Priyanka Gowrishankar, PMP, CSCP
Ras Al Khaimah
Summary
A holistic Supply Chain professional with over 12 years experience in various functional areas of demand planning, procurement, logistics, operations and warehousing. A Certified Supply Chain Professional ( CSCP from APICS ) with diverse commodity experience across industries such as oil and gas, steel, plastic, chemical, glass , printing, automobile, cable manufacturing, infrastructure, ceramics and FMCG. An effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and interactional leadership giving attention to details and having a sense of urgency. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Logistics Manager
JBF RAK LLC ( BOPET Film & PET Chips Manufacturing )
05.2021 - Current
- Sourcing of Logistics/Transportation commodity for all inbound and outbound supply chain activities.
- Partnering with all main line carriers and logistic service providers (3PLs) for quarterly and yearly rates, tariffs and contract negotiations.
- Designing internal SOPs for cross functional transactions and external SLAs with freight agents.
- Using SAP in coordination with purchase and QA/QC for inventory management of raw materials, MRO items, packaging and admin commodities.
- Heading Kaizen activities ( continuous improvements ) in collaboration with SAP/IT teams.
- Partnering with production planning teams and ensuring that production schedules are met and customer delivery expectations are satisfied.
- Prime contact of supply chain team to manage coordination and operations between cross functional teams of demand forecasting, procurement, warehousing, and transportation.
- Mobilizing freight analysis reports to higher management on variations on bunker, currency, port congestion, geo political situations and various other PESTEL factors.
- Delivered cost savings of 25-40% on FCL, LCL, LTL modes and last mile deliveries using alternates such as NOR , OT IG containers and consolidation.
- Conducted research to address shipping errors and packaging mistakes and leading improvement projects leading to savings of 25-30%.
- Generating SAP reports for analysis of weekly and monthly dispatches and freight trends. Responsible for providing weekly reports on FG/goods in transit/WIP report to Finance and sales for receivables meetings.
- Head of export/import documentation (preferential COO for India/MENA, Saber for KSA, and ACID for Egypt ), and border customs clearance and monitoring of tariff classification (HS codes)duty exemptions and bank payment documents.( Letter of credits ).
- Monitoring performance metrics and KPIs for last mile and GCC vendors and keeping track of OTIF deliveries on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
Assistant Manager Purchase ( Logistics Commodity )
RAK CERAMICS PJSC ( World's largest ceramics tile manufacturer )
12.2017 - 05.2021
- Freight Commodity Head involved in initiating, planning, coordinating and monitoring logistics and supply chain activities while managing annual spend of more than USD 40 million - ( Annual volume of 25000 TEU inbound and outbound. )
- Head of inbound customs clearance and key point of contact responsible to oversee corporate supply chain activities (Supplier to Customer) involving liaison with variety of stakeholders.
- SAP S4 Hana super user and process owner for Logistics Module.
- Collaboration with departmental mangers on critical decisions affecting stock availabilities, logistics network setups, warehouse & distribution costs and delivery Lead-times.
- Floating of RFQ, selection of vendors (freight forwarders) using Online Reverse Auctions and Contract Management.( Synertrade and SAP Ariba).
- Work with the project managers to coordinate the project scope, finance approvals, delivery dates and deliverables.
- Monitoring monthly carrier performances including rates, capacity, space allocation issues, OTIF and freight forwarder SLA.
- Conducting total cost of ownership ( TCO ), kraljic matrix analysis and supply market analysis( Porter's 5 forces ) for the freight commodity.
- Participates and leads continuous improvements projects such as warehousing rental and operations, track and trace, automation of shipping documentation and procure to pay ( P2P) thereby driving supply chain efficiencies.
- Ensuring 5S process for documentation and inspections and being prepared for audits.
- Part of training team for organizing trainings for groups of 40-50 people on commodity specific topics
Customer Service Manager
SYON LOGISTICS LLC
10.2014 - 11.2017
- Managed the key corporate accounts of the company with 3PL services for the inbound and outbound freight pricing, logistic operations, warehousing and end to end service.
- Directing, optimizing and coordinating full order cycle by liaising and negotiating with customers, shipping lines, local and overseas shipping agents.
- Managed a multicultural team encompassing, sea operations, road operations, air operations, pricing and customer service.
- Enabled commercial and cost effective logistics processes for the business through the creation and implementation of core policies of the company to ensure timely delivery, with reduced expenses, increased productivity and high performance standards.
- Evaluating and modifying the network design for the customers by using different modes of transportation based on nature and criticality of the goods there by ensuring minimum lead times and cost.
Purchase and Logistics Executive
POWER PLUS CABLE CO.L.L.C
06.2013 - 10.2014
- Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for raw materials and equipment.
- Sending RFQ for selection of a suitable cost effective forwarder with regards to transit time for shipping, air freight, courier and land transport for imports and, exports.
- Managing all the shipping related documentation for exports related to Bill of Lading, invoices, Packing lists, Certificate of Origin, inspection certificates (as per the regions).
- Coordinate with suppliers and obtain documents for customs and liaising with forwarders in regards to customs clearance.
- Preparing delivery schedules based on production plans and daily finished cable report (DFCR).
- Liaising with warehouse and end customers for timely dispatches.
- Coordinating with production and technical heads to avoid shortage of raw materials for manufacturing there by having timely orders placed for overseas suppliers.
- Sourcing new freight forwarders and conducting quarterly meetings and negotiations there by achieving better contractual rates and credit facilities.
Strategic Sourcing Buyer
IBM INDIA PVT LTD
04.2011 - 10.2012
- RFP, RFQ, negotiating rates with suppliers, maintaining relationships with both internal and external key stake holders for Marcom commodity for Asia Pacific Zone.
- Supplier market analysis, category analysis, supply risk analysis and understanding map of how sourcing process and channels work within the locally managed category there by identifying improvements to be targeted.
- Performing source selection and fair value analysis using accepted value determination techniques.
- Contract Management, reviews with suppliers and other functional partners such as quality team.
- Categorizing suppliers as strategic/core, niche, regional and transactional there by helping in better contract management
- Identifying suppliers that could support in more than one category of business there by increased supplier utilization.
- As part of paper sustainability project, helped in sourcing suppliers for reducing the print spend of the specific teams for MARCOM.
- Monthly and quarterly review of the suppliers to check the spend analysis and eliminate suppliers that do not with hold the IBM principles of procurement.
Education
MBA - Lean Operations And Systems
Christ University
Bangalore, India03.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Biotechnology Engineering
Calicut University
Kerala, India03.2008
Skills
- Strategic sourcing ( source selection and fair value analysis )
- Category strategy & portfolio analysis
- Segmental sourcing and supply base analysis
- E-auctions ( Emptoris/SAP Ariba/Synertrade)
- MIS reports -freight analysis, freight vs COGS, spend analysis
- Import-export documentation expertise for EMEA, APAC
- Freight pricing and carrier negotiations
- E-procurement & contract management
- Risk management /risk register/risk planning( EMV, PERT weighted average)
- Warehousing & transportation route optimization
- Value stream mapping & continuous improvement
- Supply chain metrics , reports & SCOR
Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP)® - ID 2802925
Certified Supply Chain Professional ( CSCP from APICS )
Certified International Supply Chain Manager, IPSCMI
Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG, India
Timeline
Logistics Manager
JBF RAK LLC ( BOPET Film & PET Chips Manufacturing )
05.2021 - Current
Assistant Manager Purchase ( Logistics Commodity )
RAK CERAMICS PJSC ( World's largest ceramics tile manufacturer )
12.2017 - 05.2021
Customer Service Manager
SYON LOGISTICS LLC
10.2014 - 11.2017
Purchase and Logistics Executive
POWER PLUS CABLE CO.L.L.C
06.2013 - 10.2014
Strategic Sourcing Buyer
IBM INDIA PVT LTD
04.2011 - 10.2012
MBA - Lean Operations And Systems
Christ University
Bachelor of Technology - Biotechnology Engineering
Calicut University
Project Management Professional (PMP)® - ID 2802925
Certified Supply Chain Professional ( CSCP from APICS )
Certified International Supply Chain Manager, IPSCMI
Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG, India
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