Pudipeddi Ramya

• Led the central procurement service team across Jindal Stainless plants situated in Odisha, Haryana, West Bengal, and Delhi. Pioneered the creation and execution of the Ariba SAP online procurement portal. Cultivated relationships with new vendors, resulting in substantial cost savings of 5.6 crore rupees in a single project. Utilized robust analytical, negotiation, and problem-solving skills to address commercial challenges effectively and have overseen contracts with annual spend basis of 180 cr.
• Accomplishments-
• Competent & Diligent Material Management professional with 4.8 years of continued career experience in Stainless steel Industry .
• Familiar with all the functional activities related to Strategic sourcing, Planning, Inventory Control, Contracts Management, Data Analysis, Logistics, Supply Chain Management & Vendor development in large-scale project/manufacturing industries.
• Technically competent in applications like SAP MM, SAP-SRM, E-Procurement, Reverse Auctioning, and Ariba
• Contract Management-
• Framing contract baselines; monitoring & controlling contracts with respect to cost, resource deployment, time overruns and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution of projects.
• Coordinating with vendors, OEMs and other external agencies for techno-commercial negotiations, preparation of tender / contract documents, cost estimates, including billing, variation / deviation proposals and claims.
• Developing costing structure and pricing models for the business.
• Finalizing the contracts of various services of equipment, manpower and activities through tendering, reverse auctioning with the compliance fulfilment.
• Proven ability to execute multiple AMCs & ARCs (Annual Rate/Maintenance Contracts) of Mechanical & electrical , raw material, consumables, machinery, services by consolidating requirements of various areas & delivering the services in desired & time bound manner.
• Consumables Procurement-
• Involved in procurements of consumables like chemicals, Steels, Pipes, Fittings etc.
• Establishing LCs and process other financial documents.
• Planning and monitoring of industrial chemicals with respect to consumption pattern and procure as per forecasting to avoid any stock out scenario.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Strategic spend analysis and management:
• Setting up budget targets for the commercial and purchase department in close coordination with the sales and planning department.
• Developing strategy, KPI, and follow-up plans for contracts facilitating efficient and cost-effective execution.

Contract management:

• Understanding the scopes and deliverables of the contract to frame a strategy for contract finalization.
• Developing clean sheet costing to derive the price reference and accordingly developing strategies to ensure contracts are awarded to competent vendors at bare minimum prices.
• Understanding the nitty-gritty of contract performance management through systematic and balance scorecard mechanisms.
• Understanding of related compliance frameworks.

Process improvement, IT-enabled system development, and training:

• Utilizing E Auctions as a tool to reduce cost and increase transparency.
• Good knowledge of SAP, SAP SRM, and Ariba E Sourcing.

Vendor Management:

• Managing Contracts & Work-Orders for suppliers, service providers & logistics partners.
• Providing strategic inputs for vendor selection and vendor negotiation
• Periodically reviewing relative performance of vendors on agreed Service level agreements in order to improve competitiveness.