BRIJENDRA YADAV

• Leading and facilitating monthly production forecast and statistical models in collaboration with demand planning, supply chain, sales, and new product introduction teams, resulting in an average forecast accuracy of 80%.

• Preparing, Monitoring and Alerting Manufacturing plants about Internal (in-house) and external (Supplier) capacity constraints based on Operations constrained forecast after Gate 2 phase of SIOP.

• Leveraged data analytics and insights as part of Center of Excellence (COE) team, identifying trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement. Implemented data-driven strategies that enhanced Supply Chain operations performance by 15%.

• Successful rollout and training of Anaplan cloud, Power BI dashboards, PowerApps applications at BU level by educating and empowering stakeholders for self-service reporting and analytics.

• Drive development of best practices in Anaplan planning system and integrated SAP ERP within local Business Unit manufacturing sites.

• Acted as super user of Anaplan cloud planning system incl Integration of SAP APO and SAP-IBP functionality along with providing training and support to team members, streamlining planning processes, and driving system enhancements to meet evolving business needs.

• Outsourcing regular tasks and maintenance of projects to offshore shared services teams in Poland and India.

• Forecasting of inventory, identification and implementation of Obsolete Inventory actions necessary to to achieve the targets.
• Reporting of KPI related to inventory management (PFO / quality of inventory / excess stock / MRP exception messages) and creation of gap closure plan in case of deviations.
• Standardize and implement within the EMEA region a common way to act on exception messages, document the process, train the planners, set targets and report weekly the progress.
• Implement with finance a strong inventory forecast process per plant and consolidation at the regional level, identify the gaps, implement corrective actions.
• Functional and BI Support as Business partner to Global Finance, Commercial Sales, Pricing and Marketing, Operations & HR teams.

• Lead and mentor high-performing procurement data analytics team, overseeing all procurement activities, including vendor selection, Spend Analytics,price negotiations, and contract management.
• Developed and Utilized data analytics projects to analyze supplier performance, Negative pricing trends, and procurement metrics(safety,quality,delivery,cost) to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Part of Supplier Quality Risk Ranking Automotive BU project which played critical role in supplier selection and their performance through data-driven vendor scorecards and quarterly performance reviews.
• Enhanced procurement reporting and analytics, resulting in 80% improvement in decision-making accuracy and data availability.
• As Business and Data subject matter expert represented and recommended best practices for implementing new BI technologies and Analytics projects that would improve efficiency of Automotive BU operations.

• Transition lead and project management of Banking reconciliation project of Deutsche Bank (data warehousing), ensuring smooth handover between project phases and stakeholders involved i.e Oracle Financial services and HCL .
• Facilitated meetings to discuss project objectives, scope changes, timelines, deliverables, resources and risks.
• Developed comprehensive training materials for new staff members related to project management processes.

•Responsible for Reporting and Analytics services to whole of Institutional Operations which includes Trade, Lending, Payments & cash, Central and Global Business Management Team.
•Successfully Transitioned reports from counterpart Melbourne team and was involved in cross training offshore Bangalore team

• Worked for Global outsourcing and infrastructure Services team i.e., GOIS which performs maintenance of Service Contracts and generation of Invoices for proper billing of products which includes changing BillTo and ShipTo Addresses of Clients, changing of Expiry dates. Research and Analysis of Contracts, Purchase Orders and sending changes to Backoffice TPC (Transaction processing team) team.
• Analyzed financial reports to identify discrepancies in revenue and expenses.