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Praveenraj Jayakumar

Chennai

Summary

Seasoned SCM professional possessing comprehensive experience in supply chain management, logistics coordination, and procurement strategies. Demonstrates strong leadership skills with the ability to manage cross-functional teams and implement operational improvements. Known for analytical abilities, strategic planning, and proven success in optimizing efficiency within previous roles. Recent graduate with excellent research, technical, and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented and able to learn new concepts quickly. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Manger - SCM Domain Expert

HCLTech
Chennai
05.2023 - Current

Domain Expert Planning

- Conducted research into potential new suppliers or alternative sourcing strategies.

-Bring Domain expertise in fulfillment of SCM projects
- Ensure selection, design and deployment of the right SCM solutions & products
- Define appropriate solution design across the entire Order to Cash (O2C) cycle
- Design & develop Process Templates across O2C environment
- Proactively anticipate, understand future supply chain specific needs of organization
- Define and select appropriate digital tools to improve the SCM efficiency in the organization
- Assist in building roadmaps for creating advanced solutions in SCM area with the SME
- Ensure faster execution schedules & enable quicker / smooth adoption
- Ensure Audit compliance

Strategy and Planning:

Define Selection criteria for SCM solutions & create a mid-term / short term execution plan.

Provide domain expertise to define/ design and develop process designs / templates.
Define suitable solutions to improve efficiency and productivity
Define and deploy solution which will enable quicker receipts, handling and dispatch of various goods
Participate & Guide in Critical Process Discussions, Integration aspects with Business
Identify opportunities to digitize the existing processes, deploy latest industry 4.0 solutions
Identify optimization tools to improve SCM processes
Participate in Special Interest Groups in India and abroad to remain abreast of the latest technology.

Project Execution:

Provide domain expertise to the project manager in creating a Project Charter / plan
Successful execution of SCM projects undertaken by this role
Interact with business stakeholders to finalize process design
Ensure process quality in SCM .

Adopt / tweak Best Practice Process Libraries
Adopt Industry 4.0 solutions like OR based optimizers, linear programs, algorithms and other digital / automation tools .

Relationship Management:
Liaison with other domain experts / project managers / stake holders
Influence and Inform key project sponsors and stakeholders on new process designs & overall SCM processes
Engage with SCM experts / forums like SIG (Special Interest Groups)

People Management & Budgeting:
Responsible for aligning overall team resources / business teams in standardization & implementation of processes
Provide inputs to SME towards budgeting of new solutions / products / processes.

MANDATORY- KRA's and Key Activities
1. Design & develop Process Templates across common business processes
2. Ensure faster execution schedules & enable quicker / smooth adoption
3. Coordinate with Solution Architect / SME & COE Head - to ensure the decisions are in line with defined Enterprise Architecture designs

Assistant Manager/Deliver Lead Europe & Middle East

Wipro LTD
Chennai
06.2021 - 04.2023
  • Leading & owning Europe & Middle East countries with 150+ members team .
  • • Responsible O2C , delivery & transformation of EMEA region. Proven track record of driving transformation continues process improvement using Six sigma , IPA , win shuttle & Smart script . • Responsible Wkly monthly , quarter performance discussion with customer stack holders . • • Order to cash End to End Activities for Approx. 7B$ in a year. Responsible for driving continues process improvements , Six sigma , RPA , Win shuttle . • Maintaining daily, weekly, monthly and Quarterly reports in PBI , HERA & Spot fire. • Achieved 60 % of transformation efficiently using techno levers such has RPA , CRPA , platform & tools . • Successfully transition remote working plan to manage business continuity plan . • Process standardized & harmonized to gain 30 % operating benefits . • • Solution design on new projects . Bulk request added in Customer commercial catalog codes for trouble free ordering it helps to save 30 minutes reducing in order creation platform . • Operating Caumunda & Base))) work flow tool to check daily backlog & KPI details .

Operations Lead

Wipro LTD
Chennai
05.2016 - 06.2021
  • Team Lead for Europe & Middle east countries . Responsible in statistical base forecasting, scheduling, presentations, negotiations, •• Collaboration, and team leadership. Presenting the root cause analysis to accelerate the resolution of issues. • Arrange internal team pre-shift huddle to update pending work status and to plan for the day. • Daily, Weekly, Monthly calls with Clients to update the order status and to understand their concerns and feedback. • Coordinate with Internal Business Partner (requestor) for Purchase Order/BOM Changes. • Check for the Material availability in the system and follow up for the delivery plan. • Tracking the day-to-day orders and Chasing the HWSC team for the • • Delivery plans to meet the Customer request delivery date. In addition, follow up with Logistics activity and the Invoice creation

Order Management - Subject Matter Expert

Wipro LTD
Chennai
08.2012 - 05.2016
  • Order Planning, Order Processing, & Order management End to End Activities for 8 EMEA Countries . 2. Completion of orders in the stipulated Turnaround time and Audit on orders completed at same TAT. Presenting the root cause analysis to accelerate the resolution of issues. 3. Tracking new learnings and sharing the info among the team using 4. SOPs, 5. Prioritize the work for team.

Process Specialist

Intech Systems Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2009 - 06.2012
  • Sourcing of vendors, scrutinize quotations, Negotiation, Settlement of price. • Received and analyzed the requisitions for purchase of materials, • supplies and equipment's. Preparation of Purchase order and Price • Comparative statements. Co-ordination with vendor / Q.C on new developments, minimizing waste and cost reduction. Requests and analyzes quotations and determines the most suitable vendors. • Approving daily purchase orders, agreements, work orders and service entries from different departments in the company's system Invoicing & billing, filing as per ISO requirements .

Education

Electronics and Communication Engineering -

Anna University

Skills

  • Cost Reduction
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • Demand forecasting
  • Six Sigma Methodologies
  • Transportation Management
  • Operations Management
  • Logistics Management
  • Warehouse Management
  • Supply chain distribution
  • Financing structures
  • Expense Control
  • Production Planning
  • Due Diligence and Data Analysis
  • L1 , L2 , L3 & L4 Process mapping
  • Process mining using Celonis and IBM Blue works

Accomplishments

  • Successfully completed knowledge transfer for Europe & Middle east markets and gave guidance to the team members for new process, and go-live the process in very short period of within 30 days.
  • Maintained 8 quarters 98.50% KPI with 99.90% quality target for 32 countries.
  • For effective error free processing and to reduce turn around time on order processing, Blue Prism - Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA) added for process improvements.
  • Developed Power BI, HERA, Spot fire reports developed for hassle free reports for prompt status on E2E operations.
  • Minimize order-processing time using automation techniques and reduced FT for profitable operations.
  • Improved process margin to 5% to 17% with two quarters for profitable business.
  • Maintained 6.5 Customer stratification score for three consecutive years.
  • Reduced Dead on arrival from 20 million to 75k Euro in one quarter.
  • Standard templates on order creation input added for automation development helps to reduce the TAT of Order creation and backlogs from one day to 4 hrs.

Personal Information

Nationality: Indian

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Proficient (C2)
C2

Timeline

Manger - SCM Domain Expert

HCLTech
05.2023 - Current

Assistant Manager/Deliver Lead Europe & Middle East

Wipro LTD
06.2021 - 04.2023

Operations Lead

Wipro LTD
05.2016 - 06.2021

Order Management - Subject Matter Expert

Wipro LTD
08.2012 - 05.2016

Process Specialist

Intech Systems Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 06.2012

Electronics and Communication Engineering -

Anna University
Praveenraj Jayakumar