Charanya M is a motivated professional with 4.9 years of experience in operations and supply chain management. She has strong skills in strategic planning, inventory management, cost control, and manufacturing engineering. At her previous role at ESAB India Limited, she managed inventory worth 500 million INR and achieved a 10% reduction in inventory year-over-year through effective analysis and alignment of inventory levels. She also established strong delivery management through daily monitoring of production priority and key performance metrics.

1. CHARANYA.M
Email ID: charanyamanikandan@gmail.com, Mobile: 9840833706
Motivated, goal oriented and dedicated professional with 4.9 years of experience in Operations and Supply Chain management. Core competencies include
Strategic planning, Inventory Management, Cost control and Manufacturing engineering. Strengths include Problem solving, decision making, Exceptional
interpersonal skills and fast learning.
Senior Engineer – Operations, ESAB India Limited (April 2014 – April 2016) Reporting to AGM- Manufacturing - Operations
Demand planning: For 200 product groups across 5 factory locations in India.
 Formulation of Production plan and Procurement plan for in house manufactured and traded items.
 Tactical planning on a weekly basis over orders and production by incorporating supply chain intelligence.
Inventory Management: Managed inventory worth 500 Mln INR
 Analysis of inventories on weekly basis across all stages of inventories.
 Alignment of inventory levels to handle peaks and troughs in the demand.
 Developed an online strategic inventory profile model which provides the action points for reduction of inventory.
 Effective player in Sales, Inventory and Operations (SIOP) meetings. Achieved 10 % reduction in inventory Year on year.
Delivery Management and tracking: Effective On time Shipping tracker.
 Design of production priority along with identification of gaps to monitor orders and production – Daily basis.
 Created an impact by conducting cross functional weekly meetings for “failure analysis” thus improving quality of delivery
 Review of factories as well as outsourced delivery performance using the key metric OTS on a daily basis.
Engineer – Operations, ESAB India Limited (June 2011 – April 2014) Reporting to AGM- Manufacturing - Operations
Cost control Initiatives: Monthly Audits and Analysis.
 Formulation of Cost control strategy along with the management so as to effectively bring down the production cost impacting the bottom line.
 Identification of Material and Operational Variances and derived action points along with cross functional team.
Manufacturing Engineering: Establishment of Production process in Plant.
 Management and formulation of Bill of materials (BOM ) for more than 1500 products across 5 factory locations.
 Master data Management for more than 1500 products in Movex ERP with assistance for new product development (NPD)
Global Reports: Monthly report generation highlighting the key performance indices.
 Reporting of all Operations and Supply Chain related Key performing Indices to ESAB global.
 Problem solving of the affected KPI’s with the concerned departments using RCCM method.
 Effective team member in ESAB global operations and Analytics team.
Key Projects and Achievements:
 KANBAN– Identified top 11 items by volume for KANBAN and worked out a production heijunka flowchart. Two stages in the production process were identified as
Supermarket, stock levels were derived for those stages, and all the other stages were made as FIFO. Achieved 5 % increase in OTS scores. –Delivery Kaizen
 ERP implementation at two factory locations which Manufacture Welding Equipments. Formulated the Bill of materials, Consumption pattern, Run times, and
Inventory codes of more than 5000 item codes. Derived at the Fixed costs and variable costs for the major product groups by closely working with the Finance and
the Sales team.
 Process establishment of production of three fast running brands at a Subcontractor location yielding a monthly revenue of INR 20 Mln. Made PPAP Package for
the same. – Cost Control Kaizen
 Automation of packing of Welding consumables. Achieved 40 % increase in production. – Cost Control Kaizen
Proficiencies
Industrial proficiencies –Movex ERP system, Lean Tools and techniques, Kaizen event facilitation, IEC standards for Welding Equipments and
accessories, AWS classification for Welding Consumables.
Programming languages/Simulation softwares : C,C++, MS Office, Proficient in MS Excel and MS Powerpoint.
Education and Personal details :
Education : B Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Amrita School of Engineering – Coimbatore, (2007- 2011). CGPA – 8.1
Address : No 4, Anupam flats, Mathangi Society,Udayan Marg, Mithakali,Ahmedabad - 380006
Date of Birth: 24.06.1990
Marital status: Married
Passport no: 4814599
Date :05 /07/16, Place : Ahmedabad Charanya.M