Mitali Nitin Lad

• Validated suppliers to ensure their ability to meet part performance, delivery, and reliability expectations.

• Negotiated, evaluated, and issued PO’s for assigned commodities. Reviewed 50+ purchase order reports and price lists.

• Forecasted 1500 products sold to 500+ customers nationwide: increased forecast accuracy by 10%.

• Supported Supply Manager on collecting NDA’s, RFQ’s, RFI’s and RFP’s and ensure all commercial terms are agreed and documented.

• Lead teams across multiple levels of the business through influencing

• Review change order proposals and make approval or rejection recommendations.

• Maintain day-to-day supplier relationships, act as the leading point of contact for all commercial issues under assigned commodities. Identify opportunities and negotiate commercial cost reductions.

• Provide analysis of existing requirements and pricing to ensure the most cost-effective options.

• Coordinated purchasing activities and managed reconciling forecasts and schedules while implementing supply chain continuous process improvements that boosted supply chain efficiency by 25%.

• Reduced days of inventory 30% and leveraged data to time purchasing and allocation.

• Assessed appropriate material handling equipment needs and staffing levels to support by designing capacity models.

• Track purchase order, issuance, approval, cancellation & supplier performance with inventory management using BOM.

• Collaborated with site operations, supply chain engineering teams to design internal and external warehousing and PFEP plans for production lines. PFEPs helped to slot warehouse inventory, reducing material handling time by 37%.

• Assisted logistics in daily operations, scheduled 20+ shipments, communicated updates with carrier management.

• Served as a liaison between 4 departments, increasing flow of products by 15%.

• Increased planning efficiency by 20% by identifying variances and establishing strategy for ordering material.

• Performed MRP Analysis and worked with cross functional teams to launch and sustain projects worth $3.6M.

• Gathered product service information for network trade flows using SQL and presented using tableau dashboards.

• Identified connections between business process, communication, training documents and synchronized into documented process flow for continuous quality improvement.