Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Vijay Prakash Shukla

Bokaro

Summary

17+ years of experience and results-oriented SCM Analyst with a proven track record of driving cost savings by 10% and reduction in inventory by 10% through process improvements. Skilled in analyzing spending data, negotiating contracts, and implementing efficient procurement, Logistics, and Storage systems. Adept at identifying cost savings opportunities, improving supplier performance, and streamlining purchasing processes to deliver significant financial impact and operational efficiency.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager - Commercial Analyst

Dalmia Cement Bharat Limited
2014.11 - Current
  • Leading procurement activities, including sourcing, negotiation, and contracting, to ensure the timely and cost-effective procurement of raw materials, components, Services, and Logistics
  • Implemented effective inventory strategies, reduced stock levels by 16%, and implemented a just-in-time inventory system and increased cycle time, resulting in an 8% reduction in carrying costs
  • Optimized the distribution network to ensure efficient and cost-effective product flow from suppliers to customers, and reduced the procurement price by 15% from the last procurement price
  • Collaborating with logistics partners to negotiate contracts, monitor performance, and drive continuous improvement in service levels and achieved a cost reduction of 26%
  • Managed the procurement process from requisition to delivery, resulting in a 97% on-time delivery rate and a 34% reduction in procurement lead time.

Sr. Officer-Procurement Analyst

Bokaro Jaypee Cement Limited
2010.03 - 2014.10
  • Engaged in activities, including sourcing, negotiation, and contracting, to ensure the timely and cost-effective procurement of raw materials, and components
  • Managed supplier relationships and ensured compliance with contractual agreements, resulting in a 95% supplier performance rating and a 20% reduction in supplier-related issues
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  • Engaged in activities, including sourcing, negotiation, and contracting, to ensure the timely and cost-effective procurement of raw materials, and components
  • Managed supplier relationships and ensured compliance with contractual agreements, resulting in a 95% supplier performance rating and a 20% reduction in supplier-related issues
  • Implemented strategies to reduce costs and improve efficiency, resulting in a 15% reduction in procurement costs and a 30% improvement in procurement process cycle time
  • Monitored and analyzed procurement data to identify areas of improvement, leading to the implementing of a vendor management system that improved data accuracy by 20% and reduced manual data entry by 30%.

Assistant Officer - Procurement & Stores Analyst

Visaka Industries Limited
2005.07 - 2010.02
  • Engaged in activities, including sourcing, negotiation, and contracting, to ensure the timely and cost-effective procurement of raw materials, and components
  • Negotiated pricing and payment terms with suppliers, achieving an average cost reduction of 2% and improving cash flow by implementing favorable payment terms
  • Managed the procurement process from requisition to delivery, resulting in a 95% on-time delivery rate and a 20% reduction in procurement lead time
  • Developed and implemented strategies to reduce risk and improve supplier performance, resulting in a 25% reduction in supplier-related incidents and a 15% improvement in supplier quality ratings
  • Implemented effective inventory cycling strategies to minimize holding costs by 13%
  • Was part of a team to forecasted demand and planned inventory requirements to achieve the reduction target of 30%.

Education

Advance Certificate - Data Science & AI

Indian Institute of Technology
Madras
06.2023

MBA - Finance

Jaipur National University
Jaipur
06.2022

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

CSJM University
Kanpur
06.2001

Skills

  • Critical & Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving, Project Management
  • Data Analysis, Visualization, Forecasting
  • Strategic Sourcing, Inventory Management, Logistics Management
  • Supply Chain Management, Vendor Management
  • Machine Learning (Supervised & Unsupervised)
  • Python, Matplotlib Numpy, Pandas, SQL, Statistical Analysis
  • UML, JIRA, Power BI
  • Market Research, Negotiation, Cost Reduction, Risk Management
  • Requirements Gathering, Time Management, Prioritization, UAT, Documentation
  • Teamwork, Stakeholder Collaboration, Use Case

Accomplishments

    Project 1: Market Basket Analysis

    Domain: Retail

    Problem Statement: As a new manager in the company, you are assigned the task of increasing cross selling

    Topics: Association Rule Mining, Data Extraction, Data Manipulation, Apriori Algorithms
    Project 2: Customer Churn Analysis
    Domain: Telecom
    Problem Statement: As a new manager in the company, you are assigned the task to find the reason of customer churn.
    Topics: Data Analysis, Data pre-processing, Cleaning, Data Visualization, Python Language, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree Classifier, Random Forest Classifier, AdaBoost Classifier, Gradient Boosting Classifier, SVM, and XGB Classifier

    Project 3: Customer Segmentation
    Domain: Retail
    Problem Statement: An online retail store is trying to understand the various customer purchase patterns for their firm; you are required to segment the customers based on their purchasing behavior.

    Topics: Data Analysis, Data pre-processing, Cleaning, Data Visualization, Python Language, K-Mean clustering, RFM technique

    Project 4: Recommendation system
    Domain: Retail
    Problem Statement: Recommender systems are tools that aim to get the user's rating and then recommend the movies from a big set of data on the basis of the users matching interest and then classify them into different categories.

    Topics: Collaborative filtering, Content based filtering, Context based filtering, Data Analysis, Data pre-processing, Cleaning, Data Visualization, Python Language, KNN, K-means

    Project 5: Sentiment Analysis
    Domain: Retail
    Problem Statement: You are working in an e-commerce company, and your company has put forward a task to analyze the customer reviews for various products. You are supposed to create a report that classifies the products based on the customer reviews. Perform sentiment analysis on the reviews data, and classify the reviews based on the sentiment associated with the same.

    Topics: Text cleaning, Text vectorization, Stemming, Lemmatization, Stop word & punctuation marks removal, Logistics Regression, Decision Tree, Random forest, XG Boost.

    Project 6: Stores Sales Forecasting

    Domain: Retail
    Problem Statement: A retail store that has multiple outlets across the country is facing issues in managing the inventory - to match the demand with respect to supply. You are a data scientist, who has to come up with useful insights using the data and make prediction models to forecast the sales for X number of months/years.

    Topics: Data Analysis, Data pre-processing, Cleaning, Data Visualization, Python Language, Linear Regression, Polynomial Regression, Ridge, Lasso, Elastinet, MLP Regressor, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, SVR, and XGBoost.

Timeline

Manager - Commercial Analyst

Dalmia Cement Bharat Limited
2014.11 - Current

Sr. Officer-Procurement Analyst

Bokaro Jaypee Cement Limited
2010.03 - 2014.10

Assistant Officer - Procurement & Stores Analyst

Visaka Industries Limited
2005.07 - 2010.02

Advance Certificate - Data Science & AI

Indian Institute of Technology

MBA - Finance

Jaipur National University

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

CSJM University
Vijay Prakash Shukla