Puneet Walia

Responsibilities

· Responsible for the New Applications Development in the IMRO product such as:

o FIORI Apps – for improving the efficiency of the processes.

o Workbench – new processes specific to the customer & industry requirement – TSE, Periodic Estimate

o Process Automation – RPA & SAP eCATT. Providing the business value estimation.

· Development Activities – using AGILE methodologies

o Requirement Gathering from the customers - As Is Document, To Be Document

o Creation of the Backlog

o Providing the Estimation

o Creation of the User Stories and Enabler Stories

o Managing the Development Scrum in JIRA Tool

o Shipping

· Testing – Have been strategizing, managing the testing of the developments.

· Responsible for Testing of the SAP Processes for the Product Variant Release on SAP S/4 HANA.

· Workbench Development – Worked on the development of Time Since Event – Preventive Maintenance & Periodic Estimate.

· Responsible for the Change Requests for customer : Lufthansa Technik, Germany –

o Effort Estimation

o Preparation of As Is To Be Documents and approval

o Development

o Testing and Demonstration. Customer:.

· Testing of the IMRO Workbenches – Exhaustive testing of the existing workbenches. This activity is for the annual release of the IMRO product which is aligned with the SAP release. Last project was SAP s/4 HANA 1909 release R6.

Development Team Management.

· Responsible for the Automotive Manufacturing Facility Setup - The assignment included overall sourcing and installation of Plumbing, Electrical, Mechanical, Flooring, Office, Safety, Machinery, Tools, Consumables, Safety etc items. Vendor selection & coordinated execution, streamlining logistics, Management Information Systems were the daily competencies to deliver the project in time & keeping the expanses within the budget. Audits handled – TS-16949, Nissan Vendor Equipment Audits, OHSAS (Health & Safety). Cost of the project – US $1.5 Million – (Year 2013).

· Managing the Process Engineering departments of two manufacturing plants. Sourcing of Machines, Spares, Consumables, Tools, Instruments and Inventory Management were the key roles. Budget Forecasting and managing spare inventory of more than 3500 parts comprising of Electrical/Mechanical machine spares, consumables, chemicals etc worth $ 1MN with monthly buying of US $10K from more than 25 Vendors located within India and abroad. Implementing inventory optimization techniques such as FIFO, Consumption Rates Analysis etc. Maintained major inventory at single location and setup of one sub store comprising of critical parts (Year – 2013).

· Leading a cross functional team for simultaneous setups of new business lines within the plant. Managed Sourcing and installation of equipment for wire harness manufacturing lines for Volkswagen, Nissan and General Motors. Time bound procurement of more than 5000 items with close coordination of vendors and the team. Key Suppliers were based in India (for Consumables), Germany, Switzerland, US & China. Reduced procurement time by developing parallel vendors in short span to reduce the time of machine parts development and manufacturing. Cost of Project – US $1.0 Million – (Year – 2012)

• Designed & coordinated sourcing of a High-Tech Online Tracking System (using barcodes) for Highly Sensitive Vehicle Airbag Harness – the first of its kind project in the company’s business history. Vendor Management, Design Review, In Time Delivery, Development of Data Storage and Retrieval Process were the major challenges. Cost of Project – US $ 30000 - (Year - 2011)

Implementation of the Delphi Business System (DBS) in Indian Plants. Defining the Work instructions and equipment operating instructions in coordination with Asia Pacific team at Delphi Shanghai (China) & Delphi Wuppertal (Germany). (Year – 2010)

• Design Review Team for purchasing new machining equipment. (Year – 2008)
• Maintenance of the machine shop comprising more than 400 machines and running 24 X 7.
• Commonization of the critical spares inventory for 2 Federal Mogul piston manufacturing plants. Logistics partner was appointed for immediate transfers to avoid production stoppages due to equipment breakdowns. Inventory Cost reduction by $100K.
• Spare parts Inventory management for a manufacturing plant comprising of more than 400 machines. Cost of Managed Portfolio – US $1.1MN. Sourcing from all the major brands in following categories through Distributors, Dealers, Manufacturers from national/international brands to achieve best pricing and service.