Saketh S Vinnakota

One Duke Access Fund (now the Emergency Travel Fund) is an emergency financial aid fund for the graduate students at Duke University • Brainstormed and set up processes for the new fund and oversaw the monthly operations

• Interacted with multiple internal teams to understand the current state and improve the shipping process • Created the template and defined KPI metrics for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) using large sets of data • Analyzed and provided a cost-benefit analysis report on manpower requirements with potential savings of 40% • Negotiated and worked with 3PL companies to explore and develop alternative strategies • Redesigned the warehouse layout by implementing one-piece flow to increase productivity by 15% • Organized Kaizen events to steer improvements in logistics and inventory management thereby setting up new standard operating procedures

Client: Book Harvest, a non-profit organization which provides books and literacy support to children. Worked on a pro-bono consulting project to provide a warehousing and transportation solution to sort, organize, store and distribute 50,000 books to various schools annually.

Filtration Group designs & manufactures a complete range of fuel, oil, and air filtration products for heavy duty automobiles with the major customers in Europe and Asia-Pacific. • Increased productivity by 60% after developing and implementing a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the stock and financial transactions between Parker, a third-party warehouse, and the end customer • Single point customer contact for global automotive OEMs like Volvo, Daimler, Hyundai, MAN Trucks and Tata Motors • Improved Customer Service KPI from 77% to 95% by improving operational efficiency • Negotiated with new global and local transporters to obtain better freight rates and improved delivery time by 30% • Worked directly with vendors to improve productivity and reduce cycle time • Determined pricing for packaging, warehousing, and transportation of parts • Redesigned shipping routes to international customers by converting more than 50% of shipments from air to sea mode, thus improving gross margin • Saved 10% on packaging materials purchasing by developing a new ordering model in Excel • Presided over monthly Demand Planning meetings as a part of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) • Achieved sales of 40% higher than the plan with better stakeholder management and forecasting using data analysis • Monitored stock levels and balanced inventory at third-party warehouses located in France and India • Implemented the customer focus and customer satisfaction requirements of ISO/TS 16949 automotive certification • Partnered with the IT team to create solutions for all customer returns in the ERP system • Saved the company 2% on all exports sales by setting up a process to claim a new export benefit • Awarded the Best Performance Award

DAKSH 2013 is the seventh edition of the Techno-Management Fest of SASTRA University. Was responsible for managing a 27 member team to publicize the fest on various levels and to meet the media requirements