DEEPTHI B.C
Tempe,AZ
Summary
Senior Buyer with over 9 years of procurement experience. Well-versed in planning and executing daily and procurement activities. Expert at supporting businesses with high-quality, reliable goods delivered on consistent schedule. Skilled research and forecasting abilities with strengths in communication and key relationship management.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Procurement Buyer
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
12.2014 - 06.2023
- Qualifying the vendor and getting them on board for the business, managing the procurement needs on daily basis
- Strengthening and building relationships with the vendors for preparing schedules and assuring that the timeline for manufacturing, inspection, and dispatches from vendor are met as per committed purchase order, contracts, standard terms, and conditions
- Cross functional activities between internal customers (material master, accounts payable and vendor maintenance), extension and activation of new parts in Material Master
- Managed procurement requests and acted as point-person for projects, customers, suppliers, and their logistic needs also maintaining internal inventory of supplies and equipments.
- Researched and evaluated new and current vendors to determine suitability of products and contract and pricing negotiations.
- Researched and evaluated new and current vendors to determine suitability of products and contract and pricing negotiations.
- Utilized procurement tools to manage quote process, invoicing, order entry and receiving.
- Handling strategic global procurement, Responsible for RFQ, creating purchase orders, pre-approved requisition checks track orders with vendors, expedite, deliveries, follow up with receiving and accounting related queries
- Driving the open order report to support monthly weekly revenue plan
- Coordinate with suppliers and stake holders on weekly/daily basis, Analysis on supplier performance based upon their OTTR/OTD
- Following-up on shipments, in case of any customs hold, prioritizing the clearance by checking with Logistics Team for paperwork or other shipment discrepancies
- Reporting the Management about the daily status of the team’s volume (inflow / outflow)
- Resolution of invoices holds/ disputes by working closely with vendors and internal Honeywell users
- Increasing working capital through payment terms extensions, Payment cycle optimization, Vendor Managed Inventory and Lead time reductions
- Clearance of the freight invoices, by monitoring the tracking and inclusion of the details in the purchase orders
Purchase Process Associate
Hewlett Packard, HP
10.2013 - 12.2014
- Worked on PO placement activities for process called GMPP (Global Manual Procurement Process) and PO amendments.
- Worked with Accounts Payable team for Payments to the Vendor.
- Worked with Global Procurement (GP) for business Risks Checks.
- Worked on tools Like SAP (Request Party Liquidation checks, Vendor data base), Polaris (For Cost Location code validation & Manager Limits).
- Quality check for PR process which leads to correction of errors.
- Calculating the Turnaround Time and metrics for the team.
- Ensuring productivity for the teams as per targets
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
Mangalore University
KA, India08.2014
Skills
- Vendor Negotiations
- Operational Efficiency
- Purchase Order Management
- Delivery Management
- Procurement Logistics
- Procurement Strategies
- Supply Chain Assistance
- Procurement Management
- Commodity Management
- Inventory Monitoring
- Six Sigma Methodologies
- Cost Control
- Global Procurement
Certification
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified - 2015
Languages
English
Full Professional
Kannada
Native or Bilingual
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Senior Procurement Buyer
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
12.2014 - 06.2023
Purchase Process Associate
Hewlett Packard, HP
10.2013 - 12.2014
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance
Mangalore University