Sameer Kulkarni Email & Phone Number

Bahrain

Bahrain

Throughout my decades-long tenure, I streamlined functions, including purchasing, warehousing, inventory and manufacturing. Steering 500 staff and 60 executives with a capacity to build 850,000 units in a production area of 100,000 square meters, we accomplished these impactful enterprise-wide initiatives:►Secured millions of dollars in revenue by commissioning three factories in Awal Gulf, maximizing suppliers’ credit terms, and launching high-efficiency air conditioners and prototypes with ozone-depleting substance elimination capabilities.►Bolstered hundreds of thousands of dollars of profit in material and processing costs to develop a line of condensing units and reduced millions of dollars from inventory by developing vendor-managed programs and avoiding obsolescence. ►Improved compliance by 99% by conducting supplier product and process audits, led a decrease in workplace accidents by promoting a culture of safety and facilitated 95% equipment efficiency and a 4% price reduction by lowering defects to 1/500 per unit. ►Cultivated over half a million dollars in process efficiencies and performance improvements by establishing a manufacturing engineering division and garnered an 80% decrease in risk after instituting an estimation and minimization initiative.►Procuring a 15% CAGR enhancement for ten years, I was honored to be recognized for exceptional performance as the youngest general manager of the senior management team.►Commended by the board for state-of-the-art warehouse erection from concept to operation and production startup of a 58,000-square-meter commercial air-conditioner factory and recognized by the supreme council of environment for eliminating global warming and ozone-depleting substance refrigerants ►Represented Bahrain in all forums concerned with environmental initiatives, including the Vienna United Nations meetings for hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) phase-out planning.

Bahrain

►Spearheaded successful projects by governing overall facets of complete greenfield projects, including contract finalizations, procurement, product launches, and restructuring initiatives, including the strategic planning of construction and capacity enhancement to align with the investment. ►Attained hundreds of thousands of dollars in scrap auctioning by linking pricing to historical averages and reduced costs by 25% by merging the spare parts and purchasing departments.►Averted differential pricing by devising a centralized procurement program and added value with intelligent and efficient sourcing and created a robust supply chain by developing strong vendor and service provider partnerships by authoring a plan and mechanism for organizing global strategic sourcing.

Bahrain

Supply Chain Head

Bahrain

Head of Purchase & Logistics

Bahrain

Planning & Procurement

Bahrain

Planning & Procurement

Pune, Maharashtra, India