Chenna Chakka, Director of Sourcing & Procurement

Chenna Chakka

Director of Sourcing & Procurement

Atlas Oil Company

البلد
الولايات المتحدة
التعليم
دكتوراة, Chemistry/Biochemistry/Biotechnology
الخبرات
25 years, 4 أشهر

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مجموع سنوات الخبرة :25 years, 4 أشهر

Director of Sourcing & Procurement في Atlas Oil Company
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ أبريل 2013

• Achieved $2.5M in cost savings by negotiating a new 5 year national contract for standard uniforms.
• Reduced software vendors by 45% and renegotiated annual maintenance costs to save $1M over 3 years.
• Standardized global purchasing specification for fleet trucks resulting in cost avoidance of $0.6M.
• Consolidated the MRO parts supply base by 25%, reducing year-over-year repair spend by $20K.
• Led a cross-functional team to insource dispatching technology, generating a cost avoidance of $0.5M.
• Renegotiated global telecom and printing services that reduced spend by $0.6M over 3 years.

Quality Manager في Magna International Inc. - Cosma Power Systems
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • أغسطس 2012 إلى أبريل 2013

• Managed annual spend of $150M and a team of 13 quality engineers across a global supply base for solar structural components to support the 250 MW Genesis Project.
• Led a root cause analysis that concluded a defective supplier process for chrome plating for the rotating control shafts for structural solar components, resulting in a recovery of $15M from vendor.
• Revamped divisional operating procedures and internal controls that reduced quality issues by 95% and non-conformances by 75%.

Sourcing Manager - Solar & Wind Energy في Magna Interntional Inc. - Cosma Engineering
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • يوليو 2010 إلى أغسطس 2012

• Managed a sourcing budget of $500M and a cross-functional global team of 35 professionals for solar structural components in India and Thailand.
• Led a new business development project that secured $100M from 200MW solar projects in India.
• Delivered savings of $50M by implementing a low-cost country sourcing strategy for solar sub-assemblies.

Lead Global Sourcing Leader في General Electric Energy Headquarters
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • فبراير 2010 إلى أغسطس 2010

• Led a global process improvement team of 56 SCM professionals to apply Lean Six Sigma principles to 15 key workflows such as PO Request, Customer Master File, Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables.
• Created a vendor master database which streamlined vendor data for 27 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems improving payment processing times by 65%.
• Implemented a new Oracle Purchase Management system at GE Energy Headquarters to support 7 global plants in managing 250, 000 active oil and gas suppliers.

Lead Sourcing Quality Engineer في General Electric Energy - Wind
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • ديسمبر 2007 إلى فبراير 2010

• Managed annual spend of $250M for 3 new European suppliers of wind blades, nacelles and towers.
• Conducted value stream mapping and root cause analyses on failed electronic components for wind turbine control systems that led to the recovery of $16.7M from vendor.
• Implemented Direct Material Productivity (DMP) initiatives that delivered $25M in savings through cost-out activities such as sourcing alternate materials for wind nacelles.
• Facilitated Lean Workshops with key suppliers resulting in a reduction of 10-15% in procurement cost, 20% in non-conformances, 15% in lead times and 35% in supplier deviation requests.
• Reduced the supplier qualification time 30% by restructuring the approver process for direct commodities such as wind blades, towers, nacelles, and electrical components.

Lead Applications Engineer في Mettler-Toledo Autochem, Inc.
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • أغسطس 2004 إلى سبتمبر 2007

• Managed 14 service engineers globally to install, maintain, and repair diagnostic medical equipment.
• Increased service revenue by 37% in 2005 and 53% in 2006 by leading improvements in customer service.
• Developed and implemented tier-level service contracts resulting in a $7.5M increase in annual revenue.
• Established a new non-conformance procedure that improved the 1st-time install hit rate from 50% to 90%.

Sr. Field Applications Engineer في Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • أغسطس 2000 إلى أغسطس 2004

• Applied Quality Control procedures for OEM supplied parts to reduce travel and labor costs by 35%.
• Exceeded the annual contract revenue goal by improving the level of customer service provided to the pharmaceutical customer base.
• Increased regional sales by 95% by personalizing customer service in 14 states.

Plant Quality Manager في Exide Inc., Hays, KS
  • الولايات المتحدة
  • ديسمبر 1998 إلى أغسطس 2000

Responsible for all of the Quality Aspects of the plant for a production facility with 500 employees. We have manufactured Lead Acid Rechargeable Batteries that supplied constant Uninterrupted Power Supply to Telecom industry giants such as Lucent (AT&T) Technologies; Sprint; and Verizon Wireless.

The battery sizes ranged from 0.5 lb fully assembled to 1600 lbs fully assembled after the batteries are filled with the concentrated sulfuric acid.

My team of 12 were responsible for all of the raw materials (lead; sulfuric acid to name) of incoming materials; all of the production materials to be tested to release the QC hold; reject product that is non-conforming to the company standards; also validate all of the testing that was performed by the staff.

We have utilized techniques such as Atomic Absorption; ICAP (Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma); ARC-Spark; Chemical Essays; and utilized the BaaN database to store all of the data for the customers and for future use.

الخلفية التعليمية

دكتوراة, Chemistry/Biochemistry/Biotechnology
  • في Wichita State University
  • ديسمبر 2016

Couldn't finish the Ph.D. due to family deaths (both parents passed away in 1998 due to health complications in India); got married; had to support the family. Still in the hunt to get this finished sometime in the future. Research areas included: Photodynamic therapy; cancer drugs; development of techniques to assess the blood Haemoglobin A1c to assess the glucose condition for the past 60 days; identifying the exoenzyme splicing of the tRNA.

ماجستير, MBA - Supply Chain Management & Logistics
  • في Michigan State University
  • ديسمبر 2008

The course covered all facets of the Supply Chain Management & Logistics; along with Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, and general management.

ماجستير, Chemistry/Biochemistry
  • في Indian Institute of Technology
  • فبراير 1994

Masters in Chemistry; and a minor in Biochemistry.

بكالوريوس, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Electronics
  • في Nagarjuna University
  • مايو 1991

Mathematics; Physics; Chemistry; and Electronics.

اختبارات بيت.كوم

Management Skills Test
Score 68%

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Strategic Sourcing
Purchasing
Quality Systems
Business Process Improvement
Supply Chain Management
Risk Mitigration Stategy
Quality Management
Program Management
Process Improvements
Strategic Planning
Operations
Supplier Management
Strategic Sourcing
Logistics
Procurement Management
Manufacturing in different industries
Supplier Quality
Cost Benefit Analysis
Low Cost Country Sourcing

اللغات

الانجليزية
متمرّس
الهندية
متمرّس
التاغالوغية
متمرّس
البنجابية
مبتدئ

العضويات

American Society of Qualty
  • Member/Contributor
  • January 2000
American Chemical Society
  • Member
  • January 1995

التدريب و الشهادات

Global Regulatory Compliance Training (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Jack Welch University, Crotonville, NY
تاريخ الدورة:
December 2008
المدة:
40 ساعة
Global Sourcing Quality Engineer Training (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Jack Welch University, Crotonville, NY
تاريخ الدورة:
October 2008
المدة:
40 ساعة
ISO Internal Auditor Training (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Jack Welch University, Crotonville, NY
تاريخ الدورة:
December 2007
المدة:
40 ساعة
Advanced Supply Chain Management Cetification (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
June 2009
صالحة لغاية:
January 9999
Project Management Training (12 Modules) (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Jack Welch University, Crotonville, NY
تاريخ الدورة:
November 2008
المدة:
480 ساعة
Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
February 2008
صالحة لغاية:
January 9999
Foundations of General Electric Leadership (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Jack Welch University, Crotonville, NY
تاريخ الدورة:
July 2008
المدة:
40 ساعة

الهوايات

  • Philanthrophy
    Paid to send 20 students to bachelors and/or masters in India with the support of my wife and mother-in-law. We try to donate 5-10% of our annual take home salaries to put these economically disadvantaged kids through college in various majors such as engineering; dentistry; architecture; and accounting.
  • Community Involvement
    Very actively involved in the community in the greater Detroit area participating in events (both charitable and family oriented) to promote the culture.