ajay  kulshreshtha, President

ajay kulshreshtha

President

Taj

Location
India
Education
High school or equivalent,
Experience
11 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :11 years, 0 Months

President at Taj
  • India
  • January 2010 to January 2013
at INDIAN HOTELS COMPANY LTD
  • India
  • March 1995 to January 2003

Taj Blue Diamond Pune-103 Room Hotels

  • to

TTop-Producing Materials Manager
Highly accomplished procurement/Inventory/Import specialist with a strong knowledge of the foodservice industries. Outstanding ability to adjust buying decisions to maximize sales and profit, and minimized ded stock through understand stock market fluctions and economic changes, their influence on consumer decisions, Proven scheduling, organizational, guidance and negotiation skills, demonstrated through the purchasing and inventory requirements to increase sales and profits. Establish strategic vendor/supplier relationships to develop performance.
CORE COMPETENCIES
•Procurement Management * Forecasting & Cost Benefit Analysis * Logistic Management
•Strategic Planning * Internal Products Tracking systems * Cost Containment
•Process Improvement * Vendor Sourcing & analysis * Contract Negotiations
•Relationship Management * Staff Development & leadership * Inventory Management
•Import Management

Materials Manager at Taj Lands End
  • India
  • to

Current salary 22.34 lacs ( accommodation provided by the company)



Responsibilities:

•Project :- Handled Taj Residency Indore, Rooms 98 nos with 2 multi cushion restaurant.
•Taj Blue Diamond Pune—Three floor renovation, finalized electric, electronic, capex equipment
•Taj Blue Diamond Pune-Back of the house 125 lacs project, Civil, imperial, equipment like DG set, Transformer, all procured directly with unit decision, Make or buy decision by purchase.
•Taj fort Aguda Beach Resort Goa—Restaurant renovation, entirely new with all facility.
•Manages all aspects of purchasing, receiving, storage and inventory control for both the Hotels.
•All import - Handling all kind of imports
•Responsible for the issuing and distribution of inventory items within the hotel, and for the accurate and timely allocation of costs to user department.
•Ensures that hotel expenses are minimised through the use of effective purchasing and by obtaining the most competitive prices for goods and services.
•Conducts regular market surveys, obtains competitive quotations and aggressively negotiating in order to reap the maximum price benefits of purchasing power.
•Keeps inventories as low as possible to properly supply the operation’s needs and maximise inventory turnover and space utilisation.
•Monitors all cost in the Materials Department and initiates and maintains measures to control these.
•Implements and enforces all operating and control procedures to ensure that movement of goods into and within the hotel is properly accounted for.
•Establishes and enforces internal control Policy and Procedure throughout the department, regarding purchasing, receiving, inventory control, issuing and emergency issuing.
•Advises the Manager/General Manager, Director of Finance and Department Heads of the cost and implications of each department’s consumption of inventory and non-inventory items.
•Contributes to all forecasting and business planned activities by providing historical information and cost projections.
•Advises departments directly of any excessive purchases or consumption of inventory and to recommend practices to reduce such cost, including alternative sources for products.
•Obtains and coordinates all product and purchase specifications from the various heads of department by means of a purchase request (PR) and maintains files of these purchase requests together with purchase orders (PO).
•Acquires three (3) price quotations from various sources to determine the lowest cost while maintaining the best quality for any item(s) requested by the different departments.
•Responsible for the creation and maintenance of certain computer data namely: Inventory Items, Par Stock, items to be included as inventory items, re-order points, item listing, Purchase Orders, Unit of Measure, and inventory levels for all items maintained in inventory.
•Coordinates purchase specifications for food and beverage in conjunction with purchasing, receiving, and issuing.
•Ensures that every department in the hotel receives goods and services as required and to the standards they have specified at the best possible price.

Conducts interviews with suppliers, representatives and obtains information, specifications and quotations on any item required.
•Handles all correspondence, negotiation and procurement to the best advantage of the hotel.
•Selects reliable regular supplies for all inventory items and obtains weekly or bi-weekly price list for daily produce and other food and beverage suppliers.
•Places all orders for the inventory items based upon established and audited par stocks and inventory levels.

•Kept inventories as low as possible to adequately supply the operation’s needs and maximise inventory turnover and space utilisation.
•Ensured that inventory items are stored properly and issued in FIFO rotation to minimise wastage and spoilage.
•Implemented and enforced all operating and control procedures to ensure that movement of goods into and within the hotel is properly accounted for.
•Assisted and coordinated all product and purchase specifications from the various heads of department by means of a purchase request (PR) and maintains files of these purchase requests together with purchase orders (PO).
•Acquired three (3) price quotations from various sources to determine the lowest cost while maintaining the best quality for any item(s) requested by the different departments.
•Assisted in the input and maintenance of certain computer data namely: Inventory Items, Par Stock, items to be included as inventory items, re-order points, item listing, and Purchase Orders, Unit of Measure, and inventory levels for all items maintained in inventory.
•Ensured that every department in the hotel receives goods and services as required and to the standards they have specified at the best possible price.
•Assisted to conduct interviews with suppliers, representatives and obtained information, specifications and quotations on any item required.

•Supported the day-to-day administrative operation of purchasing within the Materials Department.
•Maintained all requisitions, purchase requests, purchase order files and records.
•Advised Materials Officer of unusual or excessively high consumption of inventory and non-inventory items.
•Adhered to internal control Policy and Procedure throughout the department, regarding receiving, inventory control and issuing processes.
•Maintained inventory Items, par stock items, to be included as inventory items, re-order points, item listing, Unit of Measure through the use of official software.
•Ensured full compliance with the Departmental Operational Manual for the various areas of the Materials Management.
•Sourced and obtained price quotation for all purchase requests.
•Ensured that inventory items are stored properly and issued in FIFO rotation to minimize wastage and spoilage.

Education

High school or equivalent,
  • at Devi Ahaliya University
  • January 1997

City/Country: Indore, MP Qualifications: Material Management

Specialties & Skills

BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
ADMINISTRATION
COMPETITIVE
FINANCE
FORECASTING
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR
MARKETING