Upendra Patel Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada

Acting as a Senior Purchasing Agent for both the companies, Sigma Tool & Machine & Falcon Fasteners are leading manufacturer of T-Nuts, machines to insert it & all different kind of nails respectively. Both are ISO 9001 certified, highly professionally managed companies, they are global, market leader for high quality special furniture & house building fasteners and accessories from last 45 years. Combined turnover of both the companies is over 30m US$ per annul. Job profile and major responsibilities were: - Responsible for all purchasing of materials and services, equipment and supplies for the organization, including major contracts and capital equipment.Determined proper sources of supply for most economical purchases and place orders, with the responsibility for prices, quality and on-time delivery.Successfully negotiate with suppliers for the purchase of materials to ensure lowest total costs without compromising quality.Interact with a wide range of suppliers on quality, delivery and invoice issues to satisfy both parties.Review purchase requisitions and communicated them to suppliers to successfully meet special requirement of requisition.Reported directly to the Operation Manager and General Manager.Located new sources of supply as necessary, kept abreast of changing trends in prices or availability of materials and recommended necessary actions to ensure a continued flow of materials to meet production and sales requirement.Worked directly with the internal departments such as production, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Accounting and Customer Service.Reduced Vendor base from 200 to less than 100.Implemented Lean inventory systems and cost reduction programs that saved the organization $ 50,000 + annually on purchases of $ 4 M

Key Stone Valves is ISO 9001 certified, world known, well managed Multinational company deals in different kind of valves like Butterfly, Vanessa, Safety, Ball valves and other specialty valves as per customer specifications.Job profile and major responsibilities were: -Oversee entire production department, raw material management, production scheduling, payroll tracking, operator productive, safety and overall efficiencies. Managed and conducted manufacturing activities for a 7-day operation, which include, ISO 9000 standard, lean techniques and providing the highest level of quality and customer services.Controlled bills of material on all packaging products, manage work order control process from start to finish.Increased on time shipment percentage 89% to 99% in two years. Created an order fulfillment team that has personnel from the entire manufacturing functions daily to address operational needs to satisfy our customers.Increased quality by 6% through improved quality control by assembler.Dictated the direction of the management and hourly staff maintaining the facility in order to limit lost time, through the continual operation of management.Served on several management committees that successfully negotiated to union contracts.

APS Star Industries is a repudiated name in textile industries that makes drafting system, bearings, HF housing and others parts, which are used in making textile machinery.Made production schedule every month and for three months depending on orders and inventory.Provided various strategic analyses and development performance plans to define, implement and measure progress against customer orders.Evaluate small to large repair or service contracts in regard to benefits on in-house or outside contracting.Partnered with purchasing to provide timely feedback to customers and maintain a supplier-rating program regarding on-time deliveries and quality components.Increased product first-pass yield rate from 78% to 93%Lowered product availability lead-time from 5 days to 1 day.Daily updated on the status of production schedule, on time delivery, cross-trained employees production improvements.