Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Languages
Timeline
Manager

Ravi Kumar Anumala

Hyderabad

Summary

Supportive Supply Chain proficient in designing supply chains that support business objectives and cost reduction strategies. Talented in managing inventory levels and performing periodic site audits of key suppliers. Offering 18 years of excellence in Pharmaceutical Supply planning, Strategic sourcing, Production planning.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Supply Planner

Dr.Reddys Laboratories
11.2021 - Current
  • Collaborated with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, ensuring inventory integrity targets for finished goods.
  • Handling materials management, planning, purchasing, and customer service duties.
  • Integrated financial and operation plans with strategic objectives to deliver improved operational and financial results to boost customer satisfaction, profitability, and working capital.
  • Established inventory targets, stock level, and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
  • Oversaw demand planning, purchasing, and logistics.
  • Implemented inventory-management strategies to maximize availability and decrease waste.
  • Teamed with sales and marketing teams to confirm that product availability meets customer demand.
  • Increased global supply chain efficiency and development by leading cross-functional teams and enabling supplier integration and management technology tools, upgrades.
  • Organized and maintained correct inventory levels to drive highest turns possible on inventory.
  • Streamlined inventory management processes to reduce supply chain costs and improve efficiency.

Sourcing Specialist

Dr. Reddys Laboratories
06.2016 - 10.2021
  • Supported gross profit goals by negotiating and controlling costs, lead times, freight terms and purchase quantity requirements.
  • Evaluated new supplier capabilities to significantly reduce risks, improve operational visibility and create greater value for products and services.
  • Conducted direct audits to assess applicants relevant knowledge, skills, experience and aptitudes.
  • Employed different analytical tools to calculate landed costs and determine cost-efficient method to deliver product to end-user.
  • Searched for hard-to-find items and found high-quality, reliable vendors.
  • Collaborated with finance, procurement and operations leaders on global sourcing projects.
  • Managed cost reduction projects to meet budget and achieve healthier cost-base, while creating lasting competitive advantage.

Production Planner

Dr.Reddys Laboratories
03.2009 - 05.2016
  • Used PPIC to provide relevant information, evaluations, and planning data for production.
  • Developed production schedules according to deadlines for existing orders and sales forecasting.
  • Monitored workload against supply base to assess capacity constraints and communicate potential risks and imbalances with stakeholders.
  • Engaged in both long and short-term project planning, strategizing for on-time, high-quality deliverables.
  • Customized SAP production planning and detailed scheduling tools to support factory production initiatives.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align production plans with customer requirements.
  • Worked with engineering, production, and testing departments to implement corrective actions for missed milestones.
  • Employed accurate forecasting to increase efficiency and reduce waste.
  • Worked directly with production personnel to resolve production scheduling issues and conflicts.

Management Associate

Lupin Pharma
04.2008 - 02.2009

Worked as Management associate in production packaging.

Technical Assistant

Aurobindo Pharma
08.2005 - 03.2008

Worked in production packaging activities.

Education

MBA - Supply Planning And Logistics

NIBM Global
Online Executive MBA Program
04.2023

Bachelor of Science - Pharmaceutical Sciences

DR BRAOU
Hydearabad
05.2012

Diploma - Pharmaceutical Sciences

State Board of Technical Education And Training
Visakhapatnam
06.2005

Intermediate (+12) - Science Education

MSR Junior College
Ethamukkala
03.2003

Skills

  • ERP Systems Proficiency
  • Logistics Management
  • Materials Management
  • Supplier Negotiation
  • Production Planning
  • Supply Chain Coordination
  • International Purchasing
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Supply Chain Distribution
  • Negotiating
  • Purchasing Oversight
  • Procurement Expertise
  • Six Sigma Methodologies
  • Supply and Demand Requirements
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • New Vendor Setup
  • Production Scheduling
  • Performance Tracking

Certification

lean Six sigma Green belt certified

Artificial Intelligence Ninja certified

Trained to Orange software for Analytics

SAP proficiency

Kinaxis Platform usage in planning

Ariba platform expert

Languages

English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Supply Planner

Dr.Reddys Laboratories
11.2021 - Current

Sourcing Specialist

Dr. Reddys Laboratories
06.2016 - 10.2021

Production Planner

Dr.Reddys Laboratories
03.2009 - 05.2016

Management Associate

Lupin Pharma
04.2008 - 02.2009

Technical Assistant

Aurobindo Pharma
08.2005 - 03.2008

MBA - Supply Planning And Logistics

NIBM Global

Bachelor of Science - Pharmaceutical Sciences

DR BRAOU

Diploma - Pharmaceutical Sciences

State Board of Technical Education And Training

Intermediate (+12) - Science Education

MSR Junior College
Ravi Kumar Anumala