Tarun Vaish
Supply chain, logistics, transportation, and mobilityFormer supply chain M&A consultant turned Product Manager @ Amazon Logistics
I belong to the rare breed of Product Managers who are building 0 to 1 products in the supply chain domain. As an former M&A management consultant, I have also solved tough problems facing industrial and Private Equity clients in supply-chain.Supply-chain consists of four key pillars:
1. Planning
2. Sourcing (or procurement)
3. Making (or manufacturing)
4. Delivering (including mobility, transportation, warehousing, return/reverse logistics)I have more than a decade of hands-on experience across all pillars except planning.Deliver: I am passionate about transportation, mobility, and logistics space. I continue to be bullish on the industry and strongly believe that the best innovations are yet to come. I have developed a 0 to1 product that increases flexibility and capacity of Amazon’s fleet and have scaled it from 4 warehouses / 20 vans to 340+ warehouses and 7k+ vans (both ICE and electric delivery vans). In the past, I’ve also led warehouse and transportation network optimization initiatives for Fortune-500 clients at EY-Parthenon.Make: As a process control engineer at Caterpillar’s welding and machining plants, I led an NPI program and launched a product for Asian and Middle East markets under 20% of the target cost. I also improved cycle-time for Honda’s paint shops and engine machine shops.Source: I have negotiated multi-million vendor contracts at both Caterpillar and Amazon. I have influenced design and manufacturing decisions at Caterpillar by performing should-cost modeling and competitor teardowns for 1000+ fabricated structures, machined parts, and 3D printed parts.You can contact me on LinkedIn or Twitter.