Supply Chain Management

Dhruvil Parikh

*** ***** ** # ** ~ Vestal, NY ***50

973-***-**** ~ abntba@r.postjobfree.com

Profile:

• Expertise in Supply Chain, Logistics, Manufacturing processes and Production Planning.

• Excellent skills in process improvement inititatives utilizing Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma & Material Cost Analysis

complement my ability to deliver product requirements on time and within budget.

• Effective in planning and communicating with employees, customers, vendors and executive management.

Education:

Master of Science, Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Aug ‘08;

Cumulative GPA: 3.51/4.0.

Masters Thesis: Comparison of machine group and part family formation in cellular manufacturing, using principal

component analysis (PCA) and concept analysis approach.

Bachelor of Engineering, (Mechanical), Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya College of Engineering, Sardar Patel

University, Jun ‘05; Cumulative GPA: 3.24/4.0.

Professional Credentials:

• Certified in Production and Inventory Management, CPIM

The Association for Operations Management, APICS

Professional Experience:

Materials Planner, B.W. Elliott Manufacturing an Actuant Comapny, Binghamton, NY May ’08 – Present

• Translated MRP and KANBAN signals into actionable plans in ERP environment.

• Ensured order priorities current by implementing ‘Push-Pull’ report.

• Managed and continuously improved scheduling and on-time completion of production work orders and purchase

requisitions to meet customer requirements.

• Generated demand forecasts by checking material & capacity availability. Developed and implemented action plans for

improving forecast performance and reducing bias.

• Analyzed and monitored shipment performance versus monthly forecast goal. Measured pace at which forecast is being

consumed and communicated with supporting supply chain partners to understand if any adjustments are required.

• Significantly reduced lead time variance (sales order vs. quoted) from approx. 34% to 4% by implementing ‘Lead Time

Exception’ report.

• Performed root cause analysis for top 10 misses and ‘bar-graph’ (material availabilty) to present in management

meeting, provide recommendations to overcome any discrepancy.

• MTS/MTO/Kanban – Compressed lead times by 27% by creating criteria for determining appropriate ordering

procedure.

• Kanban – Implemented just in time (JIT) ordering system from ‘point of use’ in 2 departments.

• Planning module – Spearheded implementation of Planning module in ERP system to transition from a labor intensive

process to automated real time process and in process saved 8 man-hours/day.

Graduate Research Associate, Pelco Component Technologies, Cazenovia, NY Aug ‘06 – Feb ‘08

Optimization of supply chain performance Sep ‘07 – Feb ‘08

• Implemented ABC analysis to classify inventory based on its value & volume.

• Coordinated with vendors which enabled 35% reduction in inventory carrying cost and 30% reduction in lead time.

• Enabled a reduction of 20% in transportation costs by negotiating with third party logistic company.

• Contacted suppliers to resolve shortages, missed deliveries, prepare and maintain purchasing files, reports and price

lists.

• Administratively supported implementation of supplier performance management.

Enhancing Lean with implementation of bar-coding system May ‘07 – Aug ‘07

• Instigated a process re-engineering program to automated real time tracking process saving 3 man-hours/day.

• Eliminated non-value added activities by conducting VSM and performing PFA.

• Conducted benchmarking with competitor to implement bar-coding in warehouse.

• Integrated supply chain partners by conducting research for deciding linear barcode technology.

• Restricted purchase of bar-code scanner, laptop, labels, and other required peripherals to $1400 as against $5600

expected.

Dhruvil Parikh

451 Plaza Dr # 72 ~ Vestal, NY 13850

973-***-**** ~ abntba@r.postjobfree.com

Streamlining assembly process of relay timers using Simulation Jan ‘07 – Apr ‘07

• Increased throughput by 6%; reduced work in process (WIP) by 11% and improved utilization of resources by 17% by

determining bottleneck and proposing corrective action.

• Conducted time study to determine estimated assembling time, Inspection time, testing time, stamping & labeling time.

• Determined probability distribution at each station using Expert Fit and simulated flow of components using ARENA

10.0.

• Analyzed output with performance measures of; average time spent in system, waiting time in system, utilization of

resources and throughput of relay timers.

• Validated and verified simulation output with actual output using two sample T-test, Output Analyzer and expert’s

opinion.

Developed Quality Control database to track field failures and production test failures Aug ‘06 – Dec ‘06

• Designed and implemented relational database using Microsoft Access 2003 that enabled to take real time corrective

action, and in process reduced rework by 14%.

• Tracked causes of failures between field failures and production test failures with aid of Queries in Access.

• Developed user friendly data entry interface using Visual Basic 6.0.

• Demonstrated and troubleshot use of database to operators of varying age, education and experience.

Academic Projects:

Applied Probability and Statistics - Given raw data of ultimate tensile strength, identify material, its distribution and

predict type of distribution for coming year Aug ‘06 – Dec ‘06

• Determined possibility of two different materials by obtaining bimodal distribution in histogram.

• Performed probability plots after removing outliers and did two sample T-test to conclude data coming from same

population.

• Obtained Normal distribution for combined year, validated using Chi-squared test & verified same distribution for next

year.

Supply chain in Warehouse and Routing & Scheduling using Genetic Algorithm (GA) Aug ‘06 – Dec ‘06

• Analyzed supply chain management and operation techniques of warehouse.

• Scheduled order picking process using GA to minimize traveling time.

Supply chain in Starbucks Jan ‘06 – May ‘06

• Researched drivers, obstacles, modes of efficiency, market characteristics, SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses,

opportunities and threats) and Value Chain analysis for Starbucks Coffee Company.

• Investigated comparative supply chain analysis of Starbucks with competitors such as Caribou and Diedrich Coffee

Company.

Design forecasting & inventory system for 1 manufacturer, wholesaler & 2 supplier problem Jan ‘06 – May ‘06

• Analyzed problem with cycle service level (CSL) of 86%, 90%, 93% & 96.5%.

• Designed system with CSL of 96.5%, reorder point (ROP) of 800 and economic order quantity (EOQ) of 875.

Software Skills:

• Arena 10.0, ExpertFit, SAS 9.1, Minitab 14, Lindo 6.1, Lekin 1.1, Visual Basic 6.0, C, Microsoft Office Suite (Access,

Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Affiliations:

• APICS-Association for Operation Management (or American Production and Inventory Control Society); Apr ‘07 –

Present

• ASQ – American Society for Quality; Apr ‘07 – Present

• ISM – Institute for Supply Management; Apr ‘07 – Present

• IIE – Institute of Industrial Engineers; May ‘07 – Present

Personal Information:

Permanent Resident (Greeen Card) – United States of America

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