The document provides an agenda for a career conversation on supply chain and operations. It discusses current roles in consulting, e-commerce, analytics, traditional companies, and procurement. It outlines the speaker's career journey spanning different industries. It also discusses key competencies like problem solving, analytics, and stakeholder management. Additionally, it describes how an MBA can help develop supply chain concepts, data analytics skills, and business acumen. Finally, it provides preparation tips for e-commerce supply chain roles and interviews.

1. Career Conversations' on Supply Chain
and Operations
An IIMB NSRCEL & Goldman Sachs SupportedFirm

2. Agenda
 Career landscape –Current Role /Function/Industry
 Key Competencies /Skills & Knowledge
 Leveraging MBA
 Preparation Tips

3. Current Roles/Function/Industry
 Consulting/ IT, ITES: Service Delivery Leader/Consulting/Solution Architect role
(Pre-Sale)
 E-Commerce: Operation management, Design, Product, Planning ,Lean , Quality,
Program Management
 Analytics: Forecasting, Demand-Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Network
Optimization
 Traditional Companies: Operation role , Process Excellence ,Quality, Planning roles
 Project based Industry: Project/Program Management
 Procurement Function: Vendor Life cycle Management/Strategic Sourcing

4. My Journey: Whether You Think You CAN or you can’t either way you are right
 Design of Circuit Breakers
 Autocad Design
 B.O.M creation
 New Factory Industrialization
 New Product Line Layout
 Brown Field project
Implementation
 Six Sigma Green Belt Project on
 Lead Time reduction
 End to end Supply Chain
Contract Management from
Order Acceptance to Installation
 Service Delivery –for GE
manufacturing account
 Annual Engagements
 Resource Planning
 Project cost management
 AMC forecasting
 Installed base
 Wind Turbine Pricing model
 Short term projects
 Consulting engagements
 Telecom
 Pharma
Alstom/Areva/Schneider Electric Genpact Flipkart
 Mobile & Non large Supply
Chain
 FM Cost Optimization
 Customer Experience
 Large (White Goods) &
Furniture
 Last Mile Cost
Optimization
 Last Mile Capability
Launch
 Customer Experience LM
 Head of Design Last Mile
& First Mile

5. Nikhil : Manufacturing to Plant head
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-puranik-24b5508/?originalSubdomain=in

6. Saurabh Joshi : Automotive to procurement
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-joshi-109744a/

7. From automotive to operations consulting
https://www.linkedin.com/in/suryakantsahoo/

8. Key Competencies/Skills & Knowledge
 Problem Solving- Problem Structuring/DMAIC Approach/ Can create process blue prints
 People Management- Goal Setting /Progress Monitoring /Feedback /Upskill
/Escalation /Attrition
 Analytical ability- Driving Decision through Data –Identification of Data Sources-
Creating the data lake-Analyze the data-Drive Insights & Actions- Build scalable
models/tools
 Stakeholder management- Business Case Preparation-Buy in-Governance & Status
report
 Project Management- Plan-Schedule-Risk Mitigation-Execution-Status check-Closure

9. Leveraging MBA
 SCM Concepts-
 Demand Planning- Forecasting
 Supply Planning –Scheduling
 Inventory Management
 Network Design-Traveling Salesman, Transportation problems
 Project/program management
 Lean-Six Sigma & Concepts of Quality
 Data Analytics Capability-
 Excel Data analytics and modelling skills , Statistics – Types of regressions
 How to make a Business case, Break even Analysis , NPV,IRR
 Network – Access to Industry expert and academician
 People Skills - Team management, Stakeholder handling and getting work done
 Business communication - Apply KISS concept(Keep it Specific and Simple)
 Emotional intelligence - Managing uncertainty, ambiguity, picking ourselves up after
setbacks

10. Preparation Tips - Ecommerce Supply Chain
 Warehouse
 MH/TC
 Pickup Hub /
Delivery Hub
 E-Commerce Platform

11. Preparation Tips - Ecommerce Warehousing
Flipkart-Warehouse
Link:
https://youtu.be/gs9UTVjeINE
Flipkart-Sortation Center
Link:
https://youtu.be/n9I_IM8RjRo
Link:
https://youtu.be/p8RlPfKk0EE

12. Preparation Tips - Operation Metrics
 Demand:
 Plan vs Actual Attainment
 Cost:
 CPS-Cost per shipment
 Productivity-Manpower/Space
 Shrinkage / Return Re-
inventorization/Damage
 Speed:
 SLA (Index, 99 percentile, Day level)
 Promise v/s actual speed
 O2D (order to delivery) speed
 Breach
 Customer Experience
 NPS
 CSAT/Fake
 Escalation-Q2R (query to resolution)
 Facilities:
 Capacity, Utilization, Service levels
(OTIF)
 Production Cost & Variety
 Inventory:
 Average inventory( Value &
Quantity)
 Safety Stock/Seasonalstock
 Reorder View & replenishment
batch size
 Fill rate & Stockout
 ABC classification
E-Commerce Industry Traditional Industry
 Procurement
 Lead Time, Batch Size (qty &
price),Reliability
 Delivery Terms, Payment terms
 TCO
 Quality
 COPQ,FPY,EHS
 CustomerSatisfaction
 NPS

13. Preparation Tips- Interview Prep
Interview Prep-
1. Introduction- The First & The Most important move in an Interview
2. Projects from prior Experience: Data driven Analysis/ Cost Saving/ Lead time improvement/
Project management
3. Team management
4. E.g. of Strength
5. E.g. of Areas of Improvement
6. Event describing Failure and what was the learning
7. Supply Chain Basics- Read your Supply Chain Theories
8. Case Studies
9. Why do u want to change/join us
10. Industry Research/Preparation about the Company
11. Intelligent question-About the company (Optional)