Santosh Bhandari

Experience

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  PepsiCo

  Apr 2017 - May 2017

  Industrial Engineering Intern

  • Hourly and day to day observation and analysis of production of NCB line, RGB 300 BPM and 400 BPM line ,and PET line.• Observation and analysis of line maintenance.• Calculation of day to day line productivity of the plant.• Supervised and explained the manufacturing process to the group of students in Industrial visit.

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  Rocket Internet SE

  Jun 2017 - Jul 2019

  Operational Excellence Engineer - Supply Chain and Logistics

  • Created multiple dashboards to extract insights and find opportunity for continuous improvement pertaining to in-house logistics and 3PL.• Designed and maintained warehouse and payments management databases in Microsoft Access for Daraz Black Friday Sale 2017.• Designed and modelled the Refund and Return Tracking System in order to govern and reduce the pending issues on day to day basis.• Led and monitored the Vendor Operations team to enhance the performance of vendors, resulting in a significant increase of 5% overall daily pickups.• Established Key Performance Indicators, set baseline and improvement goals for the in-house riders, which created healthy competitive improvement in the performance.• Developed a Vendor Rating System based on SLAs in order to govern and improve the performance of vendor and improve the customer delivery lead time.• Prepared daily performance analysis dashboard using Daraz BI tools, of inbound, outbound, return, refund and payments and articulated the information throughout all operational sub-departments.• Updated and revised the R codes for preparation of daily order sheets in order to cope with the system change from Kaymu to Daraz system.• Attended the training for Hub Management Tool and trained the ground-staff according to their hub assignment.• Trained and guided interns and Vendor Operation Associates throughout their probation periods. Show less

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  Eydean Inc.

  Sept 2019 - Jul 2020

  Project Manager- Business Intelligence and Data

  • Led a team of six developers, in spearheading the production of multiple reporting and analytical applications pertaining to warehouse management, inventory management and logistics.• Supervised the entire new product lifecycle from ideation, design and features approvals, sample, user testing and production for multiple product/service(s) of the company pertaining to e-commerce, supply chain and logistics. • Monitored the progress of the product timelines and closely coordinate with the in-house talents in order to meet the deadlines. • Performed data analysis using Python library like Numpy, Pandas and created business reports as per client needs.• Communicated the requirements to the development and project management team members and clarified any confusions.• Developed and maintained the accurate documentation of the project/product(s) as per requirement.• Reviewed test cases and provided the feedback based on the experience. Show less

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  阿里巴巴集团

  Aug 2020 - Aug 2021

  Inbound and Inventory Operations Manager - Fulfillment Center

  • Introduced and standardized principles and processes of inventory replenishment and maintained an in-stock percentage of 99% or greater by using historical/seasonal sales forecast, which was later replicated across South Asian ventures of Daraz including Pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.• Led a team of 50+ people, facilitating 200+ vendors, within the Fulfillment Center, directly or indirectly, in managing 7000+ in-store SKUs, 100k items, with a total inventory value of over $100K.• Optimized the in-house inventory over the multi-storied warehouse in order to decrease the picking lead-time, improve the put-away efficiency by 3% and minimize inventory losses by 0.4%• Collaborated closely with Alibaba’s Regional Team on Warehouse Expansion and Layout Improvement Design plans using Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) to streamline and improve the preexisting process and material flow within the Fulfillment Center.• Implemented the ABC classification of inventory, which resulted in maintaining 99.98% weekly Inventory efficiency, minimized the inventory losses by 0.4%, and improved the picking productivity in a multi-storied warehouse.• Coordinated and assisted in operations scheduling, daily and weekly capacity planning, and executed the hiring plans with Human Resources to prepare for increase in demand volume. • Defined and prepared strategies in order to implement the Smart Putaway feature in the Warehouse such that it improved the product mixing, put-away productivity and decreased the inventory losses.• Outbound Station planning for campaign period in order to uniformly distribute the order load across all stations and hence improving the outbound processing lead time. • Monitored the Warehouse Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics by using Cainiao’s WMS to set baseline and improvement goals of the end-to-end warehouse operations like Inbound, Inventory, Outbound and Returns. Show less

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  West Virginia University

  Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Assisted 100+ students in understanding the business problem, expressing it into mathematical models and solve them using MS Excel.• Administered students to learn modeling of supply chain, transportation network, regression analysis using OR techniques • Researched and assisted in a research work related to Multi-Agent Simulation in Bitcoin Mining Process using Mesa package in Python• Facilitated in development of the algorithm as well as hard coding of the said algorithm as instructed.• Reviewed literatures related to Multi-Agent Simulation, Bitcoin Mining, Game Theory etc

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant - Decision Analysis

    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
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  IET, Inc. (Industrial Engineering & Consulting)

  Apr 2023 - now

  Industrial Engineering Consultant

  Industrial Engineering, Lean& Continuous Improvement, and Supply Chain-Distribution Consulting

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  The Bostwick-Braun Company

  May 2023 - Jun 2023

  Industrial Engineering Consultant- Distribution Center (IET Inc.)

  Inventory Consolidation, Warehouse Space Management, Material Handling Automation Solutions and Restructuring

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  Knouse Foods

  Jul 2023 - Oct 2023

  Lean and Continuous Improvement Engineer (IET Inc.)

  Turnaround, Restructuring and Performance Improvements, Lean and Kaizen Initiatives/Trainings, Continuous Improvement Implementation, Total Productive Maintenance and Production Supervision

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  General Motors

  Oct 2023 - now

  Industrial Engineer

  Factory Zero- Rechargeable Energy Storage System (RESS) Battery Pack Assembly Line: Execution Launch IE, Throughput Improvement, Continuous Improvement, System Testing & Validation