HARDIK PATEL
Summary
Competent and experienced bi-lingual team manager, with a successful track record of over 7 years in the field of people management, and team leading. Seeking a fulfilling career opportunity to support and build stronger teams, as well as adding value to through leadership and organizational culture. I am motivated, honest, enthusiastic, hard worker who seeks employment in an organization where high-performance standards of efficiency and integrity are expected and rewarded. I am goal oriented and ability to work under pressure to meet strict guideline; I am able to demonstrate this using my leadership and experience. I am dedicated worker who would like to obtain a challenging position with emphasis on work, which expects a high level of performance and commitment from its employees.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Inventory Management Analyst
H & B Distribution (Chemist Warehouse)
07.2022 - Current
- Improved inventory accuracy by conducting regular audits and reconciling discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Liaise with Supply Planning team and help in reduced excess stock levels with careful analysis of sales trends and forecasting future demand.
- Enhanced communication between purchasing and warehouse teams to ensure accurate inventory data entry and updates.
- Streamlined warehouse operations for increased efficiency by implementing an enhanced inventory management system.
- Maintained compliance with industry regulations relating to proper storage conditions for sensitive materials or products.
- Established strong working relationships with cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration in managing shared inventories.
- Analyzed historical sales data to identify slow-moving and fast moving items and recommend appropriate pick face to reduce labour force and avoid excess time waste.
- Identified opportunities for process improvements within the supply chain, leading to cost savings and increased operational efficiency.
- Managed annual physical inventory counts, ensuring accurate reporting of stock levels within required deadlines.
- Improved cycle count discrepancy 95% through process improvements and maintaining high levels of data integrity.
- Suggested improvements to cut costs and improve supply chain process, incorporating asset utilization, performance measurement and outsourcing approaches.
- Conducted root cause analyses for recurring inventory issues, developing targeted solutions to prevent future occurrences.
3PL Operations Manager Level 1
Central Health Services(Sigma Healthcare)
11.2020 - 05.2022
- Managing a team of 15 Casual team members, including 4 permanent Employees across two shifts
- Ensuring workplace safety is a priority in daily operations, utilizing SWAT's, Hazard, and Incident reporting as well as toolbox meetings
- Managing the warehouse operations, including allocation of labour, leading meetings, assigning job duties, policy follow-up, planned training & development for team members
- Ensuring daily, weekly, and monthly KPI's are being met across the all department within 3PL operations
- Facilitating daily meetings with team members, and weekly meetings with other stakeholders to the business
- Working hand in hand with clients, end users, as well as suppliers to ensure our operations are meeting expectations and on time targets
- Overseeing daily inbound and outbound shipments
- Monitoring the international arrival of containers from local ports, as well as interstate and local inbound and outbound truck deliveries
- Supervising the operational area from receiving, put-aways, stock replenishment's, inducting, picking, packing right through to dispatch
- Following up non-conformance investigations, and leading continuous improvement efforts
- Maintaining accurate Inventory controls, through cycle counts and stock takes
- Succession planning and mentoring
- Exhibit company values daily.
Inventory Team Leader Level 4
Sigma Healthcare
10.2012 - 11.2020
- Oversee the Afternoon Inventory team (3 team members), as well as processes
- Developing and implementing strategies to increase efficiency in workplace performance, production, cost control and reduce wastage
- Responsible for Inventory stock management of over 15,000 sku's
- Developing and implementing product placement strategies to increase efficiencies
- Streamlined operational efficiencies by supervising inventory cycle counting processes, including accounting and reporting of surplus, product returns and damages
- Monitoring quality management systems are in place and adhered to
- Proactively solve inventory problems and provide timely resolution to ensure minimal impact to customer and business processes
- Creating process maps, SOPs, and WINs (work instructions)
- Managing monthly warehouse inventory budgets
- Conducting stock taking, cyclical counts, and audit with 99.2% accuracy
- Monitoring the inventory turnover and reducing the expired items by 400% according to FIFO method
- Initiating continuous improvements, lead process improvements, identifying gaps and implementing processes which will improve performance
- Train newly hired employees on appropriate methods for performing and manage all inventory cycle counts, replenishment, and receiving, put away tasks
- Always ensuring that occupational Health and Safety measures were adhered to
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders to coordinate regarding inventory control, product traceability and Case changes.
Despatch Coordinator
Schneider Electric/Clipsal
04.2009 - 09.2012
- Make the goods ready for dispatch and ready to pickups for courier and logistic customer
- Ensure the accuracy and integrity of all outgoing orders
- Liaise and coordinate with relevant freight company to ensure timely delivery of goods
- Picking, packing, despatch and delivery of goods
- Communicated all emergencies, delays due to weather and carrier schedule changes to customers and supervisors
- Controlling the daily dispatch and receipt workflow of the distributions center
- Ability to work in a team with focus on giving excellent customer service
- Knowledge of Inventory Management
- Maintained necessary level of communications between shifts
- Responsible for achieving production requirements
- Stocked, staged and transported goods
- Maximized sales by shipping on time and accurately
- Moved freight, stock and other materials to and from storage and production areas and loading docks
- Received, stored and shipped goods and materials
- Cleaned and maintained the warehouse in compliance with OSHA safety standards.
QA / QC Officer
Cipla Pharmaceuticals pty Ltd
06.2007 - 02.2009
- Performed analysis and report of intermediate raw materials & finished product Managed and administered Sampling, Testing and Report of various raw materials Analyzed stability samples Bacterial Endotoxin Test
- Microbiological and chemical testing water
- Performed detailed inspections and standardized tests on product samples to assess compliance with tolerances
- Calibration of instruments used in bacterial testing
- Prepared and standardized Volumetric Solutions, Reagents Documentation of all Microbiological Testing
- Operated various technical laboratory instruments such as: pH Meter , Conductivity Meter, UV Spectrophotometer, HPLC, Polarimeter
- Checked production performance for compliance with process standards
- Maintained quality management structure by conducting continuous reviews.
Education
Diploma of Logistics - Supply Chain And Logistics
TAFE NSW
04.2024
Effective Health & Safety Committee Course -
Courtenell
Forklift Licence -
Absolute Forklift Training Pty Ltd
First Aid Certificate -
St John Ambulance (NSW)
04.2027
NSW Driver Licence -
Service NSW
Certificate III in Competitive Systems and Practices -
Leadership Management Australia Pty Ltd
03.2018
Certificate III in Warehousing Operations -
Leadership Management Australia Pty Ltd
03.2018
Master of Science(Organic Chemistry) -
Gujarat University Ahmedabad
03.2008
Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) -
Gujarat University Ahmedabad
03.2006
Year 12 -
Sharda High School
03.2003
Skills
- Team Management
- Safety and Compliance
- Policy and procedure adherence
- Logistics & Distribution
- Customer and Personal Service
- Establishing warehouse systems and functions
- Inventory Optimization/ Warehouse Management
- Accurate time data management skills
- Database Management
- Automation Warehouse system and Manufacturing
- Knowledge of SAP, Dynamics NAV and SAGE
- GTP/OSR and Carousel experience
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Inventory Management Analyst
H & B Distribution (Chemist Warehouse)
07.2022 - Current
3PL Operations Manager Level 1
Central Health Services(Sigma Healthcare)
11.2020 - 05.2022
Inventory Team Leader Level 4
Sigma Healthcare
10.2012 - 11.2020
Despatch Coordinator
Schneider Electric/Clipsal
04.2009 - 09.2012
QA / QC Officer
Cipla Pharmaceuticals pty Ltd
06.2007 - 02.2009
Diploma of Logistics - Supply Chain And Logistics
TAFE NSW
Effective Health & Safety Committee Course -
Courtenell
Forklift Licence -
Absolute Forklift Training Pty Ltd
First Aid Certificate -
St John Ambulance (NSW)
NSW Driver Licence -
Service NSW
Certificate III in Competitive Systems and Practices -
Leadership Management Australia Pty Ltd
Certificate III in Warehousing Operations -
Leadership Management Australia Pty Ltd
Master of Science(Organic Chemistry) -
Gujarat University Ahmedabad
Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) -
Gujarat University Ahmedabad
Year 12 -
Sharda High School
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