Vinay R. Bhatnagar

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Executive Summary: Senior supply chain professional with over 17 years of proven track record of strong &

decisive leadership in well known multinational organization’s with the background of managing complex & challenging

supply chain environments. A leader with excellent ability in managing people, maximizing productivity & leading multi-

skilled teams to achieve organizational goals & industry best practices.

Gujarat Gas formerly “British-Gas” Group:“Assistant General Manager” Supply Chain (C&P),

Apr’07

Largest private sector gas transmission & distribution company in India. Following is the summary of my role.

Procurement, Contracts & Inventory Management:

Manage procurement ~3000 SKUs & service contracts - total annual spend of approx. $ 30 -35M

Drive annual material procurement & contracting sourcing strategy, covering all aspects of Supply Chain.

Cost management - achieved average year on year cost savings of 11-12% on material & services.

Ensure 100% daily material linearity planning with minimum inventory – effective usage of SAP ERP

Led inventory reduction project for organization, 50% reduction in inventory, developed new business model

Skew reduction by 15% thus reducing the imbalance in the inventory.

Reduced inventory variance from 1.7 Mn to 0.12 Mn, effective usage of Inventory tools FSN, ABC & HML.

Led spares mgmt. project & developed spares mgmt. guideline in line with accounting standard.

Implemented different contracting options comprehensive AMC, ARC’s & turnkey for specific requirement.

Developed excel based Min-Max material planning system & thus reduced Keppins (stoppages)

Vendor & Contractor Development - Strategic Sourcing:

Managing Cost/Quality/Delivery/Service performance of Vendor’s & Contractor’s.

Material Cost Reduction through alternate sourcing, VE, TCO, Supplier/Spend consolidation & localization.

Material Cost Productivity by implementing Lean, Kaizan & VE concept at vendors place.

Standardization of product & service technical specification in line with other industries.

Initiated commodity cost benchmarking project to ensure standard & market driven pricing from suppliers.

Developed new vendors to eliminate OEM’s monopoly, achieved savings of INR 1.5 Mn.

Development of multiple suppliers /contractors 95+; reduce single sourcing, redundancy for critical items

Developed vendor/contractor pre-qualification, selection, white paper audit & evaluation criteria.

Led supplier lead time reduction initiative – introduced VMI & Min-Max concepts at vendors place.

Contracts & Procurement Excellence (Supply Chain Excellence):

Led Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project with KPMG for organization – Productivity improvement

Designed & drafted Contracts & Procurement (supply chain) policy frameworks & procedure.

Benchmarking of SCM processes with the BG standards, CAG & CVC guidelines and other industries.

Streamlined entire P to P cycle & C&P processes - Due-diligence, PIP, vendor payment & cycle count etc.

Established risk mitigation strategies & risk mapping for the entire Supply Chain – Business continuity plan.

Developed waste management disposal policy as per CPCB/GPCB norms (Pollution Control Board norms)

Led Process Automation/Digization initiative for various activities, designed MIS for SCM function.

Responsible for governance for supply chain operations, IMS (ISO9001/14001, OHSAS18000) & BG Audits.

CPEX-OPEX budget owner for supply chain function– Reduction in OPEX by 10%.

Quality Assurance:

Responsible for Quality assurance in Supply Chain; Defining CTQs, Non conformity management, RCA etc

Supplier Quality Management; setting expectations-quality manual, performance & surveillance audits

Established process to monitor Customer quality assurance resulted in zero repeat rejections/defects.

Introduced supplier self-certification – Green channel – 11 suppliers self-certified.

New Product Introduction(NPI)– Proto-Pilot implementation – First Piece Qualification & Trial Order

Strategy

Ensured zero field (DoA) & material repeat rejection using CAPA-SCAR & other statistical quality tools

Kaizan implementation to Poka-Yoke & to reduce inspection cycle time.

SAP Implementation:

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Functional leader for MM module implementation at GGCL.

AS-IS process study, RTM matrix for MM module & Data migration strategy

Data migration - Material, Service & Vendor master -cleansing & introduction of class characteristics concept

System solution design for Min-Max, MRP & forecasting tool - MRP set-ups/field selection & data capturing.

Blue print system design, TO-BE processes (L1/L2/L3) scenarios, BPB/BPD/BPP.

Interface testing with mainframe based Legacy systems (Informix)

Motorola / Freescale Semiconductor: Supply Chain Manager, May ’05 till Mar ’07

Purchasing/Materials Management:

Managed purchasing (Indirect/Direct) & supplier contracts – Annual spend approx. $180M.

Comprehensive AMC contracts with the vendors for the supply goods along with services

Initiated shopping cart concept for low value MRO items in the indirect purchase category.

Drafted negotiation strategy to purchase the 3 facilities of “ST Microelectronics” Noida

Led negotiations for entire purchase & services for constructing facilities of Freescale Noida operations

Vendor Development, Direct / Indirect Sourcing:

Introduced total 95 vendors, Contract negotiated 44

PWA localization in India, 39 Boards, component level sourcing, total savings of 46% (LCC Buy)

Signed global contract with Dell for purchase of Laptops/Desktops.

Commodity wise / material group-wise spend analysis, vendor consolidation for low spend.

Logistics management (Inbond):

Established logistics team & managed inbound logistics for Noida operations.

Bonding of company premises as 100% EOU under STP scheme by STPI

License for private bounded warehouse & in-bound manufacturing

Established processes for IUT-Bond to Bond transfer, Import & Indigenous/Domestic –CT-3

Introduced concept of 3rd part logistics for warehouse management.

Contract with Exel & GEO LOGISTICS, freight forwarders for inbound logistics

Reduced demurrages by simplifying the high-sea sales import process.

SAP Roll Out:

Analysis of As-Is Process and To-Be process for Gap resolution, led change management team.

Test scripts & conducted user acceptance test (UAT’s), conference Room Pilot (CRP).

Introduced catalogue management for India operations.

General Electric-GE Global Supply Chain, May ’99 till May ’05

GE Medical Systems, business unit of General Electric, USA is a manufacturer of world class Mobile Image

Intensifiers, CT scanner, Ultrasound, MR and other diagnostic imaging systems. Stint in GE included various

international Supply chain assignments in direct sourcing (VDD), materials/procurement, inventory management,

inbound & outbound logistics, OTR & lean supply chain.

Supply Chain/Materials Leader:

Managed global supply-chain base for three business units of GE, the challenge was to have the smooth supply chain

operations by managing over 140 suppliers to have 100% business continuity in business manufacturing ops.

Material procurement to strike a balance between 100% daily linearity and inventory management

Managed procurement of 5000 SKU’s for, 3 GE business modalities. Total annual spend of approx $100M

Manage inventory turns for the business modality to reach a stretched target of 15 turns

Ensured 100% stock integrity, introduced Oracle perpetual stock count system.

Drive lean six sigma supply chain management, introduced milk run & supplier material kitting concept.

Supplier to RM/warehouse to Mfg. shop-floor kitting concept (JIT)

Championed Oracle Min-Max, MRP process & GE supplier market place, demand forecast web application.

Led project to reduce the inventory obsolescence worth USD 1000K along with Sales, Field / Service team

100 % compliance of internal and external processes (Excise and Customs) –EHTP/STPI/EOU environment

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Managed logistics Inbond / Outbond - customs clearance, export/re-export, IC/PC & 3PL management.

Strategic Sourcing Leader:

During this position, the key responsibilities included new vendor development, growing the process capabilities of

existing vendors and managing supplier’s Cost, Quality & Delivery metrics.

Alternate supplier development thereby increased competition, cost competitiveness & supply continuity.

Incorporated value engineering, TCO, LCC buy as cost reduction model

Localization of assemblies & Cable & Harness total saving of 32%

Implemented Min-Max & Kanban at various supplies manufacturing plants (Vendor Managed Inventory)

TAKT time reduction, with improved shop floor layout design – Lean manufacturing tools at vendors plant

Established supplier forecasting to manage the demand/supply fluctuations, thereby reduced lead time.

Managed full cycle of vendor induction -selection, white paper, negotiation, proto – pilot & contracts singing

Zero non-compliance in internal, GEMED & FDA audits.

Team member for testing of MM module during Oracle applications Global Instance Implementation

GE’s Operations Management Leadership Program (OMLP):

GE’s prestigious Operations Management Leadership Program (OMLP) is a two-year Business Administration

Management leadership program, involving international assignments, various leadership experiential & class room

trainings. This program is designed to give a multi-functional business exposure to the selected candidate and prepare

them as future leaders. Following were the cross functional business assignments…

Phase-In (NPI) / Phase-out Leader: Manufacturing new production introduction & phase out of product.

Project/Sourcing Transfer Leader: Transfer of spares management operations from HCC to LCC.

Lean Manufacturing Leader: Design & setup of manufacturing shop floor based on lean principle.

Sourcing Leader: New vendor introduction, VMI & Min-Max concept at suppliers place.

GE Six-Sigma: GE Six-sigma Green Belt certified, with in depth knowledge of Six Sigma methodologies (DMAIC &

DFSS) & the statistical tools used for process improvement in Supply chain/Quality management.

Successfully executed 6 Six Sigma projects

Mentored a team of 20 Production Associates towards Green Belt certification. 100% GB certification

Improved Inventory turns of high value items using DFSS Kanban technique – Floor to supplier triggering

Product Phase-out: Signed M6 (Mile stones) of Stenoscope product & reduced $1000 K of obsolescence.

Kinetic Engineering-KCL, Pune: Trainee Engineer, Nov ’98 to May ’99

NPI, prepare manufacturing BOM, support manufacturing in proto-pilot till the regular production.

Preparation of RFQ/Tender/Bid/ITT, Bid/Tender evaluation criteria/plan & preparation of comparatives.

Supplier selection, technical evaluation along with engineering team.

Carry out vendor Pre-Qualification in line with developed qualification questioner

Siemens India Private Ltd, Nashik: Engineering Project Trainee

One year engineering project, the job involved designing of Jigs for Siemens DC Drives. Designed test jig for

SIEMENS DC Drive "6RA24" using Micro-controller 8051.

Awards & Accreditation:

Awarded 375 Stock options. GE’2000

Performance award for record production in manufacturing – produced total 168 units, GE’1999

Best Six Sigma project award, for reducing manufacturing cycle time, 2000

Note of thanks from VP – Service, for training the engineers in US on product testing & debugging, GE’2000

Certificate of Achievement – GE Six Sigma Green Belt certification, GE’2000

Management award for plant relocation from Pune to Bangalore, GE’2001

Management award for managing Excise/Customs/EHTP operations, GE’2001

Management award for reducing DOA (Dead on Arrival) & improved product quality, GE’2002

Management award for launching people development program for GPC India employees, GE’2003

Management award for EHS Global Star audit findings closure in record time, GE’2003

NOT award for implementing Min-Max/Kanban/MRP (Lean Supply Chain) at suppliers plant - VMI,

GE’2003

Exemplary performance award for managing the toughest Global Supply Chain for GE, GE’2004

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Awarded 30,000 stock options for excellent contribution in success of the company, Gujarat Gas’2008

Trainings:

Basic Human Labs, Performance through people & Coaching & Mentoring, BG India

Impact, Manufacturing Finance & Operations, GE USA

Strategic Sourcing, Negotiating Skills, Project Management & Managing cross functional teams GE USA

Lean Manufacturing, Lean Supply Chain & Global Production Systems (GPS), GE USA

Six Sigma Green Belt, Professional Development Course & Leadership Essentials, GE India

Education:

1. Business Leadership Program (OMLP):General Electric Company (2001-2003) India & USA

2. Bachelor of Engineering: First Class, 1997, Pune University.

Diploma in Engineering: College Topper (Stood 56th in Maharashtra), 1994, Mumbai University

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Vinay R. Bhatnagar

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