BHARAT PARIKH C.P.M.

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Plano, TX 75025

972-***-**** (Home)

972-***-**** (Mobile)

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Objective: Supply chain management position in which demonstrated leadership, problem solving, innovation, and negotiating skills can be utilized to provide exceptional cost savings, material sourcing strategies, procurement, planning, process controls, integration of supplier technologies, and operational management.

Background Summary: Twenty years of demonstrated experience in the field of supply chain management (purchasing and planning), logistics, manufacturing, and reverse logistics (repair/returns) with strong profitability results.

Education: M.B.A. Procurement and Contracts Management. University of Dallas- Irving, Texas

B.S. Chemistry and Physics. University of Bombay- Bombay, India

C.P.M. Certified Purchasing Manager- Lifetime Certification from NAPM/ISM

Professional Accomplishments:

Negotiated Consignment parts agreements along with long term spare parts pricing agreements with top 20 suppliers resulting 20% cost of goods reduction and improved fill rate for Spare parts requirement of Helicopter fleet operation.

Managed outsource operations for optical components with 99.8% on time delivery to customer promises.

Assisted in the procurement, planning, and transfer of technology from the United States to China, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand in less than four weeks. Achieved $12MM cost savings in manufacturing cost due to outsourcing operations.

Managed national distribution channel for Verizon Wireless that included 2,800 store locations and 5,600 retailers nationwide along with business-to-business customers.

Executed inventory optimization plan for multiple warehouse locations that resulted in a cost savings of $8MM and 25 inventory turns annually.

Successfully implemented purchasing and materials planning systems for a startup company (including third party distribution centers) and achieved exceptional on-time delivery of CDMA handsets nationwide. This resulted in a documented cost savings of $19MM during the first 18 months.

Negotiated components contracts with electronics distributors to support JIT programs. Incorporated consignment inventory, point-of-use replenishment, and lead-time adjustments into contract metrics. Attained $10MM cost savings per year. Cost reduction of 10% in operational efficiencies among all departments of manufacturing.

Active leadership role in cross-functional teams to achieve cost reductions throughout engineering, finance, marketing, operations, and R&D. Achieved cost savings of $9MM due to effective customer-facing programs.

Implemented world class manufacturing techniques to achieve JIT/ KANBAN/vendor managed consignment inventory and supported exceptional customer satisfaction leading to revenue growth of more than 40%.

Established and maintained partnering arrangements to achieve total quality cost effective solutions in procurements, leading to a 75% reduction in rejects. Implemented ISO 9000 certification and dock to stock certified supplier program.

Centralized materials negotiations for efficiency and cost control by forming supply chain management groups for electronics industry groups that resulted in an additional 15% reduction in cost of goods sold across the board for all group companies.

Employment History:

Era Helicopters, LLC (SEACOR Company) Lake Charles, LA

Sept 2009- Present.

Purchasing Manager: Responsible for Spare parts procurement and Services for fleet of 200+ Helicopters located in Gulf of Mexico, Anchorage and International locations. Supporting Oil exploration, Emergency Medical operations for Hospitals and tourism industries. Supporting revenue of $300 Millions with exceptional Supplier management resulting 90% uptime for Fleet. Managed US and international Suppliers and Customers requirements supporting 24X7 operations with exceptional world class Supply Chain techniques.

Finisar Corp (formerly a division of Honeywell). Allen, Texas

April 2005-February 2009

Outsource Buyer/Planner: Responsible for outsource operations management for optical components and subsystems. Developed procurement, planning, manufacturing processes, and integration with the Oracle 11i financial system. Managed operations in China, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand. Managed key customers including: Avago Technologies, Cisco, Hitachi/Opnext, Intel, JDSU, and Zebra.

Custom Chenille. Dallas, Texas

February 2003- March 2005

Operations Manager: Responsible for embroidery operations in the sports industry. Managed small business operations by implementing automation and JIT/Kanban procurement systems.

Contributed $1.4MM cost savings per year due to on-time delivery and inventory management.

Verizon Wireless. Westlake, Texas

April 1996-April 2002

Project Manager- Returns and Repairs: Responsible for procurement and reverse logistics processes for the Midwest and South areas of Verizon Wireless. Consolidated seven distribution locations. Implemented centralized return center. Coordinated systems implementation for four legacy systems without affecting the operations of direct and indirect channels. Negotiated spare parts and service contracts with OEM's and third parties for supplies and services. Developed a companywide JIT repair program that reduced inventory by 40%.

Manager- Materials Planning and Order Management: Responsible for all purchasing and supply chain management operations (including national distribution) related to subscriber equipment for PCS products. Also responsible for providing a leadership role in the development and automation of cost effective systems solutions utilizing Oracle.

Forney Corporation (parent company Williams Holding, U.K.). Carrollton, Texas

October 1993-March 1996

Manager of Purchasing: Responsible for all material acquisitions and planning for the manufacturing of burners and burner management systems for power plant and process industries worldwide. Also responsible for systems analysis and automation for the purchasing and materials group.

Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, California

July 1993-October 1993

Senior Instructor: Responsible for conducting training classes for Oracle applications (inventory and MRP).

Thomas-Conrad Corporation. Austin, Texas

May 1992-July 1993

Purchasing and Materials Manager: Responsible for the procurement of materials and inventory levels for high volume surface mount (SMT) manufacturing lines. Monthly production of 30,000 networking adapters in a JIT/KANBAN/ EDI environment. Achieved 16 inventory turns annually.

Source Telecommunications Inc. Dallas, Texas

June 1990-April 1992

Director of Materials and Logistics: Responsible for materials and logistics in the remanufacturing of PBX and telephone systems including handsets. Developed and modified the materials and distribution system in order to automate operational activities utilizing tamperproof bar codes across manufacturing and distribution channels, which resulted in a unique competitive advantage.

Andrew/ Scicomm Inc. Garland, Texas

February 1982-June 1990

Director of Materials: Responsible for all material acquisitions for manufacturing surveillance radar receivers and systems for Department of Defense (DOD) and commercial applications worldwide. Also responsible for production control, inventory control, MRP upgrades, and modifications.

Professional Affiliations: Member- American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS)

Member- National Association of Purchasing manager (NAPM-Dallas)

Director- Industrial Buyers Group (1989-1993)

Vice Chairman- Electronics Buyers Group (1987-1990)

Director of CPIM Education- North Texas APICS Chapter. (2000-2003)

Computer Training: Oracle Manufacturing Applications- Inventory, MRP, Production Planning,

Oracle Relational Data Base Development- Designer and Developer 2000

EDI- ANSI x12 - Supply Tech Transaction Software.

Microsoft- Project, Access, Word, Excel.

Personal: U.S. Citizen. Willing to relocate. Immediate availability

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