Kamalkant Shukla, MBA

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (Purchasing, Manufacturing, Vendors) to achieve timely project goals and align with organizational goals and objectives
• Generating schedules ensuring alignment between the different stakeholders (brand demands, manufacturing capabilities and plant builds)
• Managed vendor relationships to secure necessary resources, ensure timely delivery of parts and resulting in smooth functioning of the plants.
• Generated risk-management templates to prevent capacity-related issues, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery.
• Enhanced capacity management efficiency by implementing data-driven strategies and monitoring tools.
• Assisted in budget planning by providing accurate estimates of required resources, through MCRs (Mix Change Requests) supporting financial decision-making processes within the organization.
• Proactively addressed potential bottlenecks and participated in regular capacity reviews to identify areas for improvement
• Collaborated with engineering to report issues, manage project deliverables and provide status reports.
• Supported creation of detailed, technical financial models to value potential acquisition targets.
• Conducted in-depth analyses to identify process improvements and optimize workflows.
• Developed strategies to mitigate risks associated with capacity constraints, and thus ensuring continual service delivery.
• Engaged with stakeholders to gather requirements for capacity needs, ensuring alignment with business objectives and suppliers' (both Tier 1 & Tier 2) capabilities.

Main responsibilities included:

• Production reporting (Production Performance), planning / overseeing execution of process improvements to the myriad complex business applications used (within releasing IT systems) maintaining a stable consistent supplier release. Additionally, plan and oversee generation of analytic reports (using QlikSense/Tableau/Cognos) of most sought details utilizing my strong knowledge of reporting and analytics.
• Streamlined release processes by implementing automated tools and standardizing procedures, reducing delays and errors.
• Work with senior-level business teams to identify, create opportunities and define actionable analytics’ needs along with conceptualizing potential solutions – both qualitative and quantitative.
• Completed the 4-week Part Variance KPI QlikSense tool
• Championed a new Cognos report and a Qlik app to indicate forecast variances at the "schedule code" level. This tool thus preempts issues likely to seen
• Planning and leading the Releasing team in improving accuracy in forecast generation vis-à-vis market demands - "Forecast Order Generator (FOG)"
• Managed release schedules effectively, ensuring timely delivery of multiple projects with tight deadlines.
• Generated the Release Change Summary and the Weekly Work Schedule - sent to senior management and suppliers
• Modified the Blue Book SharePoint site (portal for suppliers for releases' information} for better readability; adding wealth of information for suppliers at a single location
• Mentored junior team members on best practices in release management and process optimization strategies.

Contracted through RGBSI to work for FCA.

Main responsibilities included:

• Leading the analyzing and authorizing forecast teams to maintain a stable supplier release with minimal E&O. Also included are process improvements to the myriad complex business applications used. Some key achievements: 1) a 200% increase in time for analysis/resolutions (from 2 days earlier to 6 hours now) on Supplier Release Day; 2) KPI Dashboards and improved business analytics. Part of the Center of Excellence for Business Analytics leading the Component Capacity Management & Production Scheduling (CCMPS) group utilizing my strong knowledge of reporting and analytical.
• Proficiency in using ticket management systems to document and track issues.
• Led several FCA projects across different applications to transform business capabilities and processes.
• Championed new reports and improved quality of existing reports to Executive Management for better accuracy and relevance – some reports e-mailed while others are available online.
• Led team(s) to create/self-created several Reports and Dashboards (for KPIs) to enable intelligent decision-making – involved identification of detailed data needs, sources of data and Dashboard look-and-feels.
• Identify pain-points of analyzing release forecasts and supplier questions through discussions at different levels across hierarchies, evaluating possible alternatives and bringing solutions to fruition.
• Work with senior-level business teams to identify, create opportunities and define actionable analytics’ needs along with conceptualizing potential solutions – both qualitative and quantitative.
• Create prototypes as needed to help visualize the future state
• Managing multiple initiatives with changing priorities/schedules, and resources, to successful outcomes.
• Asset Creation – Setting up standards/guidelines and building knowledge base through up-to-date documentation, and work instructions thus leading to standardized consistent work.
• Represented the CCMPS group to lead the team for a new tool to generate forecasted orders {Forecast Generated Orders) and improve forecasting accuracy - impacting multiple applications.
• Liaison to find effective systematic IT solutions to some complex business issues/concerns utilizing my ability to understand both IT and business components
• Utilize my strong knowledge of business processes and data flows to create efficiencies in system while maintaining data integrity.
• Grew Data Governance capabilities within the team.

Contracted through Kelly Services to work for Chrysler LLC / FCA.

Main responsibilities included:

• Leading multiple cross-functional teams, collaborating with the business partners and creating opportunities for analytical efficiencies. Also included working with different levels of hierarchy/organization – from peers to executive leadership - to define and gain consensus on scope/objectives of business strategies, gather/document/ revise project requirements; ensuring the IT teams’ adherence to these (requirements). Highlighted below are some key projects that I have led and directed:
• Led team to create PoCs / prototypes to analyze active orders (thus led to the introduction of Qlikview within Chrysler for the first time in 2011), incorporating a multitude of disparate data sources.
• Led cross-functional team, spread across geography, to create an Active Order Management (AOM) Qlikview application after successful PoC, incorporating a multitude of disparate data source for measuring Order To Delivery and including all characteristics of the orders
• Led cross-functional team for successful creation a Days on Lot Analyzer (DOLA) Qlikview application for complexity reduction and evaluate reasons for outliers/identification of not-so-sought/redundant/ non-cost effective options on vehicles.
• Identified the need for a harmonious enterprise-wide Model Year launch – Led and coordinated highly cross-functional teams (technical and business) to launch of Model Year 2017 across Chrysler – the first-of-its-kind coordinated approach – and subsequent release to Suppliers. The template generated after this launch was widely applauded and approved across ALL IT for future model year launches (since then successfully launched MY 2018, 2019, 2020 and now 2021 using this template effectively). Continually enhanced this application in collaboration with the Brand Managers and Executive Management with the dynamic business scenarios.
• Directing and leading cross-functional team to create a Slot Stability Index application. This now became a powerful tool for the senior management to identify plant performance and stability of orders.
• Work closely with the Business Analytics and Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) teams, as also the database teams to organize data from different legacy systems thus producing effective reports /dashboards /applications with on-time delivery.
• Led and completed several large scale and smaller scale projects in MDP with on-time delivery and satisfaction of business partners. Generated and maintained the WBS alongside controlling and managing scope-creep. Most of the projects were across different functional teams.
• Collaboration with different levels of business leadership to identify business definitions, establish responsibilities, streamline action items and projects and thus ensure maximum efficiency.
• Sought and identified the requirements for development of Cognos reports for evaluating coverage of orders for NAFTA /International regions. Utilizing the extensive knowledge on data relationships and data flows, reports that used to take >4 hours to be created by business analysts from different data sources/systems now generated in
• Constructed projects from a concept, identified stakeholders and requirements and led them to (successful) implementation while managing ever-changing priorities, risk mitigation and managing people through influence to effectively achieve outcomes.
• Asset Creation – Best Practices, Standards/Guidelines and build knowledge base through up-to-date documentation on all facets of tool/application development and enhancements.
• Analyzed, organized and managed large volumes of diverse data (both structured and unstructured) and data flows from disparate sources using a combination of available and ad-hoc tools.
• Improved application architecture to improve efficiency of the applications involving distributed and mainframe systems with improved data governance and without loss of data quality.
• Improved report efficiency of the MDP application utilizing expertise in data analytics and reporting tools. Have successfully aggregated Cognos reports and removing redundancy (from over 120 reports to now 38) leading to better support without any loss of business reporting functionality.
• Understand / analyze business needs, identify the appropriate tools and transform the requirements to prototype for development of user-friendly and intuitive reports.
• Maintain and improve Hyperion Essbase financial and volume planning cubes. These cubes help in custom-built and faster retrieval of financial data including KPIs and other financial figures and reports for various business segments of the organization.

Main responsibilities included:

• Development and maintenance of various cubes of Hyperion Essbase, and working with the development and financial teams. The cubes provide Balance Sheet Statements, Net Income statements, Earning Statements, and other financial figures and reports for various business segments of the organization.
• Data retrieval in MS-Excel to meet forecasting and analysis needs of end users
• Involved in system installation, configuration and migration from Essbase version 6.5.4 to 7.1.3
• Involved in optimization, using Hyperion Essbase and OLAP Dense-Sparse Utility for optimization, of data loads and calc scripts

• Developed the strategic business plan for WTCGP for FY 2004
• Created a database management system for easier and effective handling of clients and customers
• Analyzed and prepared comprehensive market research reports, in developing international business strategies for specific business clients
• Organized the first annual Conference on Global Strategy for Business held in Philadelphia

• Amongst the online MBA programs, US News rates Drexel’s program amongst the best.
• Co-led the team in launching and developing the current online course system for Drexel (Online) MBA, rated by US News as one of the top programs in 2004
• Provided training to over 200 faculty and students per term and enhanced the Online MBA Program utilizing Learning Management Systems for distance learning and involved in online curriculum designs
• Developed a more user-friendly GUI for the faculty and students for setting up courses and evaluations
• Assisted faculty in research publications, created survey forms (online as well as paper formats), and analyzed survey data using statistical tools (SPSS and SAS)
• Designed, developed, supervised and facilitated marketing strategy simulations
• Developed/re-engineered courses making them more web-based than the (then) existing paper based formats
• Created a full-functional database management system for library usage using MS Access
• Developed a financial forecasting model for time series analysis of food sales data using ARIMA model

• Assisted in financial analysis and prepared tariff studies including alternate sources of revenue generation
• Developed a budgeting system and a financial tracking system using MS-Excel
• Developed an analysis process for easier and lot efficient system for storage and retrieval of technical data collected from several Client sites and subsequent analysis of the same
• Directed a cross-functional team of 17 professionals; involved in coordination effort, recruitment, training, quality control, work flow, and conflict resolution, and goal sharing strategies with whole team
• Co-led water supply projects for major cities of India, with majority of projects involving major international financial institutions (World Bank, ADB); worked with international firms.