Michael Mike

Procurement Management: Manage purchase requisitions, create and issue Purchase Orders to vendors, and ensure timely payment to suppliers, with an average monthly spend of $8 million. Vendor Negotiation & Management: Negotiate cost prices and minimum order quantities, expedite deliveries of critical products, and manage vendor rebates. Invoice Verification & Goods Receipt: Verify invoices against POs for Inbound Delivery Note and Goods Receipt generation. Logistics & Shipment Coordination: Coordinate with logistics and vendors for shipment arrangements, customs clearance, and timely delivery. PO Tracking & Vendor Follow-up: Prepare daily reports on open POs, track ETA, and follow up with vendors. Vendor Issue Resolution: Resolve vendor escalations, payment queries, and invoice challenges in collaboration with the Accounts Payables team. Master Data Management: Manage master data setup for new part creation, vendor addition and updates in a fast-paced distribution environment. Process Automation: Contribute to Robotic Process Automation initiatives for automating Purchase Orders and Inbound Delivery Notes in SAP. Reporting & Stakeholder Management: Prepare and circulate reports and dashboards to internal stakeholders.

Material Requirement Planning: Managed timely procurement of optimal quantities of packing materials and consumables, aligned with factory production schedules. Procurement Management: Issued purchase orders to vendors, followed up for order confirmation, and coordinated with suppliers for on-time payments. Vendor Management: Shared delivery schedules with vendors, ensuring timely material deliveries and expediting shipments as needed to maintain uninterrupted production. Cost Control & Negotiation: Collaborate with the Procurement Manager to analyze costs, identify savings opportunities, and negotiate pricing with suppliers. Invoice Management: Verified invoices against purchase orders for accurate generation of IBDN and GRN, identify and resolve discrepancies to ensure smooth payment process. Reporting and Analysis: Prepare monthly report on open purchase orders for all vendors/Make changes and cancellation of order with respective business heads advise. Team Supervision: Led a team of eight subcontract workers in maintaining physical inventory, put-away, and packing preparations.

Receipt Verification & GRN Management: Reviewed and verified quantities received against purchase orders and verify invoice, bill of landing and enter the GRN in SAP. Inventory Management: Conduct perpetual inventory, daily cycle counts in warehouse and updating the same into databases and found the root cause of inventory inaccuracies. Delivery Challan Management: Managed Delivery Challan records for both returnable and non-returnable items.

Ensure on time availability of materials on Kanban rack as per periodic schedule. Linefeed materials to the respective production area as per production plan. Conduct cycle count inventory processes to ensure accuracy and timely execution.

Developed and implemented reusable wooden crates for shipments, reducing packaging waste and minimizing environmental impact.