Senior Managers

Prabakaran Mahalingam

Looking for a Senior Manager level opportunities – Consultants / Advisors / Trainers /Managers - in Administration, Operations, Contracts & Commercial Administration, Legal, Warehouse, Procurement, Logistics and Supply Chain Management in a growth oriented organization of repute.

Professional Profile:

Graduate with over 20 years of extensive experience in Administrations, Contracts Management, Supply Chain Management, including, sourcing, procurement, inventory management and material planning in diversified industries.

Currently working with Attila Dogan LLC, Oman, (PDO)

Adept at development of sourcing strategies, vendor identification and management.

Proven track record in implementing cost saving measures to achieve substantial reduction in terms of outsourcing.

Extensive experience in handling and managing VA/VE activities, reducing lead time and ensuring compliance to various quality measures.

Demonstrated excellence in establishing Supply Chain Agreements.

Gained exposure to JIT (Just in Time) and Kanban Concepts.

Effective communicator with excellent negotiation skills, with strong leadership qualities and analytical power.

Academic Credentials:

Graduate in Economics - Chennai University, 1976

Graduate in Law - Bangalore University, 1992 Diploma in Export Management - Institute of Export Management, Chennai, 1999

Post Graduate Diploma in Material Management - Annamalai University 1986

May 2011 to till date : - Head – Warehouse, Logistics & Purchase, Attila Dogan LLC, Oman (Offshore Oil & Gas – Remote area)

Organization: Attila Dogan LLC, Muscat, who are doing Flow Line Pipe Projects- and Client of Petroleum Development Oman – The mega Projects and the construction value, is US $ 2 billion.

Contracts review / management / interpretation & Commercial Administration

Attend the Contracts review meetings and advise Contracts legalities,

Claims Management after completion of the work,

All warehouse management activities inclusive of inventory control

Mobilization of the materials / Manpower to the required Sites.

Responsibilities with all Warehouse Administration and accounting of Materials.

Appraising the training needs of the various employees

To give training and counselling employees and ensuring optimum performance.

Overall Site Administration.

And not limited to the above responsibilities.

April 2008 to Jan 2011 : Desert Line Projects LLC, Oman – Asst.Manager – Warehouse & Purchase

WAREHOUSE, PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT:

Fleet Management of more than 250 Vehicles / Company Buses / Trailers / Trucks / Company Cars and related functions of workshop – maintenance and organizing for manpower and materials – deputing convoys of drivers to the destinations.

Order for the procurement of materials concerned with the spare parts of the Fleet of Vehicles

Negotiate & with the suppliers and to accommodate good prices for the required components for the production,

Streamlining the system and procedures for effective inventory control for ensuring ready availability of materials to meet the production targets.

Affecting opportune sale of surplus, scrap and by-products for maximum value realization.

My responsibilities are to co-ordinate with the civil, design, procurement, Logistics, stores and all Concerned departments to feed the quality materials to the projects sites for the Completion of the projects.

And to investigate / inspect with the quality department, the Projects sites and rectify the non-conformance Manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, inventory control, warehousing.

Evaluate and select information or other technology solutions to improve tracking and reporting of materials or products distribution, storage, or inventory.

Identify opportunities to reuse or recycle materials to minimize consumption of new materials, minimize waste, or to convert wastes to by-products.

COSTING & BUDGETING:

Financial planning and budgeting of the materials inward.

Procuring the materials according to the planning & budgeting to avoid excess inventory

LOGISTICS OPERATIONS:

Logistics operations of the materials / manpower to the required sites according to the plan of projects

Dispatching of materials with Quality approval, etc.

Key Performance Indicator in Logistics

Managing a fleet of 250 vehicles – Trailers, Trucks, Buses, Cars & their maintenance.

To organize for transportation of the engineering projects - men and materials - to the Project Site.

The manpower consists of more than 250 including engineers and workmen - according to the value of the projects.

Sep 2006 to Feb 2008 – Warehouse Manager – Advanced Industries of Arabia LLC, Jordan

Am a Team Player to administer the Total warehouse Operations.

Keeping the inventory to the optimum level

To move the materials according to the production plan.

To control the wastage of the materials

To organize for perpetual Inventories

To reconcile the physical balance to the computer balance

To dispatch of the materials with proper quality certifications.

To organize for the preservation of the components

To coordinate with all the other departments in order to achieve the Target

Achievements :

Introduced the format of the documents for the Warehouse Department,

Established a warehouse to the capacity of more than 5000 components.

From 2002 I was practicing as an Advocate in India till 2006

Drafting of agreement and other important documents related with company Settlements.

Handling the Company legal formalities and negotiating with the Union Employees and arrived at good settlement.

Handling of Civil Cases

Drafting the Commercial and non-commercial Contracts management

Dec 1981 to Oct 2002 - Job Title : Senior Executive – Materials - Ashok Leyland Limited, INDIA

Adept at development of sourcing strategies, vendor identification and management.

Proven track record in implementing cost saving measures to achieve substantial reduction in terms of outsourcing.

Extensive experience in handling and managing VA/VE activities, reducing lead time and ensuring compliance to various quality measures.

Demonstrated excellence in establishing Supply Chain Agreements.

Gained exposure to JIT (Just in Time) and Kanban Concepts.

Effective communicator with excellent negotiation skills, with strong leadership qualities and analytical power.

Vendor / Procurement Administrations:

Accountable for meeting customer orders by designing, implementing and monitoring effective procurement schedules Finalizing the specifications of the materials and establishing the quality & quantity limits for effective inventory control.

Identifying and developing a dedicated and alternate vendor source for, achieving cost effective purchases. Raw / construction materials and reduction in delivery time.

Developing global vendor base for procurement of critical engineering materials.

Assessing the performance of the vendors based on various criteria such as percentage for, rejections, quality improvement rate, timely delivery, credit terms, total attitude towards business etc.

Strategic Planning:

Formulate long term/short term strategic plans to enhance materials management operations.

Conceptualizing and implementing strict measures in operating procedures to optimize resource/capacity utilization.

Evaluating proposals to secure the best interest of the plant and increase productivity.

Overseeing the store management and maintaining to keep the optimum inventory.

Maintaining the stock of material without any variance by conducting stock verification and documentation.

Implementing Standard Operating Procedures within the warehouse and training team members in maintaining compliance with these procedures.

Ensuring quality packaging to prevent goods from getting damaged in transit.

Dispatching the components to various destinations after due quality clearance.

Negotiating with the fleet owners and to accommodate the charges of the

Transportation which is more profits to the corporate.

Updating the transactions of the warehouse stock through computerized accounting.

Disposal of Scrap materials with due approval from the Top Management,

Generating and Evaluating the Scrap Tender documents & get approval from the concerned departments.

Notable Contributions across assignments:

Successful implementation on the JIT items continuously to avoid the production hold-up.

Proven track record of adopting the FIFO method on the items such as rubber, and streamlining the process on quality-wise.

Validation the preferential / ‘A’ value materials on day-to-day basis to avoid the accounting discrepancies.

Organizing the movement of materials for dispatch after quality clearance

Adhering to the procedures of ISO 9000 on all activities to avoid the non-compliance.

Handling Contracts and Drafting legal documents.

Entrusted with the additional responsibility of assisting the Manager in drafting the agreement on unionized employees.

Actively participated to achieve ISO 9000 and QS 9000.

Controlled the wastage of materials

ERP & SAP System of accounting the materials:

Implementing and using ERP (FIFO) System for effective material planning & management.

Accounting of materials through SAP System.

Achievements :

Inventory Reduction – suggest & implemented - alternative components to the production

Department to avoid the excess inventory.

July 1979 to Dec 1981- General Assistant, Western Transport Agency, Chennai, India

As an assistant I have performed all the clerical activities apart from inventory reduction.

I was also involving all the administrative activities apart from all Clerical functions.

To organize for the dispatch of the vehicles to the other destinations in time.

Inventories Management / Control

Dispatch of vehicles to the required destinations / Sites with quality approval

Follow up the shortages of materials before dispatching the vehicles,

Manpower Management – Analysing - Program.

Self-development training program.

MS Office

Program on Inventory Control

Supervisory Development Program

H2S Training Program

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Current Location : Chennai, INDIA

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