Reena Sawkar Email & Phone Number

Lead Kymeta’s global logistics & 3PL network design & development for Inbound, Customer Fulfillment, and Reverse Logistics.Responsible for selecting & managing Freight Forwarders Globally (Expeditors, Maersk, DSV, FedEx, DHL), onboarding partners, negotiating & setting up net payment terms, and reviewing and approving invoices.Define lanes to move.

Greater Seattle Area

Developed & Executed LSP strategy from sketch to scale for NA & EU (Capability, Scalability, Cost).Developed business case for New LSP’s including requesting & reviewing RFQ’s, executing MSA & SOW, setup payment terms / credit limits and process for monitoring & approving monthly spend. Optimized shipping lanes and negotiated rates & services with Carriers.

Bellevue

Responsible for organizing, implementing and coordinating Material Planning, Inventory Review, Forecasting, Purchasing & Production Planning with CM.Responsible for the Medium & Long-term Planning process and Weekly Demand Planning process of all assigned product groups.Monitor material shortage & overage. Manage lead-time with suppliers. Review material.

Redmond, WA

• Responsible for managing and executing end-to-end RTV (Return-To-Vendor) and Liquidation programs for products returned from Microsoft Retail stores (B&M, Online) worldwide – successfully reduced Turn Around Time (TAT).
• Reviewed contract allowances for return to supplier; confirmed adherence to contract, identified potential contract opportunities and on-boarded suppliers as return vendors; establishing and optimizing RTV privileges.
• Interfaced with DC’s / Return Operations Center (ROC), Logistics & Merchandising teams to manage the disposition of inventory (RTV or Liquidation) and with AP team to resolve credit issues.
• Identified potential liquidators based on LOB and lead internal teams (Tax & Trade, Legal, Finance, Order Mgmt. etc.) to negotiate contracts and on-board Liquidators. Initiated liquidation bid requests and negotiate.
• Developed Scorecard / KPI’s to monitor Vendor and 3PL performance. Publish RTV & Liquidation KPI performance reports to Senior Leadership Team.
• Developed LPP (Liquidation Pilot Projects) to validate Recovery Effectiveness Index and implemented into Run-Business. Initiated Scrap / disposal of products.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Managed and supported RMA process for specific Carrier accounts, which included coordinating activities between Carriers, Repair Centers (in Mexico & Canada), 3rd party vendors and Regional RIM RMA teams.
• Engaged with vendors to procure parts for qualification. Upon approval, setup delivery of parts to repair sites.
• Managed and coordinated approval of new parts with Engineering and Reliability teams.
• Based on repair build schedule, coordinated supply of parts between Parts Distributor (viz. Arrow), Repair Center’s & Carrier DC’s.
• Repaired Site Readiness lead for specific Carriers NPI’s.
• Primed Customer & Repair / Logistics Centre interface for special projects (e.g. Code load projects, rework on FG, special shipping requirements etc.)

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• Released internal work orders to production based on CTB, capacity and open orders.
• Responsible for resolving issues with vendors, purchase order discrepancies and collaborate with Finance team in solving issues.
• Released RFQ (non-inventory items) & setup supplier profiles.
• Ran monthly buy reports, review purchase requests, prepare and process Purchase Orders (EDI/ non-EDI). Publish monthly Purchasing Forecasts for inventory items.
• Initiated priority-receiving procedure for expedite shipments and track as required.Demand Planning
• Review Month-to-date forecasts on an on-going basis and generate Forecasting Accuracy reports.