U.D.SARAVANA KUMAR
SRIPERUMBUDUR
Summary
Motivated and resourceful Supply Chain Specialist with over 12 years of expertise managing customs compliance, inventory control, customer service and transportation logistics. Meticulous team player focused on developing and implementing process controls and quality improvement initiatives that reduce costs and increase company revenue. Reliable and dedicated leader seeking to leverage strong background into a buyer, planner or supply chain role with progressive organization.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DEPUTY MANAGER - SCM (PURCHASE & PROCUREMENT)
STANADYNE INDIA PVT LTD
Thiruvallur
05.2023 - Current
- Managing the Procurement Team of 4 Team Players for both Imports & Domestic
- Based on Customer Plan, Ensuring Monthly Schedule & P.O with Forecast
- Responsible for start to end product development for out-sourcing and NPD.
- Buyer-in-charge for 70 Suppliers in Domestic & Imports.
- Ensure of Quality & Quantity of shortage Parts receiving from Local Vendors of Weekly & Daily MRP
- Updating & Attending Daily Production Review Meeting
- Vendor On-Time Delivery Rating
- Control the Inventory based on the Inventory Norms as per stock Policy for Domestic/Imports
- Slow Moving / Red Inventory's Reduction ideas & implementation Plan with Head SCM
- Review of Domestic Parts 1month & Imports 3 months along with Team
- Payment coordination with Finance for due cycle's
- Identifying the Red, Yellow, Brown & Green status against Parts for immediate action plan to avoid the last minute surprise
- Materials Planning to our Stanadyne UAE Plan from SIPL & Imports Direct Supply's
- Handling Domestic Parts around 400 Parts with 10 Vendors of Parts Press Parts, Bought Out Parts, Mold Parts, Machining Parts
- Handling Imports Parts around 1400 Parts with 54 Vendors of Parts Press Parts, Bought Out Parts, Mold Parts, Machining Parts, Raw Materials & Al Casting Housing
- Preparing of Weekly Report's / Operations Review Presentation Report to Top Management.
ASSISTANT MANAGER- MATERIALS MANAGEMENT (MMD)
RANE MADRAS LTD
Kancheepuram
04.2021 - 03.2023
- Managing the Procurement Team of 6 Team Players.
- Buyer-in-charge for 72 Suppliers.
- Based on Customer Plan, Ensuring Monthly Schedule & P.O with Forecast
- Ensure of Quality & Quantity of shortage Parts receiving from Local Vendors of Weekly & Daily MRP
- Vendor On-Time Delivery Rating
- Control the Inventory based on the Inventory Norms as per stock Policy and WH Location
- Handling Local Parts around 2500 Parts with 35 Vendors of Parts Press Parts, Mold Parts, Spray & Laser Parts
- Handling Imports from Korea for Raw Materials (LG Maker with PC, ABS, PP - 100 Tons / Month)
- Daily review with Team for the D+3 shortage & Action Plan & Ensure reduction in Line Loss
- Weekly Meeting with Top Management for Current Activity Level Monitoring Performance
- Commitment to PPC & Production Team for D+2 shortage Parts
- Handling the critical situation in terms of Customer Plan change or Vendor 4 M issue
- Analyzing Skill & Quick decision for Quick Solution
- Cost Saving Activities through Localization, Alternative Source or RM change or Process Elimination Activity
- Vendors Tool Correction Activity & coordination with Tooling Team for the reduction of Quality Issue
- Any time to be Updated in terms of 4M (Vendor / In-House)
- Monthly Reconciliation of Sub-con sales Parts to Vendors (Diff to be Mutually Debit)
- To be keep-on follow & sustain the company norms & Ethics.
SENIOR TEAM MEMBER- PROCUREMENT
TATA MOTORS LTD ( Through GDC & MRC)
Chennai
05.2017 - 03.2021
- Buyer-in-charge for 80 vendors in southern region (mostly proprietary vendors)
- Responsible for procuring more than 2000 line of items catering to TATA Motors CV spare business (Translating to buying value of ~120cr annually)
- Responsible for Order planning, Material tracking & shortage handling resolving system (SAP MM) errors and ensuring accuracy in supplier schedules through TOC concepts
- (Theory of constraints)
- Responsible for price changes & SOB allocation for existing range of lines
- Obtaining quote from vendors for new level of child parts flown into the system by doing negotiating and benchmarking it with similar range of products
- Fulfillment of both IB (International business) & Dom VOR Orders in stipulated time
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- Communication of relevant forecast, firm orders information and any major plan fluctuation
- (Sudden Spikes in After Market)
- Monitoring and planning critical child parts (Import items) at supplier end in order to reduce the threat on sales loss
- Addressing and reducing supplier delivery discrepancy trend
- Establish and maintain Supplier Performance metrics (Cost, delivery, Service, Quality, Innovation, social responsibility, etc.) together with the Sourcing Team
- Communicate the company's expectation to the supplier and release the schedule to them
- Conduct Suppliers Audit/Visit and performance reviews to ensure the supply of quality material
- Awarding supplier delivery performance (SPDR) considering the various delivery aspects like meeting schedule, delivering the parts without discrepancies & Quality
- Resolving supplier document discrepancies and ensuring timely payment to the suppliers
- Initiating the vendors to go for
Engineer
Unipres India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
06.2014 - 04.2017
- Planning and controlling supplier orders and procurement of supplier parts – Experience in Sheet metal, trim chassis commodities. Supplier evaluation and revaluation on the basis of Manufacturing facilities/capacity, capability and quality systems.
- Preparing Monthly inventory reports for all local parts and projecting to top- level management in terms of value in every month.
- Analyzing and addressing the major variances contributors during PIT’s (Physical inventories).
- Day on Day negative/positive stock analysis ensuring the background reasons are cleared on daily basis.
- Issue like BOM error, design change late adoption, usage issues to be identified and corrected with the support of relevant teams.
- Responsible for maintaining 8-hour inventory inside plant for the warehouse plan.
- Layout finalization based on Min, Max setting, flexible location, Mechanism of FIFO.
- CFT member for supplier plant & tool transfer & coordinating, PCR, PSW approval & Conduction T-2000 Audit for final approval
- Root cause analysis of obsolescence accumulation also checking the possibilities of salvaging after EOP completion
- Tracking of pending/split shipments from the suppliers.
- Providing MIS (Management information system) to top management on the system performance and condition of system health on monthly basis.
- 1 million costs saving done for the organization in salvaging the dead inventories.
Engineer
Technico Industries Ltd
Chennai
05.2012 - 06.2014
- Implemented systems to track shipments across multiple modes of transportation.
- Evaluated current processes and procedures related to inventory management, procurement, distribution, and logistics.
- Created reports to monitor supplier performance on a monthly basis.
- Coordinated activities between vendors and internal departments for timely completion of projects.
- Investigated problems related to quality control issues arising from suppliers' end-products delivered.
- Managed communication between suppliers and customers regarding order status updates or changes in delivery timelines.
- Identified areas of improvement within the supply chain process.
Education
B TECH MECHANICAL -
SRM UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
01.2025
Diploma in Electronic & Communication Engineering -
SAMUEL POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE, TUTICORIN
04.2012
HSC -
Ambrose Higher Secondary School, Megnanapuram
04.2010
SSLC -
Ambrose Higher Secondary School, Megnanapuram
04.2008
Skills
- Global sourcing
- Procurement and purchasing
- Vendor management
- Decision-Making Capabilities
- Project Management
- Inventory analysis and management
- Vendor auditing and vendor rating
- Supplier relationship management
- Cost Reduction & obsolescence management
- Logistics management
- SAP-MM module, ERP, SPICE, JD
- Supplier sourcing & purchasing- Global and Domestic
- Should cost and commercial finalization
- Conflict management
- Supplier assessment and delegation skill
- Knowledge of part and process cost
- Time Management and Organizational Skill
- Communication and Presentation Skills
- Performance Improvements
- Purchasing and Planning
- Process and Procedure Development
- Succession Planning
Certification
- Six sigma-QCC, QIT & TQM
- Global procurement and sourcing.
- KAIZEN, KANBAN & TWO BIN System.
Accomplishments
- Star awardee for managing the materials effectively & handling shortages.
- Achieved 'OUTSTANDING' performance continuously in 2021 & 2022
- Awarded 2 times for best improvements & presentation skills.
- Nominated for Star Individual contributor award for acting as a conscious buyer
- QCC project 'Productivity improvement in M&M Cell' during 2021-22
- QIT Project 'Productivity improvement in LCV cell' during 2021-22
- OTIF Project 'Production planning and control and logistics improvement to achieve the highest OTIF score of 95% from Ashok Leyland' during 2021-22
- QCC/QIT projects 'Elimination of Serration Length Issue' and 'Productivity improvement in LCV Line' SMED Project 'Setup time reduction in Internal Grinding Machine' during 2021-22
- Implemented TGP (TATA Genuine packing) for more than 50 line of times by coordinating with packing vendor as well as part vendor.
- Received the best employee award for Q3 in FY17-18.
- Introduced/Collected TOD (Turn over discount) from TVS group of suppliers around 3 crores.
- Implemented GPRS system for milk run collection for making optimization of truck turn over time and saved 20 lakhs/annum to the organization.
- By going SOB for Water/Oil pump products saved 10.08 lakhs/annum
- Initiated/Implemented Bar coding system across most of the vendors in order to reduce the manual intervention at the time of receiving at the warehouse.
- Developed/Introduced KIT items (Set of 2 & 3 part numbers) from vendors which has contributed 20% of total Spare parts turn over every month with a triparty agreement.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 07/20/92
- Marital Status: Single
Languages
- English
- Tamil
- Hindi (Read & write)
Disclaimer
I certify that the information furnished above is authentic and complete to the best of my knowledge.
Major Supplier Handled
- BORGWARNER COOLING SYSTEMS INDIA PVT LTD.
- BONTAZ AUTOMOTIVE INDIA PVT LTD.
- BRAKES INDIA PVT LTD.
- BIMETAL BEARINGS LTD.
- BRIDGESTONE INDIA AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCT PVT LTD.
- CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS INIDA PVT LTD.
- FEDERAL-MOGUL GOETZE INDIA LTD.
- AMALGAMATIONS VALEO CLUTCH PVT LTD.
- WABCO INDIA LTD.
- WHEELS INDIA LIMITED.
Timeline
DEPUTY MANAGER - SCM (PURCHASE & PROCUREMENT)
STANADYNE INDIA PVT LTD
05.2023 - Current
ASSISTANT MANAGER- MATERIALS MANAGEMENT (MMD)
RANE MADRAS LTD
04.2021 - 03.2023
SENIOR TEAM MEMBER- PROCUREMENT
TATA MOTORS LTD ( Through GDC & MRC)
05.2017 - 03.2021
Engineer
Unipres India Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 04.2017
Engineer
Technico Industries Ltd
05.2012 - 06.2014
B TECH MECHANICAL -
SRM UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
Diploma in Electronic & Communication Engineering -
SAMUEL POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE, TUTICORIN
HSC -
Ambrose Higher Secondary School, Megnanapuram
SSLC -
Ambrose Higher Secondary School, Megnanapuram
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