Apoorva Dilip Deshpande

1. Managing material plans for electronics, BIW, thermal and fastener commodities ensuring delivery schedules are met, while tracking supplier and internal planning KPIs maintained above 95%, that enhanced operational efficiency. 2. Support new vehicle program launches by tracking critical milestones such as material readiness, refining MBOM accuracy, PO readiness and managing risk reports. 3. Collaborate with the systems team on a continuous basis, to refine system capabilities. 4. Lead streamlining of engineering change processes which greatly improved stakeholder visibility and minimized material expedites and obsolescence by $700k.

1. Supplier Management and Material Planning: Trained and mentored 2 interns through fall 2024 to fall 2025, on understanding Tesla MRP and business processes to be successful at planning and supplier management. 2. Process Improvements: Helped identify the process inefficiencies in supply chain models and enabled the intern to lead highly impactful cross-functional project to drive efficiency. 3. Process Standardization: Enabled the intern to ensure the process improvement aims at standardizing supply chain processes across different Tesla plants, setting benchmarks for consistency. 4. Executive visibility and appreciation: Mentored the intern to help present the solutions to leadership by capturing impact across 3 successfully completed projects, driving improvements across the entire material planning team for all Tesla factories.

1. Built and maintained demand forecasts in coordination with contractors and planners, achieving 85% accuracy. 2. Represented planning team in internal Ops Reviews and supplier QBRs, to present business and performance KPIs. 3. Led ERP automation for spares planning in Oracle, saving 6+ hours per week.

1. Drove supply-demand alignment from SOP through EOL; presented mitigation strategies to executive leadership. 2. Cut material overflow costs by 12% quarterly through supplier localization and inventory optimization. 3. Partnered with packaging and quality teams to achieve 100% on-time delivery for 3 straight quarters. 4. Supported rollout of a new MRP system to increase planning accuracy and efficiency. 5. Chosen by leadership to represent the planning team to train the team in Shanghai ahead of the new factory production SOP. Conducted a 2 day extensive conference for entire supply base in the APAC region to align on the Tesla business practices and supplier relationship development.

1. Led material planning for world-wide Google data centers, achieving 100% order release rate. 2. Improved warehouse space utilization by 16% by optimizing inventory movement across global data centers. 3. Led weekly meetings with buyers, to release RFQs and increasing PR to PO conversion rate to 85% in one quarter and achieved 100% on-time invoice resolution.

Courses: ----------------------      ● Advanced Operations Research      ● Service Systems Engineering   Responsibilities: ----------------------      ● Assisting the professor in evaluating and grading weekly assignments submitted by students. Helped maintain an online record as well.      ● Providing students with constructive feedback with regard to their work.      ● Assisting students with any questions related to their projects and assignments.

Reducing Inventory Imbalance: -----------------------------------------      ● Followed a Cause-and-Effect approach to understand the reasons for inventory imbalance.      ● Created new UPN (Universal Part Number) ECR.      ● Co-ordinated across departments for approval and smooth implementation of the change. Improvements achieved: -----------------------------------------      ● Improved the efficiency of warehouse processes: receiving, sorting and picking, thereby         achieving substantial time and cost savings.      ● Suggested improvements in the warehouse floor layout, which further reduced the time         spent in receiving.      ● Analyzed Purchase Requisitions in SAP to place Purchase Orders and ensure On-Time         Delivery from the supplier.      ● Audited pending material invoices to ensure timely closure of Purchase Orders.

Oracle R12 migration(ERP) -----------------------------------------      ● Member of the implementation team for the Oracle R12 Manufacturing module.      ● Verified end-user features pertaining to day to day work orders, ASCP etc. and subsequently         provided customization requests to the software team. Production/Inventory planning -----------------------------------------      ● Determined optimum inventory levels; redesigned shop-floor by introduction of Kanban &         Min-Max techniques.      ● Coordinated customer orders and successfully achieved the planned production targets,         thereby translating them to on-time deliveries.      ● Resolved customer complaints and warranty failures, in coordination with Manufacturing,         Customer support and R&D.

Product Validation -----------------------------------------      ● Testing and calibration of various industrial based transmitters and sensors.      ● Quality assurance : Verifying the performance of transmitters and sensors for their desired         specifications. Training Sessions -----------------------------------------      ● Assisted and trained on-boarding new hires for hands-on experience with key products of         the division.

-Assisted the automation team to program the PLC for a gear shaping machine. -Used PLC coding language to set up the operation of gear shaping machine used in the industry. -Successfully completed the internship and accrued credit for the final year engineering project.

Graduated- December 2016 with a Masters in Industrial and Systems Engineering with specialization in Supply Chain Engineering. .

Completed Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation and Control. Graduated- May 2011.