Sathya Narayanan Nandakumar's Profile
Sathya Narayanan Nandakumar | |
Business Operations Manager II, Hewlett-Packard | |
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Professional summary
Strong Supply Chain professional having business acumen to meet any types of challenges.
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Current Experience:
Operations Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Previous: M/s. Hewlett-Packard India
Deputy Manager, Intimate Fashions India Pvt Ltd
M/S. Intimate Fashions India Private Limited
M/S. Chemoleums Limited
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Indian Institute of Materials Management, Chennai
Central Polytechnic
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17.0 Years
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Planning & Operations. , Logistics, Warehousing,Lean Management,Am a Technocrat with SCM Knowledge ...
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Contribution score:(406 points)
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Sathya Narayanan Nandakumar's Experience
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Operations Manager, Hewlett-Packard |
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| IT Services | ||
| India, Chennai | ||
Working from 2006 | ||
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Brief summary :
Handling Procurement function of both Forward & Reverse Logistics. | ||
| Previous : |
M/s. Hewlett-Packard India |
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Worked from 2006 to 2012 | ||
Brief summary :
Service period from Aug 2006 to till date with M/s. Hewlett-Packard India: Job History in HP: Have handled various projects and held various positions in the last 5 Years and 6 Months. Current title: Business Operations Manager (Since Sep10 till date) Sr. Manager: Procurement Operations (Sep08 to Aug10) Manager: Operations (Jul07 to Aug08) Joined as Functional Consultant: (Aug06 to Jul07) Key Deliverables To ensure Procure to Pay (P2P) cycle functions smoothly To be the Champion and manage the change (MoC) across the organization To support Category teams while working on the pre-bid contracts To coordinate with all functions and ensure seamless integration of new entity(s) To manage Value stream mapping process across merged functions To manage and coordinate deal pursuit process with the business team to win A member of Supplier diversity program and to ensure the success and follow best practices Measuring and Monitoring the Service delivery performance / KPI and Initiating corrective action for the gaps. To conduct Quarterly Business Review with the Region Director Significant Highlights Successfully deployed Compass (an end to end Project/Procurement tool) in India Successfully managed the integration of EDS entities in India with HP Worked with Category teams to ensure proper savings are accrued for projects Lead the P2P Project and completed the Value Stream Mapping to improve efficiency Contributed as a Key member for the Growth Market strategy project for India Backed immensely on the Standardization project for the APJ region Previous Assignment Period: (Jul07 to Aug10) Title: Sr. Manager: Procurement Operations (Global Parts Supply Chain a BU) Team Size: 66 (Direct reports = 3 Supervisors) Was reporting to Vice-President-Operations, Chennai and also to Director - ESSN Key Deliverables Responsible for hiring, setting and monitoring of annual performance plans, mentoring, coaching, and to support their career development plans To manage the entire repair Supply Chain for SWD Tower operations and managing a business worth of approximately 124 Million $ WW Managing a team of exempt and non-exempt individual contributors and supporting a moderately complex global business To ensure proper governance are put in place to meet the business objectives To manager Reverse logistics effectively and ensure = 93 % of parts returned To proactively identify the opportunities for process improvement and implements Collaborate and influence regional operations team to deliver best supply chain solutions. To ensure the proper tools and systems are put in to place to support team and business To guide and influence strategic decision-making which affects the business process scope. To act as a vital link between Regional operations team and the IT team To apprise the Management in the Fortnightly Operations review To meet SOX compliance directives while pursuing towards the objectives To continuously improve/reduce the cycle time from receipt of repair parts till it get serviced back to the customers To support the Total Customer Experience program WW Significant Highlights Improved the process efficiency and there by improved the return rate from 76 % to 93 % and thereby saved 3.4 Million $ in Reverse logistics Level of Fill continuously above 97 % against 96 % for the past 12 months Inventory level is continually 24 DOS for the past 9 months Attrition rate is being maintained @ 4.8 % against the goal of 12 % on an annualized basis Voice of Customer is maintained @ 3.95 against the average of 3.6 in the scale of 5 Internally awarded as one of the best People Manager Based on the Successful performance, have been promoted as Sr. Manager in May 09 Previous Assignment Period: (Aug06 to Jul07) Title: Sr. Functional Consultant of e-Governance Project for the Government of Karnataka Key Deliverables Responsibilities include designing the functional flow, testing; work with development team and successfully implementing 3 modules in the e-Governance project. Responsible for the following Modules: e- Auction (Forward and Reverse), e-Catalogue and e-Contract Management. Coordinated with the IT development team to build the robust tool in Java (web based) to meet the stated objectives The predominant objective of the project is to have complete transparency To prepare the documentation along with the screen shots till implementation and handing over to the Operations team of the e-Governance Project Implementation committee of Government of Karnataka. Successfully passed the audit requirements of the Project without any major findings Helped immensely for the successful implementation Project ahead of schedule and handed over the Operations to the Government officials Till date, this has been one of the very successful revenue generating model for HP | ||
| Previous : |
Deputy Manager, Intimate Fashions India Pvt Ltd |
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| Textile | ||
| India, Chennai | ||
Worked from 2000 to 2006 | ||
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M/S. Intimate Fashions India Private Limited |
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| Victoria | ||
Worked from 2000 to 2006 | ||
Brief summary :
Service period: Oct2000 to Aug2006 with M/S. Intimate Fashions India Private Limited a Multinational company engaged in the Manufacturing of Lingeries for Victoria Secret, USA Title: Deputy Manager - Purchase and Warehouse Key Deliverables Responsible for Budget preparation To develop cost effective Vendor base and procure Goods, Works and Services Functioned as an In-charge of Inward Part Inspection, In Process Inspection, Finished Goods Inspection and Customer Care Division. Reduced the Cost of Purchases by 15 % Coached and successfully implemented the e - auction (Forward and Reverse) Module 5S Lead - Spearheaded and Instrumental in getting 5S awards Represented 5S convention organized by ABK-AOTS, Presented a paper on 5S-standarisation Had given numerous presentations on 5 S topics including the ones in IIT, Madras Significant Highlights Was instrumental in developing an in-house cost effective ERP tool to meet the business needs Have ensured localization of imported components (Imports Substitutions) and thereby Millions of dollars Through a 6 sigma project, reduced the Warehouse Space and increased the space utilization by 21% Optimized the Manpower utilization and hence reduced the manpower by 27% Optimized the Package costs by increasing the no of Pieces / Corrugated box to ensure $ savings. | ||
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M/S. Chemoleums Limited |
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Worked from 1994 to 2000 | ||
Brief summary :
Service period: Apr1994 to Sep2000 with M/S. Chemoleums Limited an Oil reclamation unit cum a Lube Oil blending plant having technical tie up with Caltex Inc., USA Title: Purchase Officer Key Deliverables To handle Maintenance operations of Mechanical department Projects - Mechanical discipline work in the Planning, Execution and Implementation Purchase - Procurement of all Raw materials, Packing, Engineering and non-Engineering items for the plant One of the Core team member in the ISO 9001 Implementation One of the Core team members in the ERP ( Mars man ) in the successful implementation of the Project on time. Responsible for Budget preparation Significant Highlights Successfully commissioned 5 end to end projects for the bulk volume customers Plastic Containers/Labels project has yielded significant cost reduction plus operational efficiencies Developed many vendors for cost reduction | ||
Sathya Narayanan Nandakumar's Education
Indian Institute of Materials Management, Chennai |
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| MBA/PGDM | |
| India | |
| From 2005 to 2007 | |
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Brief summary :
Successfully completed MBA in Materiels Management with a Project named as "Layout Re-Engineering" and resulted in a savings of US $ 120,000. | |
Central Polytechnic |
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| India | |
| From 1988 to 1991 | |
Sathya Narayanan Nandakumar's Expertise
Skills & interests :
Planning & Operations. , Logistics, Warehousing,Lean Management,Am a Technocrat with SCM Knowledge and experience of over 15 years in Procurement, Planning and Operations.
Years of Experience :
17.0 Years
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