SOMAIAH M K
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
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Language
Work History
Global Process Lead (S2C & R2P) for Central Europe
Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited
08.2022
- Responsible for supporting internal and external stakeholders with the end-to-end BAU operations, processes and systems used
- Subject matter expert for GSNFR Procurement systems (S2C & R2P) and collaborate closely with users across the business to ensure they understand best practice and self-serve where possible and follow policies
- I use KPI's to monitor performance and improvement opportunities
- I co-ordinate the GSNFR Procurement Vertical Forums ensuring they follow the standard format and outcomes are managed efficiently and effectively
- Highlights:
- Improving Procurement process, applying technology, carrying out change management & training users
- Provide expertise and improvements on S2C/ R2P processes & technology
- Becoming the subject matter expert in the processes and systems that support our end-to-end Source to Contract, Procure to Receipt/Pay service model
- End to end being Sourcing execution, Procurement documents (contracts, PRs, POs, GRNs etc.) Supplier setup, catalogue content and maintenance, requisition and receipting controls, invoice, payment and compliance
- Working alongside the Stakeholders and Operations managers to support with project activities and day to day queries and escalations
- Supporting the CE Procurement Team with data requests, working with the Spend Analytics & Insights team to make informed decisions to improve processes
- Driving CI culture, implementing CI projects and innovation for withing the team
- Migrate the manual procurement processes to technology-based platforms (e.g
- GEP, Fusion, Globality etc.)
Procurement Operation Lead UK, ROI & CE
Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited
04.2019 - 08.2022
- Streamline the supplier on-boarding, Store catalogue management for UK/ROI & CE Requisition to pay process, team management and ensure process KPI's are adhered to
- Highlights:
- First line team supervisory responsibility on process coaching, on the job training, coordinating and communicating
- Manage relationships with multiple stakeholders, manage escalations within process
- Solves complex operational problems
- Identify projects or tasks which bring about step change in business operation resulting in significant business benefits
- Build robust operations plans to challenge existing flaws and suggest process level changes/improvements to meet the business requirement
- Managing SOP's and keeping the team updated on all process updated
- Providing effective feedback to associates & supporting them in their daily deliverables
- Drive digital based solutions in the process, & mentor team members on the same
- Managing the end-to-end procurement operations
- Supporting and working on GEP procurement projects and other GEP activities
- Preparing and Publishing the KPI dashboard.
Associate & Senior Associate Enabling Services
Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited
08.2014 - 03.2019
- Process: GP Supplier registration: Supporting in the supplier onboarding process with providing support to internal stake holders and suppliers with the required information for onboarding the suppliers
- Rollstream management and Supplier management for UK, ROI, CE and Asia
- Creation of profiles for Buyers, Category procurement managers, suppliers & the respective MDM teams
- Creating & assigning the categories to the Buyers & CPM
- Providing periodic KPI reports and adhoc reports on requests
- Worked on supplier consolidation project
- Rollstream housekeeping
- Can't Find It (Iproc): The Can't Find is the process enables head office users to request for Services or items through I-Proc
- And the team thereafter ensures the item / service is available on I-Procurement to order
- Maintain reports and trackers resulting in information being readily available to buyers and Stake holders
- Assisting the requestors with the products and service categories and placing order through iproc Admin Marrakech (C2O): Managing the Store catalogue an ordering system used by all our stores in UK and ROI to order their consumables
- Store catalogue management for UK & ROI stores
- Ensuring the catalogues are regularly updated and products are made available with all the required information such are product code, description, image, price, category, lead time for the stores to order regularly
- Managing Store help desk queries with the tickets raised by the stores
- Providing support to the suppliers with invoices and any system related queries
- Worked and supported in marrakech UAT testing and fusion testing
- Supported in setting up store ID's and approval limit set up Dotcom stores
- Publishing the Marrakech KPI reports
- CW admin: Support in creation of Tesco product numbers (TPN) for goods and services for resale and not for resale and communicate it to the business
- The Business requires Unique Code Numbers to identify/differentiate each product that needs to be ordered from the supplier
- Creation of TPN's and OCC codes for the consumable products
- Ensuring the product codes are successfully migrated to the store catalogue and available for store to order
- Updating the costs, descriptions & relevant attributes
- Managing debit note issues from the suppliers and ensuring the payments are made for the orders delivered
- Associate property Operations: Worked as a contract employee for 6 months under property services order raising team helping in raising orders for the new store setups.
Education
Graduation -
Sree Cauvery Degree college
Pre-University - undefined
Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan Kodagu Vidyalaya
Madiker, KodaguSchooling - undefined
Good Shepherd Convent Ammathi & Blossom School Madikeri
Madikeri, KodaguSkills
Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint) Outlook
Familiar with Windows Operating Systems
Worked on Oracle 11i, Fusion, GEP smart (catalogue & S2C module), New buying system ORMS and ORPM online catalogue I-procurement catalogue, Marrakech (Store click to order catalogue) and Globality
Process Documentation
Contracting
Business Process Mapping
Workflow Design
Leadership trained
Procedural manual drafting
Production Optimization
Problem-solving abilities
Multitasking Abilities
Team Collaboration
Written Communication
Organizational Skills
Continuous Improvement
Processes implementation
Workflow Planning
Team building
Time management abilities
Data Collection
Project Management
Teamwork and Collaboration
Effective Communication
Process Optimization
Decision-Making
Problem-solving aptitude
Personal Skills Attributes
- Excellent Verbal and Written Communication Skills
- Inter-personal Skills
- Project Planning and Execution
- Team Management
- Client Management
- Result-Oriented
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Kaverappa M K
- Date of Birth: 03/06/89
- Gender: Male
Career Achievements Certification
- Received Appreciations from UK Stake Holders for resolving the supplier payment issue.
- Received Spotlight & Value Awards for the support provided in Marrakech to GEP system migration & also implementing auto approval process & auto receipting in Oracle 11i.
- CI (Continuous Improvement)- completed the foundation level certification.
Projects
GP Supplier Registration: Supplier Consolidation, Deactivate the suppliers which are not used for more than 15 months and the suppliers who do not have spend., Helped in cleansing the simpler input file and making it easier for the business to choose the right suppliers for particular work to be completed. Rollstream Category Creation & Updation, Created and updated new product and Service categories for UK, CE and ASIA and mapped it to relevant Buyers & CPM's on Rollstream for supplier onboarding process., Helped the Buyers to choose relevant category for the suppliers to be onboarded. Marrakech: Click to Order Catalogue updation, Worked along with Fusion support team and UK stakeholders in fusion part numbers transmission for UK & ROI C2O catalogue., Ensured all the new part numbers are appearing in the catalogue with all the details such as description, lead time, store view, images before the new part numbers were made live for the store to use. Marrakech to GEP migration, Provided support to the internal IT & external team with the end-to-end operational activity in migrating the data from the existing system to new system., Shared process knowledge, provided the required data, performed the required testing, and trained the store users, suppliers and the operational about the new system., Ensured the migration and the implementation of the tool was successfully completed. CE Business, Implemented auto approval process for orders below £500., Helped in clearing all the pending orders and resulted in stores receiving their orders delivered on time., Cleared all the delayed supplier payment issues.
Certification
[Area of expertise] License - [Timeframe]
Timeline
Global Process Lead (S2C & R2P) for Central Europe
Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited
08.2022
Procurement Operation Lead UK, ROI & CE
Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited
04.2019 - 08.2022
Associate & Senior Associate Enabling Services
Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited
08.2014 - 03.2019
Graduation -
Sree Cauvery Degree college
Pre-University - undefined
Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan Kodagu Vidyalaya
Schooling - undefined
Good Shepherd Convent Ammathi & Blossom School Madikeri