Naveen Kumar Marikuppam Kantharaja
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic procurement leader with extensive experience at Schneider Electric, excelling in risk management and supplier development. Proven track record in digitizing processes and enhancing supplier relations, achieving a 95% onboarding rate. Expertise in business continuity and data analytics drives impactful decision-making and operational excellence.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
GM Procurement: Supply Risk & Resilience Program
Schneider Electric
Bengaluru
01.2024 - Current
- Manage global external risk event alerts, addressing them with business continuity plans, with minimal or no impact on our company: alerts to actionable insights process through AI.
- Identified the external risk failure points beyond our suppliers by mapping sub-tier suppliers: over 1,600 Tier X suppliers mapped.
- Deploy the third-party risk partner, 'Resilinc,' by connecting the internal data (part, product, supplier, plants) with external risk assessments.
- Quarterly risk assessment of 14000+ suppliers with 9 risk criteria
- Create export control regulation and cyber security risk assessment process: automated third-party screening of suppliers on the E2Open platform, and take control measures.
GM Procurement: Digitizing P2P Process With SSPSCM
Schneider Electric
Bengaluru
05.2022 - 12.2023
- Managed the implementation of the digital procure-to-pay process with PP suppliers on the SupplyON platform (SSP SCM 2.0).
- Supplier onboarding and adaptation coverage improved from 51% of supplier spend to 95% of supplier spend by adding more than 10,000 supplier flows.
- Improve the user experience by collaborating with digital and planning stakeholders, and addressing data refresh issues with governance and animation.
- 100% strategic suppliers' digitization through Web EDI and full EDI modules, removing order management NVAs.
Global Program Manager Supplier Risk Management
Schneider Electric
Bengaluru
09.2020 - 04.2022
- Designed and deployed the Supplier risk management (9 Box matrix) process to assess the intrinsic and extrinsic risks and prioritize them based on their Business Impact (Revenue Impact , Time to Recover and market constraints)
- Set-up steer-co animation and process governance to enhance the risk management behavior among procurement teams
- Driven effective business continuity action plans by leading CFTs during global risk events threatening with supply chain disruptions like COVID-19, Geo political conflicts, Energy shortages, financial bankruptcies, etc
- Engaged with partners Everstream Anlytics, Ecovadis, BVD, etc., for Risk assessments
- Animating and Improving the risk mitigation actions plan with help of SRiM platform
Procurement Program Manager: SQ&L Development
Schneider Electric
Bengaluru
03.2017 - 08.2020
- Business process owner for Supplier delivery performance: Improving the OTDS/U-BOL in line with desired ambition
- Devised collaborative planning with critical EE suppliers to enhance the supplier relation and iron out the Demand-supply gaps
- Deployed process governance and escalation model for Global upstream material shortages (Top10 shortage management - DSR)
- Lead the procurement side recovery actions (BTN) for Top10 material shortages
Sr Manager SSCME - SQLD India Region
Schneider Electric
Bengaluru
01.2015 - 04.2017
- Lead the Supplier development in India region: Improve the Supplier relations
- Implemented FTWZ / VMI / Consignment / JIT (Opti flows) for supplier in India region to improve the cash flows for the Company: Improving cash by 50 million Euro
- VFAST Implementation for India providing Vendor forecast to Indian suppliers.:700 suppliers
Assistant Manager -SSCME: SQLD India Region
Schneider Electric
Bengaluru
11.2011 - 12.2014
- Lead the Supplier onboarding: SAM Supply chain modules to improve the process capability of suppliers > 100 assessments
- Lead lean with suppliers' program to improve productivity through reducing NVA in supplier process: Savings >20 million Euros
- Supply chain design for local upstream flows: Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru plant suppliers VMI / JIT / Milk run projects
- Lead time and MOQ optimization: Inventory reduction from 80+ days DIN to 59 days DIN
Sr. Engineer: Corporate Coordination for BPS
Bosch
Bengaluru
10.2005 - 10.2011
- Bosch Production system (Lean) implementation in Bosch plants in India
- Companywide promotion of BPS with communication through newsletters and hardware necessary for transformation
- Lead BPS trainings in India & Asia pacific factories of Bosch
Education
MBA - Operations Management
IMT
Ghaziabad, India01.2019
BE - Industrial Engineering & Management
RVCE
Bengaluru, India01.2004
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
Govt Polytechnic College
Tumkūr, India01.2000
Skills
- Electrifier (SME) for upstream risk & resilience
- Edison (SME) in Material Planning and Replenishment
- Sub-tier supplier transparency
- Business Data Analytics
- Digitizing user experience (P2P)
- Lean, Agile, Six Sigma
- Supplier development (SRM)
- Program management of upstream, transversal projects
- Supplier relationship management
- Supplier agreements and contracts
- Supply chain optimization
- Business continuity
- Risk management
Accomplishments
- Implemented world-class benchmarking, supply risk, and resilience process, creating a competitive advantage for Schneider Electric
- Saved potential of over 5 billion euros in revenue impact on our supply chain by driving a robust business continuity plan for unpredictable global risk events
- Improved upstream Supply chain efficiency by digitizing procure to pay process with suppliers. +10,000 suppliers onboarded, improving user experience
- Mastered material shortage recovery, addressing the Global Top 10 material shortages, and saved potential line-down possibilities for more than 50 shortage events
- Improved the cash by implementing VMI, JIT, consignment stocks, and lean suppliers' programs, saving more than 100 million euros
- Enhanced supplier relations with critical electronics supply chain (Semiconductors) with Co-planning and supplier delivery performance improving the OTD to 100%.
- Deployed optimized upstream supply chain design by enabling the right supply partners with robust 200+ supplier initial assessments and various supplier development projects
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
GM Procurement: Supply Risk & Resilience Program
Schneider Electric
01.2024 - Current
GM Procurement: Digitizing P2P Process With SSPSCM
Schneider Electric
05.2022 - 12.2023
Global Program Manager Supplier Risk Management
Schneider Electric
09.2020 - 04.2022
Procurement Program Manager: SQ&L Development
Schneider Electric
03.2017 - 08.2020
Sr Manager SSCME - SQLD India Region
Schneider Electric
01.2015 - 04.2017
Assistant Manager -SSCME: SQLD India Region
Schneider Electric
11.2011 - 12.2014
Sr. Engineer: Corporate Coordination for BPS
Bosch
10.2005 - 10.2011
MBA - Operations Management
IMT
BE - Industrial Engineering & Management
RVCE
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
Govt Polytechnic College
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