Global Purchasing Director
johnson controls
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :32 years, 7 أشهر
Role & Responsibility:
Manage the Global Line of Business purchasing and supply chain organization to support the business needs for related material and services. Support global commodity teams and business needs while ensuring all requirements of effective purchasing and supply chain are executed.
Currently responsible for eight manufacturing locations spread across United States, Canada and Middle East
Achievements:
• Consistently exceeded cost saving targets year on year
• Significantly enhanced cross functional collaboration in achieving business objectives
• Established the ‘Global Sourcing Board’ for reviewing & approving critical sourcing decisions across all Regions & Business Units
• Initiated and aggressively pursued the collaboration between Suppliers and Johnson Controls to drive ‘Innovation’
• In-charge of Materials Planning and Procurement of automotive parts worth approx. $25 Million p.a., from General Motors companies / suppliers across the world, mainly from Australia, Japan and Brazil.
• Part of the start up team in setting up the General Motors Middle East Distribution Centre for Automotive Parts in Jebel Ali, Dubai. The Distribution Centre stocks about 34, 000 unique parts and is spread over 14, 000 sq.m.
• Responsible for setting up all Materials Management processes & systems.
• Solely responsible for integration testing and approval of all SAP (MM) processes and the multiple interfaces between SAP and all other Operational software used by DHL/Danzas.
• Current responsibilities include:
- Demand Planning & Forecasting, Inventory Management and Procurement.
- Develop effective Sourcing & Stocking Strategies to maximize Customer Service levels and optimize Inventory levels.
- Develop and implement recommendations to the senior management team to increase supply chain effectiveness, minimize supply chain costs and achieve key performance indices.
- Ensure timely placement of Purchase Orders
- Liaison with all freight forwarders and key logistics personnel to ensure timely arrival of shipments.
- Ensure all Key Performance Indices (KPI’s) are met as per the General Motors contractual terms & conditions.
Achievements:
Achieved a Parts Availability Service Level of 90% within a year of actual start up operations; with a stock turn of over 3.5.
Role & Responsibility:
Lead the Procurement and Supply Chain Operations for the Johnson Controls Middle East operations.
Achievements:
• Established the SCM function for the Middle East Region, directly controlling a spend of more than $100 Million.
• Set up a Centralized Procurement operation for UAE & the GCC countries. Streamlined and established all Procurement Systems & procedures in the Middle East Region, in line with the company’s Global policies & standards.
• Optimized sourcing in the Region and integrated it with the Global Sourcing strategies. Integrated the SCM operations at the 3 factories in Middle East (UAE, Saudi & Turkey) and reduced costs by leveraging on the combined spend.
• Generated cost saving of over $ 2 Million each year
• Lead the successful implementation of the iScala (ERP) manufacturing module at the UAE factory and was instrumental in establishing the global template for the same.
• Initiated & outsourced the complete warehousing operations in UAE, Egypt and Turkey to 3rd Party Logistics providers, resulting in substantial streamlining of operations & increasing productivity. KPIs were established for effective tracking & monitoring 3PL performance
The company is a leading European manufacturer of Air Handling Units.
Achievements:
• Set up and established the complete end to end Supply Chain processes for the Middle East and Africa markets including -
o Identifying and implementing a 3rd Party Logistics solution for inbound logistics (from all global suppliers), warehousing and outbound distribution to all Middle East and African regions.
o Identifying and developing an alternate regional supplier base for most commodities, in order to minimize the cost of procurement and also eventually minimize the overall supply chain costs
• Performed the role of the ‘Global Purchasing Manager’ (6 months) with the following additional achievements -
o Pivotal role in implementing the new Corporate Strategy of cutting down customer order fulfillment lead time from 12 weeks to 1 week! A key feature of this strategy being to completely outsource manufacturing and logistics.
o Negotiated and finalized Contracts with major Global Suppliers of components and sub-assemblies.
o Lead the Global cost optimization project. One of the main objectives being to develop a completely new Global supplier base in low cost countries (mainly China & India) and also subsequently establish effective supply chain processes for supplies to all Regions of VTS
o Finalized the 3rd Party Logistics Contract with the provider for the East European Region
o Identified and finalized the 3rd Part Logistics provider for the Asia Pacific Region in Shanghai.
o Set up and established the supply chain processes for the Russian Region, including signing specific Contracts with all major suppliers for supplies to the Russian division of VTS.
• Developed and established all Purchasing processes and standards which are to be followed at all Regions
The organization, headquartered in Switzerland, is a 100% subsidiary of Schindler Ltd., the world leaders in Escalators and the second largest company in Elevators.
Roles and Responsibilities:
•Project Manager for the local development (outsoucing) of the entire Elevator machine, which was being imported from Europe. Responsible for ensuring suitable technology transfer from Schindler Manufacturing Units in Europe to the local manufacturers in India.
•Responsible for local development of all other mechanical components of the Elevator.
•Negotiated and settled component pricing with Vendors.
•Responsible to ensure localization targets are met, both in terms of cost and number of components taken for import substitution.
•Negotiated and settled “Production and Supply Agreements” with all Vendors
•Implemented Quality systems and ensured that the basic norms are maintained at Vendor’s end, in line with Schindler’s high Quality Standards.
•Independently handled all aspects of logistics for the locally developed components. The functions included Planning, Scheduling, Ordering and Ensuring timely delivery of the components at sites.
•Actively involved in implementing SAP-R/3 (MM Module) in the Organization. Also functioned as a Core Team Member involved in upgrading the SAP-R/3 version 3.1 to version 4.6C.
Achievements:
•Single handedly developed the whole Elevator Machine locally within a span of one year.
•Achieved a recurring cost saving of Rs.12, 000, 000/- ($260, 000) p.a.
The Company is part of the Bahwan Group of companies, one of the largest Business Houses in Oman.
Roles and Responsibilities:
•In-charge of the main showroom for the entire range of Hyundai Vehicles - Cars, trucks, Buses and Vans.
•Responsible to ensure showroom sales targets are met.
•Conduct and implement Sales Promotion schemes and activities in the showroom.
•Organize New Product Launches.
•Liaison with the Banks and Financial Institutions to organize and strike suitable financial schemes for customers.
•Collate and analyze market and competition information related to product features, specifications, product positioning, pricing strategies and promotional schemes.
•Devise and implement business strategies to combat competition.
Achievements:
•Instrumental in increasing the showroom sales by 20%.
•Successfully launched the Hyundai Range of Commercial Vehicles
The company is a 100% subsidiary of Otis, the world leaders in Elevators. They are headquartered in USA.
Roles and Responsibilities:
•In-charge of Procurement of the entire range of components pertaining to the Elevator machines.
•Handled capacity assessment of all vendors.
•Responsible for development of new vendors to meet the projected volume growth.
•Responsible for ensuring targeted inventory levels are maintained.
•Negotiated and settled component pricing with the vendors.
•Reduced costs through Strategic Sourcing/ Vendor Rationalization/ Value Engineering
•Implemented the ‘Otis Supplier Management Model’
•Implemented ‘Flexible Manufacturing Systems’ in line with the manufacturing systems adopted by Otis Companies worldwide.
•Responsible for design and implementation of all ISO 9000 systems and procedures related to Purchasing.
Achievements:
•Instrumental in reducing the inventory levels by 30%
•Initiated and implemented the demand pull system in Purchasing
•Rationalized the vendor base and reduced the vendor base by almost 25%
•Successfully designed and implemented ISO 9000 systems in Purchasing
The Company is part of Eicher Ltd., a leading Automotive Company in India, which manufactures Tractors, Light Commercial Vehicles (Mitsubishi, Canter) and Motorbikes (Enfield).
Roles and Responsibilities:
•In-charge of the procurement of all castings required for the manufacture of Tractors.
•Ensured timely supply to feed the JIT manufacturing Plant.
•Ensured appropriate Inventory Levels are maintained.
•Negotiated and settled component pricing with Vendors.
•Developed new vendors to take care of increased production volumes and new products.
•Reduced costs through Strategic Sourcing/ Vendor Rationalization/ Value Engineering.
•Handled Vendor upgradation by implementing Quality Systems at the Vendor end in line with Eicher’s Quality Policy, followed by Self-Certification of component supplies.
•Set up Model Vendor’s in line with Eicher’s TQM practices.
•Designed, documented and implemented ISO 9000 systems for Purchasing.
•Conducted Vendor Audits to check for adherence to Quality Systems.
•Organized and conducted vendor training programs to generate awareness of various aspects of TQM.
Achievements:
•Successfully championed the ‘Self-Certification’ process for Vendors.
•Developed ‘Model Vendors’ in line with Eicher’s TQM practices.
•Played a lead role in cutting Inventory Levels by almost 30% through vendor rationalization