Buyer - Global Supply Management

Rohit Harikrishnan

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Summary:

Master’s in Industrial Engineering & Management with 4+ years of Purchasing & Supply Chain

Management experience; CPSM certified & excellent grasp of SAP & MS Excel.

Work Experience:

September 2011 - Present

Buyer – Global Supply Chain Management

Borg Warner Emissions Systems, Dixon, IL, United States.

Managing the supply base for commodities under my aegis which includes Castings,

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Stampings, Tubular products, Brazing foils & paste, Powdered metal products, Springs,

Bearings & Packaging

Implementing cost savings worth at least 5% of the annual spend handled. The resourcing

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project spearheaded by me for brazing foils resulted in a 26% cost reduction in piece price

along with an additional cost reduction of 4.6% YOY (Year over Year)

Negotiating and settling part pricing with suppliers across the globe while keeping total

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costs at a minimum by achieving optimal terms of payment and most suitable Incoterms

Identifying VA/VE opportunities to minimize costs and optimize part functionality. My

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material change VA/VE proposal on the Hybrid Fin in Tube assembly identified cost

savings of $ 4.2 million over the life of program for current EGR coolers

Handling the Minority Sourcing spend for North America to achieve targets set by OEMs

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Tracking NPI (New Product Introduction) launces to ensure that supplier’s cost, quality &

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delivery meet program targets for product lines including EGR coolers, valves & turbo

actuators

W orking alongside the SDE (Supplier Development Engineer) to ensure proper

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implementation of APQP by adhering to the PPAP

Representing GSM (Global Supply Management) department on the SAP implementation

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team that facilitated a smooth transition from the legacy MRP system to ERP

November 2009-June 2011

Graduate Assistant-College of Engineering

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States

Managed inventory for all the engineering labs under the jurisdiction of CEAT (College of

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Engineering, Architecture and Technology)

Provided technical support to students and professors utilizing the facilities of CEAT labs

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by troubleshooting hardware and software issues

August 2007-August 2009

Assistant Manager-Pricing cell (Purchase)

Mahindra and Mahindra ltd., SSBU (Strategic Sourcing Business Unit), India

W orked alongside Tenneco Inc. & Sharda Motors ltd. on numerous part development

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projects pertaining to emission control systems such as EGR tubes, mufflers, catalytic

convertors, tail pipes, etc.

Negotiated costs of emission control systems, ceramic/metallic substrates, chassis

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assemblies, fuel tanks and other sheet metal aggregates with suppliers such as Tenneco,

BASF, Johnson Matthey, Owens Corning, Umicore and Ecocat

Incorporated PGM (Platinum Grade Metals) price amendments for Catalytic Convertors in

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SAP & implemented a platinum resource pooling exercise at Johnson Matthey that

drastically improved the entire buying process for PGM

Initiated numerous VA/VE and ZBC (Zero Based Costing) exercises & maintained an

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internal & external benchmark library to identify cost saving avenues. My ZBC of an SUV

chassis assembly identified potential savings of $ 85 per vehicle

May 2006 – July 2006

Engineering Intern-Production Planning & Control

Orbital Systems (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd., India

Devised process plans for special purpose orbital riveting machine parts

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Designed a fixture for a part to be mounted on an orbital riveting machine

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Industrial Projects:

Abelin Polymers, Nasik, India March 2007-May2007

Designed and manufactured a special purpose material handling trolley for lifting a

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standard 55 gallon drum as a part of my final year undergraduate project

Kirtz Shutters, Stillwater-OK, United States Fall-2010

Executed a Business Process Re-engineering project that aimed at eliminating non value-

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add processes and eventually reducing the cash to cash cycle time

Certifications & Academic accolades:

CPSM (Certified Professional in Supply Management) [formerly CPM (Certified Purchasing

Manager)]

APICS-CPIM level 1 (Basics of Supply Chain Management) certified

Green belt in Lean-Six Sigma

Awarded membership to the National Industrial Engineering honor society Alpha Pi Mu for

academic excellence

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3 rank in Pune University (Bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering)

Education:

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering & Management May 2011

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK GPA 3.727

Bachelor of Science in Production Engineering June 2007

University of Pune-India GPA 4.0

Relevant Academic Projects:

Simulated a part development process in Microsoft Project professional as part of the Project

Management course. This project envisaged every aspect of part development & right from

inception to final handover to production

W on the StratSim simulation game for the American automobile industry in the MBA-5303

Corporate & Business Strategy class

Made optimal warehousing decisions for a fictitious company in the United States using IBM’s

ILOG LogicNet Plus suite

Developed a marketing plan for a local music mixing company ‘VictoryMix.com’ as part of a

Managerial Marketing course

Computer skills:

Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, Mac OS X, Linux

Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project Professional, Visio

ERP - SAP ECC 6.0 (Materials Module)

AutoCAD

Affiliations:

ISM (Institute for Supply Management)

IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

APICS ( Association for Operations Management)

IIPE (Indian Institution of Production Engineers)

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