Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Professional Highlights
Projects/ Technical Papers
Certification
Affiliations
Timeline
Generic

Kevin Kunnassery

Thane

Summary

A Supply Chain professional with 5+ years of experience in the industry with a successive track record in developing and implementing strategies to improve supply chain operations, reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction. My expertise includes supply chain planning, inventory management, logistics, and procurement. With a strong background in problem-solving and data-backed decision making, I am highly organized and detail-oriented. Passionate about sustainability, also an effective communicator and team player.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Supply Chain Manager

Cirkla Inc
Mumbai
02.2023 - Current
  • Setting up and implementing efficient sourcing strategies that align with the company goals.
  • Partnering with the top 5 molded fiber manufacturers in the world.
  • Managing cross-functional teams to maintain a robust supply chain, thus delivering on time with more than 90% of the projects.
  • Performing RCA and CAPA to resolve supply chain performance issues, thereby increasing the overall efficiency.
  • Choosing the right manufacturing partner, negotiating the best price, trade terms, payment terms, and lead time for every project.
  • Setting up strategic warehousing partners in the US, India.
  • Managing fulfillment - import/export shipments, cross-border shipments.

Senior Associate - Supply Chain

Zume India Private Limited
Mumbai
06.2020 - 01.2023
  • Handling Domestic & Global Sourcing with a spend ~ $6-7M/ year across 45-50 SKUs
  • Working with approximately 15 contract manufacturers and machine manufacturers in and across SE Asia.
  • Managing International Logistics (Imports & Exports) for APAC, EMEA & the US with a spend ~ $2-2.5M/year
  • Working with the Logistics and Warehousing team for Domestic Order Executions.
  • Involved in Inventory Management of 20 SKUs - Managing the Seller accounts on Amazon and Flipkart, ensuring all the SKUs never fall out of stock.
  • Analyzing the sales and net spend on Amazon and making multiple monthly reports for the higher management.
  • Working on Zoho CRM for inventory management, supply chain finance, procurement, etc.
  • Increasing profitability by 15-18% by managing proper contract negotiations and cost reductions.

Procurement Specialist

Bulk MRO Industrial Supplies Private Limited
Mumbai
05.2018 - 05.2020
  • Onboarded around 130 OEMs like Siemens, Schneider, ABB, Stanley, etc.
  • Catalog creation for the sales teams to approach new clients.
  • Contract negotiations and relationship management with the top OEMs.
  • Computed expenses of clients and offered savings of minimum 5% - 8% on their previous year's spend, thus signing yearly ARCs with them.
  • Executed the Vending Machine project with one of our clients in their shop floor in order to automate and track the exact usage of their high-consumption products, 12 SKUs.
  • Worked on multiple ERP software like SAP MM, SAP Ariba, and other in-house software like Magento and Sprint for procurement, accounting, supply chain ops, project management, and inventory management.
  • Handled logistics - Inwards/outwards, Imports/Exports for client with a spend of ~ ₹2.5M/month.

Fresher Engineer

Shivam Machine Tools
Thane
06.2017 - 04.2018
  • Assisted the Project Team with debugging in ongoing projects.
  • Maintained proper inventory data of the raw material in Excel, Google Sheets.
  • Handling QC of the raw materials and QA of the finished product.

Education

Mechanical Engineering -

Lokmanya Tilak College Of Engineering
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
05.2017

Skills

  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Process Improvement
  • Production Scheduling
  • Production Planning
  • International Logistics
  • Warehousing and Fulfillment
  • Program Management

Professional Highlights

  • Received an award at Bulk MRO in the year 2019-2020 for showcasing high levels of ownership.
  • Offered 5-8% savings on the yearly MRO budget to the clients via strategic sourcing techniques.
  • Negotiated ~ 18-20% discount from the CMs in Asia for a Multi-Million Dollar contract.
  • Executed the Vending Machine project with one of our clients in their shop floor in order to automate and track the exact usage of their high consumption products ~ 12 SKUs (First Time in India)

Projects/ Technical Papers

  • Experimental analysis of a helical coil heat exchanger using different compositions of Nano fluids - IJIERE
  • Analysis on emission characteristics of CI engine using Nano particles as fuel additives - IJLTET

Certification

  • Supply Chain Principles by Georgia Institute of Technology

Affiliations

  • Secured 1st position in the Sports Zephyr (football) competition held during 2015.
  • Active Member of the Cult Zephyr team in the publicity department in the year 2014.
  • Secured 1st position in the fashion show competition at JYF in the year 2017.
  • Played District Level Lawn Tennis Tournaments
  • Participated in Blood, Food Donation & cleaning Campaigns with multiple NGOs

Timeline

Supply Chain Manager

Cirkla Inc
02.2023 - Current

Senior Associate - Supply Chain

Zume India Private Limited
06.2020 - 01.2023

Procurement Specialist

Bulk MRO Industrial Supplies Private Limited
05.2018 - 05.2020

Fresher Engineer

Shivam Machine Tools
06.2017 - 04.2018

Mechanical Engineering -

Lokmanya Tilak College Of Engineering

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Kevin Kunnassery