GOVINDARAJ.

S
Email id: govindaraj.15061977@gmail.com
MOBILE NO: 9176627870
Purchase / Production Planning Professional
Professional Profile
20+ year’s experience in Heavy Equipment Manufacturing, Special Purpose Machine Manufacturing in
the functional area of Production Planning, Materials Planning, ERP and Warehouse Management.

Highly skilled in problem solving and analytics with excellent track record of achievement in
academic and tactical skills. Ability to work with diverse groups across all functional levels
with good command over written and verbal communications.

Professional Experience
Schwing Stetter India Pvt Ltd – Chennai Oct’2000 to Oct'2020
Manufacturing of concrete construction equipment
Deputy Manager– Purchase
Started the carrier as trainee, learned and developed the skills of Purchasing, Production
planning, Inventory Control, SAP ERP and MIS reports.
Manage and direct 2 manufacturing plants, 15+ products, 2000+ components for manufacturing and 1000+
spare part components. Preparation and release of monthly production plan, weekly plan, MRP run, Customer
order review, Customer order flow analysis, Production variance analysis, New project execution, New product
development, Inventory analysis, MIS reports, SAP reports development & trouble shooting.

Key Achievements
Instrumental in Cost Saving of 1 crore through Vendor Consolidation and by taking
advantage of annual sales.
Achieved 99% accuracy in Purchase Schedule Plan Vs Actuals.
Reduced the Inventory by 50% through Effective Inventory Management techniques
like JIT, Vendor Managed Inventory.
Reduced the Procurement costs by Renegotiating with Suppliers which increased
the Revenue of the company during the COVID situation.
Developed long term relationship with Strategic suppliers and negotiated on Annual Contract Agreements.

Purchase Manager- Roles & Responsibilities

- Employed best commercial practice in the procurement of the various categories of
goods, equipment and services, so that the basic principle of lowest ultimate cost with
minimum risk applied to all purchasing decisions.
- Maintained the records by working in MM module in SAP, relating to the materials management, by supplier and
by department / discipline, purchase orders and goods requisitions and the Stock take records.
- Drafted bid specifications and requested bid proposals from vendors.
- Tasked with Business Development role of prospecting for New Clients.
- Ensured Stock Inventory levels matched Operational needs.
- Sourced Products and raw materials at Quality and Cost Standards consistent with
the Organizational business objectives.
- Analysed Vendors, established Primary/Secondary suppliers and identified acceptable substitute products.
Materials Requirement Planning
- Materials requirement planning for RM/Components/ Semi-finished parts based
on inputs from sales/forecast.
- Planning of imported RM/Components, ordering/scheduling considering lead time & its monitoring.
- Release job-work schedules for out-sourced parts & its monitoring.
- Analyze customer demand for imported parts & forecast orders considering lead time.
- Formulating monthly/annual goals; short/long term demand planning & develop
operational plans for the achievement of these goals.

Production Planning
- Finalizing the sales plan with Marketing & release monthly/weekly/daily production plan.
- Capacity planning of various shops & execution of production plan in accordance to customer requirements.
- Effective monitoring and guiding the team in planning for material
pulling as per the production requirement.
- Release monthly plan and ensure on time delivery for Spare part requirements.
- Co-ordination with all departments to execute the Marketing requirement and priority
- Conducting Variance Meeting and Ensure support to production from other
departments like Purchase, Strategic Sourcing, Quality, Stores and Design.

Inventory Control
- Close monitoring & control of inventory levels using various tools and techniques like ABC
XYZ analysis, Inventory turnover ratio, minimum /maximum level set up, on time delivery etc.
- Slow moving/non moving inventories identification & their disposal action.
- Responsible for proper maintenance of all the records of receipts, issues & balances in hand in the ERP.
- Monitoring/re-conciliation of system stock vs. physical stock through periodic audit.
- Control on receipts of incoming materials.

Monitoring & Analysis

- Monitoring of Purchase Schedule Plan Vs Actual, Procurement Cost Analysis, Vendor Consolidation Analysis,
Inventory turn-over ratio, shelf-life items, slow/non moving inventories, plan vs. production achieved, gap
analysis/short-fall analysis, stock-outs etc. MIS report generation and update the top management.

Declaration

I hereby declare that all the information stated above is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Place : Chennai SIGNATURE

(Govindaraj.S)