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Subhash Mali

Denver,CO

Summary

Highly motivated Supply Chain Director with extensive experience in developing and leading Integrated Business Planning processes. Proven expertise in Supply Chain Planning, materials management, and inventory management, resulting in significant improvements in service levels and operational cost optimizations. Passionate about driving change and fostering
collaboration across functions to achieve seamless execution of supply chain activities, ensuring alignment with financial targets and enhancing capabilities using innovative planning tools. Excited to contribute to strategic goals and process improvements.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Supply Chain Director

Gates Corporation
Denver
07.2023 - 11.2024
  • Executed supply chain planning strategies across Gates Americas, which has annual revenue of $2.5B and includes 15 manufacturing sites; Achieved 95%+ service level by implementing finished goods stocking strategy, ABC/XYZ categorization, Plan for Every Part (PFEP) and inventory health metric
  • Revamped Executive SIOP process by including scenario analysis, identified significant business risks and addressed them through strategic inventory build, production days change and spot buys from Gates EMEA and APAC. Facilitated and coordinated monthly supply plan meetings to achieve consensus on supply plan, constraints and gaps
  • Improved production planning process by implementing pull based production system and set up production priorities based on inventory health and service level categorization; Reduced past due backlog by $20M in 2024 and decreased weekly excess inventory build by $1M
  • Developed Slow Moving Inventory (SMI) metric for business and built SMI committee including Sales, Product and Supply Chain team; Achieved $10M reduction in slow moving inventory through firesale, rework and disposition
  • Led team of supply chain managers and functional responsibility of materials managers. Developed skill requirement matrix for supply chain roles and identified development opportunities to improve performance and retention

SIOP/Divisional Materials Management Manager

Eaton Corporation
Peachtree City
10.2018 - 07.2023
  • Designed and executed 5-step Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process across $1.5B division, achieving the highest score in SIOP effectiveness within Electrical sector comprising ten divisions
  • Led global SIOP process between Americas, EMEA and APAC region to allocate supply of constrained components to maximize the revenue; Identified capacity constraints to meet long term forecast and secured the capital approval to increase capacity by 40%
  • Coordinated process mapping events at manufacturing sites to improve receiving, internal, external manufacturing processes and shipping; Achieved 5% increase in inventory accuracy
  • Performed supply chain digitalization through India Supply Chain Center of Excellence (CoE) by centralizing data sources from various ERP systems (SAP, MAPICS, Oracle) and developed leading indicators for decision making.

SIOP Manager

Eaton Corporation
Peachtree City
07.2017 - 10.2018
  • Responsible for improving 5-step Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process by conducting Kaizens, Process Mapping and implementing best practices in industry around SIOP process; Initiated supply review process for purchase finished goods from overseas suppliers and increased supplier on time delivery by 5% in one year
  • Managed retail business service at 98% by aligning demand and supply for retail exceptions, monitored demand spikes and proactively communicated to supply planning and manufacturing facilities
  • Established supply chain for the e-commerce channel by identifying SKUs and setting replenishment parameters to achieve an additional $2M in annual sales.

Demand Planning Manager

Eaton Corporation
Peachtree City
03.2015 - 07.2017
  • Developed Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for demand planning team with leading and lagging indicators to identify root cause and corrective actions; Improved forecast accuracy by 10%
  • Hired and coached a team of demand planners who were responsible for developing and maintaining forecast for finished goods to drive financial and inventory decisions.

Project Manager

Eaton Corporation
Peachtree City
02.2014 - 03.2015
  • Implemented centralized supply planning for capacity planning at supplier's end and improved utilization of plant inventory by inter-plant transfers
  • Developed and Implemented SKU Rationalization model; Increased stock revenue by $20M annually
  • Developed supply chain standard work for Materials Managers and Buyers across the $1.4B division to improve procurement effectiveness and efficiency.

Senior Engineer

Renault Nissan India
Chennai
01.2008 - 01.2012
  • Designed process, procure equipment and set up gearbox assembly line; localization resulted in savings of $0.7M annually
  • Increased production on gearbox assembly line from 18K to 40K per month by line balancing and process improvement.

Education

Master of Science - Supply Chain Management

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
12.2013

Master of Science - Metallurgical Engineering And Materials Science

Indian Institute of Technology
Mumbai, India
07.2008

Timeline

Supply Chain Director

Gates Corporation
07.2023 - 11.2024

SIOP/Divisional Materials Management Manager

Eaton Corporation
10.2018 - 07.2023

SIOP Manager

Eaton Corporation
07.2017 - 10.2018

Demand Planning Manager

Eaton Corporation
03.2015 - 07.2017

Project Manager

Eaton Corporation
02.2014 - 03.2015

Senior Engineer

Renault Nissan India
01.2008 - 01.2012

Master of Science - Supply Chain Management

University of Michigan

Master of Science - Metallurgical Engineering And Materials Science

Indian Institute of Technology

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