Hemant Dhingra

• Driving Procurement Policy, Strategy & processes across organization
• Procurement of Direct & Indirect Categories like IT Hardware & Software, Capital Equipment, LMVs
• Strategic Sourcing-Identification & development of Vendor base for critical categories like Agricultural implements, IT Hardware & Software, Digital Education , Administration, Health & Hygiene & Emergency Relief
• Supplier Quality Assurance & Supplier performance Management
• Management of key sourcing Projects ($ 25 million spend) for verticals like Disaster response, Education, Livelihood, SRHR, Health & hygiene thematic verticals & delivered 6% savings
• Contract Management
• Procurement Transformation through digitization

• Sourcing & Procurement Managed Procurement transformation for a global engineering multinational having operations across APAC, EMEA and North Americas
• Sourcing Strategy development & implementation for following categories
• Sheet metal & Fine Blanking
• Investment castings
• Ferrous forgings
• Sub-assemblies
• Capacity augmentation and 5year Vendor planning
• Supplier Quality management
• APQP/PPAP

• Pioneer in setting up Sourcing & Procurement shared service center in 2015 involving 19 plants and 14 warehouses locations across the country
• Procurement for Direct & Indirect categories MRO, Hitech electronics, Facility, Capital & professional services categories having annualized spend of 400 Cr
• Significant Achievements
• 7M cost savings in FY 18 through identified Sourcing projects & Value Engineering
• Achieved 30% automation level of Procurement transactions & 98% SLA
• Procurement Process optimization through VA VE

• Global Procurement for a fortune 100 High tech Mining organization for their APAC, North America and EMEA Supply Chain operations
• Key Responsibilities:
• Delivery of Sourcing & Procurement services across various categories
• Vendor Management- Contract manufacturers, Suppliers & vendors
• Global Logistics category management for 4 global locations
• Significant Achievements
• Implemented Vendor Collaboration portal for efficient e Sourcing and Invoice processing
• 22% Transaction reduction due to PR to PO automation in 1-year time
• Implemented national logistics project for Australia operations by introducing a new Logistics 3PL service provider and delivering $ 6M annualized savings and 15% improvement in logistics performance.

Managing Sourcing and procurement of Sheet Metal, Fabrication & Forgings categories for Mahindra’s Swaraj Farm Equipment business with an annualized spend of $100M

• Significant Achievements
• Delivered an annualized savings of $1 M through spend consolidation and supplier development
• Sourcing of metallic commodities for new product launch of 50 HP tractor
• VA/VE implementation resulting in annualized savings of INR 300/Tractor
• Led key supplier development program (Forgings & Fabrication categories) enabling 35% capacity addition & quality improvement

• Global Procurement for Parts & Service vertical .Sourcing of Sheet Metal, Fabrication & Forgings categories for Europe operation equivalent to $100M spend
• Significant Achievements
• Developed new supplier base for responsible categories
• Delivered an annualized savings of $2 M through spend consolidation and supplier development

• Sourcing
• Managed of global sourcing of electromechanical products from India & South east asia with an annualized spend of $70M
• Significant Achievements
• Sourced global suppliers for plastic packaging category in China & Vietnam which delivered annualized savings of $ 2 M on a spend of $10 M
• Developed 2 contract manufacturers in India for Tyco Europe operations
• Program managed a $20 M sourcing projects in South East Asia for Valve actuator assembly that delivered $ 16M annualized savings for North America operations
• Set up of a supply chain for valve components for Australian operations from India & China suppliers

• Responsible for Purchasing & Supplier Quality of Steel, forging, Rubber & sheet metal categories for indigenous and export automotive passenger vehicles products
• Significant Achievements
• Sourced 6 different kinds rolled & peeled/ground steel bars under alternate supplier development due to increased capacity requirement
• Supplier quality improvement project implementation that resulting in 22% improvement in supply quality of key 25 suppliers

• Materials Managed Prototype Product developments which include Sheet Metal, Fabrication, Forgings & Gears categories for existing product improvements as well as new product launches

• Transmission Products localization project in year 2 that involved development of around 700+ transmission products from incumbent supply base in India.