U.D.

Saravanakumar
No 29B, Devenesan Nagar, 4th Cross Street, Peerkankaranai, New Perungalathur, Kanchipuram -63|
u.d.saravanakumar@hotmail.com| +91-8220669624

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

 An aggressive Diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering & B Tech Mechanical (Pursuing)
 10.8 years of experience in Supply Chain Management (Material /Vendor management)
 Proficient at efficiently handling the Inventory Management and taking cost Saving initiative
 Keen on learning the technical concepts in Supply Chain Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Present company:

RANE MADRAS LTD

Designation: Assistant Manager (Material Management)
Current experience: From Apr 2021 to till date (2 years)
COMPANY PROFILE:
Rane (Madras) Ltd a part of the Rane group is a manufacturer of steering and suspension systems. The company
operates under one division namely components for transportation industry. They manufacture two types of steering
gears namely circulating ball type steering gears and rack and pinion type steering gears. The other products include tie
rod assemblies drag link assemblies center link assemblies and gear shift ball joints.

Roles and responsibilities: -

 Responsible for planning materials, managing inventory, sub contract cost & inward freight cost
 Responsible for timely supply of materials to production, implementation of cost reduction projects.
 Hands-on experience in coordinating and negotiating with suppliers in order to ensure fair pricing.
 Ability to build trust & rapport with prospective customers, suppliers and team members.
 Detailed and Extensive knowledge in Sourcing, rescheduling & fixing of share of business.
 Able to optimize inventory to support production requirements and meet target inventory level.
 Good understanding of quality and delivery requirements in compliance to company requirements.
 Responsible for cost reduction & VAVE projects.
 Achieve more than 95% in 5S.

 NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:

 Star awardee for managing the materials effectively & handling shortages.
 Achieved “OUTSTANDING” performance continuously in 2021 & 2022
 Awarded 2 times in for best improvements & presentation skills.
 Faced audits like “DGP”, “APEX” & “TS”, R BEAT
 Nominated for Star Individual contributor award for acting as conscious buyer
 Maintained consistency in metrics, good coordination with team for any critical situation
 Good influence with site planners and suppliers, with no escalations.
 Result Oriented.
 Won QIT Medal for optimization of inventory projects.
 QCC project “Productivity improvement in M&M Cell” during 2021-22
 QIT Project “Productivity improvement in LCV cell” during 2021-22
 OTIF Project “Production planning and control and logistics improvement to achieve highest OTIF score of 95%
from Ashok Leyland” during 2021-22
 QCC/QIT projects “Elimination of Serration Length Issue” and “Productivity improvement in LCV Line” SMED
Project “Setup time reduction in Internal Grinding Machine” during 2021-22
U.D.Saravanakumar
No 29B, Devenesan Nagar, 4th Cross Street, Peerkankaranai, New Perungalathur, Kanchipuram -63|
u.d.saravanakumar@hotmail.com| +91-8220669624
 QCC/QIT projects “Tool Cost reduction in SGP” and “Elimination of Bush Missing Complaint” during 2021-22
 Productivity Improvement “M&M Boring productivity improvement” and “boring productivity Improvement”;
QCC Project “Elimination of Oil Seal Grinding Rejection in HMT Grinding” during 2021-22
 QCC project “Elimination of Wall thickness Less in LCV Gear Box” & Machined Housing Development during
2022 & 2023.
 Design and fabrication of “Design and Fabrication of Electrical Screw Jack” (Mini Project during final year
Mechanical Engineering)
 “Modelling and Analysis of Propeller Shaft and Coupling”. (Mini-Project – During Pre-final year Mechanical
Engineering)

 SKILL SETS & STRENGHTHS:

 Efficient with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to relate to people at all level across the organization.
 Ability to lead the team working for a common goal.
 Ability to negotiate with the involved agencies to achieve the desired goal with due understanding.
 Ability to work accurately and pay attention to details by brainstorming.
 Accepting challenges and risk management.
 Efficient and effective presentation in communication skills

Previous Experiences:

TATA MOTORS LIMITED. (Through MRC Logistic India Pvt Ltd) Chennai
Designation: Engineer –Local parts controller & PPC LOGISTIS (3 years) Jun 2017 – Mar-21

Designation: Senior Team Member (Commercial Vehicles)

Current experience: From May 2017 to till, date (3.9 years)

COMPANY PROFILE:
Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Mumbai, India,
and a member of the Tata Group. Its products include passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses, sports cars,
construction equipment and military vehicles. Tata Motors has auto manufacturing and assembly plants
in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand, Dharwad, and Pune in India, as well as in Argentina, South Africa, Great
Britain and Thailand

Role: Responsible for Spare Parts Material Planning & Procurement, Vendor Management, Inventory Management
and Material control.
MATERIAL PLANNING & PROCUREMENT:

 Buyer-in-charge for 40 vendors in southern region (mostly proprietary vendors)

 Responsible for procuring more than 2000 line of items catering to TATA Motors CV spare business (Translating
to buying value of ~120cr annually).
 Responsible for Order planning, Material tracking & shortage handling resolving system (SAP MM) errors and
ensuring accuracy in supplier schedules through TOC concepts. (Theory of constraints)
 Responsible for price changes & SOB allocation for existing range of lines.
 Obtaining quote from vendors for new level of child parts flown into the system by doing negotiating and
benchmarking it with similar range of products.
 Fulfilment of both IB (International business) & Dom VOR Orders in stipulated time. (<24 hrs.)
 Communication of relevant forecast, firm orders information and any major plan fluctuation. (Sudden Spikes in
After Market).
 Monitoring and planning critical child parts (Import items) at supplier end in order to reduce the threat on sales
loss.
 Addressing and reducing supplier delivery discrepancy trend.
U.D.Saravanakumar
No 29B, Devenesan Nagar, 4th Cross Street, Peerkankaranai, New Perungalathur, Kanchipuram -63|
u.d.saravanakumar@hotmail.com| +91-8220669624
 VENDOR DEVELOPMENT:

 Effective in developing new production components with new/existing vendors

 For components obtained from single source (especially when volumes are high), alternative sources were
developed to ensure uninterrupted component supply for production.
 Developing new source when the demand gets increases/ in-house capacity constraints arise.
 Knowledge in learning of drawing and arranging of ppap documents from the supplier.
 Champion Critical parameter management with Commodity Suppliers.
 Establish and maintain Supplier Performance metrics (Cost, delivery, Service, Quality, Innovation, social
responsibility, etc.) together with the Sourcing Team.

 VENDOR MANAGEMENT:
 Communicate the company’s expectation to the supplier and release the schedule to them.
 Conduct Suppliers Audit/Visit and performance reviews to ensure the supply of quality material
 Awarding supplier delivery performance (SPDR) considering the various delivery aspects like meeting schedule,
delivering the parts without discrepancies & Quality.
 Resolving supplier document discrepancies and ensuring timely payment to the suppliers.
 Initiating the vendors to go for “TATA” unique branding for boosting up the sales volume in market also
implementing TGP (TATA Genuine packing) packing with them.
 Negotiating with vendors for their MOQ (Minimum Order qty) and MOQ (Minimum Packing qty). Settlement for
smooth supplies.

 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT:
 Responsible for maintaining Inventory within the norms decided by Top Management
 Preparing Monthly inventory reports for all local parts and projecting to top-level management in terms of value
in every month.
 Consolidation of parts process will be done at Chennai hub and dispatched to regional warehouse on daily basis.
 Responsible for maintaining the availability with 80% of stocks against the fixed norms with the help of TOC
system (Theory of constraints).
 Implementation of ‘Supermarket’ concepts across suppliers in order to ensure the availability for obsolete/non-
current parts stocks to service VOR orders.

 INTERNAL & EXTERNAL COORDINATION:

 Coordinating with PG (Product group) team for developing new range of products (Durafit parts) and vendors
based upon the after-market requirements.
 Circulating price amendments list (OEE vs OES price) to across all India team and ensure all OES price are in line
with OEE price therefore ensuring prices are same in SAP.
 Preparing and circulating the NPI parts (New products Introduction) availability status to all India and review will
be done by top management on twice in a week.
 Coordinating and preparing department MIS report & circulation internally to all.
 Rolling out of “TOC” concepts beginning with potential vendor by the help of IT team.
 Coordinating with Technical cell & vendor in order to make service the obsolete/NLS parts also making
relationship between superseded items.
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 SYSTEM HEALTH MONITORING:

 Ensuring various ordering parameter update in SAP-MM to assure proper ordering into the MRP.
 Creating Contract/PO’s for all new part numbers in SAP and ensure the same for total Spare part numbers.
 Monitoring /controlling the manual orders placing in SAP and should not be any open schedule pending for
more than 5 days from the date of order registered in the SAP.
 Monthly once norm qty will get update in TOC based on RLT (Replenishment lead-time) concept in order to
ensure appropriate requirements are being serviced.
U.D.Saravanakumar
No 29B, Devenesan Nagar, 4th Cross Street, Peerkankaranai, New Perungalathur, Kanchipuram -63|
u.d.saravanakumar@hotmail.com| +91-8220669624

 NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:
 Implemented TGP (TATA Genuine packing) for more than 50 line of times by coordinating with packing vendor
as well as part vendor.
 Received best employee award for Q3 in FY17-18.
 Introduced/Collected TOD (Turn over discount) from TVS group of suppliers around 3 crores.
 Implemented GPRS system for milk run collection for making optimization of truck turn over time and saved
20 lakhs/annum to organization.
 By going SOB for Water/Oil pump products saved 10.08 lakhs/annum
 Initiated/Implemented Bar coding system across most of the vendors in order to reduce the manual
intervention at the time of receiving at warehouse.
 Developed/Introduced KIT items (Set of 2 & 3 part numbers) from vendors which has contributed 20% of total
Spare parts turn over on every month with triparty agreement.
UNIPRES INDIA PVT LTD, ORAGADAM TAMIL NADU
(MNC JAPAN) Chennai
Designation: Engineer –Local parts controller & PPC LOGISTIS (3 years) Jun 2014 - May 2017

 Unipres india is a part of unipres corporation japan, it is a primary supplier for Nissan motors(Front side and rear
side column member) in india and global.Unipres having its own benchmark system called UPS(unipres
production system) to upgrade its improvements.

Roles and responsibilities: -

 Planning and controlling supplier orders and procurement of supplier parts –Experience in Sheet metal, trim
chassis commodities. Supplier evaluation and revaluation on the basis of Manufacturing facilities/capacity,
capability and quality systems
 Preparing Monthly inventory reports for all local parts and projecting to top-level management in terms of value
in every month.
 Analyzing and addressing the major variances contributors during PIT’s (Physical inventories).
 Day on Day negative/positive stock analysis ensuring the background reasons are cleared on daily basis.
 Issue like BOM error, design change late adoption, usage issues to be identified and corrected with the support
of relevant teams
 Responsible for maintaining 8-hour inventory inside plant for the warehouse plan.
 Layout finalization based on Min, Max setting, flexible location, Mechanism of FIFO.
 CFT member for supplier plant & tool transfer & coordinating, PCR, PSW approval & Conduction T-2000 Audit for
final approval
 Root cause analysis of obsolescence accumulation also checking the possibilities of salvaging after EOP
completion
 Tracking of pending/split shipments from the suppliers
 Providing MIS (Management information system) to top management on the system performance and condition
of system health on monthly basis
 1 million costs saving done for the organization in salvaging the dead inventories.

TECHNICO INDUSTRIES LTD

Auto Parts IRRUNGATTUKOTTAI

Designation: Engineer in Purchase department (2.1 years) May 2012 – Jun 2014
 Technico manufactures high quality sheet metal parts for Body Parts, Chasis Parts, Axle & Engine Mounting
Brackets, BIW parts, Fine Blanking Components and Stampings. Our Quality Management System (QMS ISO /
IATF 16949) and Environment management system (EMS ISO 14001 / OSHAS 18000) ensures that each product
and service we provide adheres to International Quality Standards and Environmental norms effectively and
efficiently they Supplied TATA, TOYATO, MAHINDRA, DAIMLER, ISUZU, MARUTISUZUKI, SKODA, RENAULT
NISSAN , Volkswagen , DATSUN ,SUZUKI , SHARDA MOTORS etc..
U.D.Saravanakumar
No 29B, Devenesan Nagar, 4th Cross Street, Peerkankaranai, New Perungalathur, Kanchipuram -63|
u.d.saravanakumar@hotmail.com| +91-8220669624

EDUCATION
 B Teach Mechanical SRM (Pursuing) – 2021 – 2024
 Diploma in ECE SAMUEL Polytechnic College., Tuticorin - 88 % 2012
 12th Standard Ambrose Higher Secondary Sch., Tuticorin - 67 % 2010
 10th Standard Ambrose Higher Secondary Sch., Tuticorin - 73 % 2008

 Technical Skills: PRO E, ANSYS and ORACLE (Certified)

 MRP systems: SAP-MM (Material Module) ,ERP & SPICE
 Languages: English, Tamil, Hindi (Read & write)
 Marital Status: Married
 DOB – 20 July,1992
 Permanent Address–No 29B,Devenesan Nagar, 4th Cross Street,Peerkankaranai,New Perungalathur,Kanchipuram -63
DECLARATION
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Place: Chennai, Mylapore.

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