Sudhir Tarate

About Sudhir Tarate

Strategic leader, effective decision maker & result-oriented supply chain management professional offering extensive multi-dimensional experience in spearheading strategic business by enabling end to end processes. Bottom-up experience in sourcing, core procurement, supplier selection and its operations. Exposure to commercial & manufacturing work processes thereby also contributing to formulating policies, driving operational growth & profitability. Expertise in commercial finalizations for Sheet Metal / Casting /Forging / Machining / Plastic / Rubber parts / hoses / Electronic components / PCBS• Supply chain Management / Global sourcing -Sourcing of parts from India based suppliers and supply parts to different countries.• Global and localized parts development and procurement of parts as per requirement.• Assessment of suppliers through Quality system audit.• Demand planning, forecasting, demand fulfilment and inventory management including finished goods.• Transformation driven by Supply Chain Strategy to generate YoY productivity benefits and thereby value creation.• International exposure to supply chain community such as suppliers, commodity team and plants for assembly knowledge transition.• Building collaboration with entities such as vendors, customers, transporters, shipping lines and freight forwarders that matter to service and quality in the order to shipment value chain.• Supplier Rate negotiations with a win-win value proposition.• Improve supplier on time delivery and Quality level.• Inventory reduction with different methods to meet inventory goals Total 25 years of experience in New product development, supplier selection, sourcing, Procurement, Quality management and VAVE projects.Specialties: CPM - Certified Purchase Manager from Institute of Supply Management, USASix Sigma - Green Belt, ISO/TS certified Auditor

Experience

1. Head of Supply Chain Management

   Uno Minda

   Jun 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

   Leading SCM team Leading the operation and SCM team - Materials, PPC, store and Dispatch, ensure on time delivery to customers and meeting sales Target, Handling customers, sourcing of parts, development of parts, regular operation. Meeting the sales Target Adding new customers. Procurement of parts to meet customer requirements on time, work on excess and obsolete inventory, Inventory (DOH) and logistics cost reduction, + parts monthly procure from suppliers, import parts availability, clearance of import shipments. Evaluating supplier performance; organizing monthly review meetings with suppliers to improve delivery and quality performance. Drive Business Impact goals such as on time deliveries, inventory DOH reduction, Cost Out Opportunities. Customer Engagement and Satisfaction: – Drive customer engagement and satisfaction by meeting customer expectations and needs. Work with cross functionally with like SIOP, production, finance and leadership team. sourcing of parts with targeted cost with required quality requirements -machining, sheet metal, electronics parts and plastic parts. New part development for casting, machining, sheet metal, electronics parts and plastic parts. VAVE, Cost reduction in parts, meet cost reduction targets Meeting the sale targets @ Rs.800 Cr per year. Inventory management, Raw Material, WIP, FG, parts count, Maintain Cycle count accuracy logistic cost, logistic management and warehouse stock management also. Manage shipping and receiving operations as well as flow of materials to departments, control guidelines for stocking levels, safety stock and receipt of materials in support of manufacturing. Satisfy to customers with proper production planning and control, ensure to meet on-time delivery. Done supplier evaluation, capability assessment & risk management Started milk run system for all Pune based suppliers

Education

• Govt. Polytechnic , Karad

  DIploma in Mechanical Engineering

  1991 — 1994

• Institute of supply chain management

  CPM , Certified Purchase Manager , Certified Purchase Manager

  2008 — 2008

• Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering , Mumbai

  BE in Industrial Engineering

Skills

• Six Sigma
• Quality Auditing
• Quality System
• Supply Management
• Fmea
• Supply Chain Management
• Management
• Leadership
• Supplier Evaluation
• Kaizen
• Product Development
• Sourcing
• Lean Manufacturing
• Manufacturing
• Procurement