1. G.RAMKUMAR
Mobile: 09176669040  E-Mail: ram_aztec@yahoo.co.in
Supply Chain Management Professional
Procurement & Sourcing  Vendor Management  Commercial Operations *SAP
COMPETENCIES
Managerial
 Strategy Planning
 Best Practices
 Personnel Management
Functional
 Organisational Growth Initiatives
 Strategic Relationships
 Procurement
 Contract Management
 Sourcing & Procurement
 Vendor Localization
 Supplier Quality Assurance
 Inventory Control
 Budgetary & Cost Reduction
 Commercial Operations
 Documentation
 Coordination / Negotiation
 Team Management
A BRIEF OVERVIEW
 An astute & result oriented professional with over 6 years in Purchase &
Vendor Management, Commercial Operations, Inventory Control and
Relationship Management.
 Currently working with Flextronics Technologies India Pvt Ltd, Chennai
as Senior Buyer – Supply Chain Management.
 Expertise in procurement management activities involving planning,
techno-commercial negotiations, scheduling and procurement of EMS /
IT / Servers /Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) Commodities.
Handled 7-projects Reliance, IOCL, NTPC, Jubail Export refinery, Rafflafan,
CPCL & CGPL project procurement. EMS Projects Cisco, Alcatel, Sonus,
PaloAlto
 Proficient in supervising logistics processes & services at vendors end
and providing valuable suggestions for efficiency enhancement.
 Adept at ensuring optimum inventory levels to achieve maximum cost
savings without hampering the operations.
 Experienced in managing commercial operations, leading teams for
smooth operations, developing procedures and handing entire
documentation work related to purchase & work orders, etc.
 An enterprising leader with the ability to motivate personnel towards
achieving organisational objectives.
Personal Traits
 Driven to succeed and excel
 Committed to value for all stakeholders
 Seasoned and effective negotiator
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
 Procurement / Materials Management: Formulating and implementing the procurement strategy by developing /
modifying strategy for purchase - machines, spare parts, consumables, laboratory items, stationery items, etc. Planning
and controlling all requisite activities such as techno-commercial evaluation, negotiation, recommendation, ordering,
inspection, expediting & tracking, reporting, payment processing, etc.
 Vendor Development / Assessment: Assessing the performance of the vendors based on various criterions such as
percentage for rejections, quality improvement rate, timely delivery, credit terms, etc. Overseeing follow-up with vendors
for deliverables, and quality checks & ensuring timely payments.
 Documentation / Techno-Commercial: Developing purchase & work orders and maintaining receipt v/s. issue of
material at various plant levels. Coordinating with vendors, users & finance for GR/IR clearance; taking SAP dump and
reviewing the GR/IR pendency’s.
 Inventory Control: Ensuring quality, delivery and budget objectives are met as per organizational guidelines. Managing
operations ensuring optimum inventory levels to achieve maximum cost savings without hampering the operations.
Designing strategies for indigenizing products thus saving cost and revenue for the company.
ORGANISATIONAL SCAN
Apr’13 – present with Flextronics Technology India Pvt Ltd, Chennai
Accountabilities:
 Shouldering responsibilities pertaining to:
 Taking care of Procurement Activities with Flextronics Austin / Milpitas manufacturing facility.
 Preparation of POS in SAP / Baan based on the demand.
 Accountabilities of CISCO/SHORTEL / SONUS / ALCATEL / PaloAlto Semi-conductor / Servers / Diodes /
Resistors / Mechanical Commodity parts
 Working with Internal GCM commodity management to ensure that ordered price is In-line with our global
contract price.
 Shouldering Additional responsibility in Providing New Joiners Training
 Managing Cisco / PaloAlto / Sonus / Alcatel / Avaya projects single handed & Increased the supply chain team's
productivity by 15% is a result showing success.

2.  Responsible for customer satisfaction levels. Improved customer satisfaction from a 3.1/5 average to a 4.3/5
average.
 Negotiated contracts for commodity purchases. Saved the company $13 million through negotiation of
commodity purchase contracts Negotiations for Cisco / PaloAlto
 Reduced average invoice backlog by 20 days through transforming the purchase-to-pay process.
Significant Highlights:
 Quickly Adapts the Business process of Flextronics
 Handling 1000+ parts combined with all projects
 Got Appreciation from SHORTEL / CISCO / ALCATEL / PaloAlto planners for covering 100% shortages. And achieved VOC 4
out of 5, which is major record.
 As of now for my parts maintaining the Inventory with No – Line down situation.
 Also we have achieved 70% pull-in, 68% Push-out & 83% in cancellation which is new Milestone for our Site Metrics in
quarter Jul-13 to Sep-13.
 Shouldering additional responsibilities in updating Dash-Board & submitting weekly consolidated Shortage reports to Site.
 So far maintaining my Parts status without any Escalations from SITE.
 Shouldering additional responsibilities in preparing Trend chart / Red Metrics / Supplier Governance call for entire team.
 Successfully negotiated with Supplier APTRONICS / GE Power / Broadcom Corp & achieved $160K Push-out.
 Had a successful price negotiation with Silicon Labs US & saved 4.5KUSD saving & rewarded by End Customer CISCO
Jun’08 – Mar’13 with Invensys Operations Management, Chennai
Growth Path:
Jun’08-Sep’09 Contract Employee
Sep’09-Jun’11 Assistant – Supply Chain Management
Jul’11 – Mar-13 Buyer – Supply Chain Management
Accountabilities:
 Shouldering responsibilities pertaining to:
 Preparation of POS in SAP & ERP.
 Vendor Development for Huge Project Buyouts.
 Vendors Negotiation for Direct & Indirect Materials.
 Taking MIS reports on Monthly basis to submit to management.
 Pre-bidding & Cost Avoidance
 Ensuring timely POS follow-ups in order to fulfil project requirements.
 Administering the ISO activities, preparing & maintaining Time Delivery Reports, PR - PO Reports, Approved Vendor List &
Vendor Evaluation Reports.
 Steering New Vendor Development & SRM & implementing SAP in vendor database.
 Resourceful in global rate contracts & pricing negotiations.
 Integrating with Freight Forwarder, Custom Clearing Agents and Finance Personnel for custom clearance.
 Accountable for DPO improvement with vendors & following for on-time payment.
 Worked in SAP Implementation & taken care of Vendor management & Open Pos transfers from Legacy system to SAP
Significant Highlights:
 Successfully Developed Vendor SALZER Electronics for the Cable ducts commodity, Over Trinity Touch.
 For the above achieved $35K in Jubail project.
 Supported in reducing the lead time of Mechanical assembly products Cabinet
 Procured Mechanical Cabinets for all projects (RIL, IOCL, BPCL, Kuwait Oil Company, GSPL,Algeria refinery etc. With the
management’s approval involved in sourcing another Vendor for cabinets Pyrotech, with hard negotiations & technical
clearance with the help of Panel technical team we have made understand our requirements to Pyrotech & attained
approval for Pyro cabinets for domestic projects. This minimized lead time to 6-weeks for cabinets & 4-weeks for
accessories.
 Involved in Procuring Power Cables / Electric Cables for Cabinet wiring. Involved in Developing of New Cable Vendor Varsha
Industries for all cabinet wirings & achieved savings worth $11K. Also for CPCL / NTPC projects involved in cable
procurement of EIL approved Vendors Cords cables / Polycab / Thermo cables / Associated Cables. Finilised Associated
cables for CPCL EURO IV project achieved savings $8K.
 For GSPL SCADA successfully supported in buying CISCO routers. Finalised the Order with Wipro with minimised lead time
of 6-7 weeks. Achieved savings worth $6K.
 For NTPC project involved in sourcing of Low cost Plumbing materials, SS Pipes fittings all valves from Aqua flow, HP balls &
Plumbings & Fiber optics and Optronics assemblies with SFO Technologies (NeST Group) compared to MOLEX SFO is 40%
cheaper in price & achieved more than $15K savings in NTPC project.
 Holds credit of buying Terminal Markers / Terminal blocks from Phoenix & Weidmullar. In this the delivery for markers is 4-
weeks due to our printing inputs. The reason for lead time is vendor need to assign their machine for our input. Suggested
to buy the marker printing machine. This drastically reduced the lead time to 1-2 weeks. Since we bought the plain marker
& printing inputs we done internally in our factory with the printing machine.
 Successfully improved the payment term credits for below Vendors.
 Dynalog – Increased the Payment term credit from 0 days to 30 days & streamlined the delivery & timely payment release
to vendor.
 TDK Lamda- Increased the Payment term credit from 30-days to 60-days. Due to this our cash flow improved since we are
buying TDK for major projects.
 Dynalog revised their payment term from 30-days to 0-days. I have hardly discussed & negotiated with Vendor on timely
payment release. Vendor agreed for 30-days credit & his discrepancy in delay payment resolved.

3.  Gained extensive exposure in UNIX, SAP & SRM.
 Supported in Successive SAP implementation in the company.
 Oversaw the vendor database inputs in SAP from legacy system.
Jun’06-May’08 with Aztec Auto Ltd., Chennai
J.E. Purchase
Accountabilities:
 Held accountable for the following:
 Preparation of POS for indirect items in Unix for the purpose of indirect & packing items.
 Procurement of castings & forwarding it for further process machining with sub-contractors.
 Preparation of monthly schedule for casting & bought out items.
 Follow up with vendors to fulfil in-house & customer requirements.
 Vendor development for Casting & Bar components.
 Coordination with Quality Department for QAP process.
 Spearheaded TS16949 Audits, prepared & maintained Approved Sub-Contractor List, Pre-Contract Review, Drawing Master
List & Vendor Evaluation Reports.
 Reviewed Machining Feedback Reports of Casting Items & forwarded them to respective Suppliers.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
Pursuing B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from JRN Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth University, Chennai
6th
Semester completed. Passed up-to 6th
with total aggregate in 1st
class.
2006 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Completed in 2006) from Bharat Polytechnic, Directorate of Technical,
Education, Chennai with 74%.
2003 10th
from X. Holy Mother Sharadha High School, Tambaram, Chennai with 78.4%.
IT Forte: Conversant with AutoCAD 2000, MS Office, UNIX, SAP, E-Procurement & Internet Applications.
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Date of Birth : 23rd
May 1988
Residential Address : No. 22/16, Sai Nagar, Cross Street, Landmark, Near GKM Colony, Batmedu, Chennai - 82
Linguistic Abilities : English, Hindi, Tamil & Kannada (Speak)
Passport details : J9439729 DT: 10.01.2012 Valid Up to 09.01.2022.