Aditya Dharankar
Austin,TX
Summary
Accomplished Senior Demand Planner with a proven track record at Dell Technologies and across diverse industries including Treasury Wine Estates and Disney. Expert in enhancing forecast accuracy, data analysis via AI/ML modelling and part planning leveraging skills in Time Series Forecasting and MS Power BI. Demonstrates exceptional analytical capabilities and strategic partnership, driving significant efficiency improvements in supply chain planning.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Advisor, Demand Planning
Dell Technologies
06.2023 - Current
- Tune forecast accuracy against Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Budget, Unit Production Plan (UPP) and Master Production Plan (MPP) to arrive at the optimal accuracy and drive efficiency within downstream planning systems
- Define Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and tune predictive pipeline forecast for brand and unit level forecast for the next rolling 13 weeks enabling sales and planners proactively chase customers for enhanced supply chain visibility
- Partner with sales to gain visibility into the pipeline and proactively initiate MRP loading incremental to periodic forecast for discrete part level planning
- Partner with Global Production Planning (GPP) teams to flag high volume high revenue AI server deals to initiate capacity planning in sync with factory downloads, maintaining GPP contractual policies
- Partner with inbound logistic team to flag high volume high revenue server deals for timely commissioning/decommissioning of storage infrastructure
- Enhanced order visibility compliance to provide visibility to the supply chain planning
- Generate part and commodity level forecast to be loaded to the GDS as a supply signal to facilitate MRP planning
- Lead weekly cadence with client, server & storage planners to compare MRP against pipeline and flag orders/deals that are highly disruptive to the supply chain
- Drive velocity to DSI comparison to facilitate part level deviation, enabling demand shaping and on-time release of deals likely to be STBLs instead
- Provide data analytics to monthly and quarterly performance of deal hygiene enabling leadership to engage in proactive change management as and when required
- Generate time series forecast using historical part level data and compare it against the Master Production Plan (MPP) to derive at an optimal load to MRP number for accurate planning
- Generate customer and platform level forecast using data analysis to identify patterns, trends, seasonality and identify the unique combination of ensemble forecasting models that can maximize accuracy
- Built a one stop shop solution to integrate product life cycle roadmap into the planning process to enable planners demand shape parts/commodities or platforms at EOL/LTS stage
- Appointed as the data SME for Large Order Planning in the Company Level effort of modernization to a frictionless supply chain planning process
Technical Consultant, ERP Implementation
Treasury Wine Estates, Disney, Sony, LTI, KPIT
07.2011 - 08.2021
- Successfully delivered ERP implementation across 5 diverse companies in the Supply Chain, Finance and Manufacturing Domains
Education
MBA - Supply Chain And Analytics
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ06.2023
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
Mumbai University
Mumbai, India07.2010
Skills
- Sirius Time Series Forecasting - All ML Models
- Reporting, Data Analytics & Data Science - MS Power BI, Python, R Language, Thoughtspot, Tableau
- Database - MS SQL, Oracle, Postgre
- ERP/CRM - SAP, Oracle JD Edwards, SFDC
Accomplishments
- Nominated as a Data SME for Large Order Planning under the modernization initiative.
- Awarded best process improvement award under the innovation category for the Supply Chain Org
Certification
- Certified Blockchain Expert
Timeline
Senior Advisor, Demand Planning
Dell Technologies
06.2023 - Current
Technical Consultant, ERP Implementation
Treasury Wine Estates, Disney, Sony, LTI, KPIT
07.2011 - 08.2021
MBA - Supply Chain And Analytics
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
Mumbai University