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Senthil Rathinam

Leander,United States

Summary

To leverage my 19+ years of experience in inventory & supply chain management , and apply analytical/statistical tools & skills to improve demand & supply planning functions, and to lead a high-performing team and drive operational excellence in a dynamic organization.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Supply/Inventory Planning Manager

Microsoft Technologies
06.2022 - Current
  • Developed R&R for the Inventory planning team with the vision to get end to end effective Inventory, E&O and Capex$ management to avoid excess/short
  • Implemented Component Buffer reduction levers by collaborating with Sourcing, Finance and Demand planning teams, which yielded ~$1Bn of cost avoidance by slowing down inflow of Inventory to Hubs
  • Established Component buffer equivalent to Rack weeks of supply to provide right visibility to leadership on true rack upside potential, this aligns well with Cliff's L1 OKR for Capacity Buffer health management
  • Setting up Inventory Policy & metrics to measure and govern inventory health (ie. Min/Max Target WoS , Turns, Aging, E&O) across Tier 2 supply chain nodes
  • Collaborated with teams to redefine safety stock, On hand, supply, demand and WoS and drive consistency across Commodity, Structural and Networking parts
  • To avoid single point of failure and process improvements transitioned Rack supportability, Buffer square set weekly reporting to India COE team, which yielded 16 to 24 hrs per week effort savings
  • For Supply Planning team, developed score card and defined metrics across rack supportability, demand to response cycle time and Inventory metrics

Consultant – Microsoft Program Office (MPO) Procurement

DELL Products L.P
08.2019 - 06.2022
  • Owning end to end Microsoft Program Office KPIs and program management to run and grow the business by partnering with GCMs, GSMs, Partner Marketing, Funding, finance and Microsoft teams
  • KPI target setting & tracking WW based on Spend with Microsoft supplier ~$4Bn and funds performance based ~$600M annually
  • Pricing, funding, rebates, Inventory reduction (~$30M) and non-compliance reduction ~90% analytics with Microsoft
  • Leading Digital transformation initiatives across all functions of MPO

Global Supply Manager – CPU Procurement

DELL Products L.P
01.2016 - 07.2019
  • Global Supply Management for CPU with annual Spend of ~$3.6Bn, even with Intel tight supply constraints able to minimize the supply gaps by 95% for Client CPUs & Chipsets with effective demand and supply management
  • By Collaborating with Engineering , CoC and regional demand planning & platform teams, suppliers able to drive demand/supply shaping options worldwide
  • Led Event Management weekly on prioritization of supply, and handled executive escalations & secured open market supply to maintain Continuity of Supply

Project Program Mgmt Sr. Advisor

DELL International Services
- 12.2015
  • Inventory Optimization (SEIO models) operationalized for CPU, G&C and HDD to drive supply strategies to manage Inventory & DSI effectively across all sites, the model delivered so far $32M inventory reduction for CPU & 47% STBL reduction across CPU, G&C and HDD commodities
  • Successfully deployed SMART tools for CPU Transition , Excess/Short & Forecast analysis to improve COS & achieved shortages 58% below goal in FY15 as compared to before 20% below goal
  • Applied Predictive Analytics to understand impacts from Large orders and backlog to manage the supply effectively for Client devices (DT & NB) which delivered accuracy >2.5x than Sales rep confidence level, on top developed alert & guidance mechanism to take action proactively

Sr. Manager

GENPACT
05.2004 - 03.2011
  • Managed 4 different analytical/statistical project teams to deliver and exceed customer requirements across health care, manufacturing, Insurance & banking sectors
  • Built an automated Enterprise wide Planning & Scheduling engine: To estimate optimal man hours required to minimize the labor cost & maximize the output in Planning and Scheduling the right people at the right time to maximize the output and minimize the cost
  • Understood as-is process from client side & successfully transitioned to offshore team within short period of 10 days
  • Built a Linear & Non-linear product mix optimizer tools to: Recommend optimal capital allocation across 34 products so as to maximize Net Income over 20 years with all products constraints are met

Education

Master of Technology in Industrial engineering -

National Institute of Technology (Formally REC)
01.2004

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical -

Bharathiyar University (Coimbatore)
01.2002

Skills

  • People management in team/career development and mentoring them for maturity
  • Demand & supply/inventory management to minimize short and excess in challenging environment
  • Program management on KPI target setting and performance management with Suppliers
  • Predictive analytics in Demand & supply planning, inventory management and sourcing analytics
  • Project management & Client influencing skills
  • Strong communication skills and high level of influencing skills, great attitude to work with
  • Highly focused on Customer Centricity, Quick learning & logical thinking

Certification

  • CPSM (Certification of Procurement & Supply Chain Management) – Certified
  • APICS – Certified Supply Chain Professional
  • Project management (PMP Certified)
  • Optimization and Statistical techniques
  • Certified Statistical Modeler & Advanced SAS
  • Analytical, Transition & problem-solving skills
  • Six Sigma Green Belt – Certified

Soft Skills

SAP-IBP, DISCP, Ariba, Oracle tools, SAS- Basic, SAS – Macros, SAS –OR, SAS – IML, SAS Add-ins, SAS- EG, SAS –STAT, R – Software, Knowledge Seeker, Q-Sim, Arena, Quest, Solver, MS-Excel, Excel –VBA (Visual Basic Applications), SQl Server, C, C++, SQL, Teradata, Tableau, Power BI, Excel

Personal Information

Married, and have 2 Children

Green Card Holder

Hobbies and Interests

  • Playing Tennis
  • Carrom
  • Badminton
  • Traveling around the world

Timeline

Supply/Inventory Planning Manager

Microsoft Technologies
06.2022 - Current

Consultant – Microsoft Program Office (MPO) Procurement

DELL Products L.P
08.2019 - 06.2022

Global Supply Manager – CPU Procurement

DELL Products L.P
01.2016 - 07.2019

Sr. Manager

GENPACT
05.2004 - 03.2011

Project Program Mgmt Sr. Advisor

DELL International Services
- 12.2015

Master of Technology in Industrial engineering -

National Institute of Technology (Formally REC)

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical -

Bharathiyar University (Coimbatore)
Senthil Rathinam