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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
        .
                                                      challenges –
                 ANJALI SHARMA
                                                      a) Vendor onboarding process was a high touch activity and
                                                      was sequential, with low visibility to stakeholders on progress
                    CLOUDTAIL                         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 to send out periodic
          GENERAL INFORMATION                         status updates to all stakeholders.

                                                      b)  Selection  onboarding  process  was  changed  to  fast-track
                  Batch: PGDIM 25
                                                      selection addition from high selection potential vendors and
               BTech: UICET, Panjab                   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


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