AAKASH R

Strategic Sourcing Specialist with solid 11+ year background in driving and coordinating sourcing efforts for material and service procurement. Focuses on cost savings and supplier development to support pre-procurement strategy and supply agreement negotiation. Collaborates with internal business units and supply chain stakeholders to achieve business goals.

• Global Sourcing & procurement for all direct and indirect commodities, CAPEX sourcing.
• Should Cost estimation of Casting SG & CG, Injection moulded plastic parts, Aluminum die casting (pressure and die cavity), Sheet metal (Pressed part, stamping and embossed components), Fabrication Parts-Angles/sections, Precision Machined parts, Cable Costings extrusion, Optical Fiber Cable Costings, Design and costing of packaging.
• RFX’s process, Terms Negotiation, Supplier evaluation process (Implemented PPAP and Vendor performance Report shared on monthly basis) Co-ordination with SQE and QA departments for decision making on various quality issues and root analysis.
• Planning day-to-day activities, Purchase schedules, allocation of work for achieving Sourcing/ purchase targets based on project plan.
• Minimizing bottlenecks for achieving high productivity with different sourcing & purchase techniques. Maintaining cordial relationship with more than 100 vendors/ Suppliers to achieve better credentials.
• Develop global commodity strategy and roadmap in alignment with organization Objectives. Contract Management with Suppliers & drive key organizational objectives across the supply base.
• Manage supplier relationship, lead cross-functional global teams to achieve key objectives.
• Play active role in resolving critical quality and delivery issues with suppliers (Comprehensive ownership of supplier performance.) Drive Transitions, repositions opportunities across supply matrix.
• Material Planning & Monitoring Shortages, purchasing activities and In-house production, and managing Logistic activities based on the customer’s requirement.
• Pro-actively identifying areas of shortages & take steps to fulfill the same through application of basic trouble shooting tools.
• Effective Rejection and Scrap handling.
• Preparing records; generating reports for facilitating decision making by the management.
• Monitoring vendor processes, identifying any defects/deviations & taking corrective action.
• Mentoring subordinates and peers, maintaining cordial relations on the shop floor.
• Improve Working Capital through Payment Terms extensions, Payment cycle optimization, Vendor Managed Inventories and Lead time reductions, successfully implemented Just in time (JIT) process for packaging material to optimize storage area at warehouse and line storage.
• Affecting opportune for Productivity initiatives through Value engineering, Quota Arrangement, Should-costing, Volume based negotiation, process improvement, developing Supplier Base etc, Preparation and implementation of Quality Plan, Control plan as per Specification by PPAP documents.

• Father's Name: RAGHUNATH B (Late)
• Date of Birth: 11/18/1991
• Gender: MALE
• Marital Status: SINGLE

• COMMSCOPE – STARAWARD for Heliax localization project 2023.
• COMMSCOPE – Total Saving Mar 2022 – Dec 2023 – 2.5M USD ( Localization of Sheetmetal and Telecom Cables)
• ROSENBERGER - Cost Saving: 2018 – March 2021 – 5.05 MUSD (By Localization, VAVE, Negotiation, Alternate vendors, and continuous improvement).
• Best Kaizen Project – 2021 winner
• GEM Award for Q4 -2021 – Operations Team

• Playing Cricket
• Table Tennis
• Chess
• Sketching/Drawing – Portraits & Line art