Paul Parathuvayalil Raju
Seattle,WA
Summary
Supply chain professional with nine years of experience in program management and process engineering, managing multi million dollar initiatives, building and mentoring high performance teams and implementing large scale changes to improve customer experience
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Program Manager, Network Design
Amazon
Seattle, WA
11.2019 - Current
- Strategized build plans with modeling and long-term planning teams to create three-year outlook for Amazon ground network
- Hired and trained team of Program managers to drive long-term, mid-term network design, systems automation and reporting
- Authored and reviewed documents with leadership on network connectivity, speed parity with 3P and shift structure optimization
- Reduced operational cost of 2022 ground network by $400MM by improving capabilities in existing buildings and regional connectivity
- Collaborated across modeling, planning and execution teams to design 2021 peak hub network with 6.8MM daily capacity
- Designed Amazon national network during COVID reducing delivery days from 7 to 5 days
- Optimized Amazon ground network to improve one day glance views for customers from 30% to 38%
Sr Program Manager, Amazon Transportation Services
Amazon
Seattle, WA
06.2019 - 10.2019
- Maintained contingency plans for Amazons Sort Center network to reduce downtime from 14 to 7 days
- Managed B2B Direct Delivery Program for Sort Center network by partnering with Amazon business, Fulfillment Optimization and S&OP
- Scoped out last mile business needs and worked with long term planning and engineering teams to scale middle mile network with required capabilities and infrastructure
Program Manager II, Amazon Logistics
Amazon
Seattle, WA
03.2017 - 05.2019
- Served as liaison between last mile and upstream partners to communicate network changes and mediate issues
- Collaborated with S&OP team to build volume forecasts and station operations to improve operation efficiencies
- Partnered with Engineering team to optimize building layouts and volume flow by shift
- Planned weekly middle mile requirements by region to secure line haul and sortation capacity
- Established last mile cross dock operation saving $146.8MM in cost for FY2017
- Reduced AMZL middle mile cost by $50MM YoY by improving truck scheduling, reducing thin lanes and increasing consolidation
- Improved volume availability into last mile by 40% allowing stations to operate at 97% performance
Manufacturing Engineer
Schneider Electric
Fresno, CA
03.2013 - 03.2017
- Lead Kaizen activities to improve Standard Hours Efficiency, Line Balance Efficiency and Material Providing and Handling
- Evaluated and improved current test fixtures in manufacturing to reduce operator dependency on product testing
- Liaison new product introduction into Manufacturing during PMP process by working with Design Engineering and Industrialization
- Managed outsourcing projects with annual savings of over $100,000 in collaboration with design engineering, procurement and production planning
- Reduced rejection rate in fixed camera product line saving $95,000 in material and labor per year
- Improved labor utilization by 40% by redesigning and line balancing high volume production cells
Education
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC12.2012
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology
Calicut, India04.2010
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Supply chain design
- Process improvement
- People management
- Stakeholder management
- Problem solving
- Risk mitigation
- Data Analysis
Timeline
Sr Program Manager, Network Design
Amazon
11.2019 - Current
Sr Program Manager, Amazon Transportation Services
Amazon
06.2019 - 10.2019
Program Manager II, Amazon Logistics
Amazon
03.2017 - 05.2019
Manufacturing Engineer
Schneider Electric
03.2013 - 03.2017
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology
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