Praveen Pulpatta

Departments

• 1. Purchasing
• 2. Material Costing
• 3. Accounts Payables

Achievements

• 1. Won Employee Excellence Award eight times.
• 2. Special Award from the CEO for demonstrating high scale of performance in clearing some of the long pending customer issues and helping to clear some of the critical payments.
• 3. Rated as the top achiever in the year 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 & 2024.
• 4. Also won Innovation Excellence Award during 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019 & 2022.
• 5. Functional excellence awards during 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2024 for the quality of the service provided to the vendors.

Job Profile:

Purchasing (2007-2009):

• A) Creation of purchase orders.
• B) Negotiating with suppliers.
• C) Issuing quotes to supplier and ensuring the price quoted are as per the agreements/ contracts.
• D) Reviewing the stability of supplier by reviewing their yearly balance sheet.
• E) Follow up with the release engineers to check firm up price for every design change.
• F) Reporting to top management on the performance of suppliers.

Material Cost Analysis (2009-2011)

• A) Clearing issues after regular meetings with the plant coordinator’s and help them to resolve the pricing issues.
• B) Identifying, Reviewing and Approving the Material cost variances due to Design and Non Design Changes and reporting major weaknesses to the Management.
• C) Conducting the Price Variance Audits to ensure correct flow of prices across all design changes.

Accounts Payables (2011-Till date)

• A) Approving payments for local as well as international suppliers.
• B) Resolving the payment issues of the supplier, which includes reissuing of the cheques, checking the debits and credits that reflect the supplier’s accounts.
• C) Conducting the Risk Based Audit in Payment process.
• D) Review of the payment proposal to the vendors matching the Purchase Orders, Goods Receipt and Invoice.
• E) Approving the banking details and ensuring that the payments are made to the correct accounts of the suppliers.
• F) Ensuring compliance of internal controls within the company.
• G) Liaison with the external Auditors and ensure timely completion of the Year end audit, ISO & GAO Audit.
• H) Training the employees in the areas of payment activities.
• I) Regular operational discussions with the Purchasing team to improve the payout time.
• J) Monitoring all incasso payments ( Legal Charges )
• K) Ensuring the operational management in complying the Companies policies and procedures.
• L) Coordinating and provide reports and backup documents for Statutory audits.
• M) Review and approval of Subledgers, General ledgers and Journal for every month
• N) Have worked on the automation tools like Alteryx and Qlick Sence.
• O) Analysis and clearance of suspended items.
• P) Providing monthly quarterly reports to the senior management to assist in decision making process.
• Q) Subject Matter Expert In Ariba.
• R) Launched S4 Hana in various markets.

Leadership Journey:

• A) Lead role in Purchasing handling 3 team members – Part Tracker Development is the key project undertaken.
• B) Coordinator in Material Cost Analysis – 7 team members mapped and establishing an automated audit process through Macro and Alteryx being the key initiative.
• C) Payables – Senior Supervisor / Deputy Manger Role – Handling 20 people at diverse locations and languages. Launching of Ariba and S4 Hana being the key achievements.