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                                                      ❖ A brief overview of the project

                                                          A new program was launched in Dec’18 to address
                                                          vendor selection addition called Dropship, the pace of
                                                          selection addition was sluggish even after 3 months of
                                                          launch. I identified 2 major root causes for the below
                                                          par performance: a) Delay in  vendor onboarding and
                                                          high dropouts, and b) Slow pace in selection addition.
                                                          The project aimed to impact around the above 2
                                                          mentioned challenges.


                                                          Project was divided into 2 parts to solve above mentioned
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                                                          challenges –
                    ANJALI SHARMA
                                                          a) Vendor onboarding process was a high touch activity and
                                                          was  sequential,  with  low  visibility  to  stakeholders  on
                   CLOUDTAIL                              progress  and  pending  dependencies  resulting  in  high
       __________________________________________         dropouts.  Worked  on  the  process  to  make  the  activities
                                                          move in parallel and developed a macro enabled auto-mailer
         GENERAL INFORMATION                              to send out periodic status updates to all stakeholders.

                                                          b) Selection onboarding process was changed to fast-
          Batch: PGDIM 25
                                                          track selection addition from high selection potential
          BTech: UICET, Panjab                            vendors and Dashboard have been put in place to
                                                          streamline the selection process.
                        University

          Stream: Chemical

          Work Ex: Samsung, ISB

       ❖ How is a normal day at the Internship?

          My internship started on April 1st, 2019 in Bangalore with an induction program of a couple of hours on

          the first two days.

          •  The HR team took us through Amazon’s leadership principles, gave the IT systems, informed about the
              people to reach out to, and I was off to meet my hiring managers in the second half.

          •  My hiring manager was a senior vendor manager . He briefly told about his team and my project and

              asked me to meet the people there and learn about the work they do in detail.
          •  I took Knowledge Transfer (KT) sessions from the team in my first week. I was assigned my project and

              my mentor in the middle of the first week. I spent this week understanding my project’s purpose and

              key deliverables. I met the key stakeholders and tried obtaining their perspective of my project

              (Everyone has a different understanding because the project assigned was completely forward looking

              or something that the team had never worked upon. So, everyone had a different perspective and

              different expectations, but they always asked me to think big and experiment. My manager told me,
              “You have to tell me what we should do and not the other way around.”). Over the weekend of the




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