VIDHU SHEKHAR

Mobile: +919958554370/ 9958525080 Tel: +91 651 2340923 E-Mail: vidmech2000@yahoo.com; vidmech2000@gmail.com

SENIOR LEVEL ASSIGNMENTS:

~ Operations Management ~ Supply Chain Management ~ Project Management ~ Logistics ~ Procurement ~ Strategic Sourcing ~ Warehouse Management ~ Experience Profile SUMMARY OF SKILLS An astute professional with nearly 10 years of rich & extensive experience across various verticals of Supply Chain Management, Materials Management, Project Management, Human Resource, Administration, Training and Development.

- Strategic Planning - Supply Chain Management - Procurement - Vendor Development - Warehouse Management - Inventory Control - Logistics Cost Reductions / Planning - Liaison / Coordination - Contract Management - Commercial Operations - Team Management

Abilities in harmoniously managing day to day tasks with a talent for Supply Chain Management involving Logistics, Administration, Warehouse Administration, Inventory Control, Techno-Commercial Functions, Procurement, Vendor Management, & Client Relationship Management in line with industry best practices. Capable of Developing full-scale project plans, defining project scope, goals and deliverables and planning and scheduling project timelines and milestones.

Pro-actively managing the delivery of service and managing relationships with the customers at all levels. Planning and monitoring deliverables of the project and taking correctives measures, ensuring constant raise in performance of the team by frequent setting of new benchmarks. Direct customer interface in a multiple customer environment.

Possess excellent analytical skills that have been put to good use while evaluating project feasibility, planning etc. across assignments. Exposure in managing the wide spectrum of tasks including procurement, vendor development, logistics, dispatch, etc. across the supply chain. Conversant with effectively steering procurement with accomplishments spanning reduction in material cost, logistics costs; enhancing vendor performance. Possess experience in effectively developing and monitoring the logistics network, new packaging methodology ensuring smooth materials movements. Extensive experience in managing operations of large armed groups with demonstrated leadership qualities & organisational skills during the tenure. Proficient in setting priorities after reviewing the organization's overall mission and strategies and establishing criteria for project selection and funding, monitors resource workloads.

Expertise in providing cost-effective, complete turn-key project management and implementation services, ranging from needs assessmentmanpower, fund, material; deriving strategy for project execution and implementing the strategy successfully.

Possess experience in Reviewing, analyzing and planning the operating volumes, resource utilization and stock accuracy; and implement measures and means to enhance levels of performance at all levels.

Adept in general administrative activities, personnel management, policy implementation and facilities management across the organisation. Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills with ability to work in a dynamic environment. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Strategy Planning: Interfacing with Dept Heads for assessing annual requirement of material in line with core organisational objectives. Establishing Procurement targets; developing operational budgets and ensuring adherence to the same. Devising and implementing policies & procedures to enable smooth functioning of operations. Vendor Development: Strengthening existing vendor source & developing alternate suppliers. Communicating technical specifications, negotiating with Vendors, monitoring Vendor performance to ensure cost effective supply of quality material.

Instrumental in conducting the vendor performance evaluation for various services like freight, customs clearance (CHA), transportation and warehousing as well as labour (Civil, Electrical, I and C, etc.) contracts across Eastern India. Procurement: Ascertaining Material Requirements; identifying and developing a reliable Vendor base in local & overseas market for procurement of materials & spares. Releasing supply schedules regularly to Vendors to ensure on time deliveries. Logistics: Negotiating with transporters, shippers/consignees, etc. to ensure seamless, cost-effective movement of consignment and timely delivery of orders. Finalizing freight rates with airlines and road transportation contracts as well as freight forwarding contracts for bulk consignments also for inbound-outbound freight finalisation locally. Storehouse/ Warehouse Management: Carrying out storehouse & inventory management and monitoring the replenishment of stock items by raising purchase indents and delivery advices & scrutinizing purchase indents. Inventory Management: Governing the inventory function so as to curtail inventory-holding expenses and adherence to the minimum inventory level to minimize wastage. Streamlining the system and procedures for effective inventory control for ensuring ready availability of materials to meet targets. Project Management: Ensure correct understanding of customer requirement among the team members and ensure its

compliance. Developing full-scale project plans, defining project scope, goals and deliverables and planning and scheduling project timelines and milestones in close coordination with clients in a multiple customer environment. Ensuring constant raise in performance of the team by frequent setting of new benchmarks.

Administration: Handling administration, supervising and advising/directing the safety & security systems, housekeeping and building maintenance personnel. Man Management / Training: Identifying training needs and preparing training modules, calendar, schedules & batches for imparting training on various topics including measurement of effectiveness. ORGANISATIONAL DETAILS Jan08-Sep'11 at Siva Ventures Limited (Siva Group Co.), Guwahati as Deputy Manager - Supply Chain & Project Management
Siva Group started in 1986 by Mr. C. Sivasankaran is a US$ 3 billion conglomerate, with operations in Telecom (S Tel Pvt. Ltd is a Siva Group joint venture with the Batelco Millennium India Company Ltd), Project Engineering, Realty, Shipping, Energy, Commodities Trading, Agri Exports and E-education / Software. The mobile brand Aircel created by the Siva Group was sold-off in March 2006. Role- Operations Head for Eastern Zone comprising WB, Bihar/Jharkhand, Assam and North East in the Engineering & Construction arm of Siva Group, deploying, upgrading & maintaining high quality Telecom & Power infrastructures for leading Telecom & Power sectors patrons.

Key Deliverables: Monitoring the finalization of the BOQ, Scope of work and other terms and conditions for allocated works. Overseeing the analysis of operating costs and expenses to identify cost saving opportunities. Identify efficiencies and economies of scale to reduce costs. Reviewing, analyzing and planning the operating volumes, resource utilization and stock accuracy; and implement measures and means to enhance levels of performance at all levels.
Efficiently planning and monitoring project execution activities; including new built and sharing or up gradation sites. Coordination with clients on project progress and resource requirements. Plan and direct the team in the jobs like installation, maintenance and operation of the telecom networks and the equipment & supervise the installation and development of new sites and facilities. To ensure correct understanding of customer requirement among the team members and ensure its compliance.

Maintaining a responsive open-line of communication with the various Departmental Heads, Customers and all of the operational staff. Managing SCM activities for Eastern Zone, comprising- Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa and Assam and North Eastern states. Handling the activities of CAPEX and OPEX Procurement and also the Warehousing for the East Zone. Planning and executing various SCM related activities required for Network Roll out, commencing from acquisition of site to making the site RFI. Managing the CAPEX procurement of various class A equipments and materials required at telecom sites, such as, Air conditioners, battery banks, DG sets, prefab shelters, PIU, transformers, power plants, fire alarm system, roof top and ground based towers etc. Managing identification, assessment, negotiation, finalization of suppliers and contractual T and C for Civil works (Tower, Shelter DG), Tower Erection and Painting, Shelter Installation, DG and AC Installation and Commissioning, Electrical jobs, Transportation, etc.

Handling an operation through objective setting, including the establishment and monitoring of SLAs/KPIs of total staff in the zone. Monitoring stocks involving witnessing the movement, care and condition of the commodities being traded ensuring low damage, loss or other issues which if identified, remedial actions including insurance claims, if appropriate taken promptly. Received high accolades for organising successful vendor meet

Key Highlights: Efficiently handled major vendors like - Diesel Generators- Supernova, Kirloskar, F G Wilson; Prefab Shelters- ACME, Rinac; AC - Voltas, Blue Star, Hitachi, Uniflair, Towers- Kadevi, Unistar, Anil Steel, Icom, etc. Significantly targeted and reduced non- moving/ slow moving inventory, hence the storage space requirement. Distinctively received appreciation from WTTIL (Client) Vice President, Mr. Sanjay Pathak for efforts put in for launch of Tata INDICOM in Assam and North East. Appointed as temporary SCM In-charge for North East in August 2008. Resolved all shortages, logistics and other local issues and got all those sites within 2 months of taking charge. Successfully achieved cost reduction for few items - transportation, warehousing, etc. Aug07-Dec07 at Dishnet Wireless Ltd. (Aircel), Kolkata as Assistant Manager - SCM Key Deliverables: Managed the activities of CAPEX and OPEX and Warehousing for the Kolkata Circle. Framed the costing and proposal for the logistics solutions on Zonal and national level. Ensured on time material dispatches (from Suppliers or warehouse), deliveries (at sites or warehouses) and Erection or Installation of these materials. Handled the CAPEX procurement of various equipments and materials of various Class A equipments and materials required at Telecom Sites.

Sep06-Jul07 at Bharti Airtel Ltd., Indore, MP and Chhattisgarh Circle as Assistant Manager - SCM (CAPEX and OPEX Head) Key Deliverables: Cleared telecom equipments from customs in coordination with CHA for assessment and immediate payment of duties. Reviewed various documents such as, Computer generated Bill of Entry/ Cargo declaration, Formal Bill of entry generation; ex-bond Bill of entry for materials cleared for warehousing, etc. Managed the activities of CAPEX and OPEX and Warehousing for the MP and CG Circle. Planned and executed various SCM activities required for Network Roll out, after acquisition of site being done up to the site is radiated. Monitored availability of stock, made appropriate arrangements to ensure on time deliveries and optimum inventory levels to achieve cost savings without hampering the project progress. Ensured on time material dispatches (from Suppliers or warehouse), deliveries (at sites or warehouses) and Erection or Installation of these materials. Handled the CAPEX procurement of various equipments and materials of various Class A equipments and materials required at Telecom Sites. Responsible for identification, assessment, negotiation, finalization of suppliers and contractual T and C for Civil works (Tower, Shelter DG), Tower Erection and Painting, Shelter Installation, DG and AC Installation and Commissioning, Electrical jobs, Transportation, etc.

Key Highlights: Accredited for defining a process for vendor rating- Got feedbacks from Technical/Project, SCM/Commercial and O and M teams. Holds the credit of developing 2 new tower vendors in MP and Chhattisgarh; thus saved upon transportation cost and also the lead-time. Significantly conducted weekly meets in co-ordination with project team and sales team, identified priority sites and provided civil vendors with those plans as guidelines. Reduced the cost by almost 50%, i.e. nearly by INR 20,000/- per site, re-negotiated civil rates with all vendors, post joining; brought all vendors rates equal to or less than the benchmark price, which was arrived at, after doing market and cost analysis; thus saving almost 7-8%, i.e. nearly 40,000/- per site. Pivotal in initiating the process of providing vendors with immediate Purchase order, online, resulting in vendor satisfaction and hence achieving better results.

Felicitated with a Star (A method practiced in Airtel to recognize significant contributors) from the Head-SCM for streamlining SCM function. .

Jul03-Aug06 at GTL Ltd., Gurgaon and Ranchi (Jharkhand) as Manager - Commercial for Jharkhand and Bihar circle. Growth Path: Jul03-Dec03 Dec03-Jun05 Jul05-Jun06 Jul06-Aug06 Key Highlights: Distinctively ranked as the 1st employee at Ranchi, Jharkhand for Nortel-BSNL Project Implementation. Significantly oversaw the complete set of various sub-contractors for civil, electrical, telecom etc have been identified and developed and rate finalized single-handed. Efficiently managed procurement, vendor management, techno commercial functions and logistics for various telecom projects, going on presently in the state. Developed a base of vendors in New Delhi, Jharkhand, Bihar, etc. Spearheaded commercial - BSNL Nortel and BSNL Ericsson Projects (Jharkhand) and Reliance Telecom Limited - GSM Project, Network Engineering Division. Accredited for governing the inventory function so as to curtail inventory-holding expenses and adherence to the minimum inventory level to minimise wastage. Efficiently managed logistic networks and interacted with Sales Tax, Excise Depts. for approvals and sanctions. Accredited for streamlining operations by demanding a schedule from all vendors, noting deviations, taking corrective actions, etc. Instrumental in introducing the approval of Vendor bills by both quality and project personnel/ user. Accomplished ease in assessment of Form IX C and Way Bills from the Sales Tax Office by getting it done by a Sales Tax Consultant and then co-ordinated to obtain essential documents. Holds the distinction of being nominated as Best Employee for the year 2005-06.

Engineer (As a Consultant i.e. Off Roll) Engineer - Projects Assistant Manager Manager (Commercial)

PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS Apr02-Jun03 at Alstom Projects India Ltd. (Turbine Manufacturing Unit), Baroda as Trainee Engineer (Machine Shop) Planned machine loads & identified jobs needed to be outsourced Responsible for floating tenders as per specs, evaluation of bids and negotiating with suppliers for outsourcing of jobs requiring time bound completion. Responsible for preparation and approval of POs in SAP MM. Responsible for follow-up and coordination with suppliers and also Transporters to ensure timely delivery of spares as per schedule Responsible for maintaining a minimum stock level of spares, consumables, tools etc in co-ordination with Operations & Maintenance team & also the machine shop, fabrication & assembly sections for smooth operation of plant Responsible for monitoring contract performance and ensuring compliance to terms and conditions by the existing vendors/ suppliers/ contractors while maintaining good network & relationship with them Assessment of suppliers/ vendors based on various relevant parameters & simultaneously developing new vendors as an effort for increase in levels of service at reduced costs Maintaining stocks at stores in coordination with along with maintenance team to ensure timely delivery of their respective requirements Responsible for maintain purchase process as per Company Standards

Oct01-Apr02 at Shanti Engineering Works, Ranchi, Jharkhand as Works Manager EDUCATION

Pursuing PGPM (equivalent to MBA) from IMT, Ghaziabad (D/L Program). The course concludes in July 2012. PGDM (Supply Chain Management) from IMT, Ghaziabad (D/L Program) in 2009. Diploma in Management (P/T Executive Program) from AIMA, New Delhi in 2007.

(Secured 100% scholarship for the No. 1 position throughout India in the MAT 2003 Exam - Secured 99.95% among the students who joined AIMA) B.E (Mechanical) from BIT, Bangalore in 2001.

IT SKILLS Proficient in SAP - MM Module. Well Versed with MS- Office, Power Point, MS- Project, Outlook and Internet Applications.

PERSONAL DOSSIER Date of Birth Permanent Address Present Address Last CTC 11th October, 1978 Plot No.176, New AG Co-Operative Colony, Kadru, Ranchi834002. Flat- L 1502, JMD Gardens, Sohna Road, Gurgaon122002. 11.2 Lacs p.a.