I am a proactive and achievement-oriented professional offering nearly 17 years of experience & year-on-year success in Sourcing/Purchase Management, Supply Chain & Logistics Operations, Warehouse, CAPEX Procurement, Foreign Trade, Contract Management & Scrap Management.Currently associated with AVTEC Ltd. as Asst. General Manager and heading the Indirect and CAPEX Procurement Team at the Pan-India level, overseeing operations in Hosur, Chennai, and Indore besides supporting Direct Sourcing.I am a forward thinking person with proficiency in Procure-To-Pay (P2P) cycle: RFX creation, Preparing & conducting negotiations based on technical specifications, market conditions, cost objectives, using appropriate methods & tools to secure best possible technical & commercial conditions for the organizations, PO administration & post order activities, managing capital expenditures (CAPEX) and Professional/Contractual Services and administering logistics services entailing custom clearance, primary delivery, warehousing, secondary distribution; managed entire dispatch operations, freight, & dealing with customs clearing agents & freight forwarders.Throughout my career, I have:• Established Centralized Purchasing for three manufacturing locations reducing costs & rationalizing supply base• Revamped, refined and reestablished Purchasing, Logistics & CAPEX SOPs• Successfully liaised for Credit Line with NBFC for Project Funding• Spearheaded Sale of excess Assets in the current Organisation • Introduction of a central apprenticeship scheme resulted in recurring savings of INR 10 million per annum • Streamlined Critical Raw Material supplies in Volvo Buses mitigating line stoppages• Autonomously handled contracting, procurement and warehousing activities for the Greenfield Project at Xindia Steels