Operations Associate
Achme communication
Total years of experience :2 years, 6 Months
• Learning about the operations, inventory management, purchasing and other support functions
• Participated in stock taking exercise and inventory reconciliation
• Involved in Business development activities such as cold calling and creating sales orders from external clients
• Created an excel template for simplifying the stock taking and inventory reconciliation process
• Number crunching and analysis of transportation data to provide insights on profile of major transporters used by the company
• Proposed a linear programming model to reduce the transportation cost - worked along with procurement department
• Developed a time study template and conducted time study to benchmark, identify wastes and improve the productivity of inbound / outbound operations
• Initiated meetings with supplier to implement automation in an upcoming warehouse
• Documented current warehouse operations of each customer account for future planning
• Organized a brainstorming session with cross functional departments to develop an integrated IT solution for an upcoming warehouse
Responsibilities:
• Reducing takt time of assembly line from 4.8 minutes to 2.1 minutes through a lean six-sigma project
• Generated inventory control plan for C & D class parts in warehouse resulting in savings worth US$ 21, 000 approx.
• Coordinated and involved in meetings for a major sub - assembly outsourcing project involving various departments that support manufacturing
• Volunteered at an Asia level agricultural exhibition representing John Deere
• Self - initiated Kaizen projects and implemented safety measures on the assembly line
• Organized a value engineering workshop for reducing the cost of 5038D, a special variant tractor
• Assisted in a six sigma project in improving the overall equipment effectiveness of the CNC machines in the shopfloor (Engine factory)
• Drafted a training manual for assembly line workers to explain the concepts of 5S, TPM, Poka - Yoke etc.