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 Handling major indirect purchase activity with cost effective and compliant way in coordination with a team of 2 including a contract employee and a GET. Overseeing CAPEX purchase within budget with negotiating special payment terms & conditions like ABG and PBG and ensuring on time delivery for Indian suppliers. Handling Capex order execution for Indian and overseas suppliers. Negotiating and finalizing service management with help of legal team for varied services like… Show more  Handling major indirect purchase activity with cost effective and compliant way in coordination with a team of 2 including a contract employee and a GET. Overseeing CAPEX purchase within budget with negotiating special payment terms & conditions like ABG and PBG and ensuring on time delivery for Indian suppliers. Handling Capex order execution for Indian and overseas suppliers. Negotiating and finalizing service management with help of legal team for varied services like Annual operations & Process Maintenance of E.T.P, Maintenance of Fire Alarm system & LPG Detection, Supply of LAN Items & related services, Third Party Inspection services, Local Tempo Service & transportation for Pune warehouse, Scrap Management Services and Service activity in Store. Coordinating with AP team for clearing all queries for on hold Invoices for on time supplier payment. Implementing cash flow Improvement and payment term improvement.Selective Accomplishments: Successfully handled an annual expenditure of 290 MINR yearly with reduction of 15% in cost by negotiating for sourcing projects. Supported EHS activities and sourced the safety items via Ariba, Category Buyer - PPE’s purchase, PAN India. Undertook projects such as machine guarding (from supplier development to Completion of guards) supplier rationalization. Actively initiated Ariba E-Pro Implementation and catalogues creation and handled all one time purchases, services, Miscellaneous buying. Undertook Machine Guarding Project, out of around 200 number of machines in the company, 139 were not protected with guards and caused two accidents in a month so management decided to provide guards to every machine thus providing 101 guards within 7 Months. Proficiently corrected the database and improved the payment terms from lead to cash flow by 0.4 MINR by contacting and negotiating with the vendors and thereby updating the system as as per latest and correct response. Show less

 Selected the suppliers as per requirement, invited quotations and finalized the required quantity of indirect materials. Also checked the terms of sales on quotation. Negotiated prices and payment terms and made a comparison sheet by analyzing it find the most efficient supplier. Found new supplier for indirect material, got the details from them, activated and de-activated new suppliers in the system. Raised the purchase orders and followed up of material along with managing… Show more  Selected the suppliers as per requirement, invited quotations and finalized the required quantity of indirect materials. Also checked the terms of sales on quotation. Negotiated prices and payment terms and made a comparison sheet by analyzing it find the most efficient supplier. Found new supplier for indirect material, got the details from them, activated and de-activated new suppliers in the system. Raised the purchase orders and followed up of material along with managing contract creation and their releases. Drove cost out projects along with preparing and sending the purchase orders to suppliers. Carried out the supplier performance analysis by OTD (On Time Delivery) report and resolved invoice queries by day to day interactions with the suppliers about invoices or Payment delays. Constantly followed up with supplier, transporter for on time delivery. Prepared and submitted management reports & presentations and worked as the transition SPOC.Selective Accomplishments: Worked on project of converting Discrete to Supplier schedule and also worked on Eaton Global CIF project for AMR process.  Managed to reduce the vendors by 23% and consolidated the time and efforts of buyers by analyzing all suppliers. Improved the average payment terms for indirect suppliers to 39 days by negotiating with the MSME suppliers for indirect material and services. Show less

 Selected the suppliers as per requirement and invited quotations from the selected suppliers by following up for quotation by checking the terms of sales on quotation. Negotiated with suppliers and performed daily review of wooden and metal pallet stocks and released the schedule for the pallets. Prepared and sent the purchase orders to suppliers along with interacting with all departments to streamline and address their issues. Constantly followed up with supplier, transporter… Show more  Selected the suppliers as per requirement and invited quotations from the selected suppliers by following up for quotation by checking the terms of sales on quotation. Negotiated with suppliers and performed daily review of wooden and metal pallet stocks and released the schedule for the pallets. Prepared and sent the purchase orders to suppliers along with interacting with all departments to streamline and address their issues. Constantly followed up with supplier, transporter for on time delivery. Resolved invoice queries by day to day interactions with the suppliers about invoices or Payment delays. Uploaded the production entries in EPAIS application Show less

• Deploy the operators and supervise them as per their skills.• Maintain the process parameters.• Train new operators using equipment’s, process controls.• Activate contingency plan in case of material shortage, Breakdowns. manpower absenteeism. • coordinating with PPC and stores for correct production quantities, Type of vehicle model etc.