Dhananjay Raut

● Product costing of plastic, painting & sheet metal parts.

● Sending RFQ to suppliers, price negotiation, settling prices & finalizing suppliers.

● Procurement activities of commodities like electrical items, machining, casting, painting, plastic, sheet metal, fabrication, proprietary items, powder coating, plating, spring wire forms etc.

● Technical Feasibility Discussion with suppliers to discuss bottlenecks in meeting drawing requirements & approach R&D team for any drawing changes.

● Settling commercials, discussion & negotiation with suppliers to sign Purchase Agreement which includes all terms & conditions associated with parts purchasing.

● Visiting potential new suppliers for Audit along with QA team before supplier selection.

● Calculate RM Price rolling every 6 months by considering third party data, FE, LME & amend latest rates.

● Cost reduction activities to achieve target cost levels.

● Delivery follow up with suppliers to ensure OTD.

● Supporting SCM team for any critical delivery delay issues from suppliers.

● Assess capacity of suppliers by analyzing process lead time, machines availability, production run time, working shift hours, manpower availability, process efficiency, bottleneck process, rejection ratio, rework SOP & rework cycle time, transportation lead time.

● Procurement of mass production parts of above models.

● Export planning of around 600 parts to overseas plant (JCB Brazil).

● Weekly brainstorming session with team to discuss on bottlenecks in the key functions of SCM & sharing minutes of meeting internally.

● Work with vendors to establish inventory management strategies and achieve lead time reductions.

● Planning and scheduling as per firm & forecast plan given by PPC team.

● Manage vendor OTD performance & making improvement plan jointly.

● Fixation of Batch quantities with the suppliers based on average consumption & MOQ with the suppliers.

● Co-ordinating PIP & to minimize obsolete stock and ensure business is left with minimum liability.

● Analysis of late deliveries and make an action plan along with suppliers, assess the capacity of suppliers along with sourcing team to come out of the capacity constraints.

● Floating RFQ to suppliers, assist in price negotiation & price settling.

● Issuing purchase orders to suppliers.

● Follow up with suppliers for OTD.

● Cost reduction activities to ensure target cost levels.

● Supplier Evaluation by analyzing schedule adherence rating.

● Release forecasts to supplier for next 3 months & review for RM availability & align supplier capacity planning as per schedule requirement.