MADHUV VISHNU GIRIVEL
Chennai
Summary
Results-driven Supply Chain Professional with 7.5 years of progressive experience in demand planning, supply planning, and risk management across the automotive and manufacturing sectors. Proven track record of driving operational efficiency, improving planning accuracy, and optimizing end-to-end supply chain processes. Strong end-user experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse, leveraging its capabilities for scenario planning, supply-demand balancing, and real-time decision-making. Adept at cross-functional collaboration, data-driven analysis, and managing disruptions in dynamic global supply networks.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Risk Event Reporting Analyst
Ford Motors India Private Limited
08.2023 - Current
- Utilized Kinaxis RapidResponse to effectively manage a 12-week rolling production plan for both semi-finished and finished goods, ensuring alignment with demand forecasts and production capacity.
- Maintained optimal inventory levels across 600+ SKUs, proactively identifying potential stockouts, and triggering timely replenishment actions using planning insights from Kinaxis.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, evolving environment to support supply-demand balancing and real-time scenario analysis within Kinaxis.
- Oversaw and tracked on-hand inventory for finished goods (FG) and work-in-progress (WIP) materials, ensuring accurate availability for production and customer fulfillment.
- Ensured inventory accuracy through scheduled regulatory counts, discrepancy investigations, and systematic adjustments in the Warehouse Management System (WMS).
- Conducted daily cycle counts to uphold perpetual inventory integrity and support proactive supply chain decisions.
Service Parts Supply Chain Business Planner
Philips Polska Sp. Z O.o
09.2022 - 06.2023
- Follow up with the Buyers and BPO team on the status of the material deliveries
- Connecting with different ownership on the alignment of different activities like Supplier escalation, forecast sharing and highlighting the criticality of the parts
- Initiating meetings with different stakeholders for critical follow-ups on the material availability status and requesting help from the purchasing for defining the recovery template
- Conducting meetings with the customers and market planners to highlight the status of the material delivery and risk associated with that
- Updating the planning parameters for effective planning for parts
- Checking the KPI's by means of different dashboards like parts defectives and stock outs and taking actions accordingly and also requesting changes in the dashboard from the support team
- Working with PLCM team to know the implementation of new parts which has the highest number of backorders from the customers and updating the delivery plan to the customers
- Acted as the first point of contact for the engineering team, product life cycle team, and field engineers to avoid stock out of parts
- Maintained KPI for stock out, Future customer impact and pushing concerned team for new part implementation when the predecessor part is obsolete
- Provided clear direction to BPO team for expedites, order confirmation, and routing the shipments via Sea, Air, and Courier
- Identified lead time change from suppliers and escalating the supplier with the help of Supply managers.
Site Integrated Planner-Finished Goods
Procter & Gamble Co
09.2021 - 09.2022
- Utilized Kinaxis RapidResponse for end-to-end planning of finished goods across multiple production lines, including High-speed, Automatic, Semi-Automatic, and Manual lines.
- Managed a $30M portfolio covering 180 SKUs across multiple markets, ensuring optimal inventory levels and service targets.
- Conducted capacity vs. requirement planning, aligning production shifts with operations through Kinaxis' What-If and Capacity Planning modules.
- Reviewed Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) and line balancing in Kinaxis for 13–24 week horizons to ensure long-term production feasibility.
- Developed and maintained short-, mid-, and long-term production plans in Kinaxis to trigger timely procurement of raw and packaging materials, minimizing Out-of-Stock (OOS) risks.
- Planned and monitored interplant truck shipments (Germany/UK to Hungary), collaborating closely with DRPs, IOLs, and demand planners to manage DC plans, new product launches (NPIs), and demand variability.
- Coordinated with 8 international critical suppliers (electronics, plastics, cords) and logistics partners like DSV for sea and air freight shipment tracking and exception handling.
- Released and adjusted production orders through Kinaxis based on supply delays or early arrivals, ensuring readiness for the next three shifts.
- Participated in Kinaxis-driven collaboration calls with Distribution Requirement Planners and Initiative Planners to prioritize critical SKUs at risk of Customer Fill Rate (CFR) misses.
- Consistently maintained CFR >97% across all product families in key markets (EE, FBNL, DACH, NA, CE) by proactive scenario planning in Kinaxis.
- Ensured availability of materials for SOP (Start of Production) launches, preventing any delays in go-to-market timelines.
- Regularly updated safety stock levels for intermediate materials based on Kinaxis safety stock optimization recommendations.
- Led daily factory calls using Kinaxis dashboards to identify and mitigate intermediate material risks.
- Expedited or deferred sea freight deliveries using Kinaxis analytics to balance shortage risk with optimal inventory levels.
Buyer
Vestas Wind Technology India Private Limited
05.2020 - 08.2021
- Responsible for buying A and B commodity items(which are more critical/line down items for production- Corekits, fabrics, sensors, chemicals, and carbon pultrusions, etc)
- Weekly calls with European, Chinese, American, and Indian suppliers on their respective time zones regarding the progress of production and predicting reasons for the delay in cargo ready date
- Daily and Weekly shortage evaluation/calls with planners, facing due to increasing BOM quantity, overconsumption, inventory variance, and change in the production plan
- Reducing premium air/courier freight cost by analyzing the lead time and diverting it to sea freight by changing the lot size and analyzing the shelf life of the items
- Expediting overseas shipments from China, Egypt, Europe, and India if the production plan changes
- Taking the right decision by choosing a fast boat or normal vessel aligning with the Production planner and technician
- Arranging pick up of cargo on time from Vendor's dock by finalizing the freight orders by Vendor and confirming hard booking by the forwarder
- Daily calls with a forwarder(DSV) and filing the delays and reasons codes by discussing in Global supply chain call
- Placing NC PO's and communicating with the supplier for the RMA number and material pick up by requesting the credit notes (saving 0.5 million dollars)
- Cleaning obsolete items due to Top-level item ramp down to reduce inventory cost and diverting it to another factory analyzing their demand(saving 1.5 million dollars)
- Due to increased BOM quantity usage, sudden shortage
- Managed to find the local sub-supplier to eliminate the freight cost to save a hundred thousand dollars.
Procurement Analyst
HCL Technologies(Client-KLA Tencor, USA)
12.2018 - 02.2020
- Dealt with USA and Israel clients related to Semiconductor testing/calibration tools (Mechanical/KIT/FRU and sheet metals)
- Daily calls with USA & Israel clients to maintain the Business flow
- Sent a request for quotation/negotiating with suppliers and choosing the best quote by comparing the price and lead-time
- RFQ/P-Req Validations Converting Purchase requisition to purchase order based on economy price for new buy and repair materials and giving regular follow-up from vendors
- The process involves Return to vendor(RTV-creating DD), Submitting Scrap forms at the factory level, Use as IS, Rework in house, Hot-swap, and Miscellaneous shipment request
- Ensured for On-time delivery of parts and Shortage discussions/daily material tracking follow up with suppliers
- Checked PO discrepancies and Invoice issues dealing with the receiving team and AP/AR team
- Classified harmonized tariff scheduling codes and export control classification number for various electronic and mechanical parts by using the PLM Enovia and external research.
Education
Master of Science - Production Engineering And Management
Warsaw University of Technology
Warsaw, Poland02-2016
Mechanical Engineering
Anna University of Technology
Karur, India03-2012
Skills
- Work under pressure
- Planning skills
- Decision-making
- Analytical skills
- Effective communication
- Expedite
- Multi-tasking
- Microsoft office suite
- OMP Planning tool
- SPM Planning tool
- Kinaxis Application
- SAP MM/PP
Timeline
Risk Event Reporting Analyst
Ford Motors India Private Limited
08.2023 - Current
Service Parts Supply Chain Business Planner
Philips Polska Sp. Z O.o
09.2022 - 06.2023
Site Integrated Planner-Finished Goods
Procter & Gamble Co
09.2021 - 09.2022
Buyer
Vestas Wind Technology India Private Limited
05.2020 - 08.2021
Procurement Analyst
HCL Technologies(Client-KLA Tencor, USA)
12.2018 - 02.2020
Master of Science - Production Engineering And Management
Warsaw University of Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Anna University of Technology
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