GERALD SATHISH
Bangalore
Summary
20+ years’ experience in supply chain Upstream & Downstream / Procurement / New product development. I seek to constantly enhance my skills and competence while integrating these with organization requirement. Presently associated with Schneider Electric IT Business Pvt Ltd, as Sr. Manager-Procurement.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Manager - Downstream Supply Chain Planning
Schneider Electric IT Business Pvt Ltd
- 11.2024
- The Downstream Supply Chain Planner is responsible for ensuring the efficient flow of finished goods from production facilities to distribution centres and ultimately to customers. This role focuses on demand fulfilment, inventory optimization, and distribution planning to achieve service level targets while minimizing costs.
- Key Responsibilities
- Demand Fulfilment & Inventory Management
- Translate demand forecasts into supply plans for finished goods.
- Maintain optimal inventory levels across regional warehouses and distribution centres.
- Monitor stock availability and manage replenishment to avoid shortages or excess.
- Distribution & Logistics Coordination
- Plan and schedule product movements from plants to downstream nodes (warehouses, retailers).
- Collaborate with transportation and logistics teams to ensure timely deliveries.
- Optimize network flows to reduce lead times and freight costs.
- S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning)
- Participate in monthly S&OP cycles to align supply plans with commercial forecasts.
- Provide input on capacity constraints and propose mitigation strategies.
- Performance Monitoring
- Track KPIs such as service level, inventory turns, and order fill rate.
- Analyse variances and implement corrective actions for continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work closely with demand planners, procurement, manufacturing, and customer service teams.
- Communicate supply risks and develop contingency plans.
Sr. Manager - Upstream Supply Chain Planning
Schneider Electric
08.2007 - 11.2024
- Managing End-to-End Procurement Operations and Customer Order Management.
- Handling of Complex EMS Suppliers (Flex, UMC, Jabil) -Forecasting, Procurement, Inventory Management
- Accountable for scheduling raw materials as per production plan and communicating to supplier through vendor forecasting tool for its raw material planning.
- Coordinating with Supplier and Manufacturing Departments for ensuring smooth flow of materials.
- Ensuring 100% OTD and ESSR
- Conducting daily review meeting with stakeholder to overcome the short comes.
- Reviewing the daily material availability from Manufacturing and Purchase for the planned shipment.
- In-transit material tracking.
- Seeking Rd reports for delayed shipments causing OTDF’s, wrong part shipment, damaged shipment, short quantity shipment or poor-quality shipment.
- Releasing purchase orders to vendors and sending weekly/fortnightly forecast to suppliers for RM Planning.
- Floating RFQs using Ariba and converting them into firm orders.
- Localization and Multi sourcing activity to reduce the dependency and increase the productivity
- Inventory tracking and rebalancing.
- Re-conciliation and Re- scheduling of purchase orders periodically.
- Supplier delivery and performance rating and development.
- Initiating Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) agreements among suppliers and negotiating its terms and conditions
- Project Management
- Support in providing strategic and analytical support to underpin the role of delivering a commercial, cost effective contract procuring process for the business
- Support in conducting studies of material costs and supplier services and recommend changes in purchasing procedures to improve service and/or reduce cost
- Support to Identify cost reductions, efficiency opportunities and contribute to the achievement of efficiency targets including the development of KPI’s to track improvements of budget vs actual spend
- Date Roles and Responsibilities Procurement:
Material Planner
Schneider Electric
05.2002 - 08.2007
- Management of supply of all SKUs within a given portfolio through consultation with the Customer Development, Marketing, Category and Demand Planning teams
- Introduced S&OP planning and process improvements; participated and presented forecast data at monthly S&OP meetings with senior management.
- Actively worked with sourcing units, distribution centers and production managers center in the area of forecast management, including the monthly loading of sales forecast data onto the ERP system and analysis of forecast performance
- Monitored production schedule daily, resolved issues and provided feedback to all departments, and European Distribution Centre which optimized order fulfilment.
- Established and ensured adherence to finished goods safety stock levels and min max levels based on sales orders and forecast.
- Managed (NPIs) New Product Introductions - ensured forecasts are loaded so as planned introduction dates are met
- Continuous improvement of the processes within the supply chain through identifying and implementing improvement opportunities
- Roles and Responsibilities
- NPD Material Planning:
Education
Bachelor’s - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
IBVE Bangalore Open University
04.2008
National Trade Certificate - Electronics and Telecommunications
St. Patricks ITC Bangalore
03.2001
Secondary Board Education - KSEB
St. Lourd’s High School Bangalore
03.1999
Skills
- Marital Planning
- Production Planning
- Inventory Planning
- Procurement Outsourcing
- Customer Service
- People Management
- ERP Systems
- New Product Management
- Inventory Control
- Warehouse Management
Certification
- Certified Six Sigma White Belt.
- Digital Transformation in Supply Chains
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Supply Chain Foundations: Managing the Process
- Rated Protomer & have been part of critical projects.
- First Hour Line Efficiency Improvement from 40% to 100% per hr.
- Cost reduction on buy parts by Annual Negotiation / volume discounting.
- Participated & Won Gold for Six Sigma Project from CCQC State Level.
- Reduction of cell inventory by 50% through reducing storage of materials in shop floor.
- Optimization of racks and utilization of space for new coming models.
- Customer Complaints Reduction in all 3 Phase Models.
- Unit Tripping Issue in G6K Units (Six Sigma)
- Visited China to Improve the out of critical back-order Drives Model with PCBA Suppliers (Flex, UMC, Jabil)
PERSONAL VITAE
English
Tamil
Kannada
Hindi
Telugu
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that above furnished details are true to my knowledge and belief. Gerald Sathish Place: Bangalore
Timeline
Sr. Manager - Upstream Supply Chain Planning
Schneider Electric
08.2007 - 11.2024
Material Planner
Schneider Electric
05.2002 - 08.2007
Sr. Manager - Downstream Supply Chain Planning
Schneider Electric IT Business Pvt Ltd
- 11.2024
National Trade Certificate - Electronics and Telecommunications
St. Patricks ITC Bangalore
Secondary Board Education - KSEB
St. Lourd’s High School Bangalore
Bachelor’s - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
IBVE Bangalore Open University