Harsha Priya Lakkoju
Visakhapatnam
Summary
Dynamic Procurement Engineer with extensive experience at Equinox Private India Limited, adept at optimizing project costs through strategic vendor negotiations and compliance management. Proven decision-maker under pressure, skilled in SAP for procurement documentation. A self-starter who fosters strong vendor relationships, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Procurement Engineer
Equinox Private India Limited
Pune
04.2022 - 12.2025
- Execute end-to-end procurement activities for oil & gas EPC Project in line with project schedules and budgets
- Review MRs, Technical specifications issued by engineering teams.
- Prepare and issue RFQs to approved and potential vendors for equipment, valves, piping, and bulk materials in accordance with project and client requirements.
- Co-ordination with vendors and ensure compliance with project specifications.
- Perform Commercial and Technical bid evaluations in co-ordination with technical engineering, QA/QC & Logistic teams.
- Co-ordinated with vendors to obtain commercial and technical clarifications and ensure full compliance with specifications.
- Identify, evaluate and develop qualified vendors for oil & gas material.
- Negotiate pricing, delivery schedules, payment terms and warranties to optimise project cost.
- Created, released, Issued and managed Purchase Orders in SAP (MM) as per company approvals.
- Co-ordinated third party and internal inspections as per QAP/ITP prior to dispatch.
- Liaised with logistics and freight forwarding teams for shipping and delivery as per Incoterms.
- Ensured timely delivery of material to site and supported GRN and close-out activities.
- Performed order expediting activities.
- Maintained complete procurement documentation and maintained audit readiness.
- Supported Vendor Development and performance evaluation for approved vendor lists.
Procurement Officer
Biocon Private India Limited
Visakhapatnam
09.2021 - 03.2022
- Managed end-to-end procurement of pharmaceutical raw materials, packaging material requirement, consumables and engineering stores.
- Co-ordinated with production and Quality teams to understand materials requirements and delivery priorities.
- Prepared and issued RFQs to approved and qualified vendors in line with procurement Standard Operating Procedures.
- Conducted commercial clarifications to ensure compliance with quality, GMP, and regulatory standards.
- Created and managed Purchase orders in ERP/SAp systems and tracked order status.
- Coordinated with QA for vendor qualifications, audits, and documentation.
- Maintained complete procurement documentation including RFQs, POs, COAs, MSDS and vendor records.
- Supported inventory control to avoid stock-outs and excess inventory.
- Ensured timely material delivery to site/plant, supported GRN activities and maintained complete procurement documentation for audits.
- Ensured compliance with pharmaceuticals regulations, internal SOPs and Audit requirements.
Junior Officer in Supply Chain Managemnet
Pfizer Private India Limited
Visakhapatnam
11.2017 - 08.2021
- Assisted in procurement of pharmaceutical raw materials, packaging materials, packaging materials and consumables as per production requirements.
- Supported preparation and issuance of RFQs to approved vendors under senior supervision.
- Co-ordinated with production, QA and stores teams to understand material requirements and delivery priorities.
- Helped with vendor communication and follow-ups to ensure timely material delivery.
- Assisted in the creation and tracking of Purchase Orders in ERP/SAP systems.
- Maintained procurement records including RFQs, POs, invoices, COAs and MSDS.
- Ensured procurement from approved and GMP compliant vendors as per company SOPs.
- Assisted during internal and external audits by providing procurement documentation.
- Followed company procurement SOPs, GMP guidelines and safety procedures.
Education
DIPLOMA - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Government Institute of Chemical Engineering
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh10-2017
SSC -
Balaji English Medium High School
VISAKHAPATNAM03.2014
Skills
- Procurement management
- RFQ preparation
- Technical evaluation
- Purchase order management
- Vendor negotiation
- Supply chain management
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Telugu
Roles And Responsibilities
- Preparation of Procurement Plan as per Schedule
- MRS Creation and Short list of Vendors for each Package
- Sending RFQ Documents to the Vendors and keeping track of it if any scope Changes are there.
- CBE & PBC for the all the Vendors and make sure which vendor are Commercially acceptable.
- Negotiations, Vendor finalization, Preparation of Special Conditions of contract as per Project requirement
- Drafting of PO & PO Notes
- Tracking the order status by arranging meetings with vendor and clients
- Arranging shipments after order readiness
- Maintaining detailed record for order tracking and material delivery
- Ensuring that all procured items meet the required quality standards and specifications.
- Handling of Trackwise software for initiating of Deviations, CAPA & CCF
- Preparation of URS for new equipments & new facilities
- Maintain and implementation of cGMP across the department on daily basis
- Handling of warehouse related SAP & WMS functions
- Issue and Receipt of Raw Material & Packing Material from warehouse with proper documentation
- Creating PR & PO for required materials
- Preparing GRN for the received materials
- Monitoring of retest and Expiry material
- Monitoring of Rejection material
- Following FIFO and FEFO for issuing of materials
- Monitoring Weighing Balance checks (Daily, Monthly and quarterly)
- Implementation of LOTO before starting of maintenance activity
- Automatic Vial Labelling machine with Optel vision inspection system. (Make: IMA, Model: SENSITIVE 350): Pressure sensitive labelling
- Automatic Tray Packing machine with Optel vision inspection system.
- Tray coder with Wolke printer
- Manual aggregation station with Optel vision system
- Installation, Operational Qualification activity and Periodic Qualification activities.
- Serialization Track and Trace with optel vision system
- Pulling, Verification & executing of Process Orders.
- Aggregation of parent and child Creation.
- Compiling of Alarms during Batch Execution.
- Material picking, material requisition, material return to warehouse, FG transfer to FG stores.
Personal Information
- Father's Name: L N Achari
- Date of Birth: 02/26/99
Timeline
Procurement Engineer
Equinox Private India Limited
04.2022 - 12.2025
Procurement Officer
Biocon Private India Limited
09.2021 - 03.2022
Junior Officer in Supply Chain Managemnet
Pfizer Private India Limited
11.2017 - 08.2021
DIPLOMA - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Government Institute of Chemical Engineering
SSC -
Balaji English Medium High School