Aravind Ramesh

Experience

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  Irrigation Products International P Ltd

  Dec 2015 - Nov 2018

  Procurement Executive

  • Re-negotiated the terms of a key government contract to reduce maintenance costs by 14%.• 5-7% Optimization of inventory by implementing collaborative planning with multiple internal teams.Planned and facilitated the depletion of non-moving inventory without scrapping them.• Worked effectively and efficiently with offshore vendors to ensure data, product prices and reports areaccurate without any anomalies.• Prepared spend analysis report, created procurement dashboards and presented data to themanagement.• Collaborated with IT and other internal groups to address data quality, master data management,data governance issues and process development by reducing manual input.• Achieved cost savings through active sourcing of new suppliers and re-negotiation with existingsuppliers, thereby reducing the COGS. This contributed to ~30% increase in sales. Show less

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  Lokandrew Impex - Woodscraft

  Nov 2018 - Feb 2020

  Supply Chain Planner

  • Understand the business needs and visited multiple wholesalers in Indonesia to analyze supplypatterns.• Performed market analysis to determine the products based on regional customer requirement.• Negotiated with multiple parties to reduce the shipping and logistics cost by 20-25%.• Designed an end to end supply chain model to improve the business process.• Worked with Finance and Legal teams on all matters relating to management and corporategovernance to ensure compliance with Procurement policies.• Devised and executed a precise plan for selling the products and made a profit of INR 7,50,000 (45-50%).• Strategically implemented category optimization by studying the regional demand trends. Show less

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  National University of Singapore

  Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

  SUPPLY CHAIN/ PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

  • Achieved 50-60% (S$ 30,000) cost saving on equipment and component purchase by global souring.• Streamlined a process for MTO and MTE environment• Sourced, negotiated, and purchased electrical and electronic components, Sensors, PCBs, andmachines, etc. to ensure the material availability for production and commercial trading• Successfully planned and assisted in the New Product Introduction (NPI) of two patented TRL- 6products at multiple pilot trial sites in Singapore.• Lead the pricing and supply agreement negotiation to explore favorable opportunities and terms forall parties.• Carried out vendor performance review and risk management to ensure compliance to contract &corporate objectives.• Responsible to review RFIs, RFQs, RFPs and PO.• Established and maintained strong relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers to meetbusiness objectives.• Conducted quarterly inventory audits to ensure 100% accuracy and trigger restocking via theappropriate purchasing methods.• Performed FY20/21 budgeting, cost variance analysis and quarterly forecasting for procurement.Coordinated cost reduction initiatives to achieve approved project budget.• Proficiently created BOM by meticulously reviewing the project requirements.• Evaluated the KPIs for the project to ensure the project is on track. Performed other ad-hoc tasks forthe overall benefit of the project. Show less

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  Novartis

  Apr 2023 - Sept 2023

  Tactical Supply chain Planner

  • Responsible for driving and managing the Master Production Schedule for the tactical horizon (3 to 24 months) ensuring capacity & resources are in place to support demand.• Primary contact for the respective BU in providing visibility of the supply plan to the customers and maintains the Service Level Agreements (SLAs).• Managed backlog and back orders between the site and customers. • Facilitated Supply Review Meeting and actively support the entire S and OP process.• Lead action plans to achieve supply performance target and drives for continuous improvement.• Head of the Master production schedule performance KPI. Aligned Master Production Schedule (MPS) to the production plan approved in S and OP. Show less