Santosh Bhandari

Santosh Bhandari

Industrial Engineering Intern

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Industrial Engineering Consultant @ IET Inc. | Data Enthusiast | Optimization | Supply Chain Analytics | Manufacturing Analytics | Logistics and Warehouse

  • Education

    • Tribhuvan University, IOE, Thapathali Campus

      2013 - 2017
      Bachelors of Engineering Industrial Engineering 3.8
    • West Virginia University

      2021 -
      Master's degree Industrial Engineering 3.7/4 GPA
  • Experience

    • 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.

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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
    • IET, Inc. (Industrial Engineering & Consulting)

      Apr 2023 - now
      Industrial Engineering Consultant

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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AI For Everyone

      Deeplearning.ai
      Apr 2019
      View certificate certificate
    • VIA, Productivity Improvement through Time Study

      IET, Inc.
      Apr 2023
    • Data Visualization

      Kaggle
      Nov 2022
    • Understanding and Visualizing Data with Python

      University of Michigan
      Jun 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Workshop on 3-D Printing

      Robotics Association of Nepal
      Feb 2017
    • Using Databases with Python

      University of Michigan
      Apr 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Using Python to Access Web Data

      University of Michigan
      Apr 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Python Data Structures

      University of Michigan
      Mar 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)

      University of Michigan
      Feb 2020
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    • Certificate of Completion of Solid Works Training

      Society of Industrial Engineering Students - Nepal
      Aug 2013
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Santosh Bhandari
      Certificate of Appreciation Ministry of Industry, Institute of Engineering, SOIES Nepal May 2017 Presented for the outstanding contribution as Editor in publication of the annual magazine 'Industrial Vision 4.0'
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer

      Issued by Himalayan Climate Initiative on Aug 2014
      Himalayan Climate InitiativeAssociated with Santosh Bhandari
    • Installation Specialist

      Issued by Sustainable Industrial Development and Entrepreneurial Empowerment Centre - Nepal on Mar 2016
      Sustainable Industrial Development and Entrepreneurial Empowerment Centre - NepalAssociated with Santosh Bhandari