Rency Thomas

• Provided comprehensive analysis and recommend solutions to address complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources and applied advanced analytical methods to assess factors impacting growth and profitability across product and service offerings.
• Developed quarterly roadmaps based on impact, effort, co ordinations, working with stakeholders to achieve short-term and long-term goals.
• Collaborated with internal stakeholders, identifying, and gathering analytical requirements for customer, product and projects needs.
• Coached, developed, motivated team members, providing coaching and mentoring to junior data analysts on SAS and data mining techniques.
• Established frameworks for running SAS Jobs and Visualization for Monthly/Quarterly and Year end reports.
• Preparing Freight forecasting for Annual Business Plan and Rolling business Models for Caterpillar Facilities.
• Implementing Lean Methodology in Inbound Logistic Projects and Freight analytics Project.

Designation – Material Planning Analyst 1 for Logistics Support Network Engineering department (LSNE) .

New transition project Freight Analytics got successfully transition for CAT Parts and Manufacturing Facilities Freight Spend Reports and Velocity reports of North America.

• Job responsibilities:.
• Perform Periodic Reporting of Key Transportation Cost & Performance Indicators.
• Automating Report generation process and progressively reducing time consumed in running reports and increasing time spent in analyzing reports.
• Identifying, analyzing, and interpreting trends or patterns in complex data sets to help organizations make business decisions on Freight Spend.
• Identifying problematic areas and conducting research to determine best course of action to correct Data Errors.
• Analyzing reports of data duplicates or other errors to provide accurate monthly or daily data reports, yearend summary reports.
• Developing graphs, reports, and business presentations.
• Performing basic statistical analysis for projects and reports.
• Creating and presenting Data Visualization Dashboards.
• Prepare work instructions and reports and Velocity.
• Training team mates on newly transitioned reports and creating backups.
• Created and maintained precise and accurate models, charts and reports.
• Reviewed weekly and monthly budget performance reports, ensuring all departments and agencies operated within allocated budgets and investigated excessive expenses and reporting discrepancies.
• Planned and oversaw third-party shipments, managing stakeholder relationships and contracted rates.
• Researched affordable transportation methods and performed safety audits on equipment.

• August 2014 Job role changed from GP EDI co coordinator and moved to Transportation team supporting for Cat Part DC to DC.
• New transition project GMM Cat Part DC to DC providing part level visibility for parts moving out of US DC's to Melbourne, Singapore, Dubai, Johannesburg & Brazil

Job responsibilities:.

• Leading team.
• Load Planning Shipping Orders & complete manifestation so that facilities will have part level visibility.
• Refresh workload in MS access and get Shipment order respective to shipment plans and container to be update in GT Nexus to get visibility of Part moving out of DC to DC.
• Successfully able to transition Melbourne & Singapore DC's & able to demonstrate our capabilities to process them in a systematic metrics driven process.
• Received transition of Brazil, Johannesburg, Shanghai, and Dubai & were able to provide part level visibility for them too.
• Developed dashboard using power pivot tool to measure count of shipment plan, shipment orders, and containers for each DC monthly and weekly and work allocation.
• Achievements:.
• Got trained in PowerPivot and used this skill to apply to develop Metrics for Cat Part DC to DC raised it as Continuous Improvement idea and also received Best CI Award.
• Email recognition from Process partner and management for Dashboards prepared for CAT Part DC to DC.
• Designation – Logistics Analyst 1 for SCS.
• Promoted to Logistics Analyst 1 as on October 2012 For GP EDI Coordination.

• Planned to setup Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) with their suppliers worldwide

EDI coordinator :

Job responsibilities :-

• Educate and Coordinate with supplier for getting their commitment from EDI setup.
• Closely follow-up with Suppliers Globally to On-Board EDI by escalations.
• Creating remedy tickets.
• Analyzed prior delivery processes and uncovered more efficient method.
• Managed over 50 customers per day on call to onboard customers to EDI.

• Discrepancy Process, Process ASN grieves.
• Implemented Continuous Improvement Ideas for Process on People, Quality, Safety, Cost, and Velocity.
• Job responsibilities:.
• Processing records on three-sub process of CDS INBOUND TEAM and DART TEAM:.
• RTS - Receiving Terminal system.
• RMD – Receipt match Discrepancy.
• EOP- Early Over Grieves.
• POD- Proof of Delivery.

Receipt Match Discrepancy– RMD & POD(Proof of Delivery) process:.

• It is process of resolving grief caused due to discrepancy between invoice quantity and physical receipts.
• Caterpillar pre-pays supplier for material that is later identified as not having been received.
• Current RMD process is done to reduce outstanding discrepancies between invoice and physical receipt.
• Resolution of grief, results in smooth flow of accounts payables processing.
• Resolving Grief's associated with Advance Shipment Notice (ASN), Intermediate Documents (Idoc), Early over Grieves.
• Receiving Terminal System – RTS and Pre-edit Grieves:.
• Resolving grieves in CDS Inbound activities such as correcting wrong Part # , Purchase order # , supplier code, country of origin, etc.
• On daily basis.
• This will facilitate smooth flow of material.

Worked as Quality representative Role for RAM department taken up additional responsibilities:.

• Seeing to that all process in RAM department was ISO compliance.
• Conducting Mock Audits.
• Preparing team on Audits and educating them on ISO compliance.
• Was part of 4 External Audits conducted by DNV and was part of recertification program.
• Maintaining Documents and records for ISO compliance.
• Part of newly transitioned process for DART facilities and its sub process through same time meeting and Conference Calls.
• Trained new joiners in understanding about project, process and clients specification and doing Quality Checks.
• Worked closely with Managers to maintain optimum levels of communication to effectively and efficiently complete projects.
• Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
• Served customers in friendly, efficient manner following outlined steps of service.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.

Processing records on three-sub process of CDS INBOUND TEAM and DART TEAM:.

Performed grief resolution process as follows which helped no griefs at receiving inbound facilities or DC's:-

• RTS - Receiving Terminal system.
• RMD – Receipt match Discrepancy.
• EOP- Early Over Grieves.
• POD- Proof of Delivery.
• Receipt Match Discrepancy– RMD & POD(Proof of Delivery) process:.
• Receiving Terminal System – RTS and Pre-edit Grieves:.

Worked as Process Associate in Revenue Recognition department

• Job responsibilities:.
• Performing Deposit Verification, Reconciliation, Preparation of MIS, Cash position reports, Data entry, Period Ends, Validations.
• Trained new joiners in understanding project, process and client’s specification deliveries on daily basis.
• Helping team members about process understanding and resolving errors occurred on daily deliveries for all clients.
• Handling 5 client’s daily deliveries and period end reconciliations.
• Attended 2 new clients web-ex sessions from Wichita team on Nonstandard recons.
• Daily deliveries of Deposit Verification Reports for different clients as per specifications.
• Being part of social committee initiated some of work for project.
• High value and best award (Numero Uno) received (in Accenture) for best performer in team for month of Feburary2007.
• Received LIFE SAVER AWARD nominated by peers for helping team when crisis.