Sudhir Dhasaradhan
Vellore
Summary
Dynamic Sr. Engineer planning at Visteon Electronics, with expertise in production planning, change management, and inventory optimization. Enhancing customer satisfaction. Skilled in data analysis and strategy implementation, known for interfacing effectively with cross-functional teams, and providing actionable insights from complex data sets.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Engineer Planning
Visteon Corporation
Chennai
07.2022 - Current
- Managed production planning for an annual program budget of over $296 million, which includes various customers.
- (Hyundai, KIA, TATA, MM, VW, Skoda, PSA, Nissan, Hero, and Honda)
- Successfully coordinated and launched 367 ECN and 43 new programs to date, which results in increased customer satisfaction.
- Initiate a detailed ECN change form (e.g., adds, deletes, and changes), and monitor the running change ECN implementation status within a work cell until the implementation and phase-out of materials to minimize obsolescence.
- Coordinate with the CFT team to ensure on-time production, material availability, and inventory system accuracy.
- Monitor key performance indicators and publish reports, such as root cause analysis, plan vs. actual, internal demand, process flow, expiry, shortages, etc.
- Coordinating with hardware, software, and other CFT teams to ensure the ECN implementation without any delay from the CRD.
- Analyze finished goods requirements, and interface with SCM to ensure the quantities of on-hand components and materials are sufficient to meet customer demand and on-time shipments.
- Monitoring and taking actions for the daily backlog, and optimizing finished goods inventory levels.
- Escalate matters of importance inside and outside the plant, and ensure smooth production schedules.
Planning Executive
Molex India Pvt Ltd (unit 1)
Bangalore
03.2021 - 07.2022
- Handling new product material and production planning, where more than 80 projects were smoothly delivered, which include most top-rated customers like Google, BMW, Bentley, Facebook, Schneider, Philips, Cisco, HP, and Whirlpool.
- Create, maintain, and execute detailed production and monthly distribution plans to meet customer requirements, optimize inventory, and balance plant utilization and capacity.
- Develop and implement strategies to optimize safety stock, minimize inventory obsolescence.
- Troubleshoot transactional records to resolve inventory discrepancies.
- Coordinating with different CFT teams (product manager, QA, program, operations, purchasing, sales, and CSR) and solving the problems that arise in the initial builds and meet the CRD.
- Establishes checkpoints on WIP to guarantee the accuracy of the work performed.
- Communicates issues to plant personnel, the sales department, and the customer.
- Works closely with the materials supervisor, engineering project leads, build managers, procurement, sales, and senior management to manage schedules.
- Work with the manufacturing manager to track production performance and develop a process to anticipate and identify problems that could affect the schedule.
- Provide input and feedback to management regarding schedule performance and adherence.
- Providing management with clear, timely, and accurate information with which to make decisions at the right time to avoid surprise issues.
Engineer-PPC
Motherson Automotive
03.2017 - 12.2021
- Company Overview: Engineering & Technology (SANAND- AHMEDABAD)
- Develop and execute production schedules based on Customer demands
- Maximize effectiveness of production team, equipment and materials to produce multi-line products within planned schedules while reducing costs
- Manage high volume manufacturing of more than 260 products per month
- Rejection analysis, root cause & cost control in all areas
- Interpret and develop reports including MIS & MRM
- Creating and updating ERP planning module masters like Item master, Product master, Routing master, (MOQ, Safety stock, Lead time)
- Maintaining Auto scheduling and System MRP percentage above 95%
- Material Requirement planning preparation against daily, weekly & 6 month forecast Schedule on month beginning and reviewing on daily & weekly basis
- Coordinating with CFT dept
- For monthly Inventory and Gap Analysis
- Coordinating with engineering team for BOM validation and updating
- Create add and delete list for ECN as per ECN note and circulate along cross function team model wise
- Create ERP BOM with reference to R&D BOM and release for costing of product
- Ensuring RM & BOP to production & bumper assy
- As per plan
- Generating and maintaining Daily, Weekly, Monthly and yearly statistical data required for group reporting and for monitoring incentives, Customer Order Priority Management & Fulfillment
- Supporting the customer Requirement by follow-ups and monitoring from purchase
- Reduced raw material requisitions that led to approximately a 30% boost in the production margin
- Engineering & Technology (SANAND- AHMEDABAD)
Education
M.TECH. - Automotive Electronics
VELLORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Vellore, Tamil Nadu04-2015
B.TECH. - Electronic and Communication Engineering
Dr. MGR University
Chennai, Tamil Nadu04-2012
Skills
- Data analysis
- Presentational skills
- Strategy Implementation
- MS Excel
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Supply chain management
- ERP software
- SAP PP Module
- QAD
- Production planning
- Inventory optimization
- Change management
Accomplishments
- Successfully implemented ERP system (EMpro) for Master Production Scheduling, Material Requirement planning, Capacity planning & Manpower planning.
- Managing and making the Production planning & material requirement planning for Automotive giants as Ford, Hyundai, KIA, TATA, MM, VW, Skoda, PSA, Nissan.
- Improving the overall ERP system, and thereby helping the company to successfully pass the Internal & MMOG Audit.
- Reduced parts discrepancies by 90% compared to the previous 3 years.
- Recognized trainer For ERP system modules and production planning concepts.
- Strategically implemented Safety Stocks & Waterfall System to determine material shortages.
Academic Chronicle
- M.TECH. Automotive Electronics, 2013-2015, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, Obtained First Class
- B.TECH. Electronic and Communication Engineering, 2008-2012, Dr. MGR University Maduravoyal, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Obtained First Class
Hobbies and Interests
- Story writing
- Photography
Disclaimer
I hereby assure you that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Areas Of Proficiency
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Production Planning
- Capacity Planning
- Just in Time (JIT) Planning
- Inventory Management
- Engineering Change Management
- Data Analysis & Management
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Dhasaradhan V
- Date of Birth: 07/11/91
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
Languages
Telugu
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1
Tamil
Advanced (C1)
C1
Timeline
Sr. Engineer Planning
Visteon Corporation
07.2022 - Current
Planning Executive
Molex India Pvt Ltd (unit 1)
03.2021 - 07.2022
Engineer-PPC
Motherson Automotive
03.2017 - 12.2021
M.TECH. - Automotive Electronics
VELLORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
B.TECH. - Electronic and Communication Engineering
Dr. MGR University
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