PRASANNA THAWAIT
+91-9981445227 Tata Consultancy Services
e20prasannat@iimidr.ac.in
https://www.linkedin.com/
in/prasannathawait/
Summary
A seasoned professional with around
7 years of cross-functional
experience in multiple divisions of
Supply Chain, Operational
Excellence, Strategic Sourcing,
Warehousing, and Logistics. Have
rich experience in negotiation and
stakeholder management.
Key Skills
• Supply Chain Management
• Operational Excellence
• Project Management
• Digital Transformation
• Decision Making
• Stakeholder Management
• Materials Management
Certifications, Extra-Curricular
Activities, and Awards
• Certified Lean Six-Sigma Green
Belt, KPMG
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
(CSPO), Scrum Alliance
• Proficient in tools like SAP, SQL,
Power BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense,
and R
• Content creator in the IIM-Indore
EPGP Branding Committee
• Photographer for BALCO
Company Magazine published by
Corporate Communications dept
• Secured 2nd prize among 150+
participants in ‘Losers Win’
Weight Loss competition
organized by Balco
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Consultant Pune, Maharashtra
(C&SI- Supply Chain as a Service)
May ’21 – Present
Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (Vedanta)
Assistant Manager Korba, Chhattisgarh
(Operations)
Oct ’13 – Mar ’20
BUSINESS CONSULTANT - Supply Chain
• Evaluated client’s supply chain procurement maturity with TCS maturity
assessment framework and reported major improvements areas
• Performed procurement suite evaluation for a client to transform the
business process and bring value
• Assessed business needs and proposed supply chain control tower to a
client to bring end-to-end visibility of entire value chain and to perform
intelligent actions
TEAM LEAD - Procure-to-Pay
• Managed strategic sourcing and end to end P2P cycle for service contracts
and processed contracts of more than INR 20 million leveraging ERP
solution
• Ensured evaluation for selection and on-boarding of reliable vendors. Led
negotiations with vendors to save advantageous pricing and terms
• Responsible for managing performance of all service providers through
contracts/service level agreements, monitoring and operations reviews
WAREHOUSE MANAGER - Order Management
• Led the warehouse team to optimize finished goods inventory, ensure
fulfillment, and delivery of products to the customers
• Redesigned warehouse logistics by introducing cross-docking to decrease
material handling and shipment time
• Coordinated with required functional groups and third party logistics
provider to make strategy and ensure smooth operation of the supply
chain from production to end-customer
OPERATIONS MANAGER – Power Generation
• Liaised with multiple stakeholders for continuous electricity generation
worth INR10 million per shift.
• Implemented digital transformation project for paper log-books. Designed
business process workflow of web-app to support IT development team
• Facilitated SAP PM module implementation and collaborated as functional
advisor with IT development team increase process efficiency
• Managed end-to-end delivery of a project using Lean Six Sigma principles
to reduce oil consumption saving INR1.2 million/year
WHITEPAPER
• Authored a whitepaper on “Green Procurement”
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ACHIEVEMENTS
• Received TCS Gems award for contribution towards use case repository
+91-9981445227
• Received Well Done Card at Balco from manager for efficiently handling an
unforeseen critical emergency
e20prasannat@iimidr.ac.in
• Received Excellent Performance rating (Top 10%) by the CEO at Balco
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EDUCATION

MBA – General Management

Indian Institute of Management, Indore Indore, India
June ’20 – Mar ’21

Advanced Leadership Program

SDA Bocconi, School of Management Milan, Italy
Oct ’20 – Nov ’20

Post Graduate Programme in Thermal Power Plant Technology

Jindal Institute of Power Technology Raigarh, India
Aug ’12 – Jul ’13

B.E. Electrical & Electronics

Disha Institute of Management & Technology Raipur, India
July ’08 – June ’12