1. Career Conversations" on Supply Chain and Operations
An IIMB NSRCEL & Goldman Sachs Supported Firm
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
a) Autocad Design
b) B.O.M creation
• New Factory Industrialization
a) New Product Line Layout
b) 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
a) Resource Planning
b) Project cost management
c) AMC forecasting
d) Installed base
e) Wind Turbine Pricing model
• Short term projects
• Consulting engagements
a) Telecom
b) Pharma
Alstom/Areva/Schneider Electric Genpact Flipkart
Mobile & Non large Supply Chain
• FM Cost Optimization
• Customer Experience
Large (White Goods) & Furniture
a) Last Mile Cost Optimization
b) Last Mile Capability Launch
c) Customer Experience LM
c) 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
1.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
2. Data Analytics Capability-
•Excel Data analytics and modelling skills , Statistics –Types of regressions
3. Hot to make a Business case, Break even Analysis , NPV ,IRR
4. Network – Access to Industry expert and academician
5.People Skills-Team management, Stakeholder handling and getting work done
6. Business communication-Apply KISS concept(Keep it Specific and Simple)
7..Emotional intelligence- Managing uncertainty, ambiguity, picking ourselves up after
setbacks
12. Preparation Tips-Operation Metrics
• Demand:
a) Plan vs Actual Attainment
• Cost:
a) CPS-Cost per shipment
b) Productivity-Manpower/Space
c) Shrinkage / Return Re-
inventorization/Damage
• Speed:
a) SLA (Index,99 percentile, Day level
b) Promise v/s actual speed
c) O2D (order to delivery) speed
• Breach
• Customer Experience
a) NPS
b) CSAT/Fake
c) Escalation-Q2R (query to
resolution)
• Facilities:
a) Capacity, Utilization, Service levels
(OTIF)
b) Production Cost & Variety
• Inventory:
a) Average inventory( Value & Quantity)
b) Safety Stock/Seasonal stock
c) Reorder View & replenishment batch
size
d) Fill rate & Stock out
e) ABC classification
E-Commerce Industry Traditional Industry
• Procurement
a) Lead Time, Batch Size (qty &
price),Reliability,
b) Delivery Terms, Payment
terms
c) TCO
• Quality
a) COPQ,FPY,EHS
• Customer Satisfaction
a) 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)
