Surender Chouhan
Senior Manager, Sourcing Analytics
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven professional seeking to excel as Analytics lead, dedicated to driving business improvements and maximizing savings. Expertise in collaborating with corporate leaders to develop centralized, best-in-class spend analytics, including purchase orders Dashboard, requisitions Dashboard, preferred suppliers Program, contracts, and comprehensive savings dashboards. Committed to leveraging analytical skills and strategic insights to enhance operational efficiency and support organizational growth. Proven ability to implement innovative solutions that align with business objectives and deliver measurable results.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
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Work History
Senior Manager, Analytics
Genpact
01.2015 - Current
- Led and developed spend, Preferred Supplier Database, category analytics dashboard, PO/requisition dashboard, cash savings dashboard, MDM, and contract database.
- Developed a variation dashboard using Power BI, Smartsheet, Excel, and other tools: Supplier Score Card, Preferred Supplier, Survey, Savings Dashboards, Supplier Contract Tracking, and Intake Form for the Indirect Sourcing team.
- Working with the Data Science team to develop AI models for supplier classification. Working with the finance team for Hyperion vs. indirect spend numbers.
- Established strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships and repeat business.
- Implemented and developed operational standards, policies, and procedures for the new client. Interviewing candidates for new clients based on the job requirements.
- Undertaking sourcing initiative projects to identify opportunities to improve operational efficiencies, enhance the end-user experience, and minimize the transactional costs.
- Held monthly meetings to prioritize enhancements with IT, create business plans, and workshops to drive successful business.
- Digital transformation of spend analytics process: 30+ ERP integrated, weekly refresh cycle.
- MRO supplier analytics and savings opportunity identification dashboard for part number.
Senior Spend Analyst
Global E-procure (GEP)
10.2013 - 01.2015
- End-to-end project management of the Spend Analytics process, opportunity assessment, Spend Tool training, and part of the sales pitch.
- Daily task distribution to the Analyst/Data Analyst, and update the same to the Delivery Manager.
- Understand the Statement of Work, and ensure project deliverables. Expectation setting with the customer on deliverables.
- Conducting Spend Tool training for customers (internal/external). Perception alignment with the customer's onsite/offsite.
- Opportunity assessment on potential savings opportunities.
- Data extraction from ERP systems links internal, SAP, AS-400, via Citrix.
- Standard SAP reports:
- A) Transactional: PO and Invoice
- B) Master files: Material, GL, Supplier, Users, Plant, Company Code, Payment term, and Profit Center, etc.
- Building an analytical report on Micro Strategy for the customer, standard report, i.e. Spend by Top Supplier, Spend by Group, and Sourcing Wave Plan.
Assistant Manager
Genpact
07.2012 - 10.2013
- Mentoring Team members on Benchmarking, Supplier QBR, E-Auction and Spend Analytics.
- Monthly one on one with each team member to identify individual aspiration and work towards helping them.
- Handling new customer (Sales visit) and taking them through all the sub process and highlighting process capability.
- Hosting weekly team call with Team Members/ Customer and Stake Holders.
- Training Domain expertise program member on Benchmarking, Spot buying process, Spend Analytics. Contract Compliance, Macro Economic etc.
- Ensuring that individual team members are motivated and continuously work towards achieving customer’s target, Insuring customer’s CTQ are met and any gaps are addressed.
Management Trainee
Genpact
07.2011 - 07.2012
- Transitioning benchmarking (2 Months) process and Consolidating Indirect Spend Analytical process (8 Months) from multiple business units to corporate, creating Space for business units to focus on core activity.
- Project Management on Benchmarking: Company car (Fleet Services) for Customer, covering $100 MM of Spend. This project was during a Span of 8 month covering Perk Car (Audi, BMW, MB & Volvo) and Job need Car (Ford, VW, Skoda etc.). This project involved both OEM (Original equipment Manufacturers) and the Local dealer. Project achieved a savings of 14%.Contact compliance & catalog audit process:
- Three projects completed in span of 2 months for HR Consulting, Research and development category and Temp labor. Total Savings identified for three projects is 250 K. In these projects analysis was done on Requisition, Purchase order, Invoices, Catalog and contract. Worked on Ariba tool to extract report on Spend, Requisition, and Purchase order, Invoices, Catalog and contract.
- Macro Economics: Developing Macro-Economic analysis for sourcing team to be used for analyzing trends in global economics and how purchase can be done using this report (Gross Domestic Product, Unemployment rate, Labor costs ,Nominal Gross Investment, Currencies and World Exports).
- Supplier Relationship management by maintaining a Preferred Supplier List and making sure that purchases are made through the preferred suppliers.
Process Developer
Genpact
06.2009 - 07.2011
- Providing consultation/support to sourcing specialists by providing them with consolidated spend data and generating reports (SOAP, Cash, macro Economics, Performance Dashboard and E-Auction report) that give them visibility of where and how are the business units performing and hence making opportunities visible to them.
- Survey: Template (VBA) created for analyzing survey with flexi dashboard with graphical presentation on Company car Driver’s Preference and Brand ranking.
- Fulfill the requirement of the sourcing professionals by providing them with Ad-hoc reports that gives more visibility into their area of responsibility.
- Data Analysis of all commodities, sub-commodity, Business and sub- Business and other spend data provided by the customer, Perform data mining to identify potential saving opportunities.
- Cash: Payment Term Analysis, Discount day’s and discount percentage savings & rebate Analysis.
- Systems updating: Working with on Contract management and base lining the entire database.
- Performance Dashboard: Working on developing corporate level Dashboard “Performance Dashboard” with customer for corporate level reporting. In this document all Analytical Report for Saving, Cash & implementation are presented. Reporting Sourcing results and performance to Sourcing Leader’s.
- E-Auction CoE’s Dashboards and Weekly Savings Analysis.
Process Developer
Genpact
11.2007 - 06.2009
- Publish monthly dashboards, delinquency reports, and resolve adhocs within TAT and with accurate information.
- Subject matter expert in Order to Cash, Professional Collections Specialist Program from ACA (Association of Credit and Collection Professionals).
- Digitized all Excel reports in MS Access format.
- Reduced variation in coverage for all regional collections teams from 7% to 5%.
- Forty lean projects (2008-2009) were completed in the Wired Contest (Lean contest). The top nine projects achieved savings of $36,422 and presented six high-impact projects on the monthly CPI Call (Continuous Process Improvement) to the customer, Penske.
- Responsible for managing and allocating resources in all collection teams to attain equal coverage across.
- Supported collections metrics data for the initial Bill to Cash SEP (Smart Enterprise Process) diagnostics (2009).
- Worked with the Genpact IT team and the customer for conceptualizing, developing, and testing the Bad Debt Tracker for Late Stage Collections in 2009.
- Responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of IT enhancements on the Collection Management System (CMS, 2008-2009).
- Served as an IT Catalyst and helped the team resolve any technical issues (2006-2007).
- Member of the GB project on improvement of the 'Same Day Closure for Cash and AR Research' process in 2007.
- Transitioned ATB Report from the FP&A team (2006) and the Daily Delinquency report from Penske Greenhill’s team to the Genpact India team for better visibility on the process (2009).
Process Associate
Genpact
08.2005 - 11.2007
- Responsible for data analysis and digitization of reports using MS Access.
- Publishing daily, weekly, and monthly reports, and making monthly dashboards.
- Resolving credit defects by designing the process flow of cases from the CARR team to the MLA team, and introducing the concept of pre approved customers for multi-location customers.
- Process control is introduced by a project tracking sheet for the daily tracking of credit defects. Part of Project 555 (lowest credit defect).
- Lean trained and tested, 40 leans done (2006-2008), with a savings of over $50K.
- Analyzed credit defect inflow and ways to reduce credit defects.
- Backup for preparing AES (measuring the team’s performance).
- Refining credit to customers within TAT time, assigning cases to the team, and monitoring individual and team performance on a regular basis.
- Making performance dashboard slides and presenting to the customer on a monthly basis.
- Running the ATB report (time taken 3-4 hours) in MS Access.
Education
Business Management
College of Management - Gandhi Institute of Technology And Management
Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh01.2005
10+2 - Commerce
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh01.2003
Skills
Spend analytics
Purchase order Dashboard
Requisition Dashboard
Savings Dashboard
Preferred Supplier Program
Power BI
Smartsheet
Microsoft Site
Microsoft Sharepoint
Project Management
Advance Excel
Talent development
Team leadership
Teamwork and collaboration
Analytical skills
Analytical thinking
MS office
Operations management
Resource allocation
Data analytics
Reporting management
Troubleshooting and problem resolution
Data-driven decision making
Timeline
Senior Manager, Analytics
Genpact
01.2015 - Current
Senior Spend Analyst
Global E-procure (GEP)
10.2013 - 01.2015
Assistant Manager
Genpact
07.2012 - 10.2013
Management Trainee
Genpact
07.2011 - 07.2012
Process Developer
Genpact
06.2009 - 07.2011
Process Developer
Genpact
11.2007 - 06.2009
Process Associate
Genpact
08.2005 - 11.2007
Business Management
College of Management - Gandhi Institute of Technology And Management
10+2 - Commerce
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Declaration:
I hereby declare that all the particulars furnished above are correct and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. Place: Hyderabad. Date: Surender Chouhan Signature
Personal profile:
- Name Surender Singh Chouhan
- Father’s Name V.S Chouhan
- Date of Birth 10-June-1984
- Marital Status Married
- Nationality Indian
- Age 42
- Sex Male
- Mailing Address Flat # B-410, Paramount Avenue, Nagaram, Hyderabad – 500086
- Contact # +91 - 9581622226
- Email surihyd@gmail.com