Arumugam E
Puliangudi
Summary
Self-motivated Associate Procurement Professional seeking a position in a growing organization. Propensity, having ambition to learn an interminably develop skills, being an innovative person in an economic way, orienting towards accomplishing goals of the organization.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Procurement analyst
Caterpillar India Private Limited
Thiruvallur
08.2024 - Current
- Initiated and managed RFQs, securing competitive quotations with detailed cost breakdowns from multiple vendors.
- Responsible for Tooling, service & Production part Purchase order release.
- Create the CICT & PCM for all price revision.
- Tool part number creation and STMS request for New EN & NPI parts.
- Actively collaborating with CFT teams to solve the issues in the aspects of payments, supply issues and regulatory requirements.
- Part transferring to SCM for all the new development parts handover.
- Coordinating NPI and ECN for the Category Team to facilitate smooth production flow.
- Developed and maintained master data for specialty categories, ensuring procurement accuracy and data integrity.
- Implemented inventory reduction strategies for tube components, optimizing stock level.
- Maintained and updated the PPM tracker on a monthly basis to monitor supplier quality performance.
- Supported PPAP audits and PPAP sign-off activities for Specialty category.
- Assisted SDE for conducting the Process audit & QAR and BIQ evaluations across multiple suppliers.
- Successfully supported the development of over 500 parts across various NPI/NSI programs, contributing to product innovation and launch readiness.
- Implemented a dedicated SharePoint portal for tube suppliers to streamline report submissions and improve data accessibility.
Quality Team leader
Caterpillar India Private Limited
Thiruvallur
01.2015 - 08.2024
- Conduct daily line issues meeting related to Fitment & Function.
- Lead Stop to fix meetings for repeat and critical quality issues along with CFT.
- Support Quality Hold process to prevent customers from critical quality issue.
- Conduct MRC meetings and provide on-time disposition for Non-Conforming parts. (Explore rework to reduce scrap cost and proper on-time accounting of stock in SAP).
- Trouble shooting of line issues and assign ownership to drive on time corrective action from casual department (Supplier Quality, Production, Process and Engineering).
- Immediate response to the line quality issues to avoid line stoppers and support achieving production targets.
- Monitor daily defect data from AQE, report as DPU trend against the target, analyze the top contributors in SSL assembly line and assign ownership through BIQ for effective RCCA.
- Vital 5 Analysis for all PIQ Issues reported and provide ICA.
- To Follow the calibration schedules.
- Reporting any accidents, incidents, near misses, actual or potential problems with products, services or systems.
Education
BE - Mechanical Engineering
Sathyabama Institute of science and technology
06.2018 - 04.2021
DME -
P.A.C. Ramasamy raja polytechnic college
Rajapalayam 06.2011 - 04.2014
SSLC -
MAC high school
puliangudi 06.2010 - 04.2011
Skills
- Ms office
- SAP
- CICT
- PCM
- EPIX
- STMS
- PPAP
Disclaimer
The above said information is true to my best of knowledge and belief.
Timeline
Procurement analyst
Caterpillar India Private Limited
08.2024 - Current
BE - Mechanical Engineering
Sathyabama Institute of science and technology
06.2018 - 04.2021
Quality Team leader
Caterpillar India Private Limited
01.2015 - 08.2024
DME -
P.A.C. Ramasamy raja polytechnic college
06.2011 - 04.2014
SSLC -
MAC high school
06.2010 - 04.2011