K Bhargava Krishna

PROJECT: Procurement & Supply Chain Management

Role: Buyer & Material Planner (Aerospace Industry – Aircraft Manufacturing)

A. Process Involvement in Procurement:

• Analyzing & determining the material demand for a certain period by considering past requirements and forecasts at all plants.
• Creating Purchase Orders with certain conditions according to the determined requirements.
• Performing modification in created POs as per the demands and requirements like Changes in order quantity, Pulling in or Pushing out the delivery schedules and PO cancellations.
• Analyzing the Demand vs. Receipts regularly, contacting the vendors to know latest WIP status of the materials, then STOCK SHORTAGE REPORT is sent to the stakeholders accordingly.
• Actioning Exception Massages (Pull in or push out the order based on requirements)
• Transfer the parts from one plant to another plant based on requirements.
• Review critical safety stock.
• Managing supplier's database.
• Identify, recommend and implement operational efficiencies to drive continuous improvement in execution of the process.

B. Demand Planning & Data Ingestion :

• Preparation of daily Sales & Inventory reports and weekly Forecast of Sales reports.
• Handled end to end process of Data Ingestion of Sales & Inventory and Forecasts reports.
• Worked on updating the Dashboards for Sales, Inventory and Forecast for Clients visibility by pulling data using SQL queries from Database.
• Worked on data query to retrieve/debug data issues and also used for pre/post auditing of the data functionality.
• Preparing DTP's and making sure to update when and where required.
• Managing daily B2B & B2C orders fulfillment on time and also managing different stakeholders globally by actioning their requests through Emails within a stipulated time.
• Work in the Inventory Management requests coming from Clients from One Warehouse to Other Warehouse.
• Reporting of Team's utilization & volume on a weekly,monthly & quarterly basis and managing to prepare the data presentations which are required for WBR, MBR and QBR meetings.
• Submitted two ideas for process automation which has saved manual effort
• Ensuring the Team meets the SLA and TAT as agreed with the client.
• Ensuring the process Audits are done regularly and taking the PKT for the team members on a monthly basis.
• Handling Customer Chargebacks we receive for some reasons and disputing them with the Customer by providing appropriate documents as proof to the Customer to waive off Chargebacks.
• Supported in Troubleshooting of EDI related issues in Open Text, by raising necessary Tickets and routing them to concerned Teams for resolution.
• Develop and implement plans for cross training of resources within individual LOB with Essential Qualifications.

C. KPIs Reporting:

• Tracking of KPIs within the Deal and publishing the dashboards to the Leadership on a weekly basis. Reporting of SLA metrics on a weekly basis.
• Reporting Employees daily & weekly reports of utilization and production and publishing in the dashboards to Leadership and ensuring the timely reports are submitted for the leadership.
• Preparing the Monthly scorecard of the Employees based on the performance which is considered for the rewards and recognitions every month.
• Monitoring & sending reports of the shrinkage of all team members on a daily and weekly basis.

D. SKU Setup:

• Onboarding Google products on the partner portals.
• Coordinating with Google Product managers and stakeholders.
• Working closely with the Product marketing team to fulfill product attributes.
• Validating partner portal before the go-live date.
• Enhanced supply chain efficiency by implementing strategic sourcing and procurement processes.
• Championed change management initiatives within the organization related to supply chain practices or systems implementation.
• Consistently met or exceeded annual cost reduction targets through strategic initiatives and process improvements in the supply chain.
• Contributed to sustainable business practices by incorporating green initiatives into supply chain strategies.
• Enhanced supply chain efficiency by implementing strategic sourcing and procurement processes.
• Identified opportunities for process improvements in the supply chain, leading to increased operational efficiency.

• Creating a pickup and Hawb Creation on based on the booking received from the Stations.
• Coordinating with Customers to update the status of their shipments.
• Customer request for quote to ceva, we refer tariff sheet and quote to customer by email & get the booking confirmation.
• After accepting the Pickup by origin. The origin station creates MO# and assign driver to bring the freight. After the pickup was done driver closes the MO.
• Once the freight received by the station, the origin station inspects the freight. The origin station sets the mode of transport (ground or air) based on customer requirement. And the pickup converted into HAWB. Then attach the HAWB to MAWB.
• Track & Trace the shipments based on the service level and updating the milestone about the freight status to customers.
• Talking clients through a series of actions over the telephone.
• Appointment should be made based on customer requirements. Once the freight is delivered, update the POD status in WP.
• Rate the shipment & Deliver invoice to the customer.
• Generated comprehensive reports highlighting key business insights for presentation to executive leadership teams.
• Provided excellent customer service, resolving issues promptly and nurturing long-term client relationships.
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