Nikhil Sawant

Experience

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  Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited

  Jul 2015 - Jun 2016

  Junior Material Planner

  Responsibilities:-• • Coordinate with operations, engineering, purchasing and quality to attain production goals.• Schedule the supply of materials/components to meet production requirements and minimum safety stock levels.• Plan, develop, implement and evaluate processes for material delivery from supplier to point of fit.• Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions.• Day to day order management and management of deliveries.• Understand and manage risks to minimize impact on production schedule.• Take follow up actions in relation to material shortages that affect production.• Monitor the integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and manage inventory accuracy.• Monitor inventory levels against agreed target levels. Show less

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  BEICO Industries Pvt. Ltd.

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

  Production Executive

  • Job or Task Scheduling: Preparation of time and action calendar for each order from order receiving to shipment. For example, scheduling planned cut date (PCD), line loading date etc.• Resource Planning (Inventory): Preparation of Material requirement sheet according to sample product and buyer specification sheet. Consumption of material is calculated and estimated cost of each material. • Loading production: Defines which style to be loaded to the production line and how much quantity to be loaded.• Process selection & planning: According to the order (customer), select processes for the orders. Sometime extra processes are eliminated to reduce cost of production.• Estimating quantity and costs of production: Estimate daily production (units) according to the styles work content. With the estimated production figure, production runs and manpower involvement also estimate production cost per pieces. • Capacity planning: Decide (suggest) how much order we should accept according to our production capacity. Allocating of total capacity or deciding how much capacity to be used for an order out of total factory capacity. Regularly updating factories current capacity (production capacity).• Line planning: Preparing detailed line planning with daily production target for the production line. • Follow up and execution: Whatever plan is made is executed by PPC department. PPC department keeps close look whether everything is progressing according the plan. Chasing other department heads on daily basis to keep plan on track. They update order wise completed tasks on the Time & action Calendar. Show less

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  Tata Group

  Aug 2019 - Jan 2022

  Senior Process Associate

  Good exposure in procurement process.Process service requests raised from internal stakeholder’s.Provide P2P related supports to customer on emails.Raising purchase orders using SAP, working with approvers to ensure PO's are released in a timely manner and within the agreed timeframes.Working with Finance to ensure the Purchase order approval matrix is kept up to date and communicated to all who need it.Handle procurement processes like Purchase order creation, STSA/STO creation PR to Po creation, Price amendment, Source list Maintain, Quota maintain, ZDIS Maintain, and ERC Procurement.Accurate maintenance of P2P Team records; produce regular reports on the demand/input through the Team and presenting at Team meetingsTransaction coordination: Process training – conducts training for team members in order to ensure right skilling.SLA Compliance - In a data process - Executes transactions as per prescribed guidelines and timelines such as verifying documents, analysis of data, responding to complaints/queries on email, interacting with customer for order management depending on the process, in order to meet SLA target. Participates supports TL in the daily huddles, provides trainings \ inputs on process \ business to team in order to ensure delivery predictabilityProcess Compliance - In a data process - Executes Client transactions i.e. attends transactions, verifies basic information, and closes customer query\issue as per defined SOP/parameters prescribed; Ensures appropriate documentation of the upshot from last transaction on the clients account as per prescribed format. In order to meet quality standards. Conducts QC\QA programs as part of quality plan in order to ensure process steps. Coordinate with the data management team, and other teams to ensure data in the ERP is correct and updated.Conduct current state assessments to identify gaps to standard model. Develop and implement gap resolution / implementation plans. Show less

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  Flex

  Jan 2022 - Apr 2023

  Procurement Specialist

  Timely issuance of POs to Vendors, follow-up for order confirmation and co-ordination for on time payment to suppliersCoordinating with vendors for actual delivery status of materialOn time completion of Open Purchase Order Report and Shortage Report for reviewTo efficiently and accurately execute core procurement processes for assigned productsTo meet or exceed desired service levels and inventory targets as defined for the products assigned, validated through procurement metricsCoordinate with Internal Business Partner (requestor) and Supplier for Purchase Order Changes Select supplier for placing new orders in accordance with approved Purchasing strategiesManaging supplier's databaseTo identify, recommend, and implement operational efficiencies to drive continuous improvement in the execution of procurement processesPerform root cause analysis to expedite the resolution of service issuesPrepare Customized reports for analyzing and incorporating improvements in processesWe include shortage/excess escalation management, co-ordinate and follow thru on urgent receive, past dues management and receiving challenge resolution. Show less

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  Roche

  Apr 2023 - now

  Procurement Specialist

  Independent review, verification & validation of Purchase Requisitions (free-text orders within a threshold) incl. approval/rejection based on procurements aspects e.g. completeness, plausibility, legal conformity, quote, commercial terms, product category, demand- description and specification. Independent review, verification & validation of Purchase Requisitions (free-text orders within a threshold) incl. approval/rejection based on contractual aspects e.g. compliance, data- privacy and security, intellectual property, spend, reference to framework / MSA, vendor security risk, Roche Rules & Regulations. Ensure compliance with Roche procedures, purchasing policies, and financial instructions. Close collaboration and communication with Category Managers, internal stakeholders legal, and suppliers on operational Procurement topics. Acting as Power-User for RDCD - Creating Purchase Requests for Services according to the business requirements. Monitoring all POs that are issued until received and closed (e.g. being responsible for Order Acknowledgement handling and contacting the internal stakeholders/suppliers in case of need). Track orders and ensure timely delivery. Following up with stakeholders/suppliers when modifying orders, ensuring purchase order compliance, or performing updates/maintenance in the system. Proactively notify Requisitioners of order changes/delays. Vendor registrations and maintenance in the purchasing system. Ensure high quality of Vendor Master Data. Handling of MDG-M Workflows for direct goods (e.g. creating/updating info records). Creation of framework orders in the system in collaboration with the responsible Category / Procurement Manager. Creating weekly reports for the Confidence project. Responsible for the common Procurement Support mailbox. Interacting and supporting with the Account payable Department (e.g. invoice discrepancy, goods entry Workflows, closing PO´s). Show less