Murali Manoj Kotha

• Managed supplier development, parts qualifications, action plans, and performance monitoring, ensuring compliance with industrial standards of excellence.
• Facilitated root cause analysis activities, coaching team members on best practices and methodologies to identify underlying causes of quality issues and develop effective corrective action plans.
• Organized monthly quality statistics and trend analysis, identifying areas for improvement, and developing opportunities to enhance overall quality performance, resulting in 10% improvements in quality metrics over one year.
• Supported supplier quality performance monitoring and management efforts, establishing effective communication and relationship management protocols to enhance overall performance and ensure compliance with procurement requirements.
• Completed deviation forms and recorded findings of inspection process, collaborating with quality team members and department managers to implement procedural remedies.

• Established inventory targets, stock level, and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
• Participated in sales and operations meetings to assess performance and forecast and formulate necessary corrective actions.
• Customized SAP production planning and detailed scheduling tools to support factory production initiatives
• Ensured Planning Department KPI’s were met, striving for benchmark practices in planning, order maintenance, output, inventory control, quality-driven work.
  •Participated in daily Cell meetings to align production and material flow processes with SAP processes and discuss schedule, material shortages, technical issues.
  •Enforced Lean principles and drove continuous improvements to meet Site and Company goals and objectives

Modules : Strategic Supply chain Management, Spreadsheet Modelling & Demand Forecasting, Project Management, Lean and Green Logistics, SAP, Management of Total Quality & Continuous Improvement

• Member of CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply)

Modules : Managing Business Processes & Information Systems, Intermediate Macroeconomics & Data Analytics, Business Analysis and Technology, Accounting and Finance