Abhishek Kulkarni
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced professional specializing in materials planning. Skilled in managing inventory, forecasting demand, and optimizing supply chain processes. Recognized for exceptional collaboration abilities, ensuring seamless coordination across teams and departments, resulting in consistent delivery of results. Adaptable and dependable, able to adjust to changing needs while maintaining high standards. Possessing 7.5 years of work experience.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Materials Planning Analyst
Lam Research
03.2022 - Current
- Responsible for material planning and inventory management for manufacturing and regional plants
- Material forecasting based on past consumption, demand signals and maintain right safety stock
- Achieved monthly KPI such as OTD, emergency service level, inventory turns and inventory level to achieve financial targets
- Inventory optimization by actively involving in redeployment, write-offs, fire sale and maintain right excess inventories database.
- Involved in continuous improvement projects to achieve business goals
- Contributed to building supply chain alerts tool which improved OTD from 95% to 97%, reduced excess inventory by 5% and achieved Inventory turns goal
- Managed CSPP program where we maintain specific pool of inventory for tier 1 customers.
- Fulfill all other dependent demands such as work orders, BOM orders, reservations, sales orders.
Demand & Inventory Planner
Halliburton
01.2021 - 03.2022
- Handled complete end-to-end operations, material planning, procurement for Production Enhancement and Solutions product line for SEAA
- Planned materials based on project demand signals and procured/manufactured them to fulfill project and customer requirements
- Improved inventory turn ratio and reduced gross inventory, slow move and excess/obsolete inventory
- Met monthly/quarterly KPI such as DIO, gross/slow move inventory level target, On-time delivery target and forecasted usage targets.
- MRP based planning by maintaining right reorder, safety stock levels to cover the variations in demand
- Handle procurement/manufacturing of materials with negotiation with vendors to meet the planned sale/usage and also managing logistic requirements with cost saving and on time delivery targets
Supply Chain Advisory Analyst
Accenture
09.2020 - 01.2021
- Employment transfer from Baker Hughes so the role/responsibilities are same.
Material Planning and Execution Specialist
Baker Hughes
07.2017 - 09.2020
- Supported manufacturing facilities in material planning and procurement and internal sourcing for completions product line
- Managed all work orders for the AMO business unit
- Worked on order allocation, order validation and inventory netting
- Worked on capacity planning of manufacturing locations for completions product line
- Developed and executed cost/time saving opportunities by automating/improving existing processes.
- Analyze data and convert them into meaningful reports, dashboards to provide good visibility on trend on complete material performance to higher management/directors
Education
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering -
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Bangalore, Karnataka01.2016
Skills
- SAP MM
- Vanguard & Service Part Planning Software
- Material and inventory planning
- Demand and capacity planning
- Supply chain and project management
- Cost saving and inventory optimization
- Process Automation, improvement and standardization
- MRP planning and Demand forecasting
- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio)
- VBA/Macros for Automations
- Problem-Solving & Analytical Skills
- Process Improvement
Accomplishments
- Successfully implemented order validation/allocation procedure for Completions& DS at Baker Hughes
- Manage to reduce around $1.5M excess and slow move inventory in financial year at Halliburton
- Streamline the ordering and planning procedure to improve the customer deliverables Halliburton
- Developed automation tool to save 4hour/week for logistics team in updating data into SAP at Halliburton
- Implemented the repair part utilization project which helped in $1M savings per year at Lam Research
Languages
English
Hindi
Kannada
Training
- Lean Six Sigma training at Baker Hughes
- PS & DM Training at Lam Research
- Power BI training at Udemy
Timeline
Sr. Materials Planning Analyst
Lam Research
03.2022 - Current
Demand & Inventory Planner
Halliburton
01.2021 - 03.2022
Supply Chain Advisory Analyst
Accenture
09.2020 - 01.2021
Material Planning and Execution Specialist
Baker Hughes
07.2017 - 09.2020
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering -
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
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