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Monish Kumar S

Monish Kumar S

Specialist Buyer/Planner at Merck KGaA
Bengaluru

Summary

Dedicated and result driven Buyer/Planner with a proven track record of excellence in procurement and supply chain management. I bring extensive experience on optimizing deliverables and vendor management, also with expert knowledge on data analytics I can bring strategic decisions on complex business requirement.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Specialist Buyer/Planner

Merck KGaA
Bengaluru
04.2025 - Current
  • Handling high selling SKUs with top spending vendor management.
  • Subject matter expert in Integrated supply chain operations.
  • Part of GBS documentation transition after business merger.
  • High Potential Candidate at Bangalore Hub

Senior Buyer/Planner

Merck KGaA
Bengaluru
04.2023 - 03.2025
  • End to End Purchasing
  • Production Planning SME – Microsoft Power BI
  • Yellow Belt: Kaizen Guru
  • LT adherence improvement on production work centres also by optimizing man hours of approx. 400hrs which equates to approx. 16 days in a year.
  • Over 20 plus Kaizen implemented in 2023 by which consists of time optimizing and new technology adaptation.

Buyer/Planner

Merck KGaA
Bengaluru
08.2021 - 03.2023
  • Production Planning
  • Responsible for maintaining the site metrics of Scotland
  • Efficiently planning raw materials for SLS production and maintaining a reliable forecast using advanced Power BI DAX structure
  • Was responsible in transitioning different site level tasks and ensuring smooth flow
  • Created various dashboards on Power BI with advanced DAX structure for high level and efficient insights
  • Created multiple Automation on different platforms in optimising time and efficiency

Big Data Engineer

Merck KGaA
Bengaluru
09.2020 - 07.2021
  • Company Overview: Quality services, Marketing operations, Product data management
  • Quality services, Marketing operations, Product data management

Apprentice Engineer

BEML Limited
12.2018 - 12.2019
  • Production Control
  • Bogie manufacturing and raw material supply control
  • Projects handled: BMRCL, KMRCL, Indian railways
  • 100% OTD of all the critical parts for timely completion of various projects
  • Responsible to closely monitor the shortage of raw materials and address it to higher Tiers
  • Rewarded for the best trainee on production control floor for Bogie manufacturing during the tenure

Intern

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
07.2017 - 09.2017
  • Manufacturing
  • Highlight your accomplishments, using numbers if possible.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE - Mechanical Engineering

Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology
01.2014 - 01.2018

Pre-University - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology

St Joseph's University
01.2012 - 01.2014

Skills

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Advanced DAX Power BI

Power BI Advanced

Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power Application Developer

SAP PP – Production Planning

SAP MM - Material Management

Power Automate

Training

  • Ansys
  • AutoCAD
  • Catia
  • Creo
  • Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
  • SAP


Awards

  • Kaizen Guru
  • High Potential Candidate
  • Individual Excellence - Platinum 2024
  • Pinnacle performer - Gold 2023
  • Team Impact awards & Spot Awards
  • Best project in R&D, Mechanical Engineering Dept.


Projects

Control Tower :

  • Powerful report and dashboard with high insights on production and routing activities.
    Step on time, LT adherence, Average step LT, Reprocess lots, failures, etc
    are the important factors/outcomes of this project. Named JPOP this is the
    best tool the site has and is very useful on all aspects by making 150 and
    above employees on Jaffrey USA to use it on daily basis.
  • Improved Leadtime and Quality

Yellow Belt :

  • Leadtime adherence improvement on production work centres. Optimized man hours with a reduction of ~400hrs which equates to ~16 Days in a year.

Creative services - Shadow to grow

  • Shadowing creative services and created posters, banners and presentations with UI/UX designing.

Capacity Utilization tracker for Employees

  • PowerApps implementation on capacity capturing of employees using advanced Power structures.

Power BI Dashboards : KPI Metrics for Bangalore Hub and Global Sites, Control tower for supply chain.

Power Automate & Power Apps : Integrated center of excellence to single platform for various business solutions.

Timeline

Specialist Buyer/Planner

Merck KGaA
04.2025 - Current

Senior Buyer/Planner

Merck KGaA
04.2023 - 03.2025

Buyer/Planner

Merck KGaA
08.2021 - 03.2023

Big Data Engineer

Merck KGaA
09.2020 - 07.2021

Apprentice Engineer

BEML Limited
12.2018 - 12.2019

Intern

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
07.2017 - 09.2017

Bachelor of Engineering - BE - Mechanical Engineering

Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology
01.2014 - 01.2018

Pre-University - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology

St Joseph's University
01.2012 - 01.2014
Monish Kumar SSpecialist Buyer/Planner at Merck KGaA