1. B CHANDRA SEKHAR
e-Mail Id: chanduhelapuri@gmail.com
mobile No: +918802050486
Seeking senior level assignments in Procurement, Materials Management, Inventory planning, ware
house Management, ERP based consultancy with a reputed organisation
Professional synopsis
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A competent professional with 20 years of service in Indian Air Force with varied experience in
Procurement and allied activities
Sourcing strategies
Vendor interactions
Budgeting
Back-end operations of ERP based application
Invoices and contingent bills
Payment module and
Auditing module (customised operations for Principal controller of Defence Accounts)
Career Contour
Since 26 Dec 2011 as a Senior Non Comissioned officer
Proficiency Forte
Previously associated as Team leader (Procurement Module), Directorate of Integrated
Material Management Online System, Air Head Quarters, New Delhi, Indian Air Force.
Deft in managing entire gamut of operations with demonstrated leadership qualities,
conceptualising and customising the operating procedures to optimize resource and capacity
utilisation.
Proven ability in directing the development and implementation of key purchase/procurement
strategies, contingency plans.
DEVELOPMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Instrumental in developing the under mentioned business processes:-
(i) Designed Price Negotiation instrument in Indian Air Force’s Flagship ERP application
IMMOLS.
(ii) Hierarchy for purchase proposals for various recommenders and also conforming the
ERP application to the Defence Procurement Manual.
(iii) Designed dashboard for principal Integrated Financial Advisor which apprises the
Financial advisor the time taken to Concurr a Financial proposal.
2. (iv) Designed Acceptance of Necessity (For Proposal stage) and also Expenditure angle
sanction (Purchase order stage) in the ERP application. Instrumental in commencing
the e-Concurrence, a paperless file movement system. It reduced the burden of
individual and speedy purchases in this governmental organisation. It achieved the
objective of Union Government’s Digital India scheme.
(v) Designed the dash board for visibility of latest purchases of a particular item/assembly
across the IAF.
(vi) Designed Rank based Rank designation mapping for the people in the higher echelons
of the organisation.
(vii) Designed RETENDERING tool for CSQ (Comparative statement of quotations) and
incorporated it across IAF.
(viii) Instrumental in designing the Forex Price calculation in Proposal stage thereby easing
the material planning
I took part in many more developments spanning the previous five years.
Back-end operations consultant
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As a part of the Indian Air Force team, worked with TCS (TATA Consultancy Services) to
design the IMMOLS application, the customised Material Management On-line system.
Bug Identification.
Advisory role for users across the databases encapsulating vivid geographical locations in
India.
Forwarded several enhancements to TCS for future patch releases.
Involved in rigorous testing (manual) of the soon to be released patches in simulator for
smooth deployment of the patch across Indian Air Force.
Identifying grey areas and developing a business process without denting the rule book of
Defence procurement manual and prioritising for marking it up for future patches.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Graduate from Andhra University.
3. Professional Training and Development :
One year Training in Logistics, Inventory Management, purchase and procurement in
Administrative Training Institute, Belgaum.
Logistics staff course on Provisioning, Procurement and IMMOLS from MMI (Material
Management Institute), Nasik.
Logistics staff course on AN-32(Transport) Aircraft at Barrackpore, Kolkata
Quality Assurance service (Aeronautical) in Bengaluru.
Completed workshop on Management of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour
conducted by C-LABS (Centre for Leadership and Behavioural Sciences), AFAC,
Bengaluru at Air Force Station, New Delhi.
Security Training Certificate
Trade Proficiency Certificate
Participated in Inter services Guard of Honour, New Delhi
Technical training which includes:
Mobile Observation Flight
Jaguar Air Craft (Fighter Air Craft)
AN-32 Aircraft (Transport Aircraft)
Medals
Actively participated in a couple of Operations
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Working profile
1997 to 2002 :
Worked in Jaguar A/c FSS, logistics spares supply to fighter squadrons.
Worked in Aero lube stores
Worked in Armament squadron
Worked in cargo section. Preparation of Cargo Manifesto, Truck out sheets
2002 to 2007
Briefly Worked in Material planning Office at Base repair Depot for six months.
4. Co-ordinated Material Planning and operations for AN-32 (Transport) Aircraft.
Preparation of Estimated planned effort for replacing mandatory spares.
Worked in Indigenous Procurement Squadron
Feasibility study of foreign based sourcing to explore indigenous source of supply.
Preparing pro forma for Material analysis of the existing spares and identifying the
combination of material used in the spares.
Developing Standard vendor base and vendor interaction
Identifying alternate source of supply to maintain the ops readiness of the force.
Developing Prototype samples and based on the functional tests of the prototypes,
recognition of vendors for bulk procurement to meet the long term goals of the
organisation.
Preparation of contingent bills.
Preparation of RFP/RFQ
Tender opening (Both Technical and Commercial)
Preparation of Comparative statement. Zeroing L-1 and obtaining CFA’s (Competent
Financial Authority) sanction.
Recording the minutes of TECs (Tender Evaluation Committees).
Draft Purchase order and preparation of Final Purchase order.
2007 to 2011
Deputed to DRDO Defence Research Development Organisation.
Worked as a personal secretary to Additional Director (Range).
Worked as an Inventory manager in Research project. Handled wide range of
equipment such as GPS equipment, Range survey equipment etc.
Worked as procurement specialist to acquire various services, dealt with hiring
contracts.
2011 to 2016
Worked in INTEGRATED MATERIALS MANAGEMENT ONLINE SYSTEM(IMMOLS)
Briefly worked in Store Procedure Module
Shifted to Procurement module in 2012.
Took over as Team leader, Procurement Module in 2013.
Dealt each and every business process related to procurement i.e., Local, indigenous
as well as foreign procurement.
In the foreign procurement segment, dealt with Letter of Credit, Payment Receipts,
foreign exchange release, Air Attaché Purchase orders etc.
Designed a system to deal with pre-existing contracts, Contracts with HAL (Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited).
Also took over as team leader of Budget, payment and Audit Modules in Jan 2015.
Organised seminars across the nation to educate the personnel about working in new
online environment.
Personal details
Date of Birth : 15 Jun 1978
5. Permanent Address : Flat No. 306, Sri Sai vijaya Krishna Enclave,
Besides SBI Thangellamudi Branch, Eluru,
Andhra Pradesh