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❖ A brief overview of the project

I interned with Flipkart with their Design and Strategy team at
Bangalore. At the end of the 2 months, I received a Pre-
Placement Offer (PPO). I had great internship experience. The
internship started with an induction comprising of fun activities,
sessions by the leadership and parties. In fact, for the first
week, every other intern at another company was jealous of
interns@Flipkart.

During my internship, I was also able to experience a mini BBD
(Big Billion Days) event at Flipkart. All the planning that goes
into it like demand planning, vendor negotiations, warehouse
inventory management, and revenue planning. All in all mini
LOKENDRA AHUJA
BBD experience was one full of fun and frolic, deadlines and
dazzles, slogging through nights, excel-ing through days, going
FLIPKART for warehouse visits, partying for every sales target completion,

__________________________________________ multi-tasking every moment and still- living every day to the
fullest!
GENERAL INFORMATION
I had two projects one was establishing a Sensitivity Index
Batch: PGDIM 25 model between Supply variability measured by Fill Rate and
associated variance, Lead Time and associated variance with
BTech: LNMIIT Jaipur DOH (Days on hand Inventory), RU (Regional Utilisation) & In-
stock%.
Stream: Computer Science Another to run a pilot of FDS (Fixed delivery schedule) for four
FMCG vendors namely HUL, P&G, Loreal, and Nivea.
Work Ex: Publicis.Sapient
The first project was mainly self-contained and required me

to go through Instock, Sales, RU (Regional Utilisation), PO (Purchase Order), Page Views and FSN/SKU (Flipkart

Firs
Serial Number) data of last two years to establish a trend and develop a sensitivity index.

The second project was to run a Pilot with our major FMCG vendors for a new system my team had developed to

increase customer satisfaction through improvement in in-stock, RU and order delivery time and vendor

satisfaction through better collaboration, planning, slotting and replenishment cycles.

❖ How is a normal day at the Internship?

As one would expect Flipkart has a very startup-like culture, you can come at any time, leave at any time, work

from home if you like, only casuals no formals clothing style and most importantly one can spend time playing

pool, table tennis, virtual games like golf, car racin g, bike racing, shooting, etc, cricket, turf football and yeah
human foosball.

Being said that Flipkart is very strict about deadlines, so most of the individuals will be assigned a task with

deadline and only thing one's manger expect is that task to be finished within that deadline, you can enjoy your
first few days and slog last days to do it or evenly space out your work or complete it take a day off and move on
To

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