Canada
Experience in Direct/Indirect Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Operations, Client Management, Transitions and account development.
Defence Procurement, Material Management, Sourcing, Logistics
Performing PR to PO process, RFQ, RFI, Price Comparison, and PO Driving the strategic sourcing portfolio with Opex categories through the Collaborative Procurement Model and 7-step sourcing Contract Management with performing all stages from RFI to contract renewal Handling Aged Requisitions, Open and Past Due orders Procuring the material from the right supplier with effective costing and the right quality at the right time Vendor Management (Domestic/International), with monitoring their KPI and categorization Negotiations with the vendors on MOQ, Delivery Terms, and Payment Terms Preparation of Rate contracts for IT Services Managing deliveries, transportation documentation, Backorders, and returns Order Management Identification of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for best price Spend analysis for annual purchasing plan and ensure that department budgets, systems, and procedures are developed and maintained for project and departmental operations. Procurement of Packing materials, chemicals, Engineering consumables, and services from approved suppliers Develop and maintain procurement projects and expediting reports to include Issue For Bid (IFB) technical specifications, RFPs, bid receipts, coordination of bid evaluations and approvals ERP reports required by Production and Planning Teams for Procurement Planning Coordinating with the User department and vendors for technical specification Responsible for reports like Aged Requisition, Open Orders, Item Catalogue Update, Price Change Handling Total Cost of Ownership, Just In Time and Vendor Managed Inventory Monitoring Market analysis with requirement gathering, Market segment, demand and supply, pricing trends, risk management, and Vendor selection
● Handling Direct procurement of Tale-End Software purchases for Johnson & Johnson, Adidas, RBC, IKEA, Owens Corning, Kier Ltd, Sainsbury’s and Canadian Tire ● Responsible for Understanding the Client’s SOW to execute the flawless procurements ● Responsible for Source to Pay cycle with floating RFI, RFQ/RFP, Price comparison, Issuing and reviewing of PO, Service Contracts, and agreements ● Sourcing of Vendors from different locations to get the value for money ● Maintaining JIT products for quick turn around ● Maintaining Item Catalogue for the frequently purchased items ● Providing Cloud Procurement functionality for the customers ● Maintaining Software licenses of the customers ● Administration of yearly Contracts ● Managing Deliveries ● Responsible for Vendor Management with maintaining healthy relationship with the vendors
●Direct and Indirect procurement as per the Procurement Policy and Procedures ●Handling Source to Pay cycle ●Identifying BATNA for the negotiations for PO/Contract T&C ●Managing the TCO for the Items procured ● Strategic Sourcing as per organizations Spend data ●Responsible for RFI, RFP, RFQ, SOW/TOR and PO/Contract ●Acting as a Technical Committee to select the best vendor/consultant with value for money ●Reviewing and Processing of End-to-End Procurement documents to conduct Purchase Committee ●Managing Capex and Opex ●Bids management ●Project Implementation as per the MOU Contract signed with the Donors/clients ●Providing contractual guidance to stakeholders and preparing contract management reports such as expiration and spend reports to leadership ●Vendor Identification to create the Pool for the best vendors ●Helping Requestors/Project Teams to design TOR and Scope of work for their requirements ●Yearly budgeting for future procurement Saurabh Vaish - page 1 ●Managing and training staff ●Interpreting contractual clauses, and managing contractual disputes, including corrective action, all in collaboration with legal department for Contract legal Vetting ●Liaise with vendors, government agencies and statutory authorities● Warehouse operations ●Defining Material distribution routing ●Preparing & managing logistics & transport budgets, monitoring expenditure and implementing remedial measures where appropriate. ●Managing supplier performance ●Analyzing contracts for effectiveness, identifying areas of weakness and implementing improvements to increase margins
●Taking care of End to End Order Management Operations (CPO to SO, SO to PR, PR to PO, PO to Shipment Delivery and Shipment Delivery to End Customer Billing) ●Part of the Transition team for bringing Order management operations from Beijing, China to India ●Experienced on SAP P-20 (Functional End User) (SD Module),MLS (Modular Logistic System) ●Handling India, APAC (Asia Pacific), MEA (Middle East Africa), NE (North Europe) NAM (North America) regions for Order Management and payment through Letter Of Credit ●Co-ordination with cross functional teams for all procurement activities ●Managing the volume of Orders and ensuring quality and timeline for all the deliverable ●Responsible for having monthly operations review with the client’s and understand business expectations and define the approach to deliver them ●Drive SLA’s and KPI’s – in line with the Customer requirement and Organization’s strategic direction ●Manage escalations/service issues and take appropriate measures to resolve the issues and provide a fix ●Team Handling with training to new employees