Rhea Kulkarni — Logistics Coordinator
Pune, Maharashtra
Logistics coordinator with two years scheduling first-mile pickups and line-haul for an e-commerce network. Handles 180 to 220 shipments a day across 14 pin-code clusters, and re-cut the Pune–Nagpur milk run to take 27 hours out of average delivery time.
Experience
Logistics Coordinator, Kestrel Freightways · April 2024 – present
Regional hub dispatching 4,500 outbound shipments a week for three e-commerce sellers.
- Re-sequenced the Pune–Nagpur milk run around actual pickup windows, cutting average dispatch-to-delivery from 71 hours to 44 and lifting on-time delivery from 86% to 96%.
- Runs the daily dock schedule for 22 vehicles; idle dock time per truck fell from 48 minutes to 19 after appointments moved to 30-minute bands.
- Cut return-to-origin volume by 31% with a pre-dispatch address check that caught 1,900 incomplete addresses in six months.
- Negotiated part-load rates with two regional carriers, taking cost per shipment on short lanes from ₹96 to ₹74.
Logistics Executive, Tarasan Supply Co. · June 2023 – March 2024
- Reconciled 1,200 monthly consignments across four 3PL partners and closed a 9% gap between billed and actual freight weight, recovering ₹3.1 lakh in a year.
- Built the delivery-exception tracker the branch still runs on; exceptions open past 48 hours fell from 140 to under 20.
Education
- B.Com Commerce · Savitribai Phule Pune University · July 2020 – May 2023
Skills
- Logistics: Route planning, Milk-run scheduling, Freight rate negotiation, 3PL coordination, Reverse logistics
- Systems: SAP MM, Advanced Excel, Power Query, TMS dashboards, Basic SQL
- Measures: On-time delivery, Cost per shipment, RTO rate, Dock turnaround, Fill rate
Certifications
- Certified in Logistics, Transportation and Distribution (CLTD) — ASCM
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt — ASQ