Navaneetha Brungi

Digitalization

DataIngestion

• Driven the process of data ingestion using Agile methodology from source to target snowflake collaborating with stakeholders of business, analytics, and DE
• Led the process of RPA (robotic process automation) to automate the data availability from 3rd party vendor sites to client environment and reduced the manual efforts by 90% for datamaintenance and improved the dataquality
• Used Azure DevOps for seamless project tracking and cross-functional team communication, leading to an increase in transparency, team collaboration, and reduction of project completion timeline by 50%

Datamodeling

• Led the creation of data models for a Warehouse and Transportation system, streamlining tracking the efficiencies of warehouse processes and fulfillment.
• Designed persona-based (CEO, VP, Manager) views for Logistics providing insights into operational efficiency, Planning, and Optimization KPIs

Predictive Analytics

Labour Capacity Planning:

• Saved ~$2M by developing a labor capacity planning tool that suggests hiring/ramping down the headcount by considering demand forecasts and performance variability for upcoming weeks

Distribution Planning :

• Led a team of 4 members for forecasting sales at material_plant_category_shipto_incoterms level for a CPG client with a 3-month avg forecast accuracy of 84%

Inventory Analytics

• Built data pipelines and visualization to provide visibility into upcoming inbound inventory, facilitating fulfilment center managers to better plan their warehouse storage utilization
• Developed a visualization to identify high-velocity items for mirroring in specific fulfillment centers (FCs) and low-moving items for removal from FCs, enhancing warehouse storage utilization.

Descriptive Analytics

• Partnered with business and successfully delivered various process improvement initiatives
• Drove redevelopment of the reporting tools, collaborating with business, operations, and technical team resulting in 10+new features, ~20 person-hours saved every week improving the adaptability of the report to 95%
• Led the process of timely migration from legacy systems ensured zero downtime in ~12 critical dashboards
• Pioneered the development of a report that provided visibility to around 7000 trailers weekly across 600 clubs and 18 SDCs to respective Market Managers and Outbound Transportation Team
• Managed process re-engineering to improve the customer service by consolidating end-to-end service requirements and rationalizing the dashboard count from 75+ to 43 over 6 months reduced significant man hours by 50%

• Gathered requirements from business, understood the AS-IS process of production planning and transportation team
• Responsible for creating a network-level forecasting model for 7 regions with a 3-month average accuracy of 75% at the Product- Week level and 80% at the Network level
• Designed the business logic for an automated solution that calculates Duty Cost
• Responsible for Data mapping for the Material requirement planning process for the Digital Leaf Project

Energy Analytics

• Helped team forecast Energy Consumption across factories with a 3-month average of 92%

Client: Mc-Donalds (MCD) Execution spread: PAN India - 300+SKUs, 5 DCs, 400+ stores, 60+ Vendors Key Deliverables

• Successfully delivered 15+ ambiguous and complex projects, with each project spanning from 3 months to 1 year within agreed timelines, scope, and budget
• Collaborated with 10 different departments ensuring seamless collaboration, communication, and accelerating product delivery from supplier warehouse to all MCD Stores
• Created project plans and identified critical milestones by tracking progress using 5 important project metrics (OTIF, SIFOT, New revenue generated, Average inventory cost, Obsolete inventory cost)
• Communicated timely the progress of the program to MCD and internal departments' higher management, thus improving the success of the project
• Identified opportunities for cost reduction through transportation, and warehousing that reduced slow-moving inventory across depots using approved inventory and distribution strategies
• Handled material requirement planning process for all NPD portfolio products managing suppliers, transportations team ensuring that all stores have the right materials , in the right quantity, at the right time, to meet the NPD project management

Key Achievements

• Saved 23% of the overall annual inventory cost of LTO Stock through effective distribution strategies
• Designed and delivered SOP for program management of NPD

• Delivered OTIF projects on Reports, Interfaces, Enhancements, and Smart forms (RICEF Objects)
• Proposed and developed a reusable tool for ALV reports
• Developed Enhancements (RICEF) for efficient PO creator email notifications
• Reduced ALV report processing speed by 50%