Ankit Bhaskar
Supply Chain planner @TCP | Rutgers B-School (Analytics and Supply Chain) | J&J | XLRI ’24 | Data Scientist
- Role
- Supply Chain Planner at Tata Consumer Products – North America
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ankit Bhaskar
I am a Data Science enthusiast exploring my ways in the field of Supply Chain having…
Experience
Supply Chain Planner
Tata Consumer Products – North America
Feb 2025 — Present · NJ, US
Lead and manage end-to-end deployment planning from manufacturing plants to distribution centers and warehouses using SAP S/4HANA, ensuring optimal inventory availability and seamless material flow across a $340M U.S. portfolio.• Perform book-to-book inventory reconciliation between SAP and physical warehouse stock, achieving 99.8% inventory accuracy and proactively preventing stock discrepancies.• Troubleshoot and resolve invoice mismatches, blocked payments, and EDI/IDoc failures in SAP S/4HANA, reducing invoice failure rates and ensuring on-time vendor settlements.• Oversee comprehensive purchase order management within SAP MM, including PO creation, GRN posting (MIGO), invoice verification, and resolution of freight, storage, and sales-related discrepancies.• Manage stock transfers between plants and warehouses via SAP STO processes, maintaining a 98.1% service level across U.S. and Canadian markets.• Designed and developed customized Power BI dashboards integrated with Excel-based databases, planning efficiency and providing executive-level visibility on Weeks of Supply (WOS) and forecast accuracy performance.• Built and deployed multiple Python-based automation tools to optimize inventory deployment, production planning, warehouse-level inventory analysis, and demand forecasting, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization.• Own strategic Risk Management decisions — assessing whether to sell, reallocate, or donate ageing stock — while proactively flagging planners to optimize production and demand alignment.• Manage end-to-end supply planning and procurement for a $100M portfolio (~30% of total business), including PO creation while ensuring timely invoice settlement.
Education
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune
BS-MS Dual Degree
XLRI Jamshedpur
PGDM in Business Management (Logistics and Supply Chain Management)
2022 — 2024
Rutgers Business School
Master of Science - MS
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