Keywords
Skills
Supply Chain Management
SAP EWM
SAP TM
SAP SCM
Warehousing
Transportation
Carrier
LSP
SAP EWM
SAP TM
SAP SCM
Warehousing
Transportation
Carrier
LSP
Project history
Project: Transformation of Spare Parts Supply Chain Client: Bajaj Auto a Leading 2&3 wheeler Manufacturer
Key Project Highlights
Project Specific Key Activities
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Project Achievements
Project: BPR & Simplification of IT LandscapeClient: Asian Paints an Indian Paint Industry Leader
Key Project Highlights
Project Specific Key Activities
Project Achievements
Pre-Sales: Proposal of Solution & Implementation Approach Client: DHL IPR an IoT based driver relay model carrier
Solution Highlights
Key Project Highlights
- Largest Spare Parts Warehouse in India with 3,60,000 sqft area
- Biggest Pick to Light (PTL) implementation with 1640 lights
- Wide SKU Base with around 20,000 live parts catered to dealers & distributors across globe
- Multiple Stakeholders to be managed – Bajaj Auto’s IT, Business, Ops, Engineering teams, Bastian Team
Project Specific Key Activities
- Lead a team of 6-8 consultants of diversified skill sets and experience
- Understand characteristics of Part based on 2-D classification (ABC, FMS Analyses) & dimensions
- Identify suitable storage & automation systems, considering throughput, space, future growth & peaks
- Formulate product placement and storage strategy considering product category and storage systems
- Suggest DOCs based on the product category, average throughput and Evaluate the life of Warehouse
- Develop methods to identify root causes for lower fill rates and address them for better serviceability
- Implement Batch, Cluster and Order Picking Strategies based on Product Category & Order Quantity
Project Specific Key Activities
- Devise order based & automatic fixed bin replenishment strategies along with negative available stock
- Implement Automation systems like – SBL, PTL, High Speed Sorting conveyor systems
- Enable the re-engineered processes and automation systems through SAP EWM and Bastian WCS systems
- Design interfaces between EWM-WCS systems through SAP – PI required to meet business requirements
- Use standard SAP EWM functionalities to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of the solution
- Manage daily operations post Go – Live for seamless transition and ensuring the attainment of KPIs set
- Devise a plan for migration of stock from old warehouse to new warehouse
Project Achievements
- 50% fall in WIP inventory by developing wave strategies basis Transporter & Business Units (2/3 wheeler)
- 32% improvement in storage space utilization through stock merging & enabling add to existing process
- 23% improvement in Fill Rate from 65% to 88% and reduction in average DOC from 72 Days to 54 Days
- 6 folds increase in the throughput of the warehouse from the original 2,200 lines to 13,500 lines per day
Project: BPR & Simplification of IT LandscapeClient: Asian Paints an Indian Paint Industry Leader
Key Project Highlights
- Implementation of solution at Two Physically distant Warehouses (BSR & DC) considering the GST era
- Double Deep ASRS with 5040 bins catering to around 97% of overall throughput, becoming a bottleneck
- Mandate to eliminate WMS+WCS based two tier system landscape & replace it with single EWM system
Project Specific Key Activities
- Lead an amazing team of 10-12 consultants of diversified skill sets and experience
- Understand current processes, baseline ASRS’s & warehouse’s productivity and throughput
- Transform the IT landscape and make the system and processes GST ready
- Decentralize warehouse processes from ECC & ensuring seamless material flow between BSR & FG DC
- Finalize product placement based product characteristics & effort of SRM to access each bin in ASRS
- Design optimal putaway & re – arrangement strategies for ASRS for improved storage efficiency
- De-bottleneck ASRS by proposing & implementing Inbound Driven Opportunistic Cross Dock
- Design optimal Re-Org strategy to reduce the number of Re-Orgs and thus improve ASRS throughput
- Develop picking strategies basis order quantity, product characteristics/location, effort, need for reorg etc
- Devise Interleaving Strategy basis distance optimality & delivery priority for improved SRM throughput
- Use of EWM MFS to control the ASRS for better stability. reliability and reduced latency
- Design ASRS Emulator system for fast track, low cost testing
- Instrumental in actual Hardware Testing with ASRS system during 3rd Shift
- Ensured seamless transition to the Re-engineered processes with thorough testing, training
- Fortify future Kaizens/Re-engineering projects with detailed documentation of process & system design
Project Achievements
- 13% improvement in ASRS throughput with improved picking, putaway, re-org and interleaving strategies
- 17% reduction in the load on ASRS using inter & intraday opportunistic cross docking
- 18% reduction in number of Re-orgs as a percent of number of pick tasks
- Zero Business disruptions due to IT/Process issues post Go – Live
Pre-Sales: Proposal of Solution & Implementation Approach Client: DHL IPR an IoT based driver relay model carrier
Solution Highlights
- Enlist happy and exceptional scenarios for holistic process & solution design
- Design Order Capturing process (along with E-Way bill Part - A) using a SAP Fiori based application
- Develop order planning algorithms to identify best Truck and Drivers considering various parameters
- Identify & Design interfaces with IoT systems (T4U) to monitor and track execution
- Design an Android based Driver App & its interfaces with other systems (SAP TM, SAP EM, GIS, T4U)
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- An Award Wining Supply Chain, Technology & Program Management Professional with 40 months of experience in leading Transformations for Companies like – DHL SmarTrucking, Asian Paints, Bajaj Auto
- Expertise in SAP EWM, SAP TM, Business Process Re-engineering, Program Management, Team & Stakeholder Management, Warehousing, Logistics, Procurement
- Worked closely with CXOs, VPs of leading firms on projects aimed at improving the Service Levels, Operational Efficiencies & Throughputs, Reducing Costs impacting the Bottomlines & Customer Service
- Currenlty leading the ERP Implementation for DHL SmarTrucking to enable the business with an end to end integrated system covering processes from Customer Onboarding, Customer Quotation Response, Contract & Order Management, Trip Planning, Execution, Invoicing and Fleet Management
- Re-engineer Asian Paints warehouse by De-Bottlenecking the ASRS & Improving overall throughput
- Improved the order fill rate of Bajaj Auto Spares Warehouse by 23% & increased the throughput by 6 fold
- Instrumental in creating Solution & Commercial proposals for wide range of projects across industries
- An Alumnus of NITIE, Mumbai (MBA in Supply Chain Management) & NIT, Surat (Engineering) both being India's top institutes of National Importance
- Six Sigma Green Belt holder
