Sankara Karthik Sampath Kumar

Supply Chain Cost Analyst @Meta

Fremont, CA, US

Leveraged cost management techniques including target costing, equipment lifecycle TCO, benchmarking, should-cost, supplier cost breakdown, cost driver analysis, competitive bidding and NPV analysis – to support Sourcing Managers to help identify, achieve and validate cost savings• Built robust should cost models for various hardware and data center equipment including, but not limited to, hardware racks, power devices, PCBs, memory, switches, and data center equipment.• Partnered with engineering to conduct cycle time assessments/analysis and evaluate yield of manufacturing lines to improve efficiency. • Identified actionable insights and provide summary of trends & observations through cost data interpretation, analysis and research. Partnered with Sourcing Managers and suppliers to pull together datasets to facilitate this cost analysis and identify opportunities. • Built benchmarking data related to cost – historic, should-cost, competitive and market – and understand supplier costs, impact of design changes and cost/value drivers for the equipment and services involved.• Conducted cost related design workshops and partnered closely with engineering to influence product cost in the early new product introduction phases.• Built total cost of ownership models and conduct product lifecycle analysis to help inform and influence key business decisions.

Great Lakes Institute of Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing

College of Engineering, Guindy

Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

University of Illinois Chicago

Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics