Phanindra Kumar, Crp Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Greater Bengaluru Area

1. Enterprise Strategic Sourcing Manager (Procurement & Market Intelligence) - handling a team of two for Procurement Intelligence and Market Research. Published more than 250+ reports in the last 2 years for the Org Sourcing projects. Collaborating with Leaders from Sourcing, Business Development, CXO, for preparing custom reports on RFP based sourcing projects in the categories of Facilities Management, Transportation, IT & Telecom, Marketing, Human Resources, Retail Store Operations, Professional Services, Supply Chain, MRO, Packaging, etc). Finding market opportunities in the form of comparative suppliers, cost forecasts, commodity/ category forecast, new market trends, Supplier Quadrant (Leaders, Strong performers, Challengers, Niche Players) for every report. Go-To-Market Strategy for RFP launch, Supplier Portfolio etc.2. Enterprise Strategic Sourcing Manager (Procurement Analytics) - Built the entire Procurement Analytics portfolio ground-up including but not limited to Spend Management metrics, KPIs, and 15+ active PowerBI Dashboards focusing on Global, Regional and Operational metrics that talk about the world of Indirect Spend, Vendor Normalization, Category Classification, Taxonomy Formation, Tail Spend Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Project Management, Buyer Metrics, Cost Savings and Opportunities etc.3. Enterprise Strategic Sourcing Manager (Process Transformation) - A. Ownership of Sourcing Datawarehouse - Initialized and executed creation of a Datawarehouse to import all the spend data from ERP to a local Datawarehouse for quick access and creation of dashboards. Owning the upgrade efforts of the platform from Peoplesoft ERP to Oracle Fusion ERP. B. Ownership of entire Source to Contract S2C process in Lowe's India - Process Map creation, Gap Analysis, Enhancement and Transformation, Cycle time reduction, Establishing Standard Operating Procedures, Turn Around Time (TAT) reduction, Business Consultant

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. Enterprise Strategic Sourcing Manager (Procurement Analytics) - Built the entire Procurement Analytics portfolio ground-up including but not limited to Spend Management metrics, KPIs, and 15+ active PowerBI Dashboards focusing on Global, Regional and Operational metrics that talk about the world of Indirect Spend, Vendor Normalization, Category Classification, Taxonomy Formation, Tail Spend Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Project Management, Buyer Metrics, Cost Savings and Opportunities etc.2. Enterprise Strategic Sourcing Manager (Process Transformation) - A. Ownership of Sourcing Datawarehouse - Initialized and executed creation of a Datawarehouse to import all the spend data from ERP to a local Datawarehouse for quick access and creation of dashboards. B. Ownership of entire Source to Contract S2C process in Lowe's India - Process Map creation, Gap Analysis, Enhancement and Transformation, Cycle time reduction, Establishing Standard Operating Procedures, Turn Around Time (TAT) reduction, Business Consultant

Bengaluru Area, India

Ø Managed a team of 11 members including 1 Manager, 5 Asst Managers, and 5 fulfilment Operation executives.Ø Owned and lead the team for Automated Packaging Solutions implementation with both internal min level and Vendor based inventory control. Ø Streamlined the supplies and improved the inwards and outwards for 15 Cr Food Packaging business. Ø Managing internal delivery teams and external partnerships for fluent client deliveries without any hurdles of Fiber, Rigid, Glass and Flexible Packaging material.Ø Focus on creating business impact by developing strategies for the top categories and by long term transition planning for other categories through sustainable initiatives.Ø Driven cost savings to the tune of Rs. 10 Cr through various category savings in Rigids category for plastic materials.Ø Consistently reviewed and improved the supplier performance at various instances to be top performersØ Drive continuous and consistent improvements in quality and productivity.Ø Weekly reporting to the Management for reviewing team and Suppliers performance metricsØ Driven and executed 6 Automation Projects successfully for improvement for supply chain efficiency over the last 1 year.

Bengaluru Area, India

 Work as a Consultant with On-Shore (Category Managers, Buyers, Consultants, Analysts, CPO) for timely reporting of the Management Information Reports on a monthly/ quarterly/ annual basis by preparing interactive dashboards, opportunity analyses. Initiating, analyzing and executing assessment reports for categories where significant process improvement and cost reduction are achievable.  Executing adhoc projects to provide insightful spend analysis information for the CMs to take appropriate actions for cost reductions and category strategy formulation. Worked on Global Category Strategy formulation with procurement directors by providing analysis in the categories Worked on a spend deep dive analysis initiative to deliver a realized savings of $3.5MN from global spend Global Technology Procurement strategies, Contract Management and Spend Analytics. This new role and formed and led to build a capacity like BOT. Resulted in a 2Mn USD savings in the first year itself.

Bengaluru Area, India

➢ Initiating, analyzing and executing assessment reports for categories where significant process improvement and cost reduction are achievable. ➢ Executing adhoc projects to provide insightful spend analysis information for the CMs to take appropriate actions for cost reductions and category strategy formulation.➢ Prepared a taxonomy structure, otherwise not available, for automation of MI reports.➢ Prepared Process documentation for all the ongoing MI reporting and monitor them. ➢ Consulting in tandem with On-Shore (Category Managers, Buyers, Consultants, Analysts, CPO) for generating the performance reports (MIS) on a monthly/ quarterly/ annual basis by preparing interactive dashboards, opportunity analyses.➢ Preparing Vendor-Contract Compliance Analysis, Payment Digressions, Spend analysis, Supplier Performance Monitoring Scorecards to provide insights to the category managers for meetings with the suppliers.➢ Support Strategic sourcing via Spend/ Opportunity Assessment, Vendor research, and contract negotiations.

Mumbai Area, India

My responsibilities aren't limited, but include:• Strategic Sourcing & Procurement of Raw Materials & Indirect spares for the end customer by analyzing the spend data• Conducting Opportunity analysis and identifying the spend variations by using techniques such as Unit Price variance analyses, Quantity variance, Vendor performance as initial stages so as to obtain commendable savings• Implementing sourcing strategies such as De-Risking, Alternate sourcing, Volumetric analyses, Vendor consolidation, Volume consolidation/ break-bulk etc,.• To execute the Sourcing strategies by conducting negotiations, forming contracts and by conducting, RFP, reverse auctions etc.• Handled direct material spends of USD 120 mn for one of the biggest personal care company based out of USA and Mexico. Conducted Opportunity analysis, Market Intelligence for the opportunities, recommended probable Savings scenarios with risk/ advantages of implementation.• Savings of approximately $2 mn were identified by doing Category strategy implementation• Currently handling USD 300 mn spends for world’s biggest personal care manufacturer for Indirect category with sub-category as MRO. This position involves conducting spend analysis, OA, MI, Vendor evaluation score cards (using SAP spend data), forming probable category strategies for cost reduction and improving the procurement practices by preparing user-friendly documents and suggesting process improvements • As a part of support for other projects for Brazil, Mexico & US, created user-friendly tools on Excel in other accounts for which I was hugely appreciated (Ex. Distance retrieval between two cities with data retrieval from Google maps, Automated supplier score card for RFI analyses for a largest global chemical manufacturer • Writing blogs for the company portal on supply chain industry is one of my personal interest and creating market intelligence documents of other sectors to study the performance, in leisure time.

Mumbai Area, India

• As a buyer, Purchasing & Procurement of Raw Materials & Indirect spares from optimal sources..• Global Sourcing of Raw Materials for Decal, Printed Electronics and Retail Business• Handled spend ranging to Rs. 120 crore per annual year inclusive of Raw material and Indirect spends.• Purchase & Procurement planning of Raw Materials and Indirect Materials.• Vendor Development of Direct, Capex and Indirect material.• Database creation for RM Sourcing & De-Risking, to enhance the Business Expansion and Volume expansion as well.• Worked as a SAP MM lead from company’s side looking after all issues in case of troubleshooting. Implemented SAP over a period of 6 months by closely working with the implementation team. Hence, extensive expertise of SAP generated from this exposure for project management & Database management.• Developed documentation as per ISO/TS 16949: 2009 standards.• Internal Auditor for ISO/TS standards for Purchase department and in the course of time changed and developed the SOPs, and identified and used SAP as a tool for vendor evaluation.

Mj Logistics (Itc Ltd) - Hassangarh, Haryana

As a Summer intern, in the given period of 60 days, my role was to Study and suggest improvements in Manpower Efficiency of a manually operated FMCG Warehouse (ITC Ltd.)1. Studying the operating conditions of warehouse. Incoming and outgoing locations, Manpower strength in the warehouse2. Warehouse utilization, capacity, Manpower utilization etc3. Working in FMCG warehouse and calculating TAT for the Incoming vehicles.4. Suggesting recommendations for improving manpower efficiency & TAT in the warehouse3. Identified and recommended suggestions for partial automation in Personal care section where people carry and drag goods of more than a Ton on pallet manually. This not only was increasing the TAT. but also reducing the manpower efficiency. 4. Developed a skill matrix for the available workers in the warehouse so as to optimally allocate the workers by age group at appropriate locations. 5. Provided training material for educating the workers in handling & storage of goods.

Mba, Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Masters in Supply Chain Management Experienced and studied all the possible aspects of Supply chain management from eminent professors.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Project Lead in Major Project (4th yr for a group of 12 members) and Minor Project(3rd yr for 6 members), Lead.

Intermediate, Maths, Physics , Chemistry

Completed Higher School with Physics, Maths and Chemistry as mains

Ssc, Maths, Social, Science, Telugu, English, Hindi

Activities and Societies: Represented School for Talent Exams and won 2nd Prize at District Level. Part of the Class cricket team.