V Vijay Kumar
Singapore
Summary
Results-driven Engineering Professional with nearly 10 years of expertise in Supply Planning, Production Planning & Control, Demand Planning, Order Management, Inventory Management, Manufacturing Operations, and Process Optimization. Equipped with a Mechanical Engineering degree, I am currently a Planning Lead at Jabil Circuit Pte Ltd, where I lead the planning process, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure seamless execution across manufacturing and supply chain functions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Planning Lead
Jabil Circuit Pte Ltd
06.2022 - Current
- Customer Forecast –Weekly Evaluation on unconstrained expectation of demand from the customer
- Master Production Schedule (MPS) – Analysing and loading demand into SAP system by date week or the date that we expect to ship product to the customer based on Business scenarios
- TM1/Forecast – Proposing Forecast value and aligning with Business Unit to commit to Corporate
- Impact Reporting – Identifying weekly changes between proposed MPS and current MPS with their revenue variances and potential risks and reviewing with BU and Ops as a basis for discussion between Jabil and the customer
- Sell–Through Analysis – Using the historical sell through rate (past shipments) to gauge against forward looking demand
- Constraints – Analyzing for the gaps in Material, capacity, people or any other resource constraints that will have an impact on Jabil’s ability to meet the customer demand
- Sizing – Evaluating, analyzing capacity and material availability to meet the customer unconstrained expectation/customer forecast
- Rough Cut Impact Analysis – Quick, high-level evaluation of the validity of the customer forecast and identify significant changes between the current forecast and the previously agreed upon forecast
- Capacity Modelling – To review of the Capacity Model outputs and identify areas of concern such as underutilization of capital equipment, unrealistic loading, and overtime requirements
- If areas of concern are identified than investigating into the details and developing an action plan with potential solutions as reschedule of demand, splitting demand among alternate work-centers, planning for improvement in productivity, and increase/decrease of hours, days, shifts, or equipment
- Analyzing Shortages – Analyzing the shortages and assign/allocate the material as per customer priorities if necessary
- The prioritization of the assemblies allows for the allocation of materials to the higher prioritized assemblies first
- Preparing data to understand the impact material shortages have on the proposed MPS/Demand plan
- Risk Evaluation – To evaluate the risk associated with the proposed MPS like to evaluate Revenue at Risk, Clean to Build % and Supply Shortages
- It also helps to identify main shortages and assemblies impacted at the high level with the ability to drill down to detail
- FIA (Financial Impact Analysis) – Analyzing to get the financial risk driven by the demand changes, NPI, EOL, ECN change
- New Product Implementation – Working with Customer for the NPI, pilot build and driving cross functional teams for Manpower, Machines, Raw material, Tooling’s etc
- To meet the customer requirements
- KPI & Reporting - Weekly review & reporting on site level and global KPIs like Aging Inventory (Child parts WIP, FG aging), E&O
- Planning KPI such as MPS Alignment, Performance, Execution and OTD/CRD
Site Supply Planner
Molex India Pvt Ltd
05.2020 - 06.2022
- Managed wide spectrum of tasks including Supply Planning, Production Planning, Demand Planning, Material Planning and Inventory management
- Prepare next 12 months Demand Plan and review to propose strategies in case of spike in demands
- Analyse historical sales trends and demand trends to develop Statistical Forecast
- Review with Global Product Manager to understand Business Forecast
- Prepared Supply Plan and analysing the gaps for against Demand and Supply to take the corrective action
- Prepared, maintained and analysed the KPI’s (Revenue, DSI, Slow and Excess, Delivery, Inventory, Lead Time and CRD/MPD Performance) reports monthly and provide mitigation plans in case of deviations
- Utilize the SAP system and identify all Work Centre where true capacity overload exists
- Short term capacity analysis each month and Long term capacity analysis quarterly
- Safety stock and VSFB proposal at component level, align with purchasing team, get SAP updated and PO released
- Developed and implemented the strategy like MTO, MTF, MTS & ATO to relevant functions
- Track and follow up excess FG & components caused by VSFB/Safety Stock with Program Management and Demand Forecast team
- Work with Molex Global Teams to timely deliveries of Raw Materials and Finished Goods
- Work with Projects team to ensure smooth transition of new projects and project transfer
- Ensure reduction of E2E inventory to optimum levels by reviewing the forecast accuracy, safety stocks, Slow and Excess parts and Customer Push outs
- Analyse Backlog reports both at Plant level and third party level to reduce the backlogs
- Reduce shortage or excess inventory by monitoring finished goods inventory levels at distribution centres
- Periodic review and revision Plant published lead time
Production Planning Engineer
Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd
05.2018 - 04.2020
- Responsible for handling Manufacturing-Production, Planning activities for machines based on internal customer schedule
- Handling Manufacturing Department and driving supervisors to achieve the target by solving all the internal issues that arises
- Scheduling manpower on machine based on operator skill
- Executing job as per given Cycle time to achieve OTD(On Time Deliveries) to the customer
- Ability to deal independently, analyse, rectify and execute as per plan
- Calculation of machine efficiency & identifying reasons behind the loss (down times) & sorting out
- Executing SAP Production and Planning module (BOM, Routing, Converting Plan order to Production Order and Production confirmation)
- Preparing and working as per monthly schedule, weekly schedule & daily schedule
- Carrying out Root Cause analysis for quality issues that arise
- Identifying the concerns & conducting MRM(Management Review Meeting) monthly to analyse the monthly performance & how to carry on further
- Lead and direct optimum day–to– day operations to achieve daily Plan Vs Actual
- Monitor Quality trend (Inline rejections, customer complaints and customer returns) and ensure prompt response
- Ensure no customer complaints (Potential and actual), through proper follow-up of the customer concern handling system and review and monitor progress on action against customer complaints
- Following Job work from castings to machined items and handing over to assembly as per target
- Execution of Management Information System, capturing day wise activities & losses for further improvements
- Planning and creating stock by regular interaction with the customers and Planning team
- Prepare monthly Management presentations
- Analyse the failure & rejections and implement the corrective actions and monitor the sustainability of the corrective action
Planning Engineer
Jamna Auto Industries
07.2015 - 04.2018
- Responsible for handling Production & Planning activities for machines based on customer schedule
- Executing SAP PP (Production Planning) module and SD (Sale and Distribution) module
- Running MRP, Converting Plan order to Production Order and Production confirmation
- Preparation of Production MIS report
- Preparing and working as per monthly schedule, weekly schedule & daily schedule
- Raising Order, Despatch, Invoice and Excise for (Sales and Distribution) module
- Conducting meeting with all concern stakeholders to achieve the target plan
- Project execution in Heat Treatment Plant
- Commissioning of Heat Treatment Plant with Top Level Management
- Execution for 'Material flow in sets' for better production
- Product Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) planning for entire plant
- Modified layout to have a better control on flow of material & for better visual control
- Working with SMED, KAIZEN, 5S and KANBAN
- Executing improvement activities ensuring in line to work easily
Education
MBA - Operations
01.2019
B.E. - Mech
01.2015
Skills
- Friendly, positive attitude
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Customer service
- Problem-solving
Accomplishments
- Improved CRD performance for Customer Hewlett Packard Europe from 53% to 95% by implementing planning strategies.
- Member in a team for increasing revenue from $2.2M to $3.1M over the span of 7 months.
- Defined planning strategies for export projects and reduced customer escalations.
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 09/18/93
Timeline
Planning Lead
Jabil Circuit Pte Ltd
06.2022 - Current
Site Supply Planner
Molex India Pvt Ltd
05.2020 - 06.2022
Production Planning Engineer
Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd
05.2018 - 04.2020
Planning Engineer
Jamna Auto Industries
07.2015 - 04.2018
B.E. - Mech
MBA - Operations
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