Thamaraiselvan Mani

I am Thamaraiselvan, having 15 Years of Experience in Should Costing, VAVE, Tear Down, Bench Marking, Global Sourcing and Supplier Negotiation.

I achieved more than USD 10 mn Savings through my cost reduction ideas.

• Responsible for Should Costing in aPriori for Various commodities like Casting, Plastic, Sheet Metal, Forging, Welding, Machining, Assembly, Electrical and Electronics.
• Working in Teardown, Bench Marking, VAVE and Competitor analysis.
• Managing Multiple projects from different countries.
• Preparing Zero based Costing through a team of 15 FTEs for complete BOM comprising of Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic part and Assemblies.
• Involving in Vendor development and negotiating with suppliers with should cost results.
• Monitoring the overall project requirement, Client commitment and Delivery target. 
• Monitoring the overall team performance for on-time delivery, quality issues, Training and development. 
• Identifying and propose alternate Vendors to meet cost Target.
• Working in Global Sourcing, Reverse Engineering and Preparing Business cases for projects involving major capex.

Achievements

• Given savings more than 1Mn USD through Bench marking and VAVE.

• Responsible for Should Costing in aPriori for Various commodities.
• Knowledge in New Product Development and Design of Casting, Sheet metal, Forging, Plastics, sheet metal, assembly, welding and various Manufacturing Process.
• Managed the Value Engineering team and Prepared Business cases.
• Managed 3+ projects which having 25 members of team. 
• Responsible for Supplier Relationship Management. 
• Monitored the overall team performance for on-time delivery, quality issues, Training and development. 
• Report to Top Management regarding Project status, Customer Commitments, New project opportunities.
• Responsible for Global Sourcing and Alternate Sourcing.
• Managed all project deliveries, commitments, escalations and project related training.

• Managed multiple projects from different countries.
• Worked in should costing. Estimated more than 6000 components cost in aPriori software (Plastic, sheet metal, casting, welding, Machining, Assembly, Electrical and Electronics).
• Conducted many Cost reduction Workshops (VAVE).
• Responsible for preparing of Business cases for Project involving major capex.
• Involved in Tear down, Benchmarking and Competitor analysis.
• Knowledge in FEMA, DFM, DFA, APQP, PPAP, SPC and GD&T.
• Knowledge in Design of Plastic, sheet metal, casting components and various manufacturing process.
• Worked with operations team and respond to customer feedbacks with Root Cause analysis and Corrective a preventive Action. 
• Did many Global Sourcing (India, China, Germany, USA, Israel, France, Mexico, Italy, Denmark and etc.)
• Prepared Zero based costing through a team of cost engineers for the entire BOM comprising of Mechanical, Electrical and electronic parts and assemblies.
• Worked in Part Modeling and Detailing.
• Worked in Competitor vehicle benchmarking and Perceived quality test.

Achievements

• Given savings more than 2.5 Mn USD through global sourcing.
• Received Start Performer Award for outstanding Commitment and contribution.
• Received Start Team Award for outstanding performance in training and developing of the team 

• Responsible for Procurements in Proto development and Pre-serial production.
• Managed a team of Engineers who involved in sourcing and Development.
• Did many cost reduction activities in regular production parts.
• Identified, developed and managed many new vendors for existing production components.
• Responsible for Product Cost Estimation, Manufacturing Process Planning, Cam Programming for Machining, Quality check and Customer Feedback/Complaint handling.
• Created 3D Models and 2D drawings for development products.
• Successfully completed many concept designs for Tool development for new product development.
• Successfully completed more than 600 Value engineering activity in production items.
• Planned and managed for material and Man Power requirements through cross functional collaboration.
• Worked in Tear down, VAVE, should costing and Benchmarking.
• Identified and proposed alternate Vendors for sourcing to meet cost target.
• Trained and managed a team for process improvement.
• Prepared Zero Based Costing for parts and assemblies through a team of costing engineers for complete BOM comprising of Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic parts and Assemblies.

Achievements

• Reduced more than 600 components machining time through machining time analysis. From this, INR 1.25 Crore saved.
• Led various continual improvement projects which resulted in INR 2.4 Mn recurring saving annually.
• Developed various tools for new product development which helped solving complex machining parts and impressed new clients. Because of this company got a greater number of new projects.

• Responsible for Manufacturing Process Planning, Cam Programming for Machining, Quality check and Customer Feedback/Complaint handling.
• 3D Part model and 2d drafting.
• Worked in Product cost estimation.
• Product Cost reduction activity through many innovative ideas.
• Vendor Management and development for new product development. 
• Special Tool design for new product and Transport.
• Planned and managed for material and Man Power requirements through cross functional collaboration.
• Identified requirements, negotiated, procured raw materials for both production and new development products.
• Managed customer feedbacks and complaints.

Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)