Sadagoban T

Accomplished Sourcing & Procurement Specialist with over 9 years of experience in global Procurement and developing strategic sourcing initiatives. Proven track record in Team handling, supplier negotiation, cost reduction, and enhancing supply chain efficiency to drive organizational success.

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• Handled a 5 members team at HCL.Responsible for work Allocation,SLA Tracking,AHT Calculation,Reporting activities.
• Proficiency in handling Global sourcing/procurement with honed skills in working with the suppliers
• Handle initial transition management, Create SOP’s, Training documents & Process flow chart.
• Preparing productivity, open PR & ageing PR Report and presenting in the weekly client governance call.
• Troubleshoot all client queries in a user-friendly and professional manner.
• Identify and evaluate potential suppliers, Negotiate payment terms & incoterms. (sourcing)
• Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships to ensure long term partnerships.
• Handling RFI, RFQ, RFP based on request received from End Users
• Converting PR into PO within given SLA & Follow up with Supplier to get a POA & Order Confirmation
• Follow up with supplier and Forwarding Agents until the material reached us.
• Inventory Management ( Pull in & Push Out )
• Expedite the supplier to deliver pending materials and legacy PO's.(Open orders/Past due orders)
• Handled Vendor Invoice management (VIM),solving invoice discrepancies,down payment request & RMA.
• Expertise in Spend Analysis,Negotiating with supplier in order to get the price list.
• Collaberatly working with cross functional teams , Payments follow up with finace team
• Maintaining separate trackers in Excel for daily PR to PO conversion, open PO’s, Advance payments & Financial issue.

• Purchase order creation based on the purchase request received from the production team or user department with the help of different comparative quotes
• Handle Both Direct and indirect materials as well as Capex
• Transferring the Raw and Packaging material to the production plant (STO) as per the requirement of production team.
• Creating Sales Contract & sales Order as per sales team requirement.
• Ensure that the customer has enough balance in their Account for cash customer or credit limit if they are credit customer to avoid credit breach and overdue
• Follow up with Finance team for order release, Payment Postings and overdue clearing.
• Creating outbound delivery note, batch determination on FIFO basis and Invoice Creation
• Transfer the stock internally to different location based on warehouse team requirement.
• Creating SOP’s & Training Documents
• Responsible for all reporting activities such us Sales Order report (MT and Value Report) with the comparison of current sale, previous month sale on same date and average of last 3 months. Open sales order report, Daily Dispatch report, sales performance tracker report etc. and send that to sales head and warehouse head on daily basis

• Responsible for material movements (Inbound) in accordance with contractual terms of the client.
• Provide material movement reports and complete shipment status to concern Product Group Head.
• Ensure Correct and Timely procurement of required materials. Create purchase orders with vendors and having Full control of Inbound and Outbound Activities.
• Placing Purchase order in Vendor Portal
• Following with Vendors for Material delivery and arrange freight for import the shipment by Coordinating with Freight forwarders..
• Coordinating with supplier, quality department and Project Managers / Department for getting inspection done to enable smooth delivery in right time and handled RMA Activities
• Scheduling delivery dates and following up on Delayed deliveries.
• Preparing Import documents like SASO, COC for countries Saudi and Kenya.
• Sending Pre-alert to Warehouse team to do GRN for received materials

• Awarded as BEST PERFORMER for consistent performance for Q2 2016-17 (Redington),
• Awarded as BEST TEAM OF THE YEAR for FY 2015 -16 (Redington),
• Implemented Process improvement ideas that led to time savings and secured 2nd place in company wide EUREKA contest (Olam).
• Received VALUE CREATER award for Q1 2021 and XTRA MILE award thrice as an appreciation of my dedications and efforts towards cost savings, process improvements and maintaining KPI (Capgemini),
• Awarded as STAR PERFORMER for Q2 & Q3 – 2023, Q1 & Q2 - 2024 (HCL)

I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information’s are true to best of my knowledge 

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