Aug 2015 – Oct 2022 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Demand Planning & Forecasting
• Engineered statistical forecasts for 1,100+ SKUs across India Formulations & Biologics, improving forecast accuracy by ~5% and reducing demand bias.
• Partnered with sales & marketing to align consensus forecasts with business targets and market trends.
• Optimized inventory buffers and adjusted forecasts during COVID-19 disruptions, enabling agile response and clearance of near-expiry/non-moving stock through proactive liquidation strategies.
• Conducted pre-MRP meetings and capacity planning to ensure supply-demand alignment across manufacturing plants.
• Long-Range Planning
• Designed 5-year demand outlooks, triggering capacity expansion investments and mitigating bottlenecks.
• Recommended strategic manufacturing enhancements to address future capacity constraints.
• Automation & Analytics Transformation Special Projects
• VIBE (SAP BI/BO Project): Consolidated SAP data into auto-refresh dashboards, eliminating manual Excel reports; improved decision-making speed across supply chain reviews.
• Championed automation of planning & reporting via SAP BI/BO & Tableau, cutting manual effort by 75% and enhancing data consistency.
• PACE (Supply Chain Automation): Co-developed an integrated S&OP tool (Planvisage + Tableau + SAP) with EY, automating forecasting, planning, and MRP; boosted forecast accuracy and standardized senior management reporting.
• Built an ML-powered, access-controlled S&OP platform, reducing cycle times, enabling real-time monitoring, and saving 8–10 manhours/month.
• Impact Highlights:
• ✔ Improved forecast accuracy (+5%) & reduced bias
• ✔ Achieved 75% reduction in manual reporting effort
• ✔ Enabled faster, data-driven decision-making across S&OP
• ✔ Supported capacity expansion aligned to long-term growth

Jun 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Ankleshwar

• Process Planning and Control:- Conversion of Forecasted & Firm Customer Orders into Master Production Schedule (MPS) by mapping all the available capacity and resources. This ensures maximum utilization of available capacity and mapping idle capacity for marketing to decide on taking new orders.
• Make detailed production planning equipment wise, tracking the production activity and take day to day decisions to meet the production targets.
• Material Requirement Planning (MRP): - From the MPS, MRP is derived for a horizon of 3 to 6 months. This MRP is given to Purchase dept. to plan its activities and intimate vendors, based on the lead time and cash flows.
• Making the required changes in the plan as an when required to match the requirement from Marketing Team.
• Deciding the Min, Max Level of the Key Raw Material based on various aspects and controlling it ensure sufficient cash flows, capacity utilization and market reach.
• Corporate Training: - Providing Training to senior management in areas like Total Quality Management and World Class Operations Management Techniques.
• Other Important Roles:- Converting the Strategy that is decided by the top management, into the several milestones and aligning the individual goals towards the organizational goals.
• Planning and Implementation of Preventive Maintenance Activities for Engineering & Maintenance dept.
• Leading a team (Engineering & Maintenance) of 4 Engineers and 10 technicians to ensure minimum break downs and maximum equipment availability.

Jun 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr · Ankleshwar

• Primarily looking after Production Planning and Control.
• Other roles:-
• 1. Making the strategy and execution of special management initiative in the areas of Quality Management, Lean Manufacturing, Good Manufacturing Practices, etc.
• 2. Preventive maintenance to achieve maximum capacity utilization of the plant and efficient utilization of all utilities.
• 3. Resource management to achieve production targets.

Feb 2013 – Mar 2013 · 1 mo · Nasik Area, India

• Project Title: Defect Reduction in the Inner Tube through Process Improvement (Six Sigma Implementation)
• Achievements: 1. Reduction in the total defected parts by 50 %, by implementation of Poka Yoke
• 2. Reduction in the total materials movement & defects by changing the layout from process layout to product layout

Apr 2012 – May 2012 · 1 mo · Sinnar, Nashik

• Internship in operations consists of Process plant improvement to increase overall efficiency of the plant and implementing Poka-Yoke to foolproof kitting operation.
• Project Title: Process Plant Improvement & Implementation of Poka Yoke
• Achievements: 1. Able to identify scope for increase in the efficiency of the Painting Shop from 65% to 84%, resulting in saving of fixed cost for running the plant
• 2. Fool Proofing of the Kitting Operation – By Implementing Poka Yoke
• 3. Reduction in change over time for die from 15 min to 10 seconds – By implementing SMED