Vivek Kannan
Global Procurement Transformation Leader || Global Capability Centre || Digital Procurement || Analytics & Insights || Ex-NKT|| Ex-L&T || Ex-KPMG || Ex-TVS
- Role
- Deputy Director - Procurement Analytics and Insights at PepsiCo
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vivek Kannan
Sourcing, Procurement and Supply Chain Professional with over 17 years of experience across diversified sectors such as EPC, Oil and Gas, Power and Utilities, Retail, Petrochemicals, Power Cables, Automotive and Infrastructure sectors. Currently, I lead the Procurement Analytics and Insights capability within P2P function at PepsiCo Strategy and Transformation.• I headed Procurement Excellence at NKT\'s Global Competence Centre in Chennai (G3C) and had developed their Centre of Excellence for Procurement.• Hands on experience in ERP and e-Sourcing / e-Procurement systems, Source to Pay (S2P) process, performing spend and category analytics, developing BI dashboards in SCM, implementing digital platforms for Catalog management, material codification system (taxonomy redesign) for Master Data Management and establishing B2B interface with suppliers / service providers specialise in Sourcing, Procurement and SCM and am passionate in this field. • MBA in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management, a certified Supply Chain Management professional from CII (CII-SCMPro) and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI), USA. Member of CII Institute of Logistics.• My areas of interests are as mentioned below: 1. Master Data Management; 2. Spend Analytics; 3. Category Management; 4. Supplier Management; 5. Source to Pay (S2P) process; 6. Digital Procurement and Project Management; and 7. E-Sourcing and E-Procurement.Specialties: Sourcing and Procurement, Logistics, Spend Analytics, Digital Procurement, Source to Pay (S2P) process, Project Management, Market Intelligence, Risk Management, Contract Management, Process Improvement and effective communication skills.
Experience
Deputy Director - Procurement Analytics and Insights
Mar 2026 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Education
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
2003 — 2007
S P Jain School of Global Management
MBA (Global), Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
2011 — 2012
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