Tirthal
Kothari
I turn supply chain data into better procurement, inventory, and planning decisions. Hands-on operations experience, backed by Python, SQL, and forecasting.
ChicagoOpen to relocationOpen to full-time roles
Operations instincts.
Analytics discipline.
MS Supply Chain Management graduate from DePaul (June 2026). I bring hands-on procurement and inventory experience together with Python, SQL, forecasting, and decision modeling.
Built, modeled,
shipped.
7 projects
Work Experience
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- Manage office operations: printing, scanning, communications, and call handling
- Coordinate faculty requests and maintain organized workflows across multiple projects
- Provide timely, responsive support to visitors, students, and faculty
- Led 7+ recruitment events using CRM (Slate) to manage prospective student pipelines
- Advised 100+ prospective students on SCM, analytics and logistics curricula and career paths
- Maintained a 24-hour SLA for all applicant communication to support enrollment goals
- Engaged 150+ students through live sessions, panels, and digital platforms
- Managed end-to-end operations: procurement, manufacturing oversight, QC, inventory and distribution
- Strategic sourcing initiatives achieved ₹200,000 in FY24 cost savings through vendor renegotiation
- Reduced defect-related waste by salvaging and reprocessing PVC wire, generating ₹90,000 annual savings
- Improved demand planning workflows to enhance on-time delivery performance across product lines
- Analyzed 1,500+ companies across 24 sectors using R, Excel and Tableau to benchmark SC performance
- Built India's first national supply chain index, enhanced methodology by 40% over prior frameworks
- Authored "Top 20 Supply Chain Champions of India", flagship industry report
- Led Supply Chain Dialogue Series with CSCO-level speakers from Fortune 500 companies
- SEO-optimized content strategy raised website traffic by 25% and session time by 40%
- Grew Instagram account organically by 10,000+ followers through targeted campaigns
- Developed high-performing content scripts and social media themes for student audiences
- Evaluated supplier performance with scorecards; removed 2 underperforming vendors from approved list
- Applied MRP to prevent stockouts, material availability improved by 30%
- Scheduled outbound logistics and tracked 20+ weekly shipments ensuring on-time delivery
Education
- Focus: Supply Chain Management, Operations & Analytics
- Active Student Ambassador for the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
- Engaged in case competitions & executive networking events
- Graduation: June 2026 · Chicago, Illinois
- Specialization: E-Commerce & Business Operations
- Strong foundation in logistics, marketing & data management
- Led multiple college-level supply chain and operations projects
- Graduated with distinction, top academic standing
Skills & Certifications
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Think in Systems
Explore an illustrative supply-chain stress test. Adjust demand, supplier delay, and buffer coverage to see simplified zones change across the network. Use this learning model to compare scenarios; production DDMRP sizing needs additional inputs.
Impact Estimator
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How this estimate is calculated
This scenario uses fixed illustrative assumptions, rather than a forecast for your business. All amounts are in USD.
- Sourcing: 8% of annual procurement spend.
- Defects: spend × defect rate × 40% reduction × 15% cost factor.
- Inventory: spend × 35% inventory-value proxy × carrying-cost rate × 15% reduction.
- Vendors: $1,200 per vendor removed, assuming 10% consolidation rounded down.
The total adds these estimates. Savings can overlap; implementation costs and industry differences are not included.
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Who I Am
From Mumbai
to Chicago
I grew up in my family's electronics business in Mumbai, where supply chain wasn't a subject. It was whether the shipment showed up and whether we got paid. Chasing vendors, negotiating rates, fixing stockouts: that was daily life long before I had textbook words for any of it.
The research came later: a year spent ranking 1,500 companies for India's first supply chain index. Then Chicago, for my MS at DePaul. These days I'm as happy writing SQL as I am on the phone with a supplier. I think that mix is the whole point.
Mumbai to Chicago.
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My Story
Eight milestones, from Mumbai to Chicago.
Graduated with Distinction
20+ weekly shipments tracked
₹200K FY24 cost savings
+25% web traffic
1,500+ companies analyzed
graduated June 2026
24-hr SLA maintained
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How I Think About Supply Chain
Keep scrolling: one truck, one continuous 3D shot. It loads at the factory, stores at the warehouse, stocks the store, and ends at a customer's doorstep. The camera rides along.
It starts on the
factory floor
Goods come off the line and onto the truck, the sourcing and production discipline behind ₹200K in FY24 procurement savings at Kothari Electronics.
Inventory finds
its home
Into the warehouse, onto the racks, buffer stock, reorder points and the MRP discipline that lifted material availability 30% at Mentone Concretes.
Shelves meet
demand
Distribution puts product where the forecast says it sells: the demand-planning lens I apply from SKU-level data to national indices.
The last mile ends
at a doorstep
A parcel, a porch, a promise kept. Every link before it exists for this moment. That end-to-end view is how I approach supply chain.
Published thinking.
What people say.
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