Key Skills

Purchasing and Procurement

Supply Chain Management

Direct & Indirect Procurement

Strategic Planning

Inventory Management

Logistics and Deliveries

Agreement/Contracts

Negotiations

Cost Saving Roadmap

Vendor Sourcing and Management

Team Building and Leadership

Direct & Indirect Procurement

Seasoned Leadership in Procurement &Supply Chain with 17 Years of experience shaping policy, strategy, and governance for supply services. Leveraged to develop clear plans governing supply chain and on-time delivery for critical supplies with high- volume cost savings by exceptional negotiation.

Profile Summary

-Leadership for supply management for all departments across india

-Building a holistic multi-sourced supply chain strategy, meeting the needs of diverse business practices

-Establish schedules for procurement and delivery for each location across india

-Negotiate vendor contracts, bulk agreements, and SLAs to ensure vendors meet metrics for cost, quality, and on-time delivery

-Regularly meet with department heads to gather feedback on stock performance and utilization

-Recruit, train, and mentor purchase team tasked with monitoring individual business procurement

-Drive an ongoing focus on continuous improvement, process optimization, and cost control

-Saved 20 million rupees annually by sourcing an alternative vendor for busines growth

-Improvement of deliveries TAT by applying VA, VE in the exising policies and procedures

-Established core procurement and supply chain strategies to maintain continuous cost- effective supply

Career Timeline

KAPIL DEV SHARMA

Strategic Procurement & Supply Chain Professional

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RSB Systems

Private Limited

Agilent

Technologies (I)

Private Limited

HCL

Infosystems

Private Limited

2003-2006 2006-2011 2011-2013

Fujifilm India

Private Limited

Since 2013

Work Experience

FUJIFILM INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, GURGAON

Role : Head-Procurement & Indirect Supply Chain Operations ( Aug’13- Present ) Designation: Assistant General Manager-Purchase

Reporting to:Chief Finance Officer (CFO)

Career Growth

Key Result Areas: Procurement & Indirect Supply Chain Operations Supply Chain &Logistics:

-Ensure Supply Chain policies and processes are established and adhered to ensuring goals and objectives for all corporate and compliance requirements are met.

-Manage inventory, warehouse, distribution, customs clearance and warehouse infrastructure.

-Leads clearance/discharge process from order date until shipment cleared, received and offloaded. Ensure zero damage /storage charges through effective execution of clearance activities for all company shipments.

-Monitor, coordinate and supervise flow of goods; incoming, outgoing, storage, returns of warranty and exchange equipment/parts and inventory.

-Manage the proper upkeep & maintenance of all goods to enable easy handling, identification & protection from damages. Demand Planning:

-Demand Planning & achieve forecast efficiency as per industry norms.

-Aim to forecast process measures to strike balance between Demand & Supply while keeping inventory levels optimized

-Production Planning & control based upon stock norms and sales requirement. Procurement:

-Procurement leadership through 3 procurement specialist resources PAN India

-Responsible for leading sourcing strategy for direct & indirect materials & ensure smooth and uninterrupted operations

-Support organisation vision and goals through functional leadership

-Purchase all capex and equipment with adherence to due process & as per approved budget

-Drive compliance and governance across the function

-Procurement through ERP system and generate automated MIS reports for the business.

-Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Forecasts for inventory management

-Define, align and automate all Procurement processes, SOPs and policies- Define all Procurement SOPs, DoAs and SLAs in line with Group norms. Ensure that all processes are supported by a framework of documented policies for bringing transparency and reduction of PR-PO cycle times.

-Achieve cost reduction through development of alternate suppliers and alternate materials

-Ensure Vendor Evaluation before commercialization

-Assessing agreements and contracts with suppliers for materials & services

-RFI, RFQs, and RFPs to vendors with commercial negotiations & purchase orders (PO) approval and release

-Evaluating price, quality & delivery control to deliver most competitive and quality supply

-Indirect Procurement of below items related to IT, Sales, Marketing, SCM, HR & Admin

MICE(Events)/Stall Fabrication/Promotional Items/PR/Social Medial/OOH/Retail Branding/Workshops/Digital Media

Freight Forwarding/Primary Freight/Secondary Freight/3PL/CHA/WMS/RFID/CAPEX/Packing Material

Trainings/EAP/Recruitment Consultants/Printing/Kick-offs/Payroll partner/GMC/GPA/Family/Standees

New Office Search/Interiors/Business travel/Security services/Car Leasing/Demo Centres/Experience Centres Manager Procurement

( Aug'13-Mar'16)

Sr. Manager Procurement

( Apr'16-Mar'18)

Assistant General Manager

Procurement & Indirect Supply Chain

( Apr'18-Present)

Commodities Handled:

IT Procurement:

Workstations, Laptops, Server, Storage, Backup Solution, Networking Bandwidth, Peripherals, Assemblies, AMC etc. Non-IT Procurement:

MICE(Events)/Stall Fabrication/Promotional Items/PR/Social Medial/OOH/Retail Branding/Workshops/Digital Media /Freight Forwarding/Primary Freight/Secondary Freight/3PL/CHA/WMS/RFID/CAPEX/Packing Material/ Trainings/EAP/Recruitment Consultants/Printing/Kick-offs/Payroll partner/GMC/GPA/Family/Standees/ New Office Search/Interiors/Business travel/Security services/Car Leasing/Demo Centres/Experience Centres Import:

-CHA Nomination for clearing of shipment at all ports via Air or Sea

-Nomination of Freight Forwarding (FF) for import/export shipments

-Primary Freight management till deliveries to our Hub warehouses. 3PL / Warehouse Management:

- Inward and outward of Inventories .

- Shortage at receipt stage, packing and value added service.

- Inventory monitoring by ageing, demand and aesthetic, quality conditions.

- Ensuring optimum space management .

- Value added service, Inventory monitoring of packing materials Highlights:

-Steered sign-off and release of procurement policy for smooth purchases across the organization.

-Established New Demo Centre for Graphics Arts in Mumbai & Gurgaon

-Established Product Experience Centre for Photo Imaging Division in Chennai

-Established Endoscopy Service Centre Setup in Gurgaon, Mumbai, Chennai & Kolkata.

-Steered change management and steered transition to new office such as searching of new office premises in Gurgaon HCL INFOSYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED, NOIDA

Designation : Deputy Manager-Purchase ( Oct’11- Jul’13 ) Reporting to: Senior Manager-Purchase

Key Result Areas: Direct & Indirect Procurement

-Hiring and mentoring a team of 2 purchase executives for procurement of Passivecomponents, Assemblies and IT Hardware & Software

-Handled procurement of material & services for HCL Learning Smart Class project across India

-Floated & finalised Networking & Power Cabling RFI/RFQ and developed vendor’s region wise on PAN India basis

-Handled procurement for Upgrade Business under HCL Care business unit. Purchases for Upgrades of IT hardware, assemblies,sub- assemblies and components etc.

-Procurement of spares & consumables for all HCL regional locations to support AMC owned by HCL

-Steered RFI, RFQs, and RFPs of potentials vendors and initiate technical & commercial negotiations

-Assessed new vendors for smooth supply chain operations and conducting quarterly review of supplier’s performance & consolidation of suppliers

-Checked all Purchase Orders (PO) to vendors apart from global sourcing of components, assemblies and subassemblies

-Bagged all cost saving through releasing purchase orders in lesser amount of approved sanction notes

-PO release and coordination at vendor level, logistics, finance Highlights:

-Executed rate contract signing for networking & power cabling vendors across India for passive cabling

-Bagged annual saving of 10% of yearly procurement value

-Led contract negotiation with customer appointed suppliers and program management for out of warranty D2C products (mobile) Previous Experience

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES (I) PRIVATE LIMITED, GURGAON

Designation : Material ProcurementAssociate (Mar’06-Oct’11 ) Reporting to: Manager-Materials

Key Result Areas: Direct Procurement

-Led a team of 4 engineers and procured electronic components for manufacturing units across the globe.

-Focused on selection/ evaluation and registration of alternate sources of suppliers and suggested alternate electronic components

(Passive/ ICs/ Semiconductor/ Discrete components).

-Managed RFI, RFQ, Negotiation, Divisions requirements, supplier evaluation & relationship, agreements and cost saving initiatives besides maintaining Approved Parts List (APL) or (AVL) Approved Vendors List.

-Reviewed purchase requisitions (PR)/ Release Purchase Orders (POS) and followed-up with suppliers.

-Involved in control of Bill of Material (BOM) by Risk Management.

-Conducted component reliability review to ensure Lead-Free/ROHS compliance for Green Initiatives.

-Authorized/ approved ECR/ECOs (Engineering Change Request/Order).

-Successfully completed Lean Project on European Compliance (ROHS) and Change Management Project (Product/Process change information).

Highlights:

Successfully completed Lean Project on European Compliance (ROHS) and Change Management Project RSB SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED, GURGAON

Designation : Component Engineer (Aug’03-Mar’06 )

Reporting to: Assistant Manager

Key Result Areas: Component Engineering

-Worked as Component Engineer for Indian and USA client as 3rd party outsourcing. Component Engineer of passives, IC, discrete and semiconductor in Electronic Components for product lifecycle management

-Worked with Contract Manufacturers for Support to NPI

-Worked with supplier for components EOL and to support design & development team during initial design

-Maintaining component life cycle and provide early component change.

-To suggest appropriate replacement parts for component, obsolesce.

-To maintain technical specifications for electronics components

-Reliability checking on ROHS & WEEE transition guidelines

-Item creation, Component setup and to store technical information.

-Interpretation of parameter, datasheets and application Education

A.D.B.M. (Operations & HR) from Institute of Management Technology(IMT-CDL), Ghaziabad in 2011

B.E. (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from Hindustan College of Science & Technology, Mathura in 2003

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from CCS University, Meerut in 1999 Personal Details

Date of Birth:12th November 1980

Languages Known: English and Hindi

Address:B-606, Daffodils Apartment, Plot No.-36, Sector-6, Dwarka, New Delhi-110075

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