T.M.PRABAKARAN



Address: Plot No.14, A- 3, Raghavi Apartment, Shaw Wallace Colony, Chitlapakkam, Chennai 600 064

Date of Birth: 1st January1956

Seeking senior level assignments in Warehouse Management System, Procurement, Logistics and Supply Chain Management in a growth oriented organization of repute.


Sirs,Now I am in India, for your information please,



Professional Profile

A non-engineering Graduate with over 2 decades of extensive experience in Supply Chain Management, including, sourcing, procurement, inventory management and material planning in diversified industries.
Currently working with Desert Line Projects LLC, Oman, a leading huge construction Industry in Oman.
Adept at development of sourcing strategies, vendor identification and management.
Proven track record in implementing cost saving measures to achieve substantial reduction in terms of outsourcing.
Extensive experience in handling and managing VA/VE activities, reducing lead time and ensuring compliance to various quality measures.
Demonstrated excellence in establishing Supply Chain Agreements.
Gained exposure to JIT (Just in Time) and Kanban Concepts.
Effective communicator with excellent negotiation skills, with strong leadership qualities and analytical power.




Academic Credentials
B.A. from Arts Madras University, 1976
LLB Graduate in Law from Bangalore University, 1991
DEM Diploma in Export Management from Institute of Export Management, Chennai, 1999
PGDMM Post Graduate Diploma in Material Management from Annamalai University, 1986




Strategic Planning
Formulate long term/short term strategic plans to enhance materials management operations.
Conceptualizing and implementing strict measures in operating procedures to optimize resource/capacity utilization.
Evaluating proposals to secure the best interest of the plant and increase productivity.

Vendor / Procurement Administrations
Identifying and developing a dedicated and alternate vendor source for, achieving cost effective purchases of raw/construction materials and reduction in delivery time.
Developing global vendor base for procurement of critical engineering specifications.
Assessing the performance of the vendors based on various criteria such as percentage for, rejections, quality improvement rate, timely delivery, credit terms, total attitude towards business etc.
Following-up with vendors for timely deliveries and quality checks and up-gradation w.r.t. organizational requirements as well as ensuring timely payments.

Supply Chain Management
Accountable for meeting customer orders by designing, implementing and monitoring effective procurement schedules along with finalizing the specifications of the materials and establishing the quality & quantity limits for effective inventory control.
Streamlining the system and procedures for effective inventory control for ensuring ready availability of materials to meet the production targets.
Affecting opportune sale of surplus, scrap and by-products for maximum value realization






Warehouse / Logistics / Inventory Management

Overseeing the store management and maintaining reduced inventory levels.
Maintaining the stock of material without any variance by conducting stock verification and documentation.
Implementing Standard Operating Procedures within the warehouse and training team members in maintaining compliance with these procedures.
Ensuring quality packaging to prevent goods from getting damaged in transit.
Dispatching the components to various destinations after due quality clearance.
Negotiating with the fleet owners and to accommodate the charges of the
transportations which is more profits to the corporates.
Updating the transactions of the warehouse through computerized accounting.

My Responsibilities with the Desert Line Projects LLC, Muscat.

- My role is to co-ordinate with the civil, design, procurement, Logistics, stores and all
the concerned departments to feed the the quality materials to the projects sites for
completion of the projects. And to investigate / inspect with the quality department, the
Projects sites and rectify the non-conformance of the work which is not matching with
drawings.
- To organize for transportation of the engineering projects - men and materials - to the
Project sites. The manpower consists of more than 250 including engineers and
workmen - according to the value of the projects that we are handling.
- I am the coordinator with the consultants / clients of the Projects.
- I am a non-engineering Graduate and working with the big giant construction comapany
with the manpower of more than 15000.
- I am having double degree and double diploma and have gained more than 24 years
experience in engineering and the construction industries as well.


ERP
Implementing and using ERP (FIFO) System for effective material planning & management.

Man Management
Assessing the training needs of the various employees in co-ordination with the various department heads in the respective departments.
Coaching and counselling employees and responsible for appraising and reviewing performance, thereby ensuring optimum performance.



Career Highlights

Since April 2009 Desert Line Projects LLC, OmanAssistant Manager
Warehouse & Purchase.

Sep2006-Feb2008 Advanced Industries of Arabia Limited, JordanManager- Warehouse
Department.
Oct2002-Aug2006Working as an Advocate in Chennai, India

Dec1981-Oct2002Ashok Leyland Senior Executive

Jul1979-Dec1981Western Transport Agency, Chennai Assistant



Notable Contributions across assignments;

Distinction of concentrating on JIT items continuously to avoid the production hold-up.
Proven track record of adopting the FIFO method on the items such as rubber items, and streamlining the process n quality-wise.
Validating the preferential / A value materials on day-to-day basis to avoid the accounting discrepancies.
Organizing the movement of materials for dispatch after quality clearance
Adhering to the procedures of ISO 9000 on all the activities to avoid the non-compliance.
Handling contracts and drafting legal documents.
Entrusted with the additional responsibility of assisting the Manager in drafting the agreement on unionized employees.
Actively participated to achieve ISO 9000 and QS 9000.
Controlled wastage of materials.



Professional Enhancements
Attended various training programs such as:

Manpower Management Program.
Self-development training program.
MS Office
Program on Inventory Control


Passport Details:E9664807 Valid up to 26/07/2014

Last remuneration:INR 12 lacs

Expected :Negotiable

References:

Mr Kamlesh : Purchase Manager kamleshiyengar[at]yahoo.com

Mr Sreenivasa Rao Project Purchase Manager modalisrinivas[at]yahoo.co.in






Date :09/08/2010