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Sudhindra S M

Sudhindra S M

MID SENIOR - LEVEL SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS PROFESSIONAL
Bengaluru Area

Summary

A detail-oriented and results-driven professional, experience in Inventory Accuracy & Control management. Possesses a strong understanding of inventory management principles including Implementation, Auditing, Reconciliation & Inventory governance. Data-based decision making, automation & Business process improvement to drive digital transformation and risk-resilient process development in a culture of excellence, efficiency, and responsiveness.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Manager

Neovia Logistics Services (I) Pvt Ltd
04.2011 - Current
  • Company Overview: Industries: Automobiles, Aerospace, E-Commerce & Manufacturing
  • Provided inventory reconciliation, count/audit programs and reporting services to 45+ customer globally on time and to high degree of quality continuously.
  • Provided inventory risk assessment and led inventory project team to mitigate financial shrinkage in the $2M+ range year over year.
  • Provided monthly multi-client inventory metrics reporting and communication while leading continuous improvement projects to maintain & improve global net accuracy of >99.8% and piece count accuracy of >97% on inventory of $1.2B+ for customers unique financial policies, procedures & WMS platform.
  • Built high performing team with employee engagement results in the 85% range for 15 staff' through leadership training, core values & communication in a trusting open environment.
  • Orchestrate results in the Inventory Accuracy & Control division; lead the key functions like statistical test count, cycle count, and reconciliation along with a team of 12-15 members and 5 separate processes.
  • Liaison with client external auditors to ensure all processes are compliant and procedures are followed.
  • Demonstrated excellent communication & negotiation skills working with internal & external customers on numerous successful inventory projects and new warehouse startups.
  • Part of a handheld RF Tool development, used for daily auditing/ counting that retired paper audits providing real time visibility to inventory metrics in warehouses that improved quality and reduced labour cost.
  • The development of IAC dashboard to identify and mitigate financial risk, a high visibility management report.
  • Part of Asset recovery PI project for a leading manufacturer and providers of MHE, with recovery of $1.5 Mn.
  • Panel Member of Inventory Accuracy Control 2.0 Project.
  • Industries: Automobiles, Aerospace, E-Commerce & Manufacturing

Senior Team Lead

Caterpillar Logistics Services (I) Pvt. Ltd
08.2007 - 03.2011
  • Company Overview: Industries: Automobiles, Aerospace, E-Commerce & Manufacturing
  • Assigned to work on the Statistical Test Counts (STC) process which is a proprietary tool and a system driven process used to check the inventory accuracy of the warehouse for 79 CAT & client facilities worldwide.
  • Analysed and built inventory files to calculate the average inventory value of the warehouse using SAS.
  • Thoroughly examined the raw data sent by the client prior to using it to create STC samples.
  • Coordinated with process partners, namely Morton team, to build SAS programs for new clients and capture month, average inventory values and generate STC samples; rectified the discrepancies found in the inventory file and the variances in average inventory values.
  • Work on ad-hoc requests such as summarizing the data as per the client request, providing location details and current on-hand details for the samples generated.
  • Evaluated results for the reconciled STC counts to find the net, gross variance, and the piece count accuracy of the warehouse; published the same to the Morton team with the cause for the variance.
  • Provided SAS functional support to Records Accuracy Management Division.
  • Industries: Automobiles, Aerospace, E-Commerce & Manufacturing

Various Roles

Kyocera Wireless (I) PVT LTD
03.2005 - 07.2007
  • Gained exposure to Warehouse Operations, Inventory Count, International Logistics & Customs.

Various Roles

Intel Technologies (I) PVT LTD (Through TP Consultancy)
10.2002 - 02.2005
  • Gained exposure to Warehouse Operations, Inventory Count, International Logistics & Customs.

Various Roles

Wipro Infotech LTD (Through TP Consultancy)
08.2001 - 09.2002
  • Gained exposure to Warehouse Operations, Inventory Count, International Logistics & Customs.

Education

Advance Operations management - undefined

IIM Kozhikode

B.Sc. - Electronics

Bangalore University

Skills

Supply Chain Operational Excellence

Technology Exposure

  • ERP: SAP R/3 MM
  • Oracle
  • JDA
  • SAS & NICA TOOL
  • Inventory Optimization and Control Techniques
  • Visualization technologies like Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Reporting Tools

Timeline

Manager

Neovia Logistics Services (I) Pvt Ltd
04.2011 - Current

Senior Team Lead

Caterpillar Logistics Services (I) Pvt. Ltd
08.2007 - 03.2011

Various Roles

Kyocera Wireless (I) PVT LTD
03.2005 - 07.2007

Various Roles

Intel Technologies (I) PVT LTD (Through TP Consultancy)
10.2002 - 02.2005

Various Roles

Wipro Infotech LTD (Through TP Consultancy)
08.2001 - 09.2002

Advance Operations management - undefined

IIM Kozhikode

B.Sc. - Electronics

Bangalore University

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