LIKHITH SHIVARUDRAPPA
Arlington,TX
Summary
A Certified Advanced Procurement Professional and Six Sigma Green Belt Certified with strong analytical and decision-making skills having experience of 3.5 years in overseeing procurement operations, inventory management, material planning and logistics control in fast paced manufacturing industries.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Material Control Specialist Intern
BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC
08.2023 - 12.2023
- To plan JIT, JIS and bulk parts for on time delivery to manufacture different BMW X series models.
- Conducted thorough analysis of stock levels, utilizing industry-leading inventory management tools to optimize supply chain operations, resulting in a 15% decrease in holding costs and a 10% increase in inventory turnover.
- Coordinated expedited orders (EO) with manufacturing affiliates to meet demand.
- Monitored arrivals and prioritized inbound shipments with transportation department to meet On-Time Delivery KPI of 95%.
- Reviewing safety stock and safety time on regular basis and make necessary changes considering the market situations and supplier performance.
- Working closely with suppliers to address and find root causes for shipment delays, poor quality and miss labeled parts.
- Reviewing obsolescence parts with cross functional teams to take necessary actions on the obsolete parts.
Material Process Engineer Intern
Hitachi Energy
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement process changes.
- Implemented a report which gave the warehouse capacity utilization and listed empty bays, eliminating non value added time for the warehouse associates by 70%.
- Data collection and documentation of material packaging types from high volume suppliers.
- Documenting the delivery methods and flow of different commodities within the production facility.
- Developed power BI and MS Excel dashboards to effectively track the inventory and procurement KPI's.
- Representing the inventory control team in Tier 2 - GEMBA meetings on the production floor to address and communicate issues or concerns.
- Was a member of PFEP implementation project to efficiently handle supply chain.
Supply Chain Specialist
Hitachi Energy (Former ABB)
01.2020 - 06.2022
- To manage the direct purchase of materials from nearly 60-70 suppliers locally & globally for the largest production facility in North America located at Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.
- Getting Request for Quotations (RFQ’s) from suppliers and converting PR’s to PO’s.
- Setting up weekly and bi-weekly calls with suppliers to expedite the orders and material status.
- Identifying high risk parts and maintaining safety stock and reorder points periodically.
- Timely reporting and review of Supply Demand for critical parts sourced from Emerging market.
- Reporting and presenting the supplier performance to the management.
- Rescheduling of orders as per MRP requirements in SAP (pull-ins, push outs, cancelling).
- Performing periodic part reviews to ensure the parts are under right commodity or buyer category.
- Coordinating with engineering and other cross functional teams to find the alternate/sub parts for emergency use.
- Providing data of materials to the commodity managers during negotiations, supplier capacity reviews and quarterly business reviews.
- Update the critical material status to the operations and leadership teams.
- Resolving accounts payable with various PO and Invoice discrepancies (price, quantity, payment terms etc.,)
Manufacturing Intern
KSRTC Regional Workshop
07.2018 - 09.2018
- Assembly and disassembly of bus engines.
- Working with lathe machines to rework on engine components.
- Assisting Supply chain team in procurement of sheet metal, lubrication oil and engine components.
Education
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
The University of Texas At Arlington
Arlington, TX05.2024
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Don Bosco Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India06.2019
Skills
- SAP MM power user
- Strong Negotiator
- Advanced user of MS Excel and Powerpoint
- Advanced user of Power Bi
- Intermediate user MySQL
- Stakeholder Management
- Workflow Optimization
- Driving continuous improvement
- Strong communicator
Accomplishments
- Received the best performance rating among 120+ interns at BMW.
- Developed and implemented solutions to improve the existing report of obsolescence parts which reduced the process time from 10 minutes to 2 minutes with increase in 80% productivity.
- Handled 30% of the overall spend of the business with OTD and Material availability of more than 90% each month.
- Was awarded the Best Employee Award for the year 2021 at Hitachi Energy.
- Total cost savings of 70 K USD was given to the business at Hitachi Energy.
- Placed 43M and 63M USD worth of orders in the year 2020 and 2021 respectively.
- Developed and implemented warehouse capacity utilization report which also helped the warehouse workers in locating the empty bays with more than 95% accuracy.
Certification
- Certified Advanced Procurement Professional, International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management.
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, International Six Sigma Institute.
- SAP MM Certification by LinkedIn.
Timeline
Material Control Specialist Intern
BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC
08.2023 - 12.2023
Material Process Engineer Intern
Hitachi Energy
05.2023 - 08.2023
Supply Chain Specialist
Hitachi Energy (Former ABB)
01.2020 - 06.2022
Manufacturing Intern
KSRTC Regional Workshop
07.2018 - 09.2018
Master of Science - Industrial Engineering
The University of Texas At Arlington
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Don Bosco Institute of Technology
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