Rahul Patwardhan

Motivated and resourceful Supply Chain Specialist with over 18 years of expertise managing customs compliance, inventory control, customer service and transportation logistics. Meticulous team player focused on developing and implementing process controls and quality improvement initiatives that reduce costs and increase company revenue. Reliable and dedicated leader seeking to leverage strong background into a buyer, planner or supply chain role with progressive organization.

• Purchasing
• Sourcing
• Customer Service Operations
• Process Management
• Sales Coordination
• Logistics
• Marketing Coordination
• Supply Chain Management

Brady Company India Private Lts, Manager Supply Chain, 04/11

• Providing sales / order processing support through SAP to the customers and resolving client queries & issues; building relationship with clients involving follow up for approvals & payments.
• Checking the outstanding of the customers before processing the order, basis which management decides on the supplies.
• Co-ordinating with supporting staff for better productivity & understanding.

Facilitating monthly weekly reports on sales, inventory, vendor evaluation, Localisation initivative,material savings, new projects etc

• Supervising weekly material planning and ensuring Inventory levels are under control.
• Functioning as an interface between the Buyer and Vendors to ensure that the production schedule is met and facilitate on time seamless delivery of shipments.
• Maintaining commercial operations viz. supplier payable management, follow-up for on time payments, conflict management, records of valid quotes. Creation of material codes in SAP, maintenance of material data and material price in the operating system.
• New Product Development as per client requirement.

• Handling planning book, capacities & Prod. Planning.
• Can create characteristics combination. Activate/de-activate it.
• Maintain endhor, allocation qty’s and all other activities related to APO.

• Monitoring order income, order cancellations on daily basis and accordingly communicating to sales and marketing in case of any deviation.
• Production planning on weekly basis depending upon the customer orders and raw material availability.
• Balancing of production capacities in system so as to ensure uniform lead times to customers in different regions. While doing this it is ensured that production will not be overloaded.
• Co-coordinating with production for uniform loading and have implemented a tool named box-planning to avoid frequent changeovers on machines. This has helped production to have smooth flow of production orders and also helped in reduction of WIP.
• Circulation of non-moving finished good stocks to sales and getting orders for the same so as to liquidate the inventory.
• In case of non-moving raw material, circulating the list of material to sales and marketing which can be manufactured using the same and getting the orders so as to reduce the inventory and also provision made for the same in book of accounts.
• Co-coordinating with R & D and Engg for use of slow-moving and non-moving raw material to be used as alternative in other products so as to consume the same faster and achieve inventory reduction
• Implemented Kanban for local based vendors resulting in reduction of daily follow ups and also to avoid any shortages in production. For this stock levels are free zed which are checked by the supplier on daily basis and are replenished.
• Monitoring of MRP settings in SAP on monthly basis depending on past consumption and accordingly making changes in safety stock levels and ordering qty which has helped to avoid procurement of excess raw material.
• Monitoring of freight cost and monthly basis and keeping it under control and working for continuous reduction by proper forecasting of raw material as per the past consumption and orders in hand. In case of finished goods advance planning is done so as to manufacture the material early and dispatch the same by SEA for the customers placing bulk orders.
• Close co-ordination with production to get right parts in time and ensuring timely delivery to customers as delivery performance is key indicator of factory performance.
• Monitoring of variances in raw material consumption and informing the same to engineering in case of any deviation observed in Bill of Material.
• Training production personnel’s for proper confirmation of production orders in system so as to control the WIP in shop floor and also FIFO of orders.
• Continuously analyzing the consumption pattern and informing strategic purchase for development of cheaper sources and reducing imports to have better and effective control on inventory. When I took over the responsibility in CS we had 80% share of import raw material which is now reduced to just 20%.

• Instrumental in handling new projects, vendor delopment,product development and inventory management
• Lead the team for development of planning mechanism and cross function initiatives to ensure proper team work in order to meet organisational goals.
• Responsible for Inventory turnover, Obsolete and excess reduction, vendor performance and conflict management handing of new projects, co-ordinating and negotiating with suppliers for material prices.
• Administrating and Controlling the entire supply chain activities right from inputs of material requirement, ordering of material, logistics, custom clearance ,on time receipt of material and handling of supplier customer claim and returns management.
• Generated a MIS purchasing department like Inventory, vendor performance, Freight Cost, saving reports and localisation initiatives.
• Significantly contributed in implementing SAP related projects like Vendor management Inventory process, Downloading of material requirements and trained other members of the team for efficient handling.
• Pivotal in improving Inventory turnover ration from 5.2 to 8.9 and reduction of obsolescence material from 1.8 crore to 1.2 crore
• Reduction of freight cost by effectively planning of material through OCEAN mode and thereby reduction in AIR Shipments.
• Essayed a stellar role in implementing:
• Vendor Managed Inventory
• Consolidation of forwarders to ensure effective control.
• Developed dealer in Korea to support new material development.
• Reduction and controlling of Obsolete and Excess material.
• Freight Cost Reduction.
• Increasing Inventory turnover Ratio

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