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Devasree Ravichandran

Coimbatore

Summary

  • 7+ years of experience in supply chain management, specializing in inventory optimization, statistical demand forecasting, and delivering actionable insights through advanced analytics.
  • Proficient in leading cross-functional teams to ensure timely and quality deliverables across multiple supply chain functions.
  • Hands-on experience with Power BI, SQL, Python, and VBA, creating advanced dashboards and automating workflows for operational efficiency.
  • Successfully led a Green Belt project, achieving significant cost savings through inventory carrying cost reductions using advanced analytics.
  • Passionate about driving digital transformations in supply chain operations, leveraging advanced tools and technologies to enhance efficiency and decision-making.
  • Currently pursuing a master’s in Data Engineering from IIT Jodhpur, focusing on advanced analytics and data science

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Manager Operations

Genpact
10.2022 - 10.2024
  • Company Overview: Industry – Hardware and Software
  • Led a team responsible for preparing and analyzing data for the Inventory Optimizer, enhancing supply chain visibility and accuracy.
  • Managed team deliverables related to statistical forecasting, demand flow classification, and reporting, ensuring high-quality outputs aligned with business goals.
  • Developed real-time Power BI dashboards connected to SQL databases, providing insights for inventory optimization and demand planning.
  • Performed advanced statistical analyses for demand forecasting, leading to improved forecast accuracy and inventory reductions.
  • Conducted what-if analyses to simulate scenarios like demand surges, supply disruptions, and macroeconomic changes, enabling cost optimization and improved service levels.
  • Automated ancillary processes using VBA, reducing manual effort and enhancing accuracy in forecasting.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders, including program managers, engineers, and product managers, to align on process improvements and deliverables.
  • Led and facilitated S&OP meetings, ensuring alignment between supply chain, sales, finance, and product management teams
  • Developed and managed inventory turns reports, providing key insights for inventory optimization
  • Conducted spend analysis and inventory health checks, driving data-driven decisions in inventory optimization
  • SKU Cannibalization: Created cumulative percentage of bookings for configurations in every model to find highest booked configuration

Supply Chain Analyst

Anamind Consulting
04.2022 - 10.2022
  • Company Overview: Industry – Retail and Pharma
  • Managed a team to deliver forecasting models and inventory optimization strategies for retail and pharmaceutical clients.
  • Created comprehensive Power BI solutions, providing insights into sales performance, vendor analysis, inventory health, and planning accuracy.
  • Conducted statistical analysis for forecast bias, tracking signal, RMSE, and MAD to evaluate forecasting accuracy.
  • Automated daily analysis processes using Excel VBA, ensuring timely and accurate client deliverables.
  • Implemented top-down and bottom-up forecasting models, enhancing accuracy across multiple levels of planning.
  • Assists clients in the selection, implementation, and support of supply chain planning solutions
  • Created a complete Power BI solution package which provides key decision-making insights on sales performance, planning performance, forecasting accuracy, inventory health, order fill rate, Vendor performance and margin analysis
  • Implemented Top-down and Bottom-up Forecasting, enhancing forecasting accuracy across multiple levels of the business
  • Collaborated with clients to implement supply chain planning solutions, providing training and support for end-users
  • Support data management and data integration related activities
  • Configuring and data extraction in tools using SQL queries

Senior Customer Support Specialist

VWR, A part of Avantor
08.2019 - 04.2022
  • Company Overview: Industry – Pharmaceutical and Laboratory products
  • Open & Future demand planning for consumables, pharma & lab chemicals, equipment’s, etc
  • Delivered insights through advanced reporting and analysis for demand planning, inventory management, and global stock replenishment.
  • Conducted SLOB inventory management and liquidation planning, collaborating with warehousing, finance, and sales teams.
  • Supported demand flow and operational enhancements by aligning with cross-functional teams to clear bottlenecks.
  • Collaboration with other cross functional teams like warehousing, finance, sales, marketing, quality, production, etc., to clear any operational blockage for a seamless demand flow

Technical Specialist

05.2017 - 08.2019
  • Company Overview: Industry – Pharmaceutical and Laboratory products
  • Global excel automation to standardize regularly used tracker/tools for all synergy teams
  • Excel dashboard creation to review and monitor every teams’ performance across the entities
  • Managing special price setup for different customer accounts to achieve management’s revenue goal
  • Creating business insightful Power BI dashboards and publish to global executive leadership team
  • Industry – Pharmaceutical and Laboratory products

Education

Master's in Data Engineering - Data Science, Data Analytics

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
11.2024

Bachelors Degree - Biotechnology

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
01.2017

Skills

  • Supply Chain & Inventory Strategy
  • Demand & Supply Planning
  • Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Statistical Analysis & Forecasting
  • Power BI, SQL & Python for Analytics
  • Process Improvement & Workflow Optimization
  • Network Optimization
  • Advanced Excel, VBA Automation
  • Team Leadership & Deliverable Management
  • SAP (MM, PP, SD)
  • Oracle Fusion
  • Planvisage, Streamline, ForecastPro

Languages

  • Tamil
  • English
  • Hindi
  • Telugu

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 04/06/96

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Telugu
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Assistant Manager Operations

Genpact
10.2022 - 10.2024

Supply Chain Analyst

Anamind Consulting
04.2022 - 10.2022

Senior Customer Support Specialist

VWR, A part of Avantor
08.2019 - 04.2022

Technical Specialist

05.2017 - 08.2019

Master's in Data Engineering - Data Science, Data Analytics

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Bachelors Degree - Biotechnology

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Devasree Ravichandran