RAVIKANNAN LOGANATHAN, Purchasing Team Leader

RAVIKANNAN LOGANATHAN

Purchasing Team Leader

National Marine Dredging Company

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
Éducation
Master, MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT
Expérience
28 years, 10 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :28 years, 10 Mois

Purchasing Team Leader à National Marine Dredging Company
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
  • Je travaille ici depuis janvier 2012

Responsible for driving planning & execution of supply chain strategies, procurement, Process and cost optimization resulting for organizational successes with right mix of efficiency and profitability. Currently leading a team of 15 buyers with a total spends of AED 1.5bn

• Responsible for the end-to-end sourcing process which includes supplier development & management, Contracts administration, service relationships for the organisation, including managing contractual services, service level agreements (SLAs), acting as a liaison between internal stakeholders and the supplier partnering and responsible for driving value across the contracts and supplier relationships including commercial contract compliance and performance
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and align procurement strategies with organization goals
• Conducted Spends Analysis, Market Research and Monitor Market Trends to identify cost saving opportunities and potential suppliers
• Spearhead Strategic Sourcing Initiatives of group purchasing programs resulting in reduction in 10% reduction in overall procurement costs
• Responsible for Supplier Relationship Management Program and Procurement KPI’s like On Time Delivery, Purchase Price Variance and management reporting on quarterly basis.
• Implementing innovative contracting approaches such as framework agreements, blanket purchase agreements to achieve positive results and drive down procurement costs while ensuring best quality and delivery time
• Lead Project Procurement activities and established multi sourcing strategies like vendor managed inventories, consignments, Sub Contracting and other strategies to drive down cost and achieve project delivery schedules
• Responsible for developing the budget in line with the overall divisional budget and strategy and accountable for the budget spending
• Built and established relationships with vendors to negotiate the best possible pricing, rebates, and service guarantees.
• Streamlining Procurement Processes resulting in a 25% Improvement in efficiency resulting in lead times
• Coach, Mentor, Trained, Built, Transform team talent and identified need based training - Groomed over 5 UAE National Trainees and employees over last 5 years in Professional roles.

Purchase Supervisor à Weatherford Manufacturing & Services LLC
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
  • novembre 2008 à décembre 2011

Managed total spend of $6 million per month for the purchase of various raw materials, components & services. Overall responsibility of the department including Sourcing, Ordering, Expediting, Supplier Management, Inventory Control & Management. Coordinated with Global sourcing for outsourcing components in low cost countries including China, Poland, Malaysia, India, Vietnam and visited local & India/Malaysia/Chinese suppliers for the same. Development of successful sourcing plans along with global sourcing of special steel & machining categories. Led the local procurement & team Member in global category management of Steel and Rubber products. Played a key role in creating new procurement policy & SOP and implemented the same in new manufacturing facility

• Identified potential supplier for categories like oil field steel bars & tubes, rubber items and created successful sourcing plan for the region

• Experience in managing material inventory of product line like Drilling & Workover, Casing Exits, Case Hose Completion, Liner Hanger, Cementing, Well Bore Cleaning and Fishing Items

• Sourced material from local and international sources including Oil field grade high yield strength NACE/H2S complaint steel, Alloy Steel Round Bars, SS round bars, Exotic grade steel, ASTM A53/A106 Gr B Pipes, API 5L Pipes, ASTM A333 CS Pipes, ASTM A312 SS Pipes, API 5CT L80/P110/P125/C90/T95/C110 Steel Pipes & Casings, Super Duplex Steel round bars/Pipes, Casting, Forging, Precision machined items, Fabrication items, Nonferrous steels, CNC Machines, Cranes, Metrology equipment’s, Generators, Compressors, PPE Items, Valves, Pumps, Testing flanges, Cross overs, Manifolds, Gaskets, Pressure Gauges, Exotic Grade Bolts & Nut, Elastomers, Plating, Heat Treatment, etc.,

• Negotiated Major Contracts:

o Saved $1M by local outsourcing $5M worth of material and thereby reducing 20% of input cost
o Saved $500Kin 2009 & 2010 by negotiating price agreements for MRO/PPE items etc.,
o Saved $1M in $8M contract for oilfield grade steel forgings in 2009 & 2010
o Saved $300K in $6M worth of price agreement in oilfield grade steel tubes/pipes in 2009
o Saved $250K in buying $2.5M of various CAPEX Items in 2011

Procurement Engineer à Aswan International Engineering Co LLC (Al Shirawi Group)
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • juin 2005 à septembre 2008

Responsible for project procurement purchases including Sourcing, Sub Contracting, Expediting, material control and coordinating with QC Department. To obtain budgetary pricing and delivery schedule for subcontracts & major equipment, to develop project cost and schedule; maintained project procurement status reports including budget and delivery status.
Supervised the activities of 4 Buyers and 2 Stores personnel and managed total procurement of Dhs 3 million per month. Responsible for store and inventory management, Supervised the activities of 4 Buyers and managing total procurement of Dhs 3 million per month
• Exposure in buying fabrication items, castings, forgings, Fabrication Items, Machined Components, welding consumables, EN grade, stainless steel grade, duplex stainless steel grade, API grade material, BOP parts, machine tools, building & construction materials, Spares for Machines etc.,
• Achieving negotiated cost savings of approximately Dhs 250, 000 each year in 2006 & 2007
• Achieved Employee of the month in January 2008 for achieving good cost savings
• Negotiating short term and long term supply contracts/price agreements with total savings over Dhs 2 million per annum in 2006 & 2007

Assistant Manager - Sourcing à GRUNDFOS PUMPS INDIA PVT.LTD.,
  • Inde
  • janvier 2002 à mai 2005

Responsibilities
• Responsible to drive localization of components in India i.e., To Develop Local Supply Base
• Periodic audits at vendor premises to facilitate the development of new and existing vendors
• Effectively applied the latest techniques for problem solving such as statistical process control and process failure mode effect analysis method
• Lead on the implementation of JIT to support Lean Manufacturing
• Saved INR 1m by component development with Indian supplier and achieved 80% localization of components

Senior Engineer - Sourcing & Vendor Development à SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDIA PVT.LTD.,
  • Inde
  • juin 1995 à décembre 2001

Responsibilities
• Responsible to drive localization of components in India i.e., To Develop Local Supply Base

• Leading the cost reduction process of approximately INR 250k through offloading materials to subcontractors, import substitutions and value engineering
• Lead the component localization project and achieved 100% localization

Éducation

Master, MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT
  • à BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (BITS)
  • octobre 2015

BIRLA INSITUITE OF TECHNOLOGY - PILANI

Diplôme, Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
  • à The Association of Operations Management (APICS)
  • mai 2012
Diplôme, Supply Chain Management
  • à International Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Institute
  • mars 2009

Certififed International Logistics and Supply Chain Manager (CISCM)

Diplôme, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • à International Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Instuite
  • août 2008

Certififed International Logistics and Supply Chain Professional (CISCP)

Diplôme, Contracts Management
  • à Zabeel Instuite (Approved by UAE Ministry of Education)
  • mars 2008
Diplôme, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • à Indian Instuite of Materials Management
  • avril 2002

Awarded "Distinction" for my performance in the examination

Baccalauréat, Mechanical Engineering
  • à University of Madras
  • mai 1995

Served as Students Representative for One year. Orgainsed, Participated in Seminars and other students functions in our college

Specialties & Skills

Supply Chain Management
Purchase Contracts
Sourcing
Procurement
Sourcing 26 Procurement
MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point and Lotus Notes- Expert.
NEW VENDOR DEVELOPMENT
CONTRACTS MANAGEMENT & NEGOTIATION
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC SOURCING
STAFF DEVELOPMENT
CATEGORY MANAGEMENT
PROCUREMENT
LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
PROJECT PROCUREMENT
LEAN & SIX SIGMA
SOURCING
SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT
PURCHASING
OUTSOURCING

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Hindi
Moyen
Malayala
Moyen
Telugu
Moyen

Adhésions

Indian Institute of Materials Management
  • Life Member
  • June 1999
The Association of Operations Management
  • Associate Member
  • May 2011
Chartered Institue of Procurement & Supply (CIPS)
  • ASSOCIATE MEMEBER
  • January 2015
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONTRACT AND COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT (IACCM)
  • ASSOCIATE MEMBER
  • January 2015

Formation et Diplômes

Six Sigma (Formation)
Institut de formation:
MISP,UAE
Date de la formation:
October 2012
SOURCING STRATEGIES FOR ACHEIVING COST REDUCTION IN PURCHASING (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Kavaq Instituite, Malaysia
Date de la formation:
April 2012
Material & Demand Planning (Impacting performance through Lean Practices & Basic Principles) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Kavaq Instituite, Malaysia
Date de la formation:
March 2012