Procurement/Materials Engg

Over 5 years of experience specializing in Materials Management, Procurement and Purchase, and Vendor Sourcing and Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. June 2006 - Present
Procurement/Materials Engineer – SAFCO (A group of SABIC), KSA
Directly reporting to the Project Manager (Group-Operations) for daily update of overall purchasing scenario

2. February 2006 - June 2006
Team Leader - Essar Oil Industry

3. August 2004 - February 2006
Team Leader - Reliance Infocomm Pvt. Ltd.

4. November 2002 - July 2004
Asst. Materials Manager - Fore Runner Tech

5. July 2001 - October 2002
Trainee Engineer - Madura Coats Pvt. Ltd

Roles Handled in Short:
Materials Management
Inventory management
Warehousing operations
Material coding using different Oracle package

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Instrumentation and Control), Madurai Kamaraj University
• PLC Programming, Advanced PLC Programming and DCS, DOTE, PSG Polytechnic, Coimbatore, India
• AutoCAD 2000, Cad Corner, Madurai, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
Materials Management & Vendor Development
Kanban, JIT, Pokayoke
ISO 9000 Administration for Purchasing
5s Awareness
Knowledge of UNSPC, SHELL & ARAMCO Material Standards


Key Tasks Handled

• Interact with Customer for smooth project execution.
• Monitoring the progress of the project and action plan framing for future planning.
• Scrutiny & validation of subcontractors invoices for clearing payments
• Developed detailed knowledge of purchasing, materials management, and stock handling processes
• Initiated and implemented systems for effective materials and stores management to ensure ready availability
• Consolidated the processes for inventory management, forecast-based planning, purchasing, vendor evaluation and physical inventory
• Monitored the inventory functions to reduce supply chain cost and adhered to minimum inventory levels to control wastage
• Formulated MIS reports on materials management, cost savings and vendor quality assurance operations