Arun Prasad Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tn, In

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Managing strategic sourcing of commodities like Casting, Forging, Stamping, & Suspension system.• Strategic approach for promoting an Indian supplier base for an export global business award.• Craft negotiation strategies for achieving commercial targets & close deals with agreement • Leveraging Business Review Meetings with suppliers for business growth.• Building a robust supplier base to meet the global organization demands by improving the quality stds .• Assess, manage, and mitigate risks with respect to cost, quality, and delivery.

India

• Performing cost scenario analysis, and benchmarking on the prices for different regions.• Develop, lead, and execute purchasing strategies for securing the budget.• Liaising with stakeholders to ensure clear technical requirements documentation• Ensuring on-time delivery and adequate capacity allocation for the forecast demands.• Promoting cost reduction ideas w.r.t material, specification, process, & logistic optimization• Ensure periodic raw material price revision w.r.t FEAF – Spain, London Metal Exchange, Crisil, and SIAM.

Chennai Area, India

•Lead & organize a techno-commercial discussion with the supplier.• A key player in promoting the potential supplier to Top Mgt and project team for supplier nomination.• Ensuring raw material price revision based on the raw material fluctuations.• Organizing Top Mgt meetings with suppliers to discuss performance and to demand action plans.• Responsible for PO release, negotiation, and implementing engineering changes in the running projects.

Bangalore , India

Drive negotiation for additional cost savings on top of existing prices.• Drive supply chain optimization (SCO), (eg performing cost workshops) for low-performing suppliers.• Implement raw material price correction based on contracts signed based on London Metal Exchange.• Propose resourcing activities & drive actions related to the supplier switch as per the requirement• Manage tooling inventory including repair & replacement of tools & follow up supplier-owned tooling • Responsible for on-time delivery of parts as per forecast requirement.

Bangalore,India

•Responsible for supplier selection with respect to QCDF perspective in accordance with the strategy.• Accountable for leading the commercial negotiation with suppliers to arrive at an optimum price level.• Promoting the potential supplier for approval from Global Purchasing.• Identifying and promoting an Indian supplier base for export projects to enhance better leverage for LTA .• Promoting cost reduction ideas w.r.t material, specification, process, and logistic optimization.• Benchmarking the part cost by floating the RFQ to the supplier base for market study and to challenge the current supplier

Chennai,Inida

•Accountable for purchasing raw materials and child parts in Plastic, Steel, Rubber & Wiring Harness • Responsible for commercial negotiation with suppliers on part and tool costs for the new projects.• Establishing an agreement - Nomination Letter, Tooling Order, and Capacity Confirmation Sheet.• Administering supplier cost reduction activities & contributing to the preparation of the budget.• Floating RFI’s & freezing the total Bill of Material cost for the complete product for the bidding projects.• Performing monthly group reporting documents like Fx rate loss and PPI for all the projects

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

•Accountable for purchasing non-production items like consumables and machine spares.• Handled negotiations with suppliers for finalizing prices and other general purchasing conditions.• Managed release of PO for nominated supplier after obtaining approvals for the respective PR.

Pg Diploma, International Business

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Automobile Engg

Activities and Societies: Catia,Pro E

High School, Computer Sience