Praveen Kumar B
Poole,Dorset
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Assistant Manager - Supply chain specialists
Bosch
Chennai, India
2022.06 - 2023.09
- Supervised 15 staff members tasked with materials handling, planning and purchasing.
- Monitored, analysed and reported freight and carrier management performance against set goals.
- Oversaw multiple supply chain functions to facilitate business operations, including warehouse and logistics management.
- Maintained production levels, identified material shortages and monitored inventory to meet order delivery requirements.
- Owned S&OP process by planning demand, supply and logistics in line with organisational strategy.
- Applied advanced negotiation skills to discuss contracts, policies and deadlines with suppliers and vendors.
- Supervised 20 staff members tasked with materials handling, planning and purchasing.
- Implemented change management strategies increase operational resilience and cope with fluctuating supply chain demand.
- Drove Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s and continuous improvements throughout logistics and supplier operations.
- Secured significant cost savings to areas of supplies, services and capital requirements when optimising resource management.
- Assessed performance of external vendor supply chains while handling internal logistics.
- Leveraged effective supply chain planning systems to improve demand, sales and operations planning processes for distribution network.
- Applied project management methodologies to drive and deliver projects.
Assistant Manager - Supply Chain Managment
Greaves Electric Mobility
Ranipet, Tamilnadu, India
2021.02 - 2022.05
- Owned S&OP process by planning demand, supply and logistics in line with organisational strategy.
- Selected appropriate volume and mix for demand and supply to achieve production objectives.
- Championed standard manufacturing system procedures and processes to maintain safe and compliant working environment.
- Monitored, analysed and reported freight and carrier management performance against set goals.
- Drove Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s and continuous improvements throughout logistics and supplier operations.
- Collaborated with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, achieving inventory targets for finished goods.
- Maintained production levels, identified material shortages and monitored inventory to meet order delivery requirements.
- Overhauled company's regional supply chain end-to-end structure across planning, sourcing, production and delivery.
- Enforced high standards of product quality, trade compliance and warehousing for timely delivery.
- Employed knowledge of global economics and marketing to devise pricing strategies and channels.
Senior Procurement Engineer
TVS Motor Company
Hosur, Tamilnadu, India
2017.02 - 2020.07
- Reviewed and assessed supply chain to maximise profit margin, helping company to successfully achieve profitability target.
- Maximised process efficiencies by producing and maintaining up-to-date procurement schedules, using SAP.
- Mitigated supply risk by developing risk protected supply chains, using dual sourcing approach.
- Drove continuous improvement by maintaining in-depth knowledge of Supply chain data analytics industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Ensured 98 % on-time delivery of projects, conducting weekly progress reviews with client and team.
- Facilitated supplier performance evaluation by accurately recording performance data in SAP
- Evaluated procurement processes and used results to improve workflows and procedures.
- Built productive relationships with stakeholders, communicated updates and sought mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Prepared project briefs and business cases to seek management approval for procurement activities.
- Reviewed proposals and submitted reports to procurement heads for selection.
- Analysed and developed procurement plans with cost-effective solutions and increased purchase power.
Team Leader Material planning and Logistics
Ford India Private Limited
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
2015.09 - 2017.08
- Resolved employee relations issues and navigated disciplinary proceedings.
- Led performance reviews and tailored employee feedback to facilitate professional development.
- Professionally handled difficult customer complaints and objections to maintain first-class customer service standards.
- Provided leadership and direction for employees, supervising activities to drive productivity and efficiency.
- Drove team to consistently exceed critical Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets by up to 95%.
- Implemented and documented standard operating procedures to comply with audit and safety requirements.
- Minimised response time to resolve orders on hold by liaising with other departments.
- Managed accurate and timely delivery of dispatch orders to customers.
- Maintained accurate employee records and updates on performance, absence and HR conversations.
- Led shifts and motivated team to drive sales.
- Set and monitored weekly targets for operational team to increase product sales and revenue.
- Influenced business change and success through collaborations with different stakeholders
- Trained and empowered staff to resolve complaints appropriately to maintain customer satisfaction.
Education
Master of Science - Management and Business Analytics
Bournemouth University
Poole 2023.09 -
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Kalinga University
Chattisgarh, India 2015.07 - 2018.04
Skills
- Supply chain management
- High-value project management
- Strategic sourcing
- Procure-to-pay (P2P) systems
- Sourcing and supplier management
- Order fulfilment
- Supplier negotiations
- Excel proficiency
- Contracts development
- POS software expertise
- Stakeholder management
- End to end strategic procurement
- Integrated planning
- Indirect procurement
- Supply chain data analytics
- Data Analysis
- SQL
- SAP
- MRP
- Tableau
- MS-Office Tools
- R Programming
- C, C
- QAD
Languages
English
Upper intermediate
Tamil
Native
Timeline
Master of Science - Management and Business Analytics
Bournemouth University
2023.09 -
Assistant Manager - Supply chain specialists
Bosch
2022.06 - 2023.09
Assistant Manager - Supply Chain Managment
Greaves Electric Mobility
2021.02 - 2022.05
Senior Procurement Engineer
TVS Motor Company
2017.02 - 2020.07
Team Leader Material planning and Logistics
Ford India Private Limited
2015.09 - 2017.08
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Kalinga University
2015.07 - 2018.04