SHYAM SUNDHAR
Supply Chain Professional –Team Lead - MRP - Demand & Supply Planning - S&OP - Forecast
Chennai
Summary
Strategic and Leadership Professional with ~ 9 years of experience with proven track record in streamlining/strengthening Supply Chain Planning/Operations to maximize performance, profitability and establishing/maintaining key relationships
Organized, disciplined, productive with unique combination of Team leadership and experience in leading cross-functional discussions with various teams to identify and eliminate operational bottlenecks
Radical Empowerment in MRP , S&OP, Material Requirement Planning, Demand & Supply Planning, Order Management in CPG/Electrical Industries.
Proficient in exercising Supply Chain Planning tools like Kinaxis Rapid response - Inventory Management & S&OP Applications, Citrix Demand Solution, Siebel CRM Pipeline Management and hands-on with ERP systems – SAP ECC (SD & MM modules), Skilled in Advanced Excel and understanding of Python Script and Power BI, Tableau (dashboard tool)
Possess excellent logical and functional skills with a track record of achieving exceptional results in the scope of supply chain planning and driving towards operational excellence.
Multi-tasking Team Leader well-known for executing successful, new initiatives. Creates dynamic and positive workplace culture to align with organizational mission and values. Trains new hires and mentors struggling workers to achieve overall team success.
Organized team leader builds positive rapport, inspires trust and guides teams toward achievement of organizational goals. Strong facilitator adept at working cross-departmentally with co-management and top-level leadership. Excellent trainer and mentor.
Team Leader experienced in directing activities of workgroups. Develops strategies, provides training, sets goals and obtains team feedback. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big picture focus with excellence in communicating goals and vision to succeed. Problem solver, networker and consensus builder.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead/MRP
Capgemini Technology Services
Chennai
08.2020 - Current
- MRP Run – Execute MRP , extract the Overdue, Placement, Advance, Postpone, Reduction & Cancellation reports from SAP
- Analyze the reports extracted, apply the logic and Rules , arrive at the lines to execute and shared to Vendor
- PR to PO conversion, analyzing the lead time input and requesting the pick up and delivery the dates
- Preparation of Vendor Communication template and escalate to vendors and internal client for feedback
- Follow up with vendor, usage of Communication and Feedback tracker
- Tracking and reporting of Non confirmed orders weekly, following up with Vendors, expediting the feedback
- Leading the weekly Regional client calls , preparation of KPI slides , facilitate the monthly Global slides and presenting
- Management Analytics & Reporting:
- Calculate the Supplier Performance Metrics - PR to PO conversion rate, Rush PO (Urgent PO) counts, Supplier placement confirmation, Changes feedback, Overdue rate and GR compliance actions
- Analyze the Top losses and Compliance ; communicate to Vendor and Client
- Initiate supplier call off process for the top compliance; enhance the feedback rate.
- Time Motion Study - Analyze the time consumption, propose automation, minimize effort driven, Load study of tasks
- Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
- Worked different Regions to provide optimal coverage and meet production goals.
- Monitored progress of tasks to provide feedback for improvement.
- Evaluated the system proposals, check for coverage and propose requisition & order changes.
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Conducted reviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Analyzed open orders, backlog, and sales data to provide sales team with insights.
Business Analyst - Demand Planning
Genpact India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
05.2019 - 08.2020
- Statistical Demand Planner for Electronics based Client handling ~ 2500 SKUs
- Leverage Kinaxis Rapidresponse planning tool to review historical sales across Base and Promotions and generate Baseline forecast taking into consideration seasonality
- Establish and review market intelligence and future promotions to develop overall demand plan incorporating potential implications/cannibalization on other products.
- Setup/review SKU level inventory norms and develop unconstrained/constrained rolling forecast based on actual production or in-transit supply
- Forecasting for NPI/EOL parts and develop product life cycle forecast and review during S&OP meetings
- Engage with Client customer planners to perform RCA and drive KPI improvement discussions/projects.
- Testing & establishing correct parameters for each Forecasting models ( Time series, Regression, Exponential & ML methods ) to enhance current process by training/testing data and aim to achieve higher accuracy.
- Sales Reporting – Generation, review and publication of forecast at different levels of aggregation for IBP
- KPI Reporting – Calculate, publish Forecast accuracy and attainment for different lags and at different aggregate levels of forecast.
- Communicated demand plans to manufacturing sites to resolve gaps between demand and supply plans.
- Utilized historical data, statistical software and marketing intelligence to develop and maintain forecast for [Product or Service] lines.
- Reviewed historical sales trends and researched demand drivers to prepare forecast data and develop statistical forecast models.
- Provided ad-hoc analytics and operational expertise to drive fact-based inputs into forecasting.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement market research strategies.
- Generated business intelligence reports to inform strategic decision-making.
- Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
- Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
- Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
- Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.
S&OP Analyst / Demand Planner
Eaton Power Quality Pvt Ltd
Pondicherry
06.2016 - 05.2019
- Leading monthly Sales Inventory Operational Planning (SIOP) process for 500+ SKUs . UPS/ 5000+ SKUs MCB/Fuse
- Generation and Analysis of Forecast using Demand Solution tool based on Citrix by reviewing historical sales trends and researching demand drivers (price, inventory, etc.)
- Act strategically working with Sales Ops to link the demand & supply, setting/maintaining the inventory norms/safety stock , thus maximizing the delivery performance
- Working with cross-functional teams effectively to manage product life cycles (NPI-Maturity-EOL phases) , maximizing growth opportunities and minimize inventory obsolescence.
- Measure and Publish KPI's – Forecast Accuracy, Waterfall, OTTR/OTD , Backorders , etc.
- Analyzing and running OBIEE reports global level for Pipeline Management.
- Management of pipeline and opportunities in system through Siebel CRM .
Order Management Analyst
Eaton Power Quality Pvt Ltd
Pondicherry
06.2014 - 06.2016
- Establishing smooth flow of sale orders , successful fulfillment of order efficiently and timely.
- Checking stock status of materials and fulfill stock enquiry
- Testing/UAT for Quality and Demo instances before implementation of changes to Production.
- Knowledge of logging supply, warranty, AMC and service sales orders in SAP, Component to Orders through Variable Configuration method.
- Communicate all changes in Orders to sourcing, vendors .
- Checking accuracy of customer PO to SO
- Ensuring approved Incoterms are logged in Sales orders
- Booking & Closing Return Orders(RMA) on time without affecting inventory
- Knowledge of Drop Ship and High Sea Sale orders
- Interfaced with sales, operations and functional groups to facilitate order flow and meet processing metrics.
- Reviewed order terms and conditions with customers to comply with company policy.
- Liaised with management to resolve complex order issues and problems to maximize customer satisfaction.
- Handled customer credit applications and partnered with credit manager for approval and account setup.
- Sent emails to communicate order status and informed customers of back-orders or shipping delays.
- Recommended operational improvements based on tracking and analysis of data.
Education
Post Graduate Program - Diploma - Data Science And Business Analytics
10.2021 - 2022.10
Advanced Statistics, Data Mining, Modeling Techniques, ML, Time Series Forecasting
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering
06.2011 - 2014.05
Higher Secondary - Computer Science
04.2009 - 2011.04
Matriculation - General Studies
04.2000 - 2009.03
Skills
Supply Chain Management
Accomplishments
- Xtramile and quarterly awards for KPI improvement.
- Successful implementation of MRP process in Quality and Production environment for new plants.
- Expert in MRP process - Improved KPI, Identifying gaps in the system
- Improved Forecast Accuracy for from 45% to 63%
- Awarded Silver Cheers award for delivering on the KPI's and enhancing the customer relationship, Nov'19
- Automation by SAP script to Reduce the TAT of PO acknowledgement from 4 days to 2 days with approx. savings of INR 10,00,000
- Fulcrum and Critical resource during the Implementation of Siebel CRM for pipeline management (2018), SAP GST Implementation (2017) & Implementation of SAP ERP (2015)
Highlights :
Capgemini Technology Services:
Genpact India Pvt Ltd:
Eaton Power Quality Pvt Ltd:
Hobbies - Horology, Wildlife
- Wrist Watch Collector, Passion
- Wildlife Enthusiast
Timeline
Great Lakes - Post Graduate Program - Diploma, Data Science And Business Analytics
10.2021 - 2022.10
Team Lead/MRP - Capgemini Technology Services
08.2020 - Current
Business Analyst - Demand Planning - Genpact India Pvt Ltd
05.2019 - 08.2020
S&OP Analyst / Demand Planner - Eaton Power Quality Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 05.2019
Order Management Analyst - Eaton Power Quality Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 06.2016
Manakula Vinayagar Inst. of Technology - Bachelor of Technology, Electronics And Communications Engineering
06.2011 - 2014.05
St.Patricks Matriculation Hr Sec School - Higher Secondary, Computer Science
04.2009 - 2011.04
St. Patricks Matriculation Hr Sec School - Matriculation, General Studies
04.2000 - 2009.03
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