Poovaraghavan Selvaraj, Operations Associate

Poovaraghavan Selvaraj

Operations Associate

Achme communication

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Master of Global business - Logistics and Supply chain
Experience
2 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :2 years, 6 Months

Operations Associate at Achme communication
  • India
  • April 2014 to September 2014

• 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

Regional Operations Intern at YCH Logistics Pte Ltd
  • Singapore
  • October 2013 to March 2014

• 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

Associate Section Manager at John Deere Pune Works
  • India - Pune
  • July 2010 to December 2011

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.

Education

Master's degree, Master of Global business - Logistics and Supply chain
  • at SP Jain School of Global Management
  • March 2014
Bachelor's degree, B.E - Mechanical Engineering
  • at PSG College of Technology
  • April 2010

Specialties & Skills

Purchasing
Demand Planning
Operations Management
Supply Chain
Logistics
Minitab
AutoCAD
Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Word)

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
German
Beginner

Hobbies

  • Movies, Traveling, Playing Sudoku