Resilinc / Everstream / BVD / Z2
Naveen Kumar Marikuppam Kantharaja
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic leader with extensive experience in supply chain risk and resilience at Schneider Electric. Excelled in crisis management, achieving 95% supplier P2P digitization, mastered in vendor development and creating resilient upstream supply chains by mapping over critical 1600 sub-tier suppliers in Electronics components market. Skilled in program management and business analytics, adept at driving significant improvements in upstream supply chain efficiency and resiliency.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
GM Procurement : Supply Risk & Resilience Program
Schneider Electric
01.2024 - Current
- Managed company wide external Risk event alerts 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: >1600 TierX Suppliers mapped
- Deploy the 3rd party risk partner 'Resilinc' by connecting the internal data (part/Product/Supplier/plants) with external risk assessments. : Qtrly risk assessment of 14000+ suppliers with 9 risk criteria.
- Create Export control regulation and cyber security risk assessment process : Automated 3rd Party screening of Suppliers on E2Open platform and take control measures.
GM Procurement: Digitizing P2P Process With SSPSCM
Schneider Electric
05.2022 - 12.2023
- Managed the implementation of digital Procure to pay process with PP Suppliers on SupplyON platform (SSP SCM 2.0)
- Supplier onboarding and adaption coverage improved from 51% supplier spend to 95% supplier spend by adding >10000 supplier flows.
- Improve the user experience by collaborating with Digital and planning stake holders 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
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
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
01.2015 - 04.2017
- Lead the Supplier development in India region
- Implemented FTWZ / VMI / Consignment / JIT (Opti flows) for supplier in India region to improve the cash flows for the Company
- VFAST Implementation for India providing Vendor forecast to Indian suppliers.
Assistant Manager -SSCME : SQLD India Region
Schneider Electric
11.2011 - 12.2014
- Lead the Supplier onboarding : SAM Supply chain modules to improve the process capability of suppliers
- Lead lean with suppliers program to improve productivity through reducing NVA in supplier process.
- supply chain design for local upstream flows
- Lead time and MOQ optimization
Sr. Engineer : Corporate Coordination for BPS
Bosch
10.2005 - 10.2011
- support Bosch Production system (Lean) implementation in Bosch plants in India
- Company wide promote BPS with communication through newsletters and hardware necessary for transformation
- Lead BPS trainings in India & Asia pacific factories of Bosch
Education
MBA - Operations Management
Institute of Management Technology (IMT)
Ghaziabad, India12-2019
Bachelor in Engineering - Industrial Engineering & Management
R V College of Engineering
Bengaluru, India06-2004
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
Govt Polytechnic College
Tumkūr, IndiaSkills
- Supply Resilience
- Planning & Material Replenishment
- Crisis management (BCP)
- Sub tier supply mapping
- Business Data Analytics
- Digitizing Procure to Pay process
- Lean /Agile Six sigma supply chains
- Supplier development
- Program Management
- Procurement Strategy and transformation
- Supplier relationship management
- Supplier agreements and Contracts
Software
SupplyON / One MM / Kinaxis
Excel /Tableau / Power Builder
PRISM / PDM CSM / I-nego/ SSP SRM
Accomplishments
- Implemented worldclass upstream Risk & Resilience process, which won many awards & recognitions
- Incumbent Asia pacific Procurement Leaders Award
- Special mention for Anti fragile supply chain in Gartners Supply Chain Top1 for 2 consecutive years (2023 & 2024)
- Strong contender and finalist in World Procurement Leaders Award for Risk & Resilience category
- Lead cross functional efforts on resolving unpredicted supply chain disruptive events like Electronics market supply constraints, Russia-Ukraine conflict, Middle east Geo political issues, massive earthquakes in Taiwan & Japan and other Natural events without impact on our Business, (saving ~5 Billion Euro revenue impact).
- Digitized procure to pay process to improve user experience and reduce NVA of upstream supply chain by with on boarding >10000 suppliers, spend of 10 Billion Euro.
- Impacted cash component with VMI, JIT, Consignment, Lean implementation with suppliers cost savings >50 Million Euro
- Improved supplier relations by implementing Co Planning with Semiconductor suppliers and critical material shortage management with Top spend suppliers globally
- Impacted customer satisfaction with vendor development projects globally and regionally.
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
Institute of Management Technology (IMT)
Bachelor in Engineering - Industrial Engineering & Management
R V College of Engineering
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
Govt Polytechnic College
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