S. Venkatesh
Supply Chain (E2E) & Transportation Logistics | Product Development, Operational Excellence
Bangalore
Summary
Over 13 years of experience in Procurement/SCM, product development, and business development, ensuring operational excellence and productivity. Adept at vendor management, costing, and negotiations, with a proven track record in implementing cost-saving measures and managing cross-functional teams.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages
Work History
Team Leader (Supply Chain Management)
JB Pointexder (India) Private Limited
08.2023 - 12.2024
- Company Overview: (Automotive Company servicing to Morgan, Morgan Olson, Federal Eagle, Leer Group, MIC Group, Etc.,)
- Validated quotations and Orders, created POs, and ensuring accuracy in customer data and documentation
- Improved supplier performance by 15% through regular follow-ups and effective communication
- Tracking consignment with the supplier and freight forwarder for the final delivery
- POD tracking follow-up on goods receipt
- Coordination with cross-functional departments to resolve bottlenecks and expedite high-priority tasks
- Work with Finance for the payment of the vouchers received from the Supplier for the payment
- Supervised offshore team activities, including updates for planner codes, supplier codes, and item-level data
- Requesting the RFQ for Liftgate items with the supplier & updating the cost for items in JDE
- Preparing the Priority working sheet based on the urgent requirements for Premium Customers
- Creating IA final package for identifying the Priority to expedite
- Creating a Report for Identifying the Misalignment of Lift Gate and OHD
- Managed a team of 8 members, assigning tasks, tracking performance, and generating KPI reports, ensuring 95% on-time delivery
- (Automotive Company servicing to Morgan, Morgan Olson, Federal Eagle, Leer Group, MIC Group, Etc.,)
Manager (PPC & Supply Chain Management)
Diamond Bucket Industries
06.2021 - 08.2023
- Company Overview: (For over 20years supplying the sheet metal parts to Ashok Leyland and VST Customers)
- Planning raw materials for month requirements and also reconciling stock level
- Continuously monitoring, evaluating and improving delivery performance
- Managing the procurement on time delivery relationships for the company
- Manage Logistics for RM procuring and Customer Delivery
- Managing commodity cost initiatives
- Negotiate the quote from the supplier price
- Reduce the existing price of consumables and child parts from existing supplier price and we make alternate sources
- Responsible for all development to assigning product cost and submit to our customer with reasonable points
- Analyze the requirements of the products and specification of the components
- Analyze the marketing range with our customer products price for updates with the customer
- (For over 20years supplying the sheet metal parts to Ashok Leyland and VST Customers)
Senior Executive (Sourcing & Supply Chain Management)
Ashok Leyland Foundry Ltd
10.2019 - 06.2021
- Company Overview: (Third-party pay roll)
- Sourcing and supply chain handling in sheet-metal, Scrap and Ferro Alloys procurement and costing
- Suppliers follow up for pending schedules, future schedules and quality alert
- Localization development of distance Parts with cost benefits
- Responsible for EO (Engineering Order change) with Value Analysis and Value Engineering
- Sound knowledge in part development, purchase, vendor development and quality Benchmarking
- Inventory and master data control
- Expertise in sourcing parts globally and locally
- Quota master allocation for contractors
- Communicating monthly forecast to suppliers based on MRP
- Monitoring the market trends within the relevant commodity for price and quality benchmarking
- Developing Alternate sources for cost reduction and capacity development
- Lead annual price negotiations within the commodity
- Evaluation of new suppliers, monitor and improve supplier performance based on various criteria such as percentage of rejections, Quality improvements, timely delivery and cost
- Ensure Programs are launched on-time with no quality issues with first time right
- Responsible for line stoppage issues due to material shortage, incoming Quality rejections, line rejections and Customer complaints and communicate to supplier and take necessary corrective actions
- Responsible for cost of poor quality, monitoring of scrap and rejections
- (Third-party pay roll)
Senior Executive (Sourcing & Supply Chain Management)
Ashok Leyland
09.2016 - 09.2019
- Company Overview: (Third-party pay roll)
- Sourcing and supply chain handling in sheet-metal, Scrap and Ferro Alloys procurement and costing
- Suppliers follow up for pending schedules, future schedules and quality alert
- Localization development of distance Parts with cost benefits
- Responsible for EO (Engineering Order change) with Value Analysis and Value Engineering
- Sound knowledge in part development, purchase, vendor development and quality Benchmarking
- Inventory and master data control
- Expertise in sourcing parts globally and locally
- Quota master allocation for contractors
- Communicating monthly forecast to suppliers based on MRP
- Monitoring the market trends within the relevant commodity for price and quality benchmarking
- Developing Alternate sources for cost reduction and capacity development
- Lead annual price negotiations within the commodity
- Evaluation of new suppliers, monitor and improve supplier performance based on various criteria such as percentage of rejections, Quality improvements, timely delivery and cost
- Ensure Programs are launched on-time with no quality issues with first time right
- Responsible for line stoppage issues due to material shortage, incoming Quality rejections, line rejections and Customer complaints and communicate to supplier and take necessary corrective actions
- Responsible for cost of poor quality, monitoring of scrap and rejections
- (Third-party pay roll)
Engineer (Purchase Department)
INFAC INDIA Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 08.2016
- Company Overview: (Tier-1 for Hyundai, Volkswagen, AL Nissan, General Motors)
- Creating material requirement plan based on customer plan
- Preparation of consolidated material list, unique parts required for the Project
- Responsible for MRP exception, quota update, Q-info update
- Consolidation and reporting warehouse stock to concern category team for controlling the excess inventory
- CFT Member for the project (i20 active and Creta) in product development team
- Fit, Function, Geometry trail at pilot production and ensure the successful launch at SOP
- Coordinate with quality and production team for vendor's quality issue
- Product costing, cost comparison with different source and analyze the market trend
- Develop distant automobile components like sheet metal, plastic parts, molded parts, etc
- Good Knowledge in PPAP documents of PFD, PFMEA, Control Plan and TPH
- Experienced in supplier development - Sheet metal and machined commodities
- Experienced in structured problem solving like JDI, Quality tools
- (Tier-1 for Hyundai, Volkswagen, AL Nissan, General Motors)
Education
B.E. - Mechanical
EGS Pillai Engineering College
Nagappattinam, Tamil Nadu 01.2008 - 01.2011
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering - undefined
Ponnaiyah Ramajayam College
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 01.2006 - 01.2008
Skills
Purchase-to-pay (P2P)
Certification
CATIA V5 Plastic Cad certification, 01/01/13, CIPET, Chennai
Degree
B.E.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 10/30/88
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
Recognition
Best Accelerator Award for Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) implementation.
Timeline
Team Leader (Supply Chain Management)
JB Pointexder (India) Private Limited
08.2023 - 12.2024
Manager (PPC & Supply Chain Management)
Diamond Bucket Industries
06.2021 - 08.2023
Senior Executive (Sourcing & Supply Chain Management)
Ashok Leyland Foundry Ltd
10.2019 - 06.2021
Senior Executive (Sourcing & Supply Chain Management)
Ashok Leyland
09.2016 - 09.2019
Engineer (Purchase Department)
INFAC INDIA Pvt Ltd
12.2011 - 08.2016
B.E. - Mechanical
EGS Pillai Engineering College
01.2008 - 01.2011
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering - undefined
Ponnaiyah Ramajayam College
01.2006 - 01.2008
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