Balaji Sharma

About Balaji Sharma

Industrial Engineer and MS in Industrial & Systems Engineering candidate at Rutgers…

Experience

1. Supply Chain Analyst

   NJ TRANSIT

   Oct 2025 — Present · NJ, US

   Manage end-to-end procurement activities including creating purchase orders, drafting vendor agreements, expediting critical orders, and negotiate prices to ensure cost-effective and on-time delivery of MRO spare parts.• Sourced and engaged vendors for critical MRO spare parts needed to keep NJ Transit rail operations running reliably through FIFA World Cup 2026, collecting lead times and pricing data to ensure zero supply gaps during one of the highest-demand transit periods in New Jersey\'s history.• Proposed tracking procurement KPIs such as cycle count accuracy, EOQ, and ROP levels directly within Oracle ERP and TrapezeEAM; the recommendation was approved by senior leadership and is currently being developed by the IT team.• Mapped NJT\'s end-to-end supply chain and cross-referenced findings against internal policy documents, uncovering 11 process gaps,9 of which could be resolved through Oracle ERP and Trapeze EAM integration, presented directly to leadership.• Supported development of a warehouse space optimization model that used probability scores to flag the risk of running out of storagespace and piloted on a real dataset, thereby proposing a 10% risk reduction by recommending where to store parts and in what orderto schedule maintenance.• Implemented forecasting models using Python, to forecast demand, price and lead time of critical parts required to assist procurementand mechanical teams for ordering parts and scheduling maintenance procedures in light of FIFA 2026, thereby reducing excessiveordering rate by 12%(calculated by mapping historical purchases and usage patterns).

Education

• Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

  Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2018 — 2022

• Rutgers University

  Master of Science - MS, Industrial and systems engineering