceptualized a warehouse slotting optimization model to move product position in warehouse based on case movement and article dimensions that resulted in decreased damages and refills by 10% and increased ergonomics
•	Tracked and documented close to expiry products to help supply chain team create an exit strategy for the products from warehouse to stores that decreased warehouse shrink by $100,000 annually
•	Developed cost benefit analysis for full pallet vs. partial pallet orders to help buyers optimize warehouse ordering system that created $150,000 cost savings annually in terms of labour cost, equipment cost and holding cost
•	Spearheaded change management project to move from year-end inventory counts to daily inventory counts by creating and streamlining inventory count process thus improving inventory control and achieve 95% inventory accuracy in warehouse
•	Established a damage control process to reclaim the sellable skus thus creating a cost saving of $50,000 annually

Warehouse Management Systems and Process Optimization Consultant

Amazon

•	Lead and supervise a team of 50+ contract employees to ensure delivery of over 20,000 packages per day to customers with a delivery success rate of 99.8%.
•	Collaborated with AMZL launch team and 3rd party Logistics Company (GO Logistics) to ramp operations of new AMZL facility from 1000 packages per day to 10,000 packages per day.
•	Proactively identify and lead process improvement for 3rd party logistics companies working for AMZL to help them achieve minimum time to load out vehicles from Amazon facility and achieve maximum time on road for successful deliveries.
•	Trained new hourly employees in Amazon operations, software, and safety to ensure their success at workplace

Area Operations Manager AMZL

Schulich School of Business - York University

Host information session, events, and conversations around Schulich's graduate programs

Work closely with Marketing & Recruitment, and Student Services to reach out to potential and admitted students

Ambassador, Graduate Admissions

Hindustan Zinc Limited, A Sesa-Sterlite Company

In-charge of plant operations, inventory and production planning and forecasting: Led a diverse workforce of 71 employees to achieve business plan targets by maintaining key performance indicators (KPIs)

Analyzed data and process parameters to optimize inventory levels of consumables and decrease consumption of key consumable by 18% thus achieving $1.5 million in annual cost savings

Spearheaded vendor management projects to develop new vendors and maintain relationships with current vendors thus ensuring 100% availability of key consumables through timely replenishment

Spearheaded process improvement and equipment debottlenecking project team to decrease plant’s dependency on specific raw material thus increasing plant utilization (KPI) by 10%

Received par excellent award for improving product quality and output of final product (Zinc) by 1% through implementation of Six Sigma methodology that resulted in annual net profit of $1 million

Led safety improvement/change management initiative of implementing isolation systems and increasing personal protective equipment utilization to improve plant safety by 20%

Plant Operations Manager

Received award for conducting fastest plant commissioning that increased overall unit production of Lead, Zinc, and Silver from 5 Million to 6.5 Million tons per annum

Pioneered throughput improvement project by conducting root cause analysis, failure mode effect analysis and making critical design changes in capital equipment to increase plant production from 170 tons per hour to 200 tons per hour

Engineer

JCT ltd

Tracked and optimized process parameters on daily basis to improve process efficiency and to achieve maximum production in a shift

Successfully converted nylon melter heating system from oil to steam heating for efficient reuse of captive power plant’s steam thus lowering heating overhead costs by $0.1 million annually

Graduate Engineer Trainee

Indian Institute of Petroleum

Project: Modeling and Simulation of Biomass Conversion to Fuels and Lubricants 

Finding Activation Energy of different Biomass types with the help of Regression Analysis in Microsoft Excel that included a thorough Research and Data Analysis.

Project Trainee

Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection Limited

Project: Working of Oxalic acid and Sodium Nitrite Plant.
Unit Operations involved in both processes and Operational Safety

Trainee

Supply Chain professional with an MBA in Operations/Supply Chain and Strategic Management focused on helping global organizations achieve their profit goals by implementing process improvements and cost control in their Supply Chain. 

Skills: Vendor management, Inventory Management, Forecasting and Planning, SAP, Data Analysis, MS Excel/Access, Change Management, Unionized Labor Management, Team Management, Negotiations, 5S, Lean Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement

An avid reader, a cricket enthusiast and a life long learner! 

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