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❖ A brief overview of the project
Cloudtail India Private ltd. is a seller on online marketplace,
that’s Amazon India. Cloudtail offers large range of products
in different categories like – Softline, hardline, other
hardline, media, electronics, consumables etc. I was working
in consumables, and this category basically consists of all the
FMCG products.

My project title was ‘Unlocking the value in supply chain
through long zone shipment reduction in consumables’.
When a customer places an order on amazon, it gets
allocated to the nearest fulfilment centre of amazon

depending upon the stock availability. The product will be
DEVESH KUMAR PARASHAR from the allocated fulfilment centre to the
shipped
CLOUDTAIL customer. If the product is travelling more than 600 kms,
before reaching to the customer, it will be called as long zone
__________________________________________ delivery. The objective of this project was to save additional

cost occurring because of long zone shipments. I identified
GENERAL INFORMATION
the root causes for long zone occurrence and then developed
R-based and excel based tools for automation in action plan
Batch: PGDIE 48
preparation and ease in decision making. By the end of 8
BTech: NIT Surat weeks, there was a significant 8% reduction in LZ shipments,
resulting into total savings of approximately 1.21 Cr per
Stream: ECE month.

Work Ex: RIL

❖ A normal day at the Internship:

Days went so quick, overall it was a huge learning experience for me. I used to reach office early morning to get

the work reviewed from senior In Stock managers and used to improvise according to the feedback received.

Consumables is having 8 sub-categories, and each sub-category has In-stock managers and vendor managers.
On a regular basis, I used to interact with various stake holders to understand different dimensions of the

project and this way I could pick up a lot of things to learn.

❖ Challenges faced during Internship

My project was having two fronts – one is about analysing the historical data for generating insights as action
plan to reduce long zone shipment, and other side is about convincing the different vendors to execute the
respective action plan. Data collection and post that, data cleaning were major challenges I found in data
analysis. In the other part, challenges were from vendor side like - capacity constraints, Minimum of quantity
constraints, so I negotiated with different vendors to resolve those constraints.

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