GIRIDARSHAN REDDY AVULA JAIHINDREDDI GARI

PAN India Sourcing & Procurement

• Manage PAN India sourcing and procurement of raw materials, consumables, packaging materials, hardware, appliances and operational requirements across multiple cities and warehouses
• Handle end-to-end sourcing activities from requirement validation and vendor identification to quotation comparison, negotiation, PO processing and material delivery
• Coordinate with regional teams to consolidate requirements and ensure timely availability of materials without operational disruption

Requirement Planning & PR/PO Management

• Review business requirements and validate quantity, specification, location, existing stock and consumption before raising PRs
• Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure correct PR categorization, quantities, locations and specifications
• Track PRs from creation through PO release, vendor confirmation, dispatch and final delivery.
• Identify and prevent duplicate PRs, excess procurement and incorrect requirements

Vendor Management

• Manage and coordinate with multiple vendors for pricing, availability, quality, lead time and delivery commitments
• Conduct vendor discussions and negotiate price revisions, MOQ, lead time, payment terms and supply schedules
• Follow up with vendors on delayed supplies, shortages, quality issues and pending deliveries
• Develop alternate sourcing options during material shortages, vendor constraints and supply disruptions
• Track vendor performance against PO quantity, committed delivery date, actual dispatch and receipt.
• Follow up on delayed and partial supplies and maintain city-wise pending trackers.
• Ensure vendors share dispatch plans before shipment to avoid wrong PO, excess quantity and incorrect-city deliveries.
• Reconcile PO vs Invoice vs Delivered Qty vs Pending Qty for better procurement visibility

Cost Saving & Price Negotiation

• Drive cost-saving initiatives through vendor negotiations, alternate sourcing, specification optimization and market benchmarking.
• Collaborated with multiple vendors to achieve significant savings across components, packaging materials and barcode labels.
• Evaluate vendor price increases based on raw material movements, market conditions and supporting commercial details before seeking internal approvals.
• Track previous price vs. revised price, percentage increase and financial impact for sourcing decisions.

Raw Material & Packaging Sourcing

• Source and manage critical materials including PU Foam, fabrics, packaging materials, hardware, electrical items, appliance components and other operational materials.
• Monitor material availability and proactively identify OOS and potential supply risks.
• Coordinate with warehouses and vendors to arrange urgent materials and avoid production/operations impact.
• Maintain visibility of requirement, ordered quantity, dispatched quantity, received quantity and pending quantity.

Quality & Material Issue Resolution

• Coordinate with QA/Operations teams for quality issues, rejected materials, shade variations, specification mismatches and vendor-related issues.
• Work with vendors to arrange replacement, corrective action and re-supply of rejected materials.
• Ensure approved materials/specifications are followed before proceeding with procurement.

Invoice, GRN & Procurement Compliance

• Coordinate with stores, finance and vendors to ensure timely invoice submission, GRN closure and finance-system uploads.
• Monitor discrepancies between PO, invoice, receiving quantity and actual material received.
• Follow up on missing invoices, incorrect invoice numbers, backdated invoices and documentation discrepancies.
• Ensure procurement documentation is complete for smooth GRN and payment processing.

Inventory & Buffer Norm Management

• Monitor minimum stock, buffer norms, consumption and non-moving inventory across locations.
• Identify slow-moving/non-moving materials and coordinate corrective actions to improve inventory utilization.
• Reduced non-moving inventory percentage by 3%, improving moving inventory efficiency from 95% to 98%.

Data Analysis & MIS Reporting

• Prepare and maintain PAN India sourcing, procurement, inventory and vendor performance MIS.
• Develop Excel/Google Sheets-based trackers and dashboards for:PR/PO status
  1. Vendor performance
  2. Material availability
  3. Price increase
  4. Cost savings
  5. Pending quantities
  6. Inventory movement
  7. Dispatch status
• Use Advanced Excel, Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP, QUERY, IFERROR/IFNA and Google Sheets for procurement analysis and reporting.

Cost Saving Achievement

• Delivered approximately ₹15.89 Lakh in identified cost savings through vendor negotiations and sourcing initiatives across packaging, components and barcode labels.
• Achieved packaging-related savings of approximately ₹7.04 Lakh through commercial negotiations and sourcing optimization.

Process Improvement & Automation

• Identify repetitive procurement activities and improve processes through standardized trackers, dashboards, automated reporting and structured approval workflows.
• Implement controls to improve visibility of PR → PO → Dispatch → Invoice → GRN → Receiving.
• Improve procurement transparency through centralized PAN India sourcing reports.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Operations, Remanufacturing, Stores, Finance, QA, Supply Chain and Warehouse teams to understand requirements and resolve procurement-related issues.
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders for urgent requirements, material shortages, vendor escalations and delivery priorities.

Provide regular updates on critical material availability, pending procurement and supply risks.

Key Performance Achievements

• ₹15.89 Lakh identified cost savings through sourcing and vendor negotiations.
• 91% GRN closure within 3 days from gate-entry date.
• 95% QC rejection material clearance within 7 days.
• Improved moving inventory efficiency from 95% to 98%.
• Managed sourcing and material availability across PAN India locations.
• Coordinated procurement and supply of multiple categories including raw materials, packaging, hardware, appliances and operational consumables

• Self-initiative, better time management capability and enthusiastic
• Process Implement
• Team Management
• Store Operations
• Ordering and forecasting
• SAP, H&G POS and Wondersoft, Handling Retail Store operations
• Maintain a fully-stock inventory like Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Basis
• Indenting of Fruits, Vegetable, Meat and Groceries as needed ( Daily Basis )
• Updation to the Respective Category Team for Support Requires on Quality issue, Damages, Excess and Short Supplies
• Following all operational procedures and SOP in Cash Hand handling, Checkouts, health and safety, Food safety, Customer Service, Time Management
• Daily Routine jobs Completion as per Schedule
• All the DC, DSD invoices Clearing
• FIFO,FEFO and Clearance Stock Management
• RTV, RSTO, Dump and DC returns Management
• Updation of DSR, Petty Cash, Flot Cash
• Maintaining Store condition with outstanding visual merchandising standards with Promotional and Price Updation Daily, Weekly and Monthly
• Lead, Mentor and Motivate Team Members to Deliver Reliable Service for Customer and to achive the Daily and Monthly Targets
• Ensuring High level of Customers satisfaction through the excellent service by the team members
• Tracking the riders of Home deliveries
• Monitoring the Known and Un-known Loss within Budget
• Implementation of Company SOP
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• Helping to develop the company's service, supervise staff and manage it's resources
• Maintain a fully-stocked inventory and order stock as per Customer Requirement
• Following all operational procedures for cash handling, health and safety, and security to ensure the well-being of self, other staff and customers at all times
• Proficient in leading dedicated teams for running successful process operations with proven ability of achieving service delivery /targets
• Maintaining optimum inventory management along with Beauty Advisor Management
• Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities in inventory, training, development, customer relationship management and planning
• Leading& monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations and meeting of individual & group targets
• Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters development opportunities and motivates high performance amongst Team members
• PreviousCompany

• Helping to develop the company's service, supervise staff and manage its resources
• Maintain a fully-stocked inventory and order food supplies, as needed
• Following all operational procedures for cash handling, health and safety, and security to ensure the well-being of self, other staff and customers at all times
• Proficient in leading dedicated teams for running successful process operations with proven ability of achieving service delivery /targets
• Ordering, Forecasting and Vendor management
• Maintaining optimum inventory management
• Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities in inventory, training, development, customer relationship management and planning
• Leading& monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations and meeting of individual & group targets
• Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters development opportunities and motivates high performance amongst Team members