Aswitha Samudrala
Bengaluru
Summary
Manufacturing & Supply Chain Operations professional with 3+ years of experience supporting high-volume production environments across automotive and industrial sectors. Experienced in production planning, supply continuity, demand forecasting, capacity alignment, and operational risk mitigation. Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, planning, procurement, and manufacturing teams to support production ramp and operational excellence.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant - Volkswagen Group
Accenture
Bengaluru
04.2024 - Current
- Aligned MPS/MRP strategies to assembly lines across multiple plants with a capacity of ~1200 batteries/day.
- Optimized MRP Type, Planning Strategy (MTS/MTO), and lot-sizing procedures in SAP to stabilize production.
- Designed scrap, rework, and recovery frameworks improving yield visibility and variance control by ~10%.
- Reduced assembly line stoppage risk by 18% through recalibrating safety stock (service level 95%), optimizing GR processing time by 1.2 days, and tightening planned delivery lead-time parameters across 2,500+ SKUs.
- Reduced WIP & RM buffers by changing reorder points & lot-sizing logic, reducing inventory by ~8–12%.
- Supported production sequencing alignment with JIT and Just-In-Sequence (JIS) supply requirements.
Consulting Analyst - Campus Shoes
Accenture
Bengaluru
06.2023 - 03.2024
- Performed an AS-IS analysis & VSM Analysis of E2E material movement within plan to produce processes.
- Led 15+ business workshops as PP SPOC, driving requirement sign-off, and solution governance
- Defined unplanned recovery & reuse strategy, enabling valuation accuracy & reducing write-offs by ~8%.
- Exposed to SAP–MES integration for real-time confirmations, scrap posting, and rework tracking, improving
shop-floor visibility and execution accuracy and worked on reducing discrepancies.
Management Trainee
PepsiCo
Mumbai
04.2022 - 10.2022
- Executed As - is & To - be analysis of the SAP transportation planning & GTMS order processing systems
- Conducted breakeven point analysis of the demand for 10 states & 2 plants to see order clubbing feasibility
- Determined the optimal order frequencies for 400+ distributors to raise avg. load size & GTMS led servicing
- Spearheaded physical validation of the distributor warehouse capacities of 4 states to develop master data
- Anticipated the future Safety Stock savings in Pune - Surat case through the adoption of clubbed load strategy
- Proposed a plan to execute CPFR for enhanced inventory a ggregation & cost optimization with GTMS
- Successfully determined the breakeven points of 10 plants & 2 states to be varying in the range of 60 – 70%
- Governed the potential order club bing opportunities to ramp by 6.86x times (377 - 2587) the current clubbing
- Accounted the savings of 6000+ cases in safety stock for Pune – Surat's case through demand centralization
- Offered a direct pre - placement offer and special appreciation by CXOs for the fastest project deliverables
Procurement Officer
Greenko Energies
Hyderabad
09.2019 - 03.2020
- Responsible for procurement and sourcing of MRO materials for O&M of renewable energy projects
- Assisted senior management in preparation of contracts and tenders & monitored project review meetings
- Monitored validity of financial securities like Bank Guarantees, LOC for Bids, Contracts and Orders
- Co - Authored, reviewed Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the C&P processes of open tenders
- Vendor selection through Multi - Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
- Performed cost analysis of 60+ Cr. Sorang HEP 100MW to know long term feasibility using NPV method
- Co - ordinated and monitored CSR activities at IREP Pinnapuram with the assistance of site engineering team
- Issued POs worth 50L+ while saving 5L which is 10% of the total order value through negotiation & VM
Education
MBA - Supply Chain Management
IIM Mumbai (NITIE)
Mumbai03-2023
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
NIT Andhra Pradesh
Tadepalligudem04-2019
12th Class - Maths, Physics And Chemistry
Narayana Junior College
Hyderabad04-2015
10th Class -
Narayana E-Techno School
Proddatur04-2013
Skills
- SAP Production Planning
- SAP Materials Management
- Entry Level Certificate in Business Analysis by IIBA
- Advanced Excel
- Data Visualization tools (Tableau & Power BI)
- Business and Operations Analytics Certification by IIM Mumbai
Timeline
Consultant - Volkswagen Group
Accenture
04.2024 - Current
Consulting Analyst - Campus Shoes
Accenture
06.2023 - 03.2024
Management Trainee
PepsiCo
04.2022 - 10.2022
Procurement Officer
Greenko Energies
09.2019 - 03.2020
MBA - Supply Chain Management
IIM Mumbai (NITIE)
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
NIT Andhra Pradesh
12th Class - Maths, Physics And Chemistry
Narayana Junior College
10th Class -
Narayana E-Techno School