VIDYARANI KM

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Senior Analyst SCM Operations
Profile in brief
• Breakthrough Strategic leader with exceptional communication skills, Stakeholder Management to understand their technical needs.
• Endowed with a passion for winning as evinced through demonstrated excellence in academic & extracurricular areas.
• Excellent decision making skills with a positive approach and Good Team player with excellent team handling and leadership skills.
• Played a key role in a centralized project, delivering indirect benefits (75k euro) to the company.
• Process strong analytical, negotiation and presentation skills and Adept at learning new concepts quickly, working well under high pressure.
• Passionate about optimizing supply chain process and driving operations efficiency.

Area of expertise
• Sapphire, RFQ’s
• SAP HANA – Sourcing and Procurement and SC
• Advanced Excel And MS Office
• SCOUT, JIRA, FDTP
• New Buying System
• Oracle Applications(ORMS, ORPM, MPP)

Soft Skills
• Critical Thinking Skills • Customer Service • Stakeholder management • Strategic Planning
• Adaptability • Leadership • Collaborator • Time Management

Professional Experience
Lawand Marketing & Consultancy Pvt Ltd From: 1st July 2022- 13th Jan 2023
Procurement Professional – Spot Buying
Senior Analyst: Roles and Responsibilities
 Led Vendor management efforts for high-value orders in international currencies, overseeing the full SCM
cycle from order follow-ups to export documentation.
 Purchase/Sales order management in SAP tool, Sapphire, FDTP, Feildglass, Scout.
 Stock and sales report management, historical sales data analysis and ad-hoc report creation for in market teams and senior management and
Presentation minimum, Maximums, safety stocks, review time, lead time, stores to store transfer etc.
 Understanding of fundamental principles of P2P including spend and commodity taxonomies, requisitioning, PO generation, invoice processing
 Follow up with Supplier / Stakeholders on the missing information, PO acknowledgement, and Pending PO delivery issues, escalating to requestor in case
Of PO delivery delay or failure as stated by supplier.
 Support the tail spend management by giving guidance and Maintain quality, accuracy & Turnaround time (TAT) as per Service Level Agreement (SLA).
 Initiates the RFQ process based on the organization’s procurement needs and Reviews and evaluates received quotations based on
predefined criteria (e.g., price, quality, and delivery terms).
 Prepares the RFQ document detailing requirements, specifications, terms, and conditions.
 Conducted rapid market research to identify potential suppliers for spot buying needs.
 Develop cost saving proposals including make-versus buy analysis, alternative sourcing and vendor evaluation criteria
 Managed the entire spot buying process from requisition to delivery, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedure.
 Maintained accurate records and documentation of spot buying transactions and activities.

TESCO Bangalore Private Ltd. From: 4th March 2019 – 24th June 2022
Spot Buying and SC Operations,
Senior Associate: Roles and Responsibilities
• Working in contact with Ireland based buyers (Ireland Non Food Department)
• Conducted rapid market research to identify potential suppliers for spot buying needs.
• Loading of promotions accurately, as per system timelines and in line with legal policies for Tesco stores (Ireland) by using Oracle application (ORPM)
 Purchase/Sales order management in SAP tool, Sapphire, FDTP, Feildglass, Scout and export documentation process.
 Should have expertise on negotiating agreement clauses and propose acceptance/non-acceptance to Legal as inputs in concluding final
draft agreement
 Support the tail spends management by giving guidance and Create/amend/delete and maintains Vendor / Customer / Pricing master data in ERP systems.
 Develop cost saving proposals including make-versus buy analysis, alternative sourcing and vendor evaluation criteria
• Ensuring all the products ordered by the client can be exported as the country requirements through Quality Compliance and Registration Checks.
• Product cost and retail amendments on system via Oracle on request from buyers/suppliers
• Investigating Retro funding of the suppliers is correct as per the agreement with buyers
• Liaising with buyers and suppliers to ensure timely and accurate data are fed into the system
• Providing accurate data that supports departments in decision making & facilitates smooth trade.
• Strong relationships with buyers and suppliers with regular interactions and Support resolution of receiving issues to Stakeholders.
• Maintain quality, accuracy & Turnaround time (TAT) as per Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  Comprehensive CRM functioning, including swift query management, efficient damage controls, clear verbal and written communication and overall
superior service to stakeholders
 Stock and sales report management, historical sales data analysis and ad-hoc report creation for in market teams and senior management and
Presentation minimum, Maximums, safety stocks, review time, lead time, stores to store transfer etc.
 Collaborate with Planners and Buyers to manage Replenishment inventory through accurate forecasting and rectifying all relevant components
to achieve departments in stock goals.
• Resolve SHD’s (queries) from stores in ROI (Ireland) within given TAT
• Worked with HOPOS team for creating POS labels, deletion, linking,
 Initiates the RFQ process based on the organization’s procurement needs and Reviews and evaluates received quotations based on predefined
criteria (e.g., price, quality, and delivery terms).
 Maintained accurate records and documentation of spot buying transactions and activities.

Centralized Project: Promotions Supplier Funding Recovery

• Delivered indirect benefits (75k euro) to the company.
• In Mission 2023 I was part of under “UNLOCK” pillar Supplier Funding recovery.
• Identified revenue leakage by setting up a process to identify cost price and promotion mismatches on a daily basis, run validations to identify
the legitimate ones and highlight to the respective buying teams
• After validations all the queries will be sending to respective category buyers and suppliers.
• The direct negotiation will be happening with all suppliers to align high retro’s values as they have been previously agreed high value of retro’s as
per TESCO policy.
Achievements
 Achieved Spot Award for accomplished collaborator.
 Achieved award for excellent attitude towards work, for critical thinking skills and on time deliverables.
 Received Spot light award for project Success and for delivered indirect benefits.
 Was entrusted with their possibility of Training low performing employees to bring them up to the speed.
 Received award and appreciation for excellent decision making skills towards improvement of the process.

Education

Education Institute University Year of Percentage

Passing
M.F.A in Financial and Accounting Central Bangalore 2017 76.25%
College
B.com in Financial and Accounting Pragathi College Bangalore 2015 65.77%

Contact Details
Mobile: 9741053327
Email: [email protected]

Declaration:

I hereby declare that all the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge.

Place: Bangalore
Date: (Vidyarani KM)