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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
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Accomplishments
Backgroundandskills
Projects
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Certification
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VIJAYAPRASANTH BALU

VIJAYAPRASANTH BALU

Chennai,Tamilnadu

Summary

Agile and adaptable staff leader with stellar work history, motivational approach and upbeat nature. Skilled at training employees and leveraging organized approaches to handle daily planning, scheduling, and customer service requirements. Forward-thinking and industrious with diplomatic communication style focused on maximizing engagement and satisfaction.

Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Manager (Warehouse)

PCBL
03.2023 - Current
  • Performance management, Project management, fostering teamwork, Supervision, Staffing, Business knowledge, technical leadership
  • Track the progress of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual objectives
  • Make sure all employees adhere to company’s policies and guideline
  • Suggest changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency.
  • Works to improve processes, timeliness and reduce costs by eliminating non-value-added activities.
  • Plans and directs the material planning and material logistic functions to meet the facility plan objectives and satisfy customer needs.
  • Optimize labors efficiency Maximize and optimize all available space.
  • Record accuracy through monitoring shortage / surplus exception, supplier follow ups and daily delivery performance
  • Supporting and developing the processes and policy related to logistics and ensure full compliance.
  • Improved customer satisfaction by addressing and resolving complaints promptly through performing RCCA.

Safety Coordinator and Inventory Record Analyst

CATERPILLAR INC
10.2022 - 01.2023
  • Responsible for working on Inventory reconciliation for ILC/IECC/IDC facilities
  • Assisting facilities in periodic STC (Statistical Test Count) analysis and in improving inventory accuracy.
  • Identifying and resolving inventory discrepancies.
  • Coordinating efforts with Facility/RAM startup team members to ensure STCs are completed on time and the discrepancies are resolved quickly and accurately.
  • Analyses and resolves daily Material Requirements grief by determining whether caused by system failure or human error
  • Develop and ensure facility safety procedure and policy full compliance with EHS policy and regulations.
  • Leads and participates with EHS personnel in continuous process improvement projects.
  • Cascade corporate safety strategy to all employee and set clear safety expectation for all employee, leverage all employee to focus on safety.

Operations Team Lead

CATERPILLAR INC
08.2021 - 09.2022
  • Responsible for meeting operational and business goals through leading a team and capacity planning through forecasting.
  • Monitor and improve safety on the shop floor; eliminate any unsafe operations and ensure a safe and clean product environment
  • Adheres to established standards, policies and practices relating to quality, cost reduction, safety, ergonomics, affirmative action.
  • Digitization/Automation of manual processes for better productivity.
  • Manage stakeholder communication across multiple lines of business on operational milestones, Process changes and escalations
  • Need to analyze the Root cause of any discrepancies and take corrective Action as appropriate.
  • Monitor, track & analyze operation performance metrics (PQVC) and SSP, Customer & supplier collaborations
  • Metrics management through regular reviews and delivering specific metric goals against targets.

Warehouse Executive

CaterpillarInc
09.2020 - 07.2021
  • Ensured all warehouse equipment was properly maintained and serviced regularly, minimizing downtime due to mechanical failures or malfunctions.
  • Optimized space utilization within warehouse by reorganizing storage areas according to product categories and demand patterns.
  • Supervised receiving, stocking and shipment in high-volume warehouse environment.
  • Task Fostered a culture of continuous improvement within warehousing department by encouraging staff members'' feedback and implementing their suggestions whenever feasible.

Warehouse Assistant

COMPETITION TEAM TECHNOLOGY INDIA PRIAVTE LIMITED
05.2019 - 08.2020
  • Effective implementation of 5s principle and following of FIFO and FEFO for materials
  • Contribute ideas on ways to improve or optimize warehouse procedures
  • Maintain inventory controls by collecting stock location orders and printing requests
  • Responsible for managing large amounts of data and inputting information accurately into system database
  • Maintained and updated warehouse task documentation and records for submission
  • Ensuring Warehouse work order management and Inventory management
  • Controls inventory by conducting physical counts and Perpetual Inventory audit
  • Bringing in best practices and standardization to support growth
  • MAINTAIN KPI and overall master data related KPI development
  • Tracking KPI and report on supply chain performances.

Warehouse Trainee

Delphi - TVS Diesel Systems
02.2018 - 08.2018
  • Learned new materials, processes, and programs quickly.
  • Shadowed senior team members to learn all related jobs and tasks.
  • Participated in on-the-job training, working closely with supervisors and coworkers and asking appropriate questions.
  • Attended training courses to build understanding of processes, techniques, and industry.

Education

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering -

SREE SASTHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Anna University, Chennai
Chennai
09.2017

HSC -

VIVEKANANDA VIDYALAYA MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Sriperumbudur
01.2013

SSLC -

VIVEKANANDA VIDYALAYA MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Sriperumbudur
01.2011

Skills

  • MS OFFICE (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access)
  • Presentations/slideshows (PowerPoint, Google Slides, OpenOffice)
  • SAP KNOWLEDGE (MM and WM)
  • Safety Training
  • Incident Investigations
  • Training and mentoring
  • Cost Reduction
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Operations Management
  • Performance monitoring
  • Recruiting and interviewing
  • Strategic Planning
  • Business Development
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Decision-Making

Accomplishments

  • Achieved Inventory audit by completing Inventory record accuracy IRA with accuracy and efficiency.
  • Supervised team of 46 staff members and employee's
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets for indirect materials with week on audit
  • Localized more than 200 Indirect materials for CRP project
  • Achieved more number of safety kaizen and lean improvement projects for the year 2022-2023

Backgroundandskills

ERP, ECC, MS Office, SAP Warehouse Management system, 6 Sigma Project teams, Rapid improvement workshop in IECC, Quick learner with the ability to handle multiple tasks., Good analytical thinker, ability to work well in team settings, attention to detail and guide/mentor junior associates., TAMIL, ENGLISH

Projects

6 SIGMA PROJECT - CRP (CUSTOMER READY PACKING)

-CRP generally known as Customer ready Packing, as we have initiated packing for more than 2000 parts with a smaller number of packing boxes

-Validation of critical requirements of CRP Boxes for future schedules & working to expedite items on priority

-Collaborates with CFT to gather necessary information to develop/update the packing plan

-Evaluating the customer's forecast in terms of historical demand, establishing a production plan in terms of the customer's capabilities and   requirements.

-Verifying customer forecasts against demand and maintaining sufficient SKC in supplier end. 


Rapid Improvement Workshop - 103 Movement

- An intensive workshop including training, implementation, and transformation of a selected area (Inclusion of 103 Movement), Generally, we perform 101 movement for the receiving materials, some invoice will clear and some may not due to some PR/PO issues which we call as Grief issue and where we couldn't able to perform GRN and part will lay in the shop floor for very long time, which reducing the warehouse optimization, velocity and design of the process structure 


Inventory Record Accuracy - IRA,

-Implemented IRA, which use to measure of how closely official inventory records match the physical inventory, Responsible for working on Inventory Reconciliation for ILC/IECC/IDC facilities as we had about 25000+ parts across all three facilities., Assisting facilities in periodic STC (Statistical Test Count) analysis and in improving inventory accuracy., Identifying and resolving inventory discrepancies. Coordinating efforts with Facility/RAM startup team members

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge.

Certification

  • EHS - Environmental Health and Safety Professional
  • CSP - Certified Safety Professional

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Assistant Manager (Warehouse)

PCBL
03.2023 - Current

Safety Coordinator and Inventory Record Analyst

CATERPILLAR INC
10.2022 - 01.2023

Operations Team Lead

CATERPILLAR INC
08.2021 - 09.2022

Warehouse Executive

CaterpillarInc
09.2020 - 07.2021

Warehouse Assistant

COMPETITION TEAM TECHNOLOGY INDIA PRIAVTE LIMITED
05.2019 - 08.2020

Warehouse Trainee

Delphi - TVS Diesel Systems
02.2018 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering -

SREE SASTHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Anna University, Chennai

HSC -

VIVEKANANDA VIDYALAYA MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

SSLC -

VIVEKANANDA VIDYALAYA MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL
  • EHS - Environmental Health and Safety Professional
  • CSP - Certified Safety Professional
VIJAYAPRASANTH BALU