May 2015 – Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 10 mos

May 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Responsible for Capital procurement, indirect purchase & AMC, Service Contracts finalization.
• (Specialty machineries, IT hardware & software, allied components, Electricals & Electronics spares, Mechanical spares & tools, corporate gifts, Canteen, Transport, trainer, Landscape & Manpower contract) with annual spend of ~ 10C/yr.
• Played a key role in impacting organization’s profitability. Attained savings of ~25% reduction in Purchased material & contract services, and >25% on capitals through negotiation, consolidation, new vendors.
• Owned entire responsibility from RFI, RFQ, RFP, supplier selection, negotiation, order finalization, creation of purchase order in SAP, communication with supplier.
• Establish reliable supply chain to ensure timely availability of materials to customer with minimum cost.
• Experienced in dealing with internal customers, understand the needs, handing complex & critical purchasing issues & customer focused.
• Owned entire responsibility from feasibility study, LOI release, planning, project cost estimation, follow-up, finalizing construction & capital machineries (Domestic & Imports) contracts and co-ordinates with all techno-commercial functions resulting in a timely successful launch.
• Product Costing. Negotiated long-term agreement with identifying related risks to make price stability.
• Monitoring the expenses and applying new strategies for minimizing the overall cost - quarterly basis.
• Enhancing Supplier Commitment & responsiveness by enabling effective time adherences in the form OTD.
• Achievements:
• Developed & implemented key procurement strategies / contingency plans, logistics planning & requirements along with strong negotiation skills, resulted in 20-25% cost saving on the Capital Equipments including imported machineries.
• Developed alternate local steel supplier in India achieved cost reductions of 380 K USD in 2013.
• Reduction of delivery lead time & transportation cost by introducing new local supplier.

Mar 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Establish reliable supply chain to ensure timely availability of raw materials for mass production Commodity handled steel and forged rings (150CrINR).
• Owned the responsibility of forecast/demand analysis, safety stock & Re-order-point replenishment inventory management, handling local and overseas vendors & interact on a day to day basis.
• Weekly tracking of Supplier Performance Metrics (Shipments/ Production Data/ Spend/ RM Inventory).
• Responsible for spend analysis, price unabsorbed & over absorbed against BP.
• Achievements:
• Played a vital role in reducing the lead time for imported materials.

Aug 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Manage capital equipments, indirect materials IT apparatus such as servers, Laptops, work stations, software licenses, consumables and laboratory instruments, and establish annual rate contract AMC.
• Creation of purchase order in SAP, regular follow up for materials to ensure on time deliveries (OTD).
• Receiving order acknowledgement & dispatch commitment from vendors.
• Weekly tracking of Supplier Performance Metrics (Shipments/ Production Data/ Spend/ RM Inventory).
• Vendor’s payments follow up Compiling & Provisioning Financial data to Finance team for spend tracking.
• Achievements:
• Played a vital role in price negotiation of capital equipments

Jul 2009 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr

• Procurement of Electronics & Electricals components from local and overseas vendors & also Mechanical items, IT requirements, Consumables & packaging materials, e-procurement.
• Preparing purchase orders in ERP, send PO copy to vendors & receive order acknowledgement.
• Materials planning as per forecast , demand plan & using valid drawings, purchase specifications, work instructions & S O P for procurement of materials.
• Floating RFI & RFQ to various vendors collecting offers, preparing comparative statements & short listing the vendors. Negotiation on prices, better payment terms, delivery & contracts.
• Follow up for materials and ensuring timely delivery of materials along with necessary documents.
• Sourcing the venders globally &development of alternate vendors for benefit on quality delivery.
• Establish Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) for capital equipments & IT apparatus.
• Prepare costing of electronics & electrical components, solder wire & solder lead.
• Creation of bill of material BOM and vendor database in ERP.
• Coordinate with clearing agent for shipment clearance and import documentation