Procurement Management, Project Management, Negotiation, SAP

Kruti Sodha

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CAREER SUMMARY:

3+ years of professional experience in Supply Chain and Procurement; majorly with EPC contracting company. Competent in Computerized Material Management and Project Planning & Monitoring applications. Proficient in SAP ERP system, Contract management, Microsoft Office Suite. Have a keen eye for process improvement, strong analytical and collaborative skills. Fluent in English.

SKILLS:

●SAP SRM, SAP MM and MS Office tools, used for Procurement tasks, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, for Project Scheduling and Monitoring, SQL for data pulling and reporting.

●Knowledge of Codes and Standards for Equipment Fabrication and Testing.

●Negotiation (Commercial terms & cost with vendors, task timelines with teams, schedule with PM)

●Change Management (handled Baseline Change Requests (BCRs), Scope Creep, over Budget)

●Cloud Document Management (sharing and recording project documents & communications)

●Project Scheduling (Gantt charts, Schedule analysis, weekly status update, Critical Path analysis, resource leveling and analysis, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development)

●Facilitate meetings (virtual and in-person), preparing Agenda, recording Minutes of Meeting

●Risk Assessment (probability, impact and mitigation/ contingency plan)

●Cost management (budgeting and tracking actual v/s planned man-hours & material cost)

●Earned Value Management (tracking variance for planned v/s actual progress)

●Quality Management (assessment by Value Stream Mapping, Pareto analysis, control charts, set-up Quality Plan in project) Agile Methodology (agile mindset, breakdown of conceptual needs to user stories, Lean using Kanban boards)

QUALIFICATIONS:

●U.C. Berkeley, Haas School of Business 2015

Certificate in Project Management

●Indian Institute of Materials Management 2012

Graduate Diploma in Supply Chain Management

●Sardar Patel University 2010

Bachelors in Chemical Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

U.C. Berkeley Aug 2014 – Aug 2015

Student

●Worked on 5 course-work projects and 10-12 business cases during of the course duration, contributed as team-member and as project manager. Used tools like MS Project, Smartsheet, MS office suite, Visio, Google Docs and Drive.

●Perfected skills of customer need breakdown into measurable project objectives, project Chartering, Project proposal Presentation to Sponsor and Stakeholders, Project status and report presentation, Scheduling, Earned Value tracking, virtual team meetings and document collaboration.

Linde Engineering India Pvt. Ltd. EPC Contracting Co. Jan 2011 – Aug 2013

Role as Project Procurement Manager

●Lead project teams of local and international projects, single point of contact for Project Manager and Project Director, partnered with cross functional teams from finance, business operations, engineering, project and procurement. Managed 2-3 projects in parallel at any point.

●Trained teams on Project Correspondence, Document repository, SAP. Defined Project House rules, Facilitated and addressed project team meetings, mediate conflict resolution

●Prepared procurement strategy, decided sourcing regions, budgeted man-hours, monitored cost and schedule of procurement for every project and proposal.

●Status follow-up, Bids Consolidation, Commercial Evaluation of proposals from all regions, build-up Procurement Budget including logistics, taxes & duties, and presented to Proposal manager

●Streamlined processes to attain Paper-less Procurement from bidding to order close-out; achieved by vendor up-gradation/compliance, system migration and adaptation as a part of department’s process improvement initiative.

Role as Buyer

●Handled Procurement and E-sourcing of equipment, materials and engineering services

●Issued RFQ (Request For Quotation), prepared SOP, Bid follow-ups, Evaluated commercial bids, Negotiated price, delivery & terms, prepared Contracts, issued Purchase Orders, Letter of Intent, order close-outs, conducted E-reverse auctions

●Expedited for equipment delivery and documentation, Coordinated Inspection and Logistics of purchase, Vendor Management

●Served as SAP Power User assisting and problem-solving for 30 people department.

●Initiated & implemented 6-sigma green-belt project for cycle time improvement of a process.

Transpek Industries Ltd. Heavy Chemical Mfg. Co. Jul 2010 – Dec 2010

New Business Development Engineer

●Planned and supervised, pilot level production of new lab-scale products to achieve optimum process parameters & best product yield, with product quality complying to company standards

●Scheduled product batches, Monitored material demand-supply, Defined the optimum batch size, Planned equipment engagement, schedule for batch operation and assembly set-up

Shree Benzophen Industries Limited: Pharmaceutical Mfg. Co. Mar 2007 – May 2007

Internship (Manufacturing Engineer)

●Managed demand-supply of raw materials, monitored manufacturing process parameters, calculated material mass balance and yield

LanXess Ltd. Jan 2007 - Mar 2007

Internship (Engineering & Process Improvement)

●On-site project and training on study of industrial manufacturing process, analyzed scope for process improvement and made recommendation based on practices like Lean (for waste minimization), Just-in-time (to regulate WIP), Kanban (work-pull based system)

Special Recognition:

●Published a Paper on Biological Regeneration of Activated Carbon in Indian Journal of Chemical Technology (Vol. 20, January 2013, pp. 33-39)

●Carried out a 6 Sigma Green Belt project for department’s process improvement

●Nominated for Global Project Team with a cross-entity Task Force at Linde HQ, Munich, Germany

●Youngest winner of Quiz contest for Supply Chain Managers, nominated from companies across India

●Recognized for the initiative of reducing cycle-time for employee’s business card ordering

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