Supply Chain Projects
I recently worked with a cement manufacturer and a leading technology company to improve their supply chain network. Granularity of the two projects are very different. In case of cement manufacturer objective was to optimize the distribution and production planning. This was at a tactical level where as the objective of the work with technology company was at strategic level. Senior management was looking for some strategic level recommendations. But there are few things which were common such as issues with the data provided and structure of the results to be produced. Though structure of the results evolved gradually as we made progress on the project. I studied operation research during my post-graduation but was not using at my work place. These two project gave me opportunity to utilize my optimization skills to solve the business problems. While working in these projects, I learnt some new terminology as well as tactics to drive the optimization projects successfully.