Piyush Changdeo Thorat
Pune,India
Summary
Accomplished professional with extensive experience in optimizing inventory management processes and leading teams. Proven track record in strategic planning, quality control, and compliance within lean manufacturing settings. Expertise in production planning, scheduling in FMCG operations, and supply chain logistics. Skilled in KPI tracking, e-commerce platform utilization, and data analysis to enhance operational efficiency and drive success.
Overview
3
3
Languages
20
20
years of professional experience
Work history
Operation manager/ Site lead
Amazon Seller Service Pvt. Ltd.
Thane, India
04.2019 - 08.2026
- Handling complete reverse logistic DRCC (Dedicated Return Consolidation Center) operation as a site lead for the warehouse capacity of 1 lac per day customer return shipments with 1.5 lac square feet warehouse area
- Handled warehouse operations in Inbound and Quality control for the processing capacity of 2.5 lac per day and warehouse size of 4.5 lac square feet and 9 lac inventory cubic feet.
- Handled FC dock operation having the outbound capacity of 3 lac.
- Driving productivity and efficiency through data-driven decisions and analytical problem-solving by ensuring 100% to plan target on weekly basis. Along with developing performance goals and objectives to achieve customer promise expectations and ensure accuracy and quality by deep diving on daily KPIs/Metrics.
- Replenishing inventory with coordination with inventory health team for better utilization of available inventory space by analyzing inventory velocity and deadwood inventory management with the inventory fill rate greater than 90%.
- Maintaining correct inventory records and counts through sample inventory cycle counts and inventory count strategies for maintaining inventory health and reducing inventory adjustments for 69 lac inventory items and 4.8 lac inventory records.
- Ensuring effective inventory placement, which helps in to improve efficiency and productivity while out bounding the customer demands, which ensuring greater than 45% picking should happen from outbound favorable picking zone.
- Identifying, developing and implementing sourcing strategy, working with cross-functional teams to ensuring that strategies getting executed, and effectively communicating initiatives to gain customer and supplier buy-in and to drive them towards anticipated outcomes.
- Establishing and maintaining quality control standards by applying different strategies for reduction in defect injection with maintaining healthy Inventory Control & its management. Maintaining defect rate less than 4%.
- Communicating policies to associates and act as the primary information source for the team, maintaining compliance and consistency and taking corrective action when needed for the team size of 6 managers, 3 team leads and more than 800 floor associates team.
- Streamlined the supply chain process by implementing a robust inventory management system that reduced variable costs by 15% and improved throughput by 14%.
- Spearheaded operational efficiency initiatives that reduced process bottlenecks by 15%, through comprehensive workflow analysis and the introduction of Lean management techniques and value stream mapping.
- Ensured safety by enforcing compliance with all relevant health and safety regulations.
Senior Production Executive
Mondelez India foods Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India
07.2016 - 04.2019
- Handled Chocolate making processes on molded & shell molded chocolate lines along with chocolate wrapping/Packaging machines for the capacity of 45T/Day. Ensured all required food safety and employee safety requirements on floor.
- Mondelez Induri Manufacturing plant which known for one of the complex premium product mix Plant, wherein managing four different types of chocolate and 12 types of masses along with 28 SKU.
- Successfully reduced almost 70% Contract manpower from manufacturing area without losing a single kg production.
- Partnered for the professional as Supervisor less factory-Team Lead concept, wherein developed capability of 8 SFC(Shop floor Collogues) to handle shift independently.
- Facilitated yield improvement and achieved best in class 98% yield.
- Participated in new product launch Oreo vertical start up achieved with 75% efficiency, zero safety and quality incident.
- Implemented preplanning and fast installation by doing 40 % prework on Holiday/Changeover/Sanitation Production.
- Partnered with installing and stabilizing the high speed chocolate filling machine in outer box by elimination of 18 manpower for a day.
- Achieved 20% extra volume delivery and vertical start-ups achievement for all project, delivered three new NPD on time.
Senior Production Executive
Marico Limited
Jalgaon, India
09.2012 - 06.2016
- Handled edible oil filling processes on pouch and jar filling machine lines for the capacity of 95T/Day, along with production planning and scheduling as per the required business plan.
- Managed 3 different types of edible oil packaging and 6 SKU, along with subcontract operations (3P) by ensuring all required food safety and employee safety norms, inventory and production planning at 3P and Marico owned plant.
- Successfully reduced almost all contract manpower from pouch filling machine by installing 3 high speed pouch filling machines from earlier 6 filling machines.
- Reduced 15T/Day reprocessing of oil just by implementing automated live quality parameter in oil refinery, awarded innovation Idol award for the same.
- Successfully implemented lesser impression on 5 liter jar for MRP, batch ID and expiration date which eliminated fake/dummy products from market.
- Implemented prework and fast start ready line processes for jar filling through arranging shift timings of some manpowers, which reduced the 30-min startup delay in each shift start.
- Introduced technical parameter based pouch testing machine by replacing conventional drop test of pouch method for identifying pouch leakages, which helps in to reduce pouch leakages complaints by 35%.
- Ensured all safety and quality parameter check points which need to be carried out for day-to-day production activity for the team of 35 on-role and 15 contract based employees.
- 5S implementation on shop floor, conducting pillar wise activities on shop floor, conduct root cause analysis and coaching to resolve production issues, build a team, set targets and support to teams in achieving targets, identified developmental needs of the employees, ensured activities related to TPM, lean manufacturing & Six Sigma, Conducting events for Kaizen & OPL’s.
Senior Associate
TATA Motors Ltd.
Uttarakhand
10.2010 - 05.2011
- Handled the assembly line of TATA ACE with the capacity of 150 vehicles/Shift.
- Supervised the shop floor personnel and ensured availability of sources for production as per production plan, along with more than 130 on role employees.
- Ensured line balancing for each new activity addition, which have to be completed in the required Takt time of 2.5 Min.
Technician Apprentice
TATA Motors Ltd.
Pune, India
08.2006 - 08.2007
- Learned the basics requirements of time study, motion study and line balancing in technical and productivity services department.
- Implemented the learning of line balancing through MOST (Maynard Operation Sequence Technique) to balance the new launched engine shop for Indica DICOR having the takt time of 3.5 Min.
- Suggested multiple required changes to production team for stabilizing the activities on assembly line of engine shop, paint shop & weld shop.
- Partnered with the team to installed engine cold testing machine from time motion study exercise.
Education
Bachelors - Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
Aurangabad, Maharashtra, IndiaSkills
- Inventory management
- Process management
- Team leadership and development
- Strategic Planning
- E-Commerce
- Supply chain management
- Data analysis
- Quality Control and Compliance
- Lean manufacturing
- Production planning and scheduling
- FMCG Operations
- Warehouse Operations
- KPI tracking
- Budget planning
PROJECTS
- MFO (Missing from Outbound) payout reduction Amazon Seller Service Pvt. Ltd
- February 2022 - August 2022
- The objective of the project is to reduce MFO payouts for INFC to 1.3 bps of served GMS (flat 50% stretch reduction, against 1.9 bps OP2, 1.7 bps IOP). The project aims at the end-to-end MFO payout process including both FC controllable and non-controllable factors, partner with central teams to improve the overall seller reimbursement – uplifting the VX pillar.
- Net financial impact of MFO for Jan-May FY22 is 55.7 MM INR (1.6 bps) vs 80.6 MM INR (2.9 bps) for same time-period of Jan-May FY21, against OP2 of 1.9 bps, IOP of 1.7 bps & stretched goal of 1.3 bps for FY22. In terms of KPU (Cost per unit shipped), the needle has shifted from 0.46 to 0.24. Post review with finance POC, estimated financial savings calculated via 0.83 bps improvement to served GMS is 85.8 MM INR for FY22., Reduction in oil reprocessing loss Marico Limited
- June 2015 - July 2015
- Implemented automated visualization of oil parameters with alarm (for parameter deviations if any) for shop floor operators.
- Objective of project to reduce reprocessing loss due to information delay in oil processing having the rate of 15 TPH, by considering delay of 15 min and loss of 3.7T, affected reprocessing cost 1200/Ton.
- After completion of project, achieved saving of 1.8 L/Month.
- Automated quality parameters display captured oil parameters, FFA-Free Fatty Acid, IV- Iodine Value, PV- Peroxide Value, and color which directly getting updated just after putting value in system by quality lab., New High speed pouch filling machine installation Marico Limited
- February 2014 - March 2014
- Installed 2 new high speed 35 pouch per min filling machine by eliminating old 6 machines having speed of 11 pouch per min, with end to end ownership regarding all shop floor layout planning, pipeline design, total project budgeting up to 35 lac, vendor finalizing, project material procurement etc.
- Small automations for energy saving also implemented in same project which helps into achieved saving of daily 120 energy units.
- As project outcomes, achieved complete elimination of contract manpower earlier used for pouch filling in outer box with layout change and combination of conveyors. Successfully shifted on-role employees on other new product and expansion projects.
PERSONAL DOSSIER
- Date of Birth : 1st June 1986 Gender : Male
- Marital status : Married Father’s Occupation : Retired
- Height/Weight : 178cm/81kg Language : English, Hindi and Marathi
- I believe in ‘Success’ by better utilization of time, resources and talent for uplifting self through the practical approach and by Spiritual guidelines. The above-mentioned information is true to best of my knowledge.
Languages
English
Advanced
Hindi
Fluent
Marathi
Native
Timeline
Operation manager/ Site lead
Amazon Seller Service Pvt. Ltd.
04.2019 - 08.2026
Senior Production Executive
Mondelez India foods Pvt. Ltd.
07.2016 - 04.2019
Senior Production Executive
Marico Limited
09.2012 - 06.2016
Senior Associate
TATA Motors Ltd.
10.2010 - 05.2011
Technician Apprentice
TATA Motors Ltd.
08.2006 - 08.2007
Bachelors - Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University