Varun Singh

+91-9650602453 | [email protected] | LinkedIn

WORK EXPERIENCE (90 months)

Airtel (Senior Manager – Supply Chain CoE) Apr’23-Present
 Plan, co-ordinate & minute the strategic reviews for various initiatives to ensure execution as per agreed timelines
 Responsible for overall co-ordination from concept to final implementation for SCM digitization big bang projects
Responsibilities (TMS, WMS and Demand Planning solution deployment)
 Liaise across various Supply chain sub-vertical CFTs for digitization/simplification requirements
 Document Scope of Work and Business Requirement Document along with the user functions
 Led the CFT for the E2E Pan-India deployment of OTM-TMS (Transport Management System) across Airtel WHs; per
shipment cost reduced by 14% and TAT adherence improved by 11%
 Currently leading the project in the capacity of program manager for the identification and deployment of a bespoke
demand planning solution
Achievements & Initiatives
 Awarded the Airtel Ace Award and promoted to the designation of Senior Manager within first year at organization
for successful deployment of OTM-TMS project in FY24
 Delivered 41 BAU (Business-as-Usual) projects across various SCM sub-functions with a cumulative realized time-
savings of 1100 man-hours/month
CEAT Limited – RPG Group (Manager – Finished Good Storage & Outbound Logistics) Oct’20-Mar’23
 Managed a team of 1 Assistant Manager, 5 supervisors and 100+ associates for day to day warehousing and dispatch
operations for the largest radial tires CEAT Plant at Halol
Responsibilities  Managed and led all quarterly Inventory Physical verification related processes, liaising with the plant finance team
for SAP stock adjustment and resolving external auditor queries
 Responsible for driving all digitization projects pertaining to FGS/Outbound logistics operational improvements
 Recipient of CEAT ICON award for leading E2E deployment of WMS for Halol Plant Finished Goods Warehouse
improving storage capacity by 85% (from 14k to 26k tyres) & dispatch TAT by 24% (from 70 mins. to 53 mins.)
 Led a CFT for a marquee project in improving Passenger Car Radial (PCR) tire inventory accuracy; attained the highest
ever Inventory accuracy of 98.2% in Q3 FY22 against a target of 95%
 Co-led the Truck tyres export container load-ability improvement drive; identified and implemented new tyre loading
Achievements & Initiatives
patterns leading to realized load-ability improvement of 7% and net savings of 1.6 Mil INR per annum
 Spearheaded the ASRS debottlenecking project for ramping up Passenger Car Radial tires dispatches; realized 75%
improvement in ASRS throughput (from 24 PPH to 42 PPH) by developing a new tire storage pallet mix-up logic
 Developed the product wheel designing for 3 extruders at Nagpur Plant through a sequencing heuristic utilizing travelling
salesman algorithm ; achieved time savings of 83% (180 mins./day to 30mins./day)

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (Manager) Jul’15 – May’18

 Managed a team of 2 supervisors and 32 blue-collar associates for day to day production operations for Mercedes-Benz
Luxury Coach Assembly Line
Responsibilities
 Responsible for Planning & implementation of new pre-assemblies layout for bus body plant production ramp-up plan
 Handled Standard Man-hours release, Process Planning & documentation of the high volume running variants
 Effected 75% improvement in production capacity of Luxury Coach Chassis through line balancing initiatives(from 4
chassis/week to 7 chassis/week)
 Named as an achiever in the town-hall and awarded a star on the wall of fame for continued excellence and successful
Achievements & Initiatives
completion of the export luxury coach prototype chassis (XBC1628) project
 Spearheaded the BoM & Logistics Part Picklist validation for the Luxury Coach body scope processes leading to a
realized cost saving of 5 lacs INR and generating additional cost saving ideas worth 3 lacs INR/bus

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Degree / Examination Institution % / CGPA Year
MBA (Operations, SCM and Systems) S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai 2.94/4.00 2020
B.Tech (Production & Industrial) Delhi Technological University, New Delhi 77.09/100 2015
Class XII, AISCE Ahlcon Public School, New Delhi 82.60% 2010
Class X, AISSE Bal Bharati Public School, Noida 92.40% 2008

CORPORATE AUTUMN INTERNSHIP

ULIP – Unilever Leadership  Affected reduction of 544 tons worth of inventory by re-evaluation of parameters – Production Cycle Time
2019
Internship Program, HUL & Lead Time Variability in the existing inventory norms model
Varun Singh
+91-9650602453 | [email protected] | LinkedIn

 Formulated a segregation matrix to identify critical SKUs, grossly overstocked & understocked high-
demand SKUs; Identified 26 SKUs with a potential inventory optimization worth 3700 tons; recommended
for PPI

TOOLS & CERTIFICATIONS

Advanced Excel (Macros, Dashboard creation, VBA coding, solver based solutioning)
SAP GUI Scripting (Report Automation)
DreamSoft Cargo Optimizer