Prashanth Chidambaram, Senior Knowledge Analyst

Prashanth Chidambaram

Senior Knowledge Analyst

McKinsey and Company

Location
India - Chennai
Education
High school or equivalent, Associate degree (Piano Performance)
Experience
7 years, 0 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 0 Months

Senior Knowledge Analyst at McKinsey and Company
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since July 2022

Manufacturing and Supply Chain Practice July 2022 - Present
●Built a procurement planning model for semiconductor components to help planners prioritize, evaluate impact of shortage on sales and gross profit and lead vendor negotiations. (Tools Used: Alteryx, Tableau and R)
●Excel based inventory planning model to set inventory norms for raw material basis business constraints. Identified ~9% one time savings opportunity (Tool Used: Advanced Excel)

Knowledge Analyst at McKinsey and Company
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since April 2020

Manufacturing and Supply Chain Practice Apr 2020 - Present
●Designed SC Control Tower to track inventory levels of critical SKUs for weekly review by CFT across raw material (>100K SKUs) and finished goods (>10K SKUs). (Tools Used: Tableau, Alteryx)
●Evaluated business continuity plan for a global packaged foods player. Suggested alternate site compared to current BCP with 10% lower costs incorporating manufacturing and logistics constraints. (Tools Used: LLamasoft SC Guru, Alteryx, Power BI)
●Brownfield project advising an Indian tyre manufacturer to optimize their network footprint, exploring savings of 10% in manufacturing and logistics costs (Tools Used: LLamasoft SC Guru, Alteryx, Advanced Excel)

Intern at McKinsey and Company
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2019 to June 2019

Manufacturing and Supply Chain Practice April 2019 - June 2019
●Built a SC Network optimization model in R/R Shiny
●Built a Parcel optimization model in R/R Shiny and C++

Co-Founder at Etude Music Private Limited
  • April 2016 to March 2018

Private music teaching/consulting practice where I worked with K-12 schools (primarily IGCSE and IB) designing their music curriculum, supported on teacher training, and delivered music workshops to leading schools in Chennai.
●Conducted after-school piano and keyboard lessons for 100+ students in person as well as through online lessons.

Education

High school or equivalent, Associate degree (Piano Performance)
  • at Trinity College London
  • April 2023

,
  • at AC College ofTechnology
  • April 2023

Master's degree, PGDM (Finance
  • at Great Lakes Institute of Managemen
  • January 2020

Bachelor's degree, B. Tech in Chemical Engineering
  • at Anna University
  • November 2016

Specialties & Skills

ADVISING
ALTERYX
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
CONSULTING
MICROSOFT EXCEL
POWER BI
SUPPLY CHAIN
TABLEAU (BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE)

Languages

English
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