Rimi Dutta
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic supply chain leader with extensive experience at GE Healthcare, excelling in material planning and procurement. Proven track record in optimizing inventory levels and enhancing supplier relationships, achieving $450K in cost savings. Adept at cross-functional collaboration and team mentorship, leveraging data analysis to drive strategic decision-making and ensure on-time delivery.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
NPI Material Management Leader
GE Healthcare
Bangalore
09.2023 - Current
- Leading a team of 5 material planning professionals, managing the procure to pay for EMSI components, ensuring timely alignment with production goals and delivery schedules
- Mentor team members to foster a high-performance culture, focusing on continuous improvement and skill development
- Collaborate with operation, procurement, warehouse, and logistics teams to ensure timely availability of materials, supporting seamless production operations
- Managing weekly operational meetings with operation team to align on build plans, ensuring 100% on-time delivery and customer requirements are met
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (SQE, Engineering, MPE, NPI) to address material planning challenges such as LTB (Last Time Buy) issues, raw material changes, and supplier quality problems
- Managed EOL transitions for 10+ legacy products, minimizing scrap costs by $450K through proactive roll-in/cut-in planning
- Led program readiness for 5 product launches (including setting up the parts to enabling the supply chain, Procurement of parts for IPU build) ensuring 100% on-time delivery by identifying sole-source risks and negotiating expedited lead times with suppliers
- Led the new warehouse set up operation and material movement from old location
- Manage relationships with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of materials, negotiating terms to improve lead times and reduce costs
- Maintaining monthly supplier connect along with buyers to review various aspects like open po’s, order alignment, MOQ, LT, price increase, payment issues and supply chain risk etc
- Managing to have optimize inventory levels
- Achieving the global inventory of $5.4M against the target of $6M considering the ICV value of $9.14M and working towards reducing the excess obsolescence stock
- Analysed material usage trends and demand forecasts to adjust plans proactively, avoiding potential production disruptions
- Generated regular reports on material planning KPIs (Material visibility, OTD, Inventory turn, DOH etc), presenting insights to senior management to support strategic decision-making
Senior SCM Lead
ABB India Ltd
Bangalore
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Company Overview: ELSB
- Managing the end-to-end P2P process and warehouse operation for ELSB division RCCB modality
- Collaborating with marketing to review the sales order and converting to the build plan in monthly basis
- Oversaw material backlogs, expedited urgent orders, and identified root causes of delays, implementing recovery plans to minimize disruptions
- Led supplier development initiatives, ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and adherence to lead time and MOQ requirements
- Responsible to develop & lead Import and local suppliers (Plastic, Copper, Silver etc) of ABB ELSB parts in terms of on time delivery, quality, lead time, MOQ’s, reverse logistics, planning parameters
- Responsible for maximizing overall supplier performance and developing a reliable supplier base to support current and growing future requirements for ABB Production parts
- Conducted Monthly Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) meetings to address performance issues and improve supplier collaboration
- Worked closely with freight forwarders and customs handlers to resolve logistics issues, ensuring smooth shipping and delivery operations
- Collaborated with operation and marketing teams to ensure material availability aligned with production schedules and market demands
- Assist Receiving and Account payable in reconciling supplier delivery and price discrepancies
- Working on streamlining the Workflow for the payment of Freight invoices
- Analyzing the monthly OTD, Inventory turn, Shipping performance & other KPI metrics reports and presenting to Management with RCCA to improve supply chain performance
- ELSB
Senior Logistic Planner-2
Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2019 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: After Market Global Fulfilment Process Service
- Led a team of 8 material planners and managed 40 tail suppliers with an annual inventory of $8M, ensuring the availability of service parts for critical dealer orders
- Material planning, processing, performing continuous review and analysis of demand and supply based on customer’s requirement on CAT service parts
- Train new resource on the process side & update the training documents in monthly basis
- Material planning, processing, and drive the service parts schedule demand needs within the cross functional team & vendor
- Expediting the material from supplier to ensure right part at the right time at right place to fill the critical dealer orders
- Checking the safety stock level & redeploying the inventory to other distribution centres
- Collaborating with supplier to accelerate production capacity to recover past due schedules & have better shipping performance to avoid customer order delay as well as to keep a reasonable inventory on hand based on current sales data
- Responsible to develop & lead 15 suppliers out of TOP 300 suppliers of Cat service parts in terms of supplier shipping performance, Past ship, Packaging –Shipping and quality as per new CAT GOLD standards to align the supply base to the Caterpillar requirements necessary to support our customers
- Conducting Monthly Supplier Relationship Management meetings with key supplies to improve and analyse status
- Responsible for the ongoing development of the savings pipeline and achieving agreed inventory saving targets through focus on different key element like lead time, MOQ reduction etc
- Saved $500K for lead time & MOQ project in 2021
- Dealing with Global transportation team & freight forwarder to validate mode of shipments, pick up delays, Carrier missing etc
- Support NPI & disposition to manage Phase In - Phase Out to minimize obsolete material for spare parts
- Analysing the monthly service fill rate, Inventory turn, Shipping performance, Past ship & other KPI metrics reports & presenting to Management with RCCA
- Communicating to the leaders on critical issues & risks
- After Market Global Fulfilment Process Service
Team Coordinator - Material Availability
Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Led a team of 8 material planners and managed 40 tail suppliers with an annual inventory of $8M, ensuring the availability of service parts for critical dealer orders
- Material planning, processing, performing continuous review and analysis of demand and supply based on customer’s requirement on CAT service parts
- Train new resource on the process side & update the training documents in monthly basis
- Material planning, processing, and drive the service parts schedule demand needs within the cross functional team & vendor
- Expediting the material from supplier to ensure right part at the right time at right place to fill the critical dealer orders
- Checking the safety stock level & redeploying the inventory to other distribution centres
- Collaborating with supplier to accelerate production capacity to recover past due schedules & have better shipping performance to avoid customer order delay as well as to keep a reasonable inventory on hand based on current sales data
- Responsible to develop & lead 15 suppliers out of TOP 300 suppliers of Cat service parts in terms of supplier shipping performance, Past ship, Packaging –Shipping and quality as per new CAT GOLD standards to align the supply base to the Caterpillar requirements necessary to support our customers
- Conducting Monthly Supplier Relationship Management meetings with key supplies to improve and analyse status
- Responsible for the ongoing development of the savings pipeline and achieving agreed inventory saving targets through focus on different key element like lead time, MOQ reduction etc
- Saved $500K for lead time & MOQ project in 2021
- Dealing with Global transportation team & freight forwarder to validate mode of shipments, pick up delays, Carrier missing etc
- Support NPI & disposition to manage Phase In - Phase Out to minimize obsolete material for spare parts
- Analysing the monthly service fill rate, Inventory turn, Shipping performance, Past ship & other KPI metrics reports & presenting to Management with RCCA
- Communicating to the leaders on critical issues & risks
Material Availability Analyst
Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2015 - 01.2018
- Led a team of 8 material planners and managed 40 tail suppliers with an annual inventory of $8M, ensuring the availability of service parts for critical dealer orders
- Material planning, processing, performing continuous review and analysis of demand and supply based on customer’s requirement on CAT service parts
- Train new resource on the process side & update the training documents in monthly basis
- Material planning, processing, and drive the service parts schedule demand needs within the cross functional team & vendor
- Expediting the material from supplier to ensure right part at the right time at right place to fill the critical dealer orders
- Checking the safety stock level & redeploying the inventory to other distribution centres
- Collaborating with supplier to accelerate production capacity to recover past due schedules & have better shipping performance to avoid customer order delay as well as to keep a reasonable inventory on hand based on current sales data
- Responsible to develop & lead 15 suppliers out of TOP 300 suppliers of Cat service parts in terms of supplier shipping performance, Past ship, Packaging –Shipping and quality as per new CAT GOLD standards to align the supply base to the Caterpillar requirements necessary to support our customers
- Conducting Monthly Supplier Relationship Management meetings with key supplies to improve and analyse status
- Responsible for the ongoing development of the savings pipeline and achieving agreed inventory saving targets through focus on different key element like lead time, MOQ reduction etc
- Saved $500K for lead time & MOQ project in 2021
- Dealing with Global transportation team & freight forwarder to validate mode of shipments, pick up delays, Carrier missing etc
- Support NPI & disposition to manage Phase In - Phase Out to minimize obsolete material for spare parts
- Analysing the monthly service fill rate, Inventory turn, Shipping performance, Past ship & other KPI metrics reports & presenting to Management with RCCA
- Communicating to the leaders on critical issues & risks
Production Engineer
Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd
Thiruvallur
01.2012 - 01.2015
- Managed the machining and assembly operations for the off-highway truck axle production line, ensuring smooth production flow and optimal resource utilization
- Manpower handling, Planning, mobilizing, and managing materials
- Led process improvements and Lean initiatives to enhance manufacturing efficiency and reduce cycle times
- Coordinated cross-functional teams to implement quality control measures and address production bottlenecks
- Conducted root cause analysis and implemented corrective actions (RCCA) to improve production quality and equipment reliability
- Enhanced manufacturing workflows and layout to improve space utilization, reduce non-value-added activities, and ensure worker safety
- Process improvements to maximize OEE, Monitoring 5’s, TPM & PM
- Reviewing SWS, Process Routine, PFMEA, Process Flow diagram, Control plan etc
Education
B.Tech -
Karnataka State university
01.2015
DIploma - Checmical engineering
Hooghly Institute of Technology
01.2011
Skills
- Material Planning
- Procurement
- Inventory Management
- Demand forecasting
- Supply Chain Strategy
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Vendor negotiations
- Supplier relationship management
- Logistics coordination
- Excess & Obsolete Mitigation
- Logistics Control
- Inventory Control
- New Product Introduction
- Material Readiness
- Component Allocation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- SAP
- Oracle
- COUPA
- SALESFORCE
- Excel
- Power Bi
- Team leadership
- Mentoring
- Performance management
- Data Analysis
- KPI Tracking
- Performance analysis
- Executive Reporting
Accomplishments
- Improved Supplier Shipping performance from 56% to 97% & reduced past due orders to 0.8% from 67% by collaborating with suppliers.
- Worked with global suppliers to reduce lead time-MOQ & added $500K to OPAAC saving account.
- Managed material PIPO of the GE REY program for obsolescence mitigation due to major Supply Chain Risk.
- Improved material visibility accuracy from 75% to 98% across 26-week horizons.
Hobbies and Interests
- Reading Books
- Singing
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Bengali
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 01/03/91
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
NPI Material Management Leader
GE Healthcare
09.2023 - Current
Senior SCM Lead
ABB India Ltd
01.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Logistic Planner-2
Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - 01.2022
Team Coordinator - Material Availability
Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 01.2019
Material Availability Analyst
Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2018
Production Engineer
Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd
01.2012 - 01.2015
B.Tech -
Karnataka State university
DIploma - Checmical engineering
Hooghly Institute of Technology
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