Kandarp Desai, MSEM

Associate II, Global Supply Chain Warehouse at Seres Therapeutics
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Credentials

  • edX Verified Certificate for Supply Chain Analytics
    edX
    Nov, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • LAI Lean Academy Certificate
    LAI
    Jun, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Excel Essential Training (Office 365)
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2020
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Biotechnology Research
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Associate II, Global Supply Chain Warehouse
      • Aug 2022 - Present

      • Performing duties in compliance with applicable SOPs, cGMP and GDP regulations, maintaining an audit ready warehouse and dock operations. • Manages materials necessary for the warehouses to perform shipping and receiving. • Works within the warehouse operations of the local and external warehouse, freezer farms and loading dock processes for local and cross border shipments of development and commercial programs. • Performs material transfers with off-site storage facilities, timely and accurate inventory/data transactions related to material receipt, material transfers and disposal and cycle counting cadence. • Support flow of supplies and materials used in donor operations, manufacturing operations; commercially focused QC/QA operations; perform kitting and transfer of needed materials to requesting departments. • Executes warehouse operations SOPs, work instructions and participates in investigations involving scope of accountability. • Ensures warehouse safety standards are upheld; notifies management of any issues, observations, or concerns regarding violations, and/or department improvements. • Executes the tracking system and cycle counting resolution either electronic or hard copy as appropriate. • Maintaining accurate inventory records at both on and off-site locations and quickly resolving issues with the aforementioned • Participate in the receipt and transfer of Donation Source Material to Supply Chain and other departments within Seres or its partners. • Timely escalation of issues impacting product quality or patient safety communicated with Tiering process

    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Project Manager
      • Apr 2022 - Aug 2022

      Researched, analyzed, and maintained over 100+ grants on MS Excel for other organizations resulting in a $30,000 award Coordinated with 50+ organizations and gathered grants requirements to evaluate schedules, and budgets, develop reports, and execution using MS Project Researched, analyzed, and maintained over 100+ grants on MS Excel for other organizations resulting in a $30,000 award Coordinated with 50+ organizations and gathered grants requirements to evaluate schedules, and budgets, develop reports, and execution using MS Project

    • United States
    • Medical Device
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Supply Chain Intern
      • Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

      • Managed end-to-end Supply Chain from sending out RFQ/RFP/RFI till the material reached our warehouses. • Developed the framework for the internal MRP system leading to a reduction in process time of 10% • Remodelled SKUs to integrate GMP for effective space utilization and eliminate 25% of excess inventory • Developed KPI/KRA for supplier scorecard resulting in increased competitiveness and reduced total cost of ownership • Partnered with Engineering, OEM, and commodity teams to develop cost reduction and qualification strategies while ensuring risk mitigation for quality, schedule, and supply continuity • Present program financial report, tooling report to executives; audit material PO price variance claims resulting from process change or forecast variance

  • Lab Service
    • Vadodara, Gujarat, India
    • Supply Chain Intern
      • Jan 2019 - May 2019

       Spearheaded the migration of data to ERP by building a framework for material management involving invoices, material receipts, material issue receipts, etc.  Applied lean methodology in order to optimize unloading time and material issue time resulting in a reduction of 12% in the time taken to issue material to the user department.  Engineered a flowchart of inbound-outbound logistics in order to investigate regulatory bottlenecks in the supply of 02 major vendors thus improving their material availability by 10%.  Created daily logistics milk runs to reduce overall inbound freight cost and level incoming material flow.  Conducted process audits, quality audits, and capacity measurements for various suppliers to ensure alignment with Lab services requirements.  Validated quality metrics from vendors, track KPIs, and evaluated the order quantity model to reduce the lead time of materials and inventory handling cost by 7% in coordination with quality and inventory department.

  • Zera India Pvt Ltd.
    • Ahmedabad Area, India
    • Internship
      • May 2018 - Jul 2018

       Compared financial aspects and technical capabilities of different vendors supplying frequency generators zeroing in on 05 vendors for final negotiations.  Indigenized the sourcing of various assembly equipment like scanners, voltage, and current amplifiers leading to an annual savings of 10% in the cost of materials and inventory holding costs.  Renegotiated third party contractual purchase orders for testing and calibration of the test benches, thus reducing the monthly third-party expenditure by 5%.  Developed a framework using spend analysis enabling consolidation of expenditure for miscellaneous items used in test benches, bringing down the total cost per unit by 3%.

    • Joint Secretary
      • Apr 2017 - May 2018

Education

  • Northeastern University
    Master of Science - MS, Engineering/Industrial Management
    2019 - 2021
  • Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
    Bachelor's degree, electrical engineering
    2015 - 2019

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