vishnuprasad R

A Results-driven Professional with over 11 years of experience in Procurement and worked in an environments requiring good communication, analytical, problem-solving, quality focused and organizational skills.

Purchaser - Vestas Wind Technology India Pvt Ltd (2017- Present)

• Responsible for floating RFQs and finalizing the prices and entering in to Annual contracts for Transport, Cranes and Manpower & Materials and other procurements associated with Wind Turbines sites for countries within Asia Pacific.
• Identifying New Vendors and co ordinating with the Quality team to make sure the vendors passes necessary quality assessments and co-ordinating with ERP team to make sure the vendors are created in the ERP system SAP.
• Negotiating with vendors to acheive organizational KPIs in terms of cost reduction, Supplier consolidations, payment terms, etc.
• Experience in Contract finalization working with the Global vendors.
• Following the global company policies in finalizing the prices and saving the data of the price/contract finalizing process and facing the audits from Procurement stand for the closed contracts.

Supplier Development Engineer – Turbo Energy India Pvt Ltd (2012- 2017)

• Budget allocation (Share of business) to Vendors based on yearly budget from marketing.
• Responsible for new supplier identification and sending RFQs to supplier based on the design input from Engineering.
• Conducting Manufacturing feasibility review for prototype/regular parts at supplier end (Aluminium , ferrous Castings& investment castings).
• Approving RFQs, negotiating the product cost and Tooling Costs and release of Purchase orders.
• Supplier Capacity Verification/ increasing capacity whenever necessary by strategic decisions. 
• Coordinating with Quality and Engineering for completion of PPAP Audits.
• Preparation of MOP monthly to track target Vs actual.
• Planning of New product Requirements with suppliers and meeting the CFT requirements.
• Achieving Cost reduction targets by localization and VAVE proposals.
• Maintaining Inventory well within specified targets.
• Having Knowledge in end to end process right from design till the final product delivery to customer.

• Completed B.E (Automobile Engineering) in Rajalakshmi Engineering College with CGPA 8.3 out of 10 (2008-12) First Class.

Having Good academic records. (HSC 88% (2008), SSLC 91%(2006))