JITHIN VAPPALA

• Supervised 9 staff members tasked with handling materials management, planning, purchasing, and customer service duties.
• Collaborated with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, ensuring inventory integrity targets for finished goods.
• Established inventory targets, stock level, and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
• Streamlined shipping and receiving operations to reduce errors and improve customer satisfaction.
• Oversaw demand planning, purchasing, and logistics.
• Integrated financial and operation plans with strategic objectives to deliver improved operational and financial results to boost customer satisfaction, profitability, and working capital.
• Built supplier relationships to mitigate risk and establish effective purchasing arrangements with indirect and logistics customers.

• Conducted spend analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Evaluated supplier quotes based on purchasing procedures and competitiveness in quality, price and delivery.
• Negotiated complex corporate procurement contracts by working closely with internal and external contacts.
• Resolved invoice and payment issues to facilitate prompt payment to suppliers.
• Developed and implemented procurement policies and procedures to enhance compliance with company standards.
• Negotiated contracts with suppliers to obtain favorable terms and pricing.
• Prepared and presented reports to management on purchasing trends and cost savings to aid in decision making.
• Negotiated pricing and terms with vendors to secure best value for company.
• Identified opportunities to reduce lead times and improve inventory management.
• Reduced costs by streamlining contract bidding and procurement processes to assure best prices for materials and services.
• Researched and evaluated potential suppliers to determine best fits for company needs and to identify cost savings opportunities.

· Demonstrated strong management skills in administering a team of 8 Officers in a Matrix organization.

· Devise and employ fruitful sourcing strategies

· Finalize & Approve the ordering of goods, services & deliveries

· Examine and re-evaluate existing contracts

· Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness

· Controls spend and build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs.

· Planning and budgeting of purchase functions, involving cost estimation, contract negotiations.

· Ensure a strict adherence to the company financial and system procedures.

· Developing new vendors & Vendor Evaluation, Managing Vendor Payments.

· Implementing systems to avoid situations like over-stocking or out-of-stock which cause production and financial losses.

· Liaison with finance department for timely payment of bills.

· Ensuring that the staff executes on delivering consistent high quality level service and customer satisfaction; and achieves a cost efficient operations in compliance with company policies and procedures, ISO standards and other regulatory guidelines.

· Analysed & Defined the MIS reporting needs to identify trends and opportunities for improvement in business process.

· Have successfully negotiated barter payment terms and have procured material worth 4.76 Crores on a barter basis.

· Increased the number of manpower for fabrication by introducing organisation of high repute which in turn has increased the production revenues and profits of the organization

· Successfully saved Rs. 1.6 cr. through e-bidding/Rate Contracts/Vendor Development per year.

· Recognised as executive of the month for performance excellence twice.

· Process purchase requisitions / orders within purchasing authority including preparation of enquiry documents

for items like Paints, Welding consumables, Steel Structures ISMB, Angles ,Channels, Strips, Joists, Hollow sections, Colour Coated sheets from national and international market Invite, assess, and award/recommend supplier tenders, bids, quotations, and proposals

· Prepare and maintain purchasing records, reports and price lists

· Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine procurement needs, quality, and delivery requirements

· Administer supply performance, including delivery, receipt, warranty, damages and insurance

· Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with colleagues and management

· SAP Master Data Management

· Developed system generated Vendor Rating report on three parameters of Quality, Cost & Delivery.

· Involved in Project for material codification to comply with ISO 8000.Cordinating the entire project activities right from selection of correct consultant to the delivery of final product.

· Active member of SAP MM module implementation with IBM (Cut over Data Preparation & Material Master Uploading.)

· Actively participated in setting up a new procurement team & ensuring the procurement as per company policies.

· Successfully saved Rs. 96 lacs. through e-bidding/Rate Contracts/Vendor Development per year.

· Actively participated in setting up a new procurement team & ensuring the procurement as per company policies.

· SAP MM module implementation with IBM as implementing partner(Locations Raigarh & Raipur C.G. Barbil-Odisha)

· Successfully implemented the MDRM tool