Saurabh Vaish

Procurement Operations, Supply Chain and Logistics

Canada

About

Experience in Direct/Indirect Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Operations, Client Management, Transitions and account development.

Experience

  • Material Management Specialist at Canadian Armed Forces | Forces armées canadiennes
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Defence Procurement, Material Management, Sourcing, Logistics

  • Procurement Operations at BIOVECTRA
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

     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

  • Procurement Specialist at SoftwareONE
    Jun 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr

    ● 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

  • Procurement Officer at Room to Read
    Aug 2015 - Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 9 mos

    ●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

  • Senior Associate at Capgemini
    May 2012 - Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    ●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