Served as the IT team lead of Verizon Wireless retail inventory planning and replenishment and market demand planning systems.
• Developed data wrangling and improved statistically modeling system with structured sales, inventory, forecast, shipment data and unstructured business inputs to optimize inventory level via safety stock and archived savings in millions per quarter. [Python (NumPy, pandas), PySpark, Hadoop, Hive, R]
• Created an interactive website that performs time series forecasting with various statistical methods (moving averages, seasonal, ARIMA), time horizon, product family/grouping, empowered demand planners to visually explore forecast and identify optimal model. [R (shiny), Hadoop, Hive, SQL]
• Programmed supply chain data extraction/ingestion workflows for advanced analytics, centralized sporadic data stores and enabled data-driven decision making. [SQL, Hadoop, Hive, Oozie, Sqoop]
• Architected and deployed cross-channels inventory allocation logic that intelligently segregates warehouse inventory into pools for channel consumption based on forecasts and various business controls. It automates most inventory planning tasks and has planners focusing on exception cases.
• Spearheaded supply chain planning IT of SAP IS-Retail project and architected/coded complex business logic and rolled-out flawlessly over 1700 retail stores and 3 warehouses.
• Led inventory planning IT team for replenishment process optimization project that cut down store replenishment cycle time, saved one day worth of cycle stock/working capital and replaced planners daily busy tasks with highly customizable configuration.