LAVANYA YERRAMREDDY

Worked in Material planning & fulfillment team and handled Caterpillar's top strategic Suppliers (IECC, MSSL, Wheels India, KHI etc) along with the interplant facilities to fulfill the global parts supply.

Roles & responsibilities:

Key skills: Material planning, Expediting, Supplier management, Inventory optimization, dual sourcing, Logistic Operations, Master data validation, NPI projects, Lead time alignment.

• Accelerating parts supply from the suppliers to deliver service parts to the dealers across the globe.
• Releasing purchase orders, forecasts and schedules to suppliers and monitoring them on a day to day basis.
• Coordinating with suppliers for Sea and Air shipments and working with logistics partners for Air shipments approvals.
• Support critical NPI and CPI projects to meet project launch dates and providing them regular communications through inbound workload tool.
• Analyzing the bill of materials to decide the project launch dates (GW6 dates) and review the material need by dates.
• Monitor & work through schedule collaborations in MRC & ERP tools with suppliers to keep a track on current schedule to reduce past due schedules & improve shipping performance.
• Implementing risk mitigations plans through Control tower to recover the backlogs from supplier that has no line of sigh in the recovery.
• Represented my team in global review meetings & presented the team level overview of KPIs.
• Onboarded new suppliers and provided trainings to them as per the Caterpillar standards.
• Lead SPS (Supplier Performance standard) meetings with key suppliers to improve shipping performance & other core metrics.
• Order fulfillment: Monitoring dealer backorder, rate of fulfillment (Service fill rate, BO age & accuracy) & follow up with timely update to dealer through parts-viz tickets.
• De-expediting or expediting the schedules by reviewing the inventory levels & proactively expediting the parts that are anticipated with a good demand.
• Resolving the schedule and receipt discrepancies by coordinating with suppliers and inbound teams.
• Working with suppliers and category team to validate and align the master data parameters such as Lead time, MOQ & EOQ.
• Initiated & led projects related to process improvements that results in eliminating the duplicate follow ups.

Worked as a key account executive for the suppliers, GE Healthcare, and its subcons (SFO Technologies).

Roles & responsibilities included:

• Working on Monthly Budgets/sales/payments.
• Working on a low-level RFQ for fasteners.
• Processing orders, Quotations & forecasts through ERP, acknowledging to customer & ensuring Timely deliveries.
• Processing the Advance Shipment Notice & following up with customer to ensure on-time GRN.
• Addressing Quality concerns along with IQC Team.
• Working on Account Receivables to monitor the payment status against each invoice.
• Working on Credit note/Debit notes for the rejected parts.
• Providing RCCA & risk mitigation plans to assist in meeting the sales targets.
• Monitoring the delivery performance standards along with customers.
• Special project: Worked on a special project called ‘Smart Bins’ along with customer Ge healthcare to develop a logistics solution that automatically triggers the demand and indicate the customer for the
• Developed the time lines and forecasts as per the BOM and installed more than 350 bins specifically for the fast moving requirements of Ge healthcare.

Worked in sales department as a Technical internal sales engineer.

Roles & responsibilities :

• Processing customer RFQs , Purchase orders & providing timely acknowledgements.
• Updating material master data in SAP for the replaced part numbers as and when the effective in date of article is approached.
• Translating customer's requirements into technical solutions by analyzing the technical specifications & drawings provided by customer.
• Providing technical support to customers who walk into, for their requirements & converting their requirement into business by suggesting suitable alternate products
• Conducting analysis of client business processes and functional requirements.
• Reviewing the production order status of made to order cylinders and valves to update the status to customers.
• Providing Back office sales support to Over 150 Sales Engineers all over India with respect to Customer Enquires/Orders through SAP.