RAMESH SHANMUGAVEL

• Lead planning, procurement, and inventory control
• Oversee Customer and Supplier OTIF
• Operations and Cross-functional collaboration
• Oversee inventory accuracy and material flow to minimize shortages and excess stock
• Collaborative planning & SIOP with Customers and Suppliers
• Track key performance metrics and drive continuous improvement
• Define Supplier Strategy
• Manage EMS and non-EMS suppliers, negotiate contracts, and cost efficiency
• Create and maintain supplier SLA’s

• PMO Leader for Global Connected/Digital Manufacturing & Supply Chain
• Lead key projects from ideation thru development and deployment.
• Lead the process teams to develop NPV and IRRs for projects/ideas.
• Lead cross functional teams to identify resource requirements and constraints to deliver projects.
• Lead prioritization/Manage/Maintain/Report out spend on critical projects.

bCom Program Management/Global Operations Leader
• PMO leader for the B2B e-commerce platform
• Strategic planning, Managed budget, Prioritized development activities
Customer Facing Data Leader for SAP Deployment
• Lead/Managed cross business team and ensure successful completion of all customer data conversion activities by established delivery dates.
• Managed Key Performance Improvement (KPI) metrics within the data quality and governance areas and provided proactive leadership around continuous process improvement and governance
• Developed resourcing strategy for customer data conversion/construction efforts
• Developed and lead SAP pre-deployment readiness activities for function in subsidiaries, including the prioritization of process optimization projects that will have the greatest change impacts.

• Worked with the Country Business Leaders in establishing current Country Sales Coverage and Optimal Sales Coverage resulting in 17% increase in new customers organic sales growth.
• Led Global New Product sales/penetration and Portfolio optimization.
• Led cross process teams to do Country Deep Dives to turn around underperforming countries.
• Led a team in gathering competitive intelligence/strategy and work with the business teams to develop counter strategies/actions.
• Penetration/Market Sizing and Share calculations by country by region and use it as an input into business decision.
• Developing and Implement Price Corridors - Benefits to the bottom-line thru price corridor implementation 2011 - $3.7M, 2012 - $8.9M, 2013 - $9.6M

• Responsible for promoting value-adding solutions to address HR’ strategic business needs and provide project leadership and management, and consulting expertise on productivity improvement projects.
• Lead a team and developed an integrated Human Capital Management Process. Evaluated vendors who offered solutions in the areas of Human Capital Planning and Recruiting.

• Responsible for developing Supply Chain solutions to improve communication and working between Global Manufacturing Locations and Supply Chain.
• Lead a cross functional team comprising of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business, and IT and developed “Transnational Managed Inventory/Integrated replenishment process”. This saved the division $1M in inventory savings in the first 6 months of implementation. This was identified as a best corporate best practice and was replicated across divisions across 3M.

• Responsible for developing customized forecast models and improve forecast accuracy for businesses across 3M. One such project for yielded a benefit of $1.7M of which $1.4M was attributed to forecast accuracy improvements.
• Responsible for developing Supply Chain solutions to improve communication and working between Global Manufacturing Locations and Supply Chain.

• Lead a team of consultants to Cummins Engines After Market, Memphis to provide Business Transformation Solutions, and do an opportunity assessment for business process redesign.
• Consulted with GE Lighting, Cleveland, Ohio.