Engineer-Purchase (Supply Chain Management)
Emerson
Total years of experience :15 years, 10 Months
•Responsible for global sourcing for categories Forging/Casting/Machined/Consumable/Nonconsumable.
•Manage global vendor base to meet sourcing requirements on an ongoing basis.
•To identify & develop Vendor with the right quality, lead time and the best price. Working towards the supplier upgradation as per specific requirements of the process by conducting periodic process & system audit.
•Negotiate and make contracts with suppliers for price, incoterms, payment terms and currency.
•Procure the components from right supplier with right quality and with least Price and in accordance with company policies and procedures laid down by management.
•Ensure the purchase prices are within the budget and meeting the savings target.
•Responsible for Budget Planning and generation of Purchase requisition and Purchase order.
•Forecasting the raw material requirement & determining whether the material need to be produced indigenously or bought.
•Managing stock control techniques to maintain the optimum level of stock so that there is neither shortage of any material nor excess inventory for which purpose determination of max & min limits of inventory & reordering level is followed.
•Meet the OTD, PPM & productivity targets.
•Clarify all the queries to supplier like technical/dimensional/special requirements/quality and arrange for inspections (TPI/ Client /company representative).
•Co-ordination with Logistics & Freight Forwarder for inbound and outbound shipments.
•Manage Custom House Agent, Import/Export Shipping documents, customs clearance full compliance with statutory regulations.
•Maintain complete updated purchasing records like delivery commitments, price, and terms of payment in the system.
•Coordinate with Costing, Design, Planning, Quality, Production and Logistics to ensure timely delivery and the right costs in line with Project Budgets.
•Maintaining cordial relations with customers. Maximizing customer satisfaction level by on time delivery & updating the order status frequently and ensuring efficient services.
•Coordinate & Expedite with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery. Ensure timely disposition of Non-confirming Components.
•Ensure the smooth relationships with all the suppliers and ensure the supplier payments on time.
Accomplishments
•Achieved the supplier OTD performance to 88% from 83% for the FY 2016- 17.
•Achieved the supplier PPM to 3800 from 4500 FY 2015- 16.
•Achieved $ 2M net direct material productivity based on AOP spend of $ 61M.
•Implemented VMI / Consignment Stock successfully.
•Support raw materials inventory reduction by applying 8-steps SLD process with 5 key suppliers.
•Managed vendor deliveries to prevent shortages by running root cause analysis and driving corrective actions to prevent delivery delays.
•Procurement activities of SRV / Control Valves / Regulators parts, Level transmitters, steel raw materials, consumables & non consumable materials.
•Responsible for Selection of Vendors & their approval process. Sending RFQ to the suppliers & evaluation of commercial bids. Negotiation for the best price & lead time with the suppliers.
•Developing & finalizing price agreements/contracts with vendors with terms & conditions.
•Liaising on Technical queries and specifications with project coordinators and vendors. Evaluating and assessing the product specification, technical data with Application/Sales team & settling the Vendor clarifications & Commercial negotiations.
•Issue of purchase orders to vendors & obtain timely order acknowledgements.
•Forecasting and scheduling material needs and procure materials for stocking program and minimize the delivery time. Maintain activities and techniques required to support Just in Time (JIT), agile manufacturing, and desired inventory levels to support corporate inventory turn goals.
•Material Management & Inventory Control.
•Expediting the supplier for the critical materials/valves for on time delivery of valves.
•Providing accurate and timely updates / progress report about the deliveries to the customers &
attending the Project progress meetings.
•Coordination with accounts for supplier payments & clearing the issues if any.
•Active Participation in the Kick of meeting & Pre inspection meeting of the projects.
•Responsible to ensure timely submission & approval of NMR documents & final manufacturer record
Book/Dossier.
•Meet or exceed cost reduction targets involving purchased items and factory efficiencies.
•Coordination with Planning, Production & Logistics for achieving on time delivery to customers.
•Responsible to maintain the documents as per ISO standards & successfully handle the audits.
Accomplishments
•Successfully handled the procurement, execution & coordination with all the major EPCs and on time delivery of both Safety Relief & Control Valves for Major Projects like SAUDI ARAMCO Shaybah Project (includes 4 packages), WASIT Inlet & Gas handling Project, SADARA Project, Petrokemya ABS Project.
•Awarded ‘Employee of the year’ - 2014
•Achieved on time delivery to Saudi Aramco from 65% to 90% during the year 2013-14 & 2014-15.
•Achieved the savings of $ 0.45 million in procurement in the year 2014-15.
•Manufacturing activities of Rotor blades RE-45 and AE-43V3, AE-42V2, SB-46 and SB-47.
•Planning and controlling the production operations as per the capacity available & sales projection.
•Minimize the variance in schedule production plan on account of 3M availability. Production as per standard procedures, designs, specifications and QA requirements.
•SAP end user.
•Develop, execute and monitor systems and procedures in accordance with ISO specification.
•Monitoring and controlling of raw materials and ensure minimum inventory of WIP materials. Efficiently managing the inventory levels for ensuring ready availability of material to meet production and dispatch targets.
•Reducing rejection level and rework through continuous upgradation of quality circles to observe better compliance in line with changing customer requirements. Preparing CAPA pertaining to any deviations in the operations and train all manpower by analyzing the Root cause for the deviation and steps taken to prevent the same.
•Implementation of 5S Concepts, JIT Kanban, Kaizen activities & Problem solving by PDCA cycle.
•Problem solving and process improvement, material (consumable & imported) cost saving through better quality and consistency of product along with cost efficiency.
•Process improvement i.e. Process standardization by Time and motion study- reducing MUDA, Kaizen activity, problem solving by PDCA cycle.
•Ensuring continual improvements, modifications work simplification and developments.
•Cost control by optimization of Resources utilization.
•Managing the workmen for achieving the periodic production targets, Performance Appraisal, Shift scheduling.
•Organizing and conducting training programs, enhancement of skills & motivational level of employees.
•Co-ordinate with all departments to ensure that all the planned arrangements are being followed effectively towards desired goal.
•To maintain Production reports and stock statements.
•Ensure documentation as per the standards and preparation of MIS reports.
•Performing duties as an internal auditor ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001: 2004 & OHSAS 18001:2007.
•Develop, Execute and monitor systems and procedures in accordance with ISO and EMS specifications. And also representing ISO, PDCA, GL & DNV (third party) & inventory audits and do NCR analysis.
Accomplishments
•An active team member in a Cost Management Drive project with the target to reduce the operating cost by Rs.50crores in the financial year 2009-10 by optimization and wastage reduction of the raw materials through the nesting plan.
•Improved the manufacturing process resulting in decrease of blade manufacturing cycle time from 48 hours to 36 hours.
•Successfully achieved the zero quality defects in cutting & grinding section.
•Implement 5S, Kanban & Kaizen in the department & received rewards.
Mechanical Engineer passed out in 2008 with 1st class from NMAMIT Nitte College, Mangalore -Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum
