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Ravi K

Ravi K

Bangalore

Summary

Goal Oriented, Customer centric supply chain operations professional, offering close to 11years of end-to-end supply chain, logistics, International Logistics, sourcing & procurement Coordinating with global level suppliers, where I can fully utilize and implement the skills and experience and make a significant contribution to the success of the Organization

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Sourcing Lead

GLOWSHIP UTILITY SOLUTIONS
12.2018 - 10.2020
  • Part of Global Sourcing management team (GSM) reporting to Sourcing Head
  • Training and documentation for key sourcing resources and align them with process
  • Involved in approaching vendors across the globe to validate the contracts and further extending the contracts for a particular period
  • Presenting weekly decks related to process updates with the management
  • Conduct eRFQ's through eRFQ system to receive quotes
  • Supervising everyday activities of Sourcing & procurement and design various cost-effective methods according to demands
  • Daily meeting with Validation/MDM team on supplier, Contracts and bank info for smooth and easy payments
  • Involved in signing the contracts with global suppliers and Uploading the active contracts in the SharePoint
  • Completed Sourcing projects and was successfully able to deliver it on time
  • Participate in New Product Development project teams
  • Key liaison between Sourcing, Supply Chain, and senior leadership teams to communicate integration plans, progress, identifies issues or concerns that required immediate resolution
  • Developed project tracker and tracked integration success.

Sr.Supply Chain Coordinator

CARTERX
11.2016 - 12.2018
  • Manage & shortlisting Specific Domestic/Global Suppliers for Improved productivity and reduced cost
  • Works closely with project managers to ensure that materials and services are purchased at lowest cost to meet project requirements
  • Ownership of buying and sourcing processes leading to negotiations, vendor management and Purchasing lifecycle management
  • Maintains a supplier selection database and roll out the monthly reports to vendors as part of continuous supplier improvement program
  • Identifying sourcing risks and ensuring mitigation strategies with timely and effective resolution
  • Setting global standards with vendors to match the Quality, distribution and on time delivery
  • Implementing cost reduction efforts by collaboratively working with stakeholders, vendors, and operations team
  • Direct/Indirect Procurement, Order Acknowledgement, Delivery of Goods/Services
  • Ensuring clear and open internal communication within sourcing team
  • Develops a positive relationship and long-term partnership with available vendors
  • Assists in the communication to suppliers to match delivery and quality expectations
  • Identifying new vendor, evaluate their contribution to further streamline the existing buying process.

Material Availability Analyst and Sr. Logistics Coordinator

CATERPILLAR INDIA PVT LTD
12.2012 - 11.2016
  • Follow up on various high priority dealer orders within the stipulated time for after sales market & keeping the customers updated regularly about the order status
  • Implementing and monitoring effective procurement schedules, by analyzing demand forecast & inventory
  • Cancelling orders on obsolete parts in advance
  • Participating in Capacity Planning, schedule collaborations, supplier trainings & education & S&OP meetings as then required
  • Evaluating the supplier's performance & expediting supplier orders to meet the fluctuating demand based on available stock & back-orders Priorities
  • Timely analysis of stock back orders & its fulfilment to maintain the set targets on inventory backorder age, service fills
  • Be responsible for co-ordination with VGLS approved Liners, Forwarders, and Transporters, CHA's, overseas offices & Customers for lining up Sea / Air / Surface Freight movements
  • Close co-ordination with Customer (Internal & External) for their day-to-day requirements
  • Monitoring end to end activities (transportation, custom clearance, freight, airway-bill handling & final delivery)
  • Maintain a Data for all Freight Forwarder Pre-alert information in Excel Month on Month
  • Be able to correctly classify commodity/product against the HSN, Also Liaising between customer service team and government bodies according to HSN codes
  • Receipt of pre-arrival notification files to customer service team to clear the customs
  • Will be responsible in liaising with customs offices and other government entities to ensure that all corresponding requirement for the speedy release of cargo has been complied and in proper order
  • Will be generally responsible in the release and delivery of commodities and shipments from the port to the Distribution Centre facility
  • Maintaining KPI's - Formalize, Record and Maintain KPI by generating reports and rolling out the information to carriers, stakeholders etc
  • Handling purchase orders disruption globally by ensuring the visibility of orders in GT NEXUS efficiently
  • Globally on-boarding suppliers into GMM to process the order in GT-NEXUS effectively
  • Handling traffic information system globally and follow up with freight forwarders on day-to-day activities
  • Handling Compliance related issues for US exports and Imports with freight forwarders and Custom Brokers
  • Dispatch follow-up on any missing shipments
  • Coordination with warehouse, CHA and Freight forwarder for any support on the missing documents and on DO (Delivery order)
  • Follow-up with Transporter for Air and Sea shipment pick-up if any discrepancy/challenges
  • Thorough Insight of International Logistics Incoterms, HSN code, understand business process, study, and analyze workflows and prepare functional specifications.

Supplier Quality Engineer

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC LIMITED
10.2011 - 12.2012
  • Interaction with Supply chain, Application, marketing, design department regarding quality concerns
  • Generating the fair report (Supplier Quality inspection report) and inspection of quality planning (IQP) and non- fair report as per customer requirements
  • Root cause analysis of defective material / processes, corrective and Preventive action meeting with suppliers
  • Coordination with different departments and Suppliers to improve Quality of existing Product and Processes for better reliability
  • Maintain the final inspection reports as per ISO 9001 And 2008
  • Visit suppliers, hand pick the parts and bring them back to inspection.

Lead Analyst Logistics

LAM Research (Through RGBSI)
03.2021
  • Will be the single point of contact for stakeholders managing freight globally, by providing operational support, as well as managing the Transportation Management System
  • Handling the entire inbound global logistics to all the LAM warehouses located across the world from over 500+ suppliers
  • Monitoring the data flow through different interfaces from supplier dashboard to SAP to TMS and SQL database which consists of all the information of the shipments (Observe the integration Between systems)
  • Tracking all the shipments data, Milestones, price, address details, carrier, Vendor name, lam plant through TMS transport management system named Xcarrier
  • Manages, trains, develops assimilation plans and assign activities to the internal team involving in TMS and MYLAM dashboard training to the buyers, SCM team and vendors spread across the globe
  • Providing Technical / Non Technical knowledge transfer / User Training during pre implementation / GO LIVE / post GO LIVE phases of the projects
  • Activating the trained vendors wrt to their unique code in SAP, TMS and on MYLAM dashboards and aligning the INCOTERMS depending on the contracts
  • SPOC for Everstream analytics risk intelligence and visibility System
  • Global Carrier Routing guide management - Amendment of routing lanes, priority if alternatives carrier available Carrier Pickup time, weight category, dimensional limitations, Validity time, booking Cut off as per the required INCOTERMS etc
  • Responsible for Carrier OTD performance - Milestone Timestamp report generating, Changing/Adding alternative carriers based on price, requirement, and ETA
  • Responsible for Supplier Performance in terms of Adoption, Consolidation, Priority override, Variance, FTZ non FTZ Report for maximum utilization of TMS & Fright Optimisation
  • Coordination with warehouse, CHA and Freight forwarder for any support on the missing documents and any Variance related issues wrt POD date
  • Report generation and analysis turning data into actionable insights (improving transportation provider selection, route optimization, identifying cost reduction by optimizing freight cost techniques and opportunities, etc.)
  • Knowledge in International Trade compliance (FTZ, LMW dual sourcing) Mainly US, MY, KR & TW
  • Handling Escalation involving TMS Troubleshooting, Integration failure and ability to react quickly to unforeseen events and communicate with stakeholders as needed
  • Providing RCA by Examining the logs (Request and response, booking, rate request, pickup failure) XML files like EDI 214, EDI 856, API 214, EDI 997 for continuous improvement
  • Monthly/weekly Interaction with stakeholders, SBM, SCM, vendors and carrier team.

Skills

  • Excellent organizational skills, Ability to work individually, Strong written, verbal and communication skills, persisting to get the job done within the stipulated time

Accomplishments

  • Won a cash prize of rupees 5k for achieving the adoption target of 90% in 2022 in LAM
  • Owner of Supplier awareness campaign & freight Reduction Project estimated savings $200000 by Q2
  • Achieved the revised adoption target of 95% in Q1 of 2023 in LAM
  • Enrolled in Freight optimization cost and saved 95K $ in a span of 4 months
  • Involved in Two Green belt 6 Sigma projects with a value prop of $ 80,000
  • Reduced the logging of Blocker Ticket count by at least 60 - 70% in the Elemica portal

Tools Systems Handled

  • SAP - MM, SAP HANA
  • Microsoft SQL STUDIO
  • ANTARES
  • X-CARRIER
  • GTNEXUS
  • GO COMET
  • NAVISION
  • EVERSTREAM ANALYTICS
  • QLIK SENSE
  • MONDAY, COM
  • MYLAM DASHBOARD
  • QUICKBASE Database

Core Expertise

  • Global transportation Logistics
  • Vendor management
  • End-to-End Supply Chain
  • Sourcing and Procurement
  • Custom Clearance, Freight forwarding, Customer service
  • Enhancement and Troubleshooting
  • Tracking and Tracing Shipment
  • Team building
  • Six Sigma Green belt
  • Process Implementation
  • Root cause analysis

Languages

  • English
  • Kannada
  • Hindi

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the foregoing information is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Timeline

Lead Analyst Logistics

LAM Research (Through RGBSI)
03.2021

Sourcing Lead

GLOWSHIP UTILITY SOLUTIONS
12.2018 - 10.2020

Sr.Supply Chain Coordinator

CARTERX
11.2016 - 12.2018

Material Availability Analyst and Sr. Logistics Coordinator

CATERPILLAR INDIA PVT LTD
12.2012 - 11.2016

Supplier Quality Engineer

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC LIMITED
10.2011 - 12.2012

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