Akshay G.
Procurement Coordinator
Experience
Procurement Coordinator
Alliad Aldaam India Limited
- Overseeing all activities related to procurement and sourcing globally, from the onboarding of suppliers to the issuance of purchase orders for United Nations Missions.
- Evaluating potential vendors, negotiating contracts, and maintaining vendor relationships to secure timely and high-quality supplies across diverse geographies.
- Identifying and securing 12 new core suppliers, enhancing supply chain efficiency and broadening market opportunities.
- Developing requests for quotation (RFQ), supplier onboarding, requests for information (RFI), request for proposal (RFP), purchase orders (PO), bidding, auctions, contract management, supplier performance evaluation, and catalogue management in Ivalua ERP.
- Overseeing strategic sourcing and bidding events while executing source-to-pay and procure-to-pay functions with global suppliers.
- Managing stakeholders across procurement, logistics, and QA to guarantee successful delivery of goods and services.
- Gathering business requirements, configurations, supplier portal handling, supplier performance evaluation, RFQ, RFI, RFP, and PO handling.
- Negotiating contracts, terms, and conditions with suppliers to secure favorable agreements, resulting in a 15% reduction in procurement costs.
- Managing end-to-end contract lifecycle with international suppliers, including drafting, negotiating, compliance and risk assessment, contract review and analysis, conflict resolution, and finalization.
Procurement Coordinator
Agility E Services
- Gathering business requirements, configurations, supplier portal handling, and supplier performance evaluation.
- Managing CRPs, SITs, and UATs.
- Implementing two Ivalua e-procurement ERP software solutions within a year.
- Automating the entire traditional procurement process within Ivalua ERP in alignment with business requirements.
- Onboarding suppliers, comparing quotations, managing contracts, sourcing, and administering bidding catalogs, including RFQ, RFI, RFX, PR, and PO.
- Conducting gap analysis, user acceptance testing, end user training, kick-off meetings, conference room pilots, go-live, scenario-based testing, data migration, and master data management.
- Supporting supplier portal and end users for Ivalua system via ticketing tool and configurations.
- Contributing to the development and implementation of the digital procurement system, leading to improved efficiency and enhanced organizational value, recognized by CEO and CFO.
Associate ERP Functional Consultant
Lighthouse Info Systems
Documenting and deploying ERP systems, analyzing complex client issues, and providing daily activity reporting.
Leading implementation and support of five ERP projects within a year, including two comprehensive end-to-end deployments with 100% accuracy and three ongoing support initiatives, achieving a 98% SLA compliance rate.
Implementing full life-cycle of Oracle Applications 11g, preparing and maintaining documentation, and working on multi-task, multi-currency configurations.
Managing business process flows in procure-to-pay (P2P) and order-to-cash (O2C) and all phases of the system implementation life cycle.
Enhancing material management, sales and distribution, and production planning modules by dedicating over 360 overtime hours, boosting operational efficiency and project momentum.
Conducting gap analysis, user acceptance testing, end user training, kick-off meetings, conference room pilots, go-live, scenario based testing, data migration, master data management, and business requirement gathering.
Recognized by CEO and CFO for efforts in the implementation of Ivalua software.
Participated in and facilitated procurement and sourcing events at the Gulf Food Show in Dubai, UAE, on April 13, 2024.
Implemented two ERP projects on-site in Durgapur, West Bengal, in November 2022.
Spearheaded user acceptance testing for SRM, procure-to-pay (P2P), and catalog management platforms using Ivalua, achieving 95% test scenario coverage and enhancing system reliability and performance in May 2023, appreciated by senior management.
Summary
Supply Chain and Procurement Consultant possessing over 3 years of experience in P2P, vendor management, contract lifecycle, Catalogue management and ERP implementations (IVALUA, Oracle, SAP Ariba). Proficient in optimizing Procurement & sourcing processes, achieving cost reductions, and improving procurement efficiency on a global scale.
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Education
RTMNU University
Bachelor of Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Nagpur, India · 7.2
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