Vikaskumar Kalal

Responsible for sourcing of materials and services for Operating Unit India in categories of Production & Maintenance materials, Subcontractor services and Indirect spend

Key Result Areas:

• Designed and implemented Organization Procurement Policy for OU India
• Successfully implemented Buyer Centralization Program under Elevate India Project leading to FTE savings and TAT improvement
• Successfully implemented E2E contractors sourcing program
• Managing PSM team in 4 regions across India, a team of 9 direct and 4 functional reportees
• Develops category strategy and assists customer business managers with integrated category strategy development
• Provide leadership to team through coaching, feedback, development goals and performance management
• Use of E-sourcing methods like e-auction, eRFQ/RFP, Catalogue procurement, contracts management to achieve economies of scale
• Proactively managing supplier performance through obtaining feedback and performance metrics via Performance management framework
• Strategically designed and implemented vendor management process viz. Vendor Identification and development, Qualification, Negotiation, On-boarding and evaluation

Highlights:

• Evaluated design and implementation of new systems to support tracking and tracing capability in Internet as well as web-based documentation and reporting
• Attained cost reduction and ensured high level of compliance among vendors and internal teams
• Reduced number of subcontractors through vendor development/ consolidation

Key Result Areas:

• Executed all procurement coordination activities till order finalization for all mechanical rotary & static, electrical & instrumentation, piping packages for LPIC-3 Project for Client ORPIC, Oman
• Responsible for expediting of Mechanical Rotary and Instrumentation Packages with various suppliers worldwide from receipt of documents till final delivery of equipment at site of Karbala Refinery Project for Client SCOP, Iraq
• Streamlined shop expediting at manufacturing facilities of L&T Valves, Chennai for GGC Valves and Virgo (Emerson) Valves, Pune for manual and automated ball valves for KNPC CFP Project, Woodfield Systems, Mumbai for loading arms for IRP-2 Project for timely delivery of orders leading to successful completion of projects
• Assessed all estimation and proposal of Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) Package-3 for ORPIC, Oman for Mechanical Static and Electrical Packages
• Supervised vendor documents submission, kept track on engineering, sub-ordering, fabrication, inspection progress till final delivery of ordered items at site for timely completion of project
• Worked on various stages of procurement during project proposal phase helping in major cost estimation for bidding projects successfully
• Responsible for vendor development and onboarding of Indian Suppliers across various product categories.

Key Result Areas:

• Recognized as SPOC for managing all contractual issues and working relationships with Company Business Partners
• Executed contracts management of site construction contracts for civil/structural, equipment erection, site equipment fabrication, piping fabrication & erection, pressure testing, mechanical clearance, loop completion, aiding during pre-commissioning and final handover to owner for startup and operations
• Worked on contract as per the laid contractual terms & conditions and actual execution methodology, managed Required-Actual-Gap (RAG) analysis and made necessary arrangements for deployment of resources
• Maintained contractual records and documentation such as receipt and control of all contract correspondence, vendors contact information sheets, contractual changes, published weekly status reports/MIS to Apex management
• Understands cost structure, knowledge of SCM and market analysis with tax optimization strategies and developed the reliable vendors/contractors to ensure satisfactory works completion and supply of goods at site