Vinod Kumar is seeking a career opportunity that allows him to enhance his knowledge and skills while providing value to an organization. He has over 5 years of experience in supply chain management and procurement. Some of his accomplishments include driving cost savings initiatives, managing defective product returns, and supporting new product development. He is proficient with SAP, Oracle, and AutoCAD. Vinod holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and has a strong academic record.

1. Vinod Kumar T S
Cell: +91 9980621304 | tsvkumar55@gmail.com
Professional Purpose
To pursue a career in an esteemed organization holding a responsible position which enhance my
knowledge to work in competitive environment and carve a winning edge for the organization.
Work Experience
GE India Industrial Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
Graduate Engineering Trainee- Sourcing
September 2011 – April 2014
Main activities and responsibilities:
• Sending enquires and analyzing competitive quotes.
• Making Supplier Agreements and Disclosure agreements with suppliers.
• Commercial activities such as vendor selection, price analysis, negotiation and order release.
• Alternate supplier identification to mitigate business risks.
• Making monthly buy analysis reports.
• Vendor addition.
• New Product Development and Introduction.
• Localization and validation of breaker position switches and door interlocks.
• Technology/ Sourcing support for Product management and sales team.
• Complete ownership of SKU creation & Bill of Materials updation in Oracle.
• Support to Manufacturing by DRN, SOP & Quality specification as per ISO procedure.
• Fixing everyday line issues by identifying the root cause, changing the drawing in AutoCAD to
fix the issues. Releasing the revised drawing to all departments.
• Packing solutions to all range of products manufactured (ACB, MCB, MCCB, switches) in plant
by designing new concept, robust, cost efficient packaging.
Distinctive Accomplishments:
• Initiated new vendor addition process and successful addition of suppliers into the system for
long term and short term.
• Alternate vendor addition with better quality and cost saving benefits for various commodities /
components.
• Drove the vendor change process for MCB and provided a savings of $100K to the organization.
• Successful collection of Due Diligence Documents from the entire list of Suppliers.
• Involved in MSME (Micro /Small and Medium Enterprise) payment terms improvisation by
identifying the MSME suppliers.
• Involved in various localization projects such as Position Switches, Interlocks and Brackets.
• Have provided packaging solutions to various components like ACB, MCCB and switches.
• Ownership of complete sourcing of hardware’s for Entelliguard NPI project which included more
than 150 varieties of hardware’s.
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2. Cyient (Infotech Enterprises Limited)
JOB Profile: SCM Executive (Level-3)
Operations Program Management
April 2014 – Present
Main activities and responsibilities:
Defective Material Management
• Working on RFA process (Defective Material Management) wherein we make sure that the
replacement parts are shipped against different parts to OEM's across the globe.
• FSR raises RFA for defective replacement at customer’s end without affecting the production line
(Engine built at PWC) and we make sure that the parts are shipped well on time.
• Back order follow up on daily basis with the buyers and co-ordinate the same with PWC FSR
ensuring the part shipment dates match and there is no time lag. Once the part is available,
Infotech creates delivery (In SAP) virtually and the part is physically picked and shipped from
PWC to respective OEM.
• Once the part leaves the PWC dock Infotech monitors freight forwarded details by playing an
active role in supply chain management. And Infotech gives the AWB # to the FSR for tracking
the shipment.
• Proposal for the Inventory reductions by analyzing the inventory consumptions for the OEM
consignment materials and there after taken over the process from Pratt & Whitney Canada.
• Coordinate with client to ensure clarity on performance standards, alignment of performance
metrics with business objectives, performance dashboard reviews and resolving process
escalations.
Program Support
• Production Planning through Master Production Schedule.
• Initiating Material Transfer across Storage units to fulfill Production shortage and for Inventory
reduction.
• Initiating Job Orders for Conversion of D&S and cancelled parts to reduce dead inventory.
• Inventory reduction by tracking & analyzing requirement of dummy demands.
• Handling Material Master Creation Process.
• Providing visibility on Engine manufacturing status to OEM’s
• Tracking of Vendor/Outsource Parts for its on time delivery to the Vendor.
• Incoming Quality analysis by tracking the Volume and type of defect. Intend is to have control on
Quality of Parts supplied form the Vendor.
EC Management
• Analyze the engineering changes like part dimensions, material change for a given part and
ensure the right upgraded part is brought into production.
• Analysis of bill of material change to ensure whether the upgraded part is routed to the respective
engine at all OEM’s.
• Regular follow up is done with respective buyers to ensure the upgraded part is brought into
production well within the lead time.
• Defective engines coming back from different OEM’s to PWC are monitored regularly and
analyze the part that is affected for that engine by doing RRCA.
• Active participation in Quality activities RRCA (Relentless root cause analysis).
• Analyzing and transfer of materials from production stores to experimental stores.
• Follow up for the release of new purchase order against engineering changes and closure of the
purchase order against old part number.
• Identified process inefficiencies and resolved critical issues by effectively implementing the
Quality Clinic Process Chart tool.

3. Education
Qualification
(Year)
Stream/Branch School/College Board/
University
Aggregate
B.E (2011) Mechanical BTL Institute of
Technology
Visveswaraya
Technological
University
64%
PUC (2007) Physics-Chemistry-
Math’s-Biology
National College
Basavanagudi
Department of Pre-
University Karnataka
60%
Class X (2005) - Carmel Garden Public
School
SSLC 92%
Skills
• Operating Systems: Windows
• Application software: SAP, Oracle 11i, AutoCad
• MS Office
Activities and Achievements
• Emerged as topper of School in SSLC, received Rewards and Recognitions for the same from
various organizations and committees.
• Active involvement in all cultural activities organized in College and Office.
• Won many prizes in Anthakshari Competitions in School and Colleges.
• Team member in Inter College Cricket tournaments.
Personal Details
Address: #302, JMR Lotus, Gollahalli Main Road, Electronic City, Bangalore 560100
Date of Birth: 28 – July - 1989
Nationality: Indian
Mobile: +91 9980621304
Languages Known: English, Hindi and Kannada
Hobbies: Photography, Cricket, Table Tennis