Keerti
Senior Associate Engineer – Supply Chain Management
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced Analyst with 6 years in supply chain, quality management, and data analysis. Well-versed in working with global suppliers and understanding commodity trends to support business goals. Strong problem-solver with a practical approach to improving efficiency and ensuring quality standards. Builds positive relationships with stakeholders and communicates effectively across teams.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Associate Engineer
Collins Aerospace
07.2023 - Current
- Executes process, standards, and operational plans in support of the Procurement goals, including RFPs, negotiations, cost accountability, and program execution
- Approve and qualify vendors to fulfill account needs.
- Responds to client issues or problems.
- Authorize purchase orders and approve payments to ensure the procurement process goes smoothly.
- Analyzes and reviews price proposals, financial reports and other data and information to provide input on reasonable prices.
- Prepare and reviews request for proposals (RFP) and bid packages.
- Manage a category of suppliers and associated spend.
- Interact with suppliers to communicate delivery exceptions, forecasts, design changes, leadtime management and material expedites or delay to ensure suppliers meet supplier On Time Delivery (OTD) Goals.
- Drive cost reduction and cost avoidance opportunities.
- Involved with strategic sourcing team to align negotiations, new supplier selection and supply chain strategy.
- Review Purchase requisitions, place purchase orders, issue change notices, review exception messages to ensure delivery of materials or services as necessary to adhere to production schedules.
- Maintain material master records for assigned materials, source lists, and promptly reconcile supplier invoices for payments.
- Review part consumption characteristics to ensure appropriate planning parameters are maintained.
- Review and maintain internal/external vendor manages programs, direct ship program, schedule agreements & blanker orders.
- Proactively avoid material shortage and Expedite part shortage.
- Work cross functionally to resolve complaints and clear blocks, trouble shoot.
- Coordinate with suppliers on return to vendor ( RTV).
Purchasing Associate
Volvo Group India Pvt Ltd
07.2021 - 06.2023
- Identify the right potential suppliers based on the project requirements.
- RFQ Management by sending out RFQ’s to Suppliers and follow up for same.
- Review the quotes and lead all the techno-Commercial Negotiations.
- Cross-Communications with suppliers and Designer on RFQ Requirement and Quote Feedbacks.
- Procuring especially for the Spare Parts commodities with facing the challenges of vehicle off road and negotiating with supplier for few quantities w.r.t higher price.
- Business case preparation based on analysis of quotations, tooling and Part price breakdown.
- Negotiate with suppliers based on price and other criteria.
- Represent Purchasing team in various cross functional and management forum to present the project status.
- Identify the cost saving areas in supplier process and lead discussion with internal stakeholders.
- Ensured implementation of prices on regular annual basis as per contract.
- Perform daily purchasing activities for placing Pre-production approval process (PPAP) order and getting the part validated from Supplier Quality Engineer.
- Placing new purchase order for start of serial production.
- Performing Spend Analysis, Volume Trend Analysis and Part price Evolution.
- Working on closely with Payments team to solve any price blocks from supplier.
- Working with inhouse Automation team to Automate the various recurring activities as well involved in Value stream Mapping.
Quality Engineer
Protectron Electromech Pvt. Ltd
07.2019 - 07.2021
- Incoming, in process and final inspection and approval.
- Manage all quality related NCs within the manufacturing team – internal, supplier, customer.
- Identify root cause & implement permanent corrective action for quality issues addressed by customers.
- Support and instruct as needed to quality inspectors.
- Conducted supplier and internal audit for IMS (ISO 9001:2015, IATF & EMS) and participated in certification audit.
- Ensure the compliance & assist with adherence to IMS.
- Calibrate in multiple parameters in line with equipment use & prepare reports as required.
- Organize service schedules.
- Work with internal teams to increase customer satisfaction by improving the quality of product.
QMS Consultant
Zero Defect Consultants
10.2018 - 06.2019
- Develop, implement, and maintain quality manuals, quality systems procedures in compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Apply corrective and preventive measure to streamlining organization process.
- Develop and maintain cross functional relationships across the departments.
- Review policies and procedures and make changes as necessary.
- Evaluate quality and overall efficiency in coordination with managers of departments.
- Provided support in establishing and putting in use continuous improvement programs.
Education
B.E - Industrial and production Engineering
PDA College of Engineering
Kalaburgi, KarnatakaSkills
Supply Chain Planning & Strategy
Inventory & Warehouse Management
Procurement & Vendor Management
Logistics & Transportation Coordination
ERP & SCM Systems (SAP)
Data Analysis & Forecasting (Excel)
Cross-functional Collaboration & Communication
Project & Stakeholder Management
Accomplishments
- Recipient of CORE Qualification Award in recognition of strong performance and continuous improvement.
- Contributed to record-breaking sales of $4.5M through effective collaboration and cross-functional teamwork.
- Received Global Recognition for successfully managing critical suppliers in the Europe region and taking on additional high-risk suppliers to enhance material availability and improve performance.
- Honored for diligent monitoring of supply chain metrics, including PR-to-PO cycle time, MFI count reduction, and improving 90-day material visibility.
- Recognized for coordinating and expediting parts to support PSU production, consistently showing strong teamwork and ownership.
Timeline
Senior Associate Engineer
Collins Aerospace
07.2023 - Current
Purchasing Associate
Volvo Group India Pvt Ltd
07.2021 - 06.2023
Quality Engineer
Protectron Electromech Pvt. Ltd
07.2019 - 07.2021
QMS Consultant
Zero Defect Consultants
10.2018 - 06.2019
B.E - Industrial and production Engineering
PDA College of Engineering
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