VINAY AR
Principle Specialist – Supply Chain Management | Procurement & Planning
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced Supply chain professional with more than 7 years of experience in all aspects of the domain with a proven track record of optimizing the operations & enhancing the efficiency. Known for reliability and strong focus on achieving objectives.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Principle Specialist – Supply Chain Management
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Bengaluru
09.2024 - Current
- Accountable for leading a team of 4 material planners in inventory planning, coordinating and analyzing inventory management for the Value stream and working with the inventory team to analyze outcomes
- Analyzing the supply chain operations and identify opportunities that will improve the KPI's
- Provide data driven insights and performance reports to management, support strategic decision making
- Streamline the stakeholder expectations and ensure that the project objectives, scope, and deliverables meet expectations
- Managing the supplier performance evaluation to assure utilization of suppliers that best meet company requirements on quality, delivery, and cost
- Facilitated in the development of Power BI dashboards, automating procurement analytics and achieving substantial reduction of time compared to manual reporting
Senior Associate - Supply Chain
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Bengaluru
10.2021 - 08.2024
- Resolved delivery risks for up to 6 Vendors by WIP tracking & Schedule alignment every day, work on shortages on a daily basis to understand the requirements and promptly escalate the shortages
- Handling all correspondence and negotiations with various suppliers
- Directs and coordinates supply chain functions through strategy, resource optimization, profitability maximization, and KPIs resulting in the maximization of customer satisfaction
- Purchase Order creation, validation using SAP based on their clauses & audit the PO's created by team members
- Excess Analysis of high dollar value material by finding cause & disposition
- Coordinate Engineering Changes with suppliers and incorporating the EC effectively dates after reviewing the stock and WIP status from Suppliers
Material Procurement and Production Planner
SAFRAN HAL Aircraft Engines
Bengaluru
02.2018 - 10.2021
- Production Scheduling & Releasing - Planning the monthly production (Actual vs plan), simultaneously managing safety stock coverage as targeted
- Scheduling production plan to accommodate customer demand within practical production capabilities & co-ordinate with plant team to resolve Day to day issues to achieve daily production plan
- Material Planning - managed complete material planning process from forecasted demand to product shipment to customer
- Reviewed material flow and recommended safety stock and inventory levels that prevented inventory stock outages
- Brought stock and purchasing quantities to realistic levels, resulting in improved service levels and reduced discrepancies hence leading to reduced purchase costs
- Working on master data creation & maintain, analysis of BOM, Routing, work orders management, material consumptions in work orders, material flow study
- To link in ERP flow of manufacturing process with different cross functional teams Finding the root causes for the problems arising in achieving OTD and monthly production plan and to find and execute solution for the same
- Measure regular supplier Delivery Performance against Schedules, support supplier meetings and negotiations to ensure demand for materials is met, to resolve supplier concerns and evaluate supplier performance in conjunction with members of the purchasing teams
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
The Oxford College of Engineering
Bengaluru, India 08.2013 - 08.2017
Skills
- Effective Strategic Planning
- Workflow Streamlining
- Supply Chain Optimization Strategy
- Strategic Procurement Management
- Production Coordination
- Material Management
- Team Leadership
- Risk Mitigation & Compliance
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Logistics/Inventory Operations
Accomplishments
- Appreciation Award for Being Dependable in Supplier performance, 09/22
- Developed a weekly production release tool which was appreciated and approved by the management
- MIHV project to improve the inventory optimization for eliminating excess inventory worth $70K
- Spares overdue project to reduce the pending orders for worth $170K
- Initiated SIPOC preparations and Control Tower to achieve 100% accuracy in process management
- Created & maintain the tracker to Audit the PO's created by team mates & to improve the accuracy to 96%
Timeline
Principle Specialist – Supply Chain Management
Pratt & Whitney Canada
09.2024 - Current
Senior Associate - Supply Chain
Pratt & Whitney Canada
10.2021 - 08.2024
Material Procurement and Production Planner
SAFRAN HAL Aircraft Engines
02.2018 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
The Oxford College of Engineering
08.2013 - 08.2017
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