Praveen Kumar Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore

• Develop and lead a team of 20 Supply and commodity managers, positioned across the globe to support cable and connector commodity with annual spend of $500M.
• Directed commodity sourcing strategy involving technology roadmap alignment with supply partners, rationalization of supply base ~36% of spend consolidated with strategic partners.
• Strategized cost and contract negotiations through collaborative development, expressive bidding, price benchmarking, cost analytics and more (2% or… Show more
• Strategized cost and contract negotiations through collaborative development, expressive bidding, price benchmarking, cost analytics and more (2% or $2M+ reduction Q/Q)
• Influenced multimillion dollar inventory decisions on extended PO coverage, 2nd source qualification, interchangeable designs in current challenging environment to ensure supply continuity.
• Chaired Supplier relationship management programs with executives critical to business.

Singapore

• Manage annual spend of around $250 million for Dell Display's (Monitors) as part of the procurement team driving Dell's No.1 market share worldwide
• Lead long term material planning & medium-term volume allocation with supply base, in line with the overall sourcing strategy
• Lead RFQ, RFP & business award for new product introduction.
• Lead monthly cost negotiation with suppliers and manage cost interlocks with business & finance teams achieved BU deflation targets… Show more
• Lead monthly cost negotiation with suppliers and manage cost interlocks with business & finance teams achieved BU deflation targets 100%.
• On-board new suppliers to drive competition, improve operational & cost performance

Singapore

• Instrumental role in initiatives to make Dell supply chain more effective by eliminating or restructuring existing process.
• Executive update on business situation from sales, ships, and backlog standpoint.
• Led several global supply chain related business initiatives end of quarter (EOQ) backlog target which has direct impact on companies' revenues /net profit.
• Designed and developed key metrics for business performance measurement ranging from Operations to customer experience,… Show more
• Designed and developed key metrics for business performance measurement ranging from Operations to customer experience, providing guidance to key decision making. Show less

Singapore/Japan

• Carried out technology transfer of Li Ion polymer battery technology and manufacturing function from Japan to Singapore (Pioneer line), new product introduction.
• Successfully completed twelve engineering initiatives to drive productivity improvements.
• Contract Management - Turnkey projects with automation vendors.
• Spare part inventory control related to parts requirement prioritization and Budget control
• Apply Six Sigma approach to improve productivity.

India

• Implemented process optimization of all critical parameters effecting product quality, routine internal auditor for the process specification confirmation (Engineering division, Optical media manufacturing)
• Applied Process Control using SPC (Statistical Process and control) tools and DOE (Design of Experiment)
• Establish a troubleshooting system for a high technology product (Digital versatile disc) to abide by the customer quality requirement.

Mba (Residential), Global Logistics And Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Corporate Interaction, Cultural events and Sports (college level)

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering