VIKAS CG
Source To Pay Leader With 10+ Years Of Experience In Transitions Operations And Process Excellence In Procurement Operations And STP Operations.
Summary
Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings. Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager Supplier Experience /STP
Supply, Diageo Global Brand Supply
Bangalore
09.2021 - Current
Sr Team lead Supply
Diageo Global Brand Supply
10.2020 - 09.2021
- Leading and developing P2P and STP Market Advisors and Operations
- Responsible for queries related to PO Life (From PO creation to vendor payment) for the Scotland market
- Responsible for SME Vendor Payments for UK and Payment practice to UK Government
- Drive contract, billing vendors for direct purchase and Query handling team
- Maintains close relationship with Strategic vendors on their Pay to Terms
- Drive GRNI for Scotland and derive the benefits to the business
- Manage the blocked team and plan to Achieve the targets of Pay to Terms
- Manage the team handling the Queries and PO Management for Indirect (Coupa)
- Work with support teams to ensure the community of P2P end-users received appropriate business process support
- Monitor relevant policy adoption and template adherence (in partnership with the P2P GPO/BPO Process tower directors of GPO and drive business towards common, standard global solutions)
- Senior stakeholder management capabilities skills & experience in engaging business customers and third-party suppliers.
Specialist Procurement Operations
Diageo North America Region
Bangalore
01.2019 - 10.2020
- Responsible and accountable for timely management of tactical purchasing requests from businesses within the agreed SLAs and KPIs
- Sourcing of goods and services (RFQ, RFP, E -Auctions)
- Providing business support on accurate routes & sources of supply (via catalogues & webworms)
- Identifying opportunities for new catalogues, content, and routing logics to STP Supplier & Catalogue Team
- Advisory services in defined areas of spend, including category markets/countries
- Formulate the right sources of supply, applicable policies, and compliance requirements to meet business goals.
Specialist Purchase Order Life Cycle Owner
Diageo Africa
Bangalore
03.2018 - 01.2019
Analyst Purchase Order Life Cycle Owner
Diageo Africa Region
Bangalore
07.2016 - 03.2018
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- Purchase order creations to procure direct materials
- Analysis of daily blocked and parked reports to ensure all outstanding items are kept to a minimum
- GRNI Reconciliation and GRNI Management Activity
- Provide Support to market that facilitates accurate, efficient, timely setup and approval of purchase orders within SAP
- Coordination of the receipt of goods and services ensuring internal control procedures
- Monitor Purchase order housekeeping in cooperation with the requester
- Provide input to monthly service review calls and Support regional lead to ensure main KPIs meet the Target.
- Manage the Africa Customs payments and Downpayment .
- Create the back planning for the team support in cross training team members.
- Training the market users on the STP Tools like Accounts payable ,Purchase order life cycle management.
- Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
- Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
- Resolved problems, improved operations
Process Lead
North America - Volvo India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
07.2012 - 07.2016
- Processing PO and Non PO Invoices in SAP-AP Module..
- Managed and responded to correspondence and inquiries from customers and vendors
- Researched and resolved invoice and payment issues for internal employees and external vendors.
- Single Point of Contacts to Handle Credit holds and vendor outstanding and Escalation Management.
- Quality Lead – To review and implement quality guidelines based on VSM / Efficiencies ideas.
- Compliance SPOC to review Audit reports and recommend process changes for better compliance.
- Perform AMS regional GRIR reconciliations and perform aging clean up.
- Perform invoice Investigation to control aging on Quantity and Price discrepancy and preparing escalation reports on a Bi-Weekly basis for the AMS region.
- Support on the Intercompany posting and accrual processing
Education
MBA - Finance
Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore University
Bangalore University Bachelor of Commerce - Finance & Accounting
Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore University
Bangalore University Skills
People Managementundefined
Accomplishments
- Leading transition from the recruitment ,training, process documentation and achieving the key KPI for the Supplier Experience with 15 Months of Transition for Global Brand Supply
- Value Stream Mapping Project Lead for Vendor on-boarding process(identifying bottle neck for the delay in onboarding the vendors )
- Mapping End to End Ocean Freight Process and Driven improvement through six sigma green belt Project
- Leading Global Debit balances Project ( Reduction in the debit balance from 44 million till 18 million within 1 year of the project )
- Project Team member for Implementation of PO lifecycle tool
- Implementation of Kaizen project for invoice rejection portal.
Additional Information
Transition Experience.
- Transition Europe Supply Chain Market Advisor Roles from Budapest to Bangalore.
- Remote Transition Tactical Sourcing North America Team and standardize on sourcing activities.
- Traveled to Nairobi -Transition the South Africa Project (Invoice Processing, Issue resolution and purchase orders creation process).
- Traveled to Nigeria- Training 120+ users and implementation of Coupa Tool for indirect purchases and address to the key STP Issues with the Root cause analysis.
- Reverse Transition from Genpact Delhi to Diageo Bangalore - Invoice Processing and Issue Resolution Team (COBALT Wave1 Project- DBSI Pilot Project) and be instrumental in standardizing STP operations for Africa Region.
- Transition Debit Balances and Month End Closing Activities from North America for accounts Payable for Volvo
Timeline
Manager Supplier Experience /STP
Supply, Diageo Global Brand Supply
09.2021 - Current
Sr Team lead Supply
Diageo Global Brand Supply
10.2020 - 09.2021
Specialist Procurement Operations
Diageo North America Region
01.2019 - 10.2020
Specialist Purchase Order Life Cycle Owner
Diageo Africa
03.2018 - 01.2019
Analyst Purchase Order Life Cycle Owner
Diageo Africa Region
07.2016 - 03.2018
Process Lead
North America - Volvo India Pvt Ltd
07.2012 - 07.2016
MBA - Finance
Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore University
Bachelor of Commerce - Finance & Accounting
Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore University
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