• Seasoned professional having 20+ years of diverse experience in manufacturing and service industry verticals in medium to large scale organizations such as CBRE, Ford, HP, Tata, L&T, Panasonic etc...
• Blended experience from industries, such as automotive, home appliances, machine tools, telecom, ITES, automobile and infrastructure management
Program/Project management Materials planning, procurement, logistics and inventory management New model launch (NPI/NPD)
Bill of materials and EC management Sourcing & Contracts management Service delivery management
Process excellence (6Sigma/Kaizen) Procure to Pay (P2P) management Product life cycle mgmt... (PLM)
Process transition and training Supplier Performance management Master data management (MDM)
Mentoring and team management SAP-MM & Click Parts EoL, EoML, EoSL, LTB/Bridge buy
@ CBRE South Asia Pvt Ltd, Bangalore since Jan’2019
• Heading sourcing and procurement service delivery for Cisco account, PAN India with the annual OPEX spend of $18.5Mn (~INR129Cr+) to manage the portfolio of 4 million square foot (Spend @ $4.6/ Sq. Ft)
• Liaisoning with client, internal stakeholders, corporate, regional and global procurement team on a regular basis
(Engineering O&M, transport, Café, Lobby ambassador, soft services, energy, utilities, EHS and MAC projects)
• Developed and presented a formal procurement strategy for the account with the short term and long-term benefits that involves 300+ suppliers and 170+ contracts
• Developing sourcing strategy through category positioning matrix for vendor base optimization and cost savings
• Established online RFx process to collaborate with internal stakeholder and suppliers (R2C-Req-to- Cheque)
Previous employments
Company name Designation and role Period
Ford India, Chennai Deputy manager – Material Planning & Logistics Apr 2013 – Dec 2017
HP - Chennai Business operations manager, RPLM Aug 2006 – Mar 2013
Tata tele services Ltd Senior executive –Materials and SCM Sep 2005 – Jul 2006
Larsen & Toubro Supervisor – Supply group Dec 2003 – Aug 2005
Panasonic Engineer – New product development Jun 2002 – Sep 2003
Dynamitic Technologies Engineer – QA and Product development Sep 1998 – May 2002
Accomplishments
• Worked with stakeholders across globe (AME, EU and APJ regions) for process standardization and governance
• Won functional excellence awards for several continuous process improvement initiatives (Kaizen, 6 sigma)
• Handled 30 + vehicle build events and 10+ power train global programs with different scalability
• Operated in a complex ecosystem supporting over 40000+ parts and 800+ suppliers globally
(Including for vehicles such as Eco Sport and Ford-Aspire, for powertrain such as Eco Boost 1.5L, Dragon and Panther considered major launches into India and across other major markets)
• Independently managed 35+ NPI programs in HP, 500+ spares parts across 14 countries of AP region
• Improved service level of spares on-time delivery from 82% to 94% (Target 93%)
• Reduced backlog of spares orders from 450 to 50 within three months on Storage and Networking products
• Ensured smooth transition of order management, spares planning, procurement and reverse logistics process from North Americas to India and seamless support to the customer during the transition phase
• Led a program for AP region, made 250 parts self-sufficient in the span of 6 months that resulted in $600k annual savings through inventory levels and logistics costs
• Championed EMEA RoHS compliance program, worked with AME and APJ operations team for effective utilization of Non-ROHS materials that contributed to $500K new buy avoidance
• Worked on machine base fabrication costing and negotiated with suppliers, achieved savings of INR 2.5Mn YoY
@ Ford
• Identified existing process gaps and implemented solutions that improved process efficiency
• Lead and mentored a team of engineers to support various vehicle build (Pre-TT) across all CBGs
• Vehicle part progress (VPP) – To ensure the PPAP/PSW as per the GPDS guidelines for new models
• Managed Procure to pay process for powertrain machines and assembly run-off at Ford and vendor sites
• Liaise with suppliers and freight forwarder for parts follow-up
• Established weekly and monthly scorecard on business metrics (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People)
@ hp
• Worked on strategy development and deployment of spares for storage, business continuity, industrial servers across AP region; Engaged from NPI launch, sustenance, EoL and End of Service Life phases
• Contributed for the process governance to manage, E&O, ECN, LTB towards product EoL
• Maintained Master data elements for 7000+ parts with high level of data integrity and quality
• Mentored a team of planners and buyers for planning, Procurement and Inventory management , consistently met the customer service obligation and inventory budgets
@ Tata tele services
• Managed telecom product’s demand-forecast based planning, procurement, logistics, distribution to channel partners, refurbishment of defective returns and re-deployment
• Managed CAPEX, and OPEX on procurement of telephonic booth, telephone instrument, billing machine, NIU's, recharge vouchers, spares and accessories, printing materials for marketing campaigns
@ L&T
• Planning and procurement of mechanical components & machine base for injection molding machines
@ Panasonic
• Involved in product planning, pre-launch, mass production of electric cooker and mixer grinder
• Vendor development, material planning, scheduling, and procurement of bought out parts
@ Dynamatic Technologies
• PPAP, APQP, FMEA. SOP and control plans
• Inspection of components and assemblies at all stages (Receiving, in-process and final/pre-dispatch)
Education
• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Government polytechnic, Tiruchirappalli 1995 - 1998
• BS Engineering technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 2003 - 2006