Purushothaman Sivakumar

Ø Vendor and supplier coordination:

· Manage relationship with domestic and international suppliers for timely procurement of material and component.

· Monitor supplier performance lead time and quality metrics.

Ø Material planning an inventory control:

· Collaborate with production, planning and R&D teams to ensure timely availability of RAW materials, especially for EV - specific component like batteries, motors and controllers.

· Optimize inventory levels using JIT, Kanban, Kaizen methodologies to reduce carrying cost.

Ø Cost and logistics optimization:

· Develop and implement cost saving strategies in procurement, shipping and warehousing.

Ø ERP and Documentation:

· Maintain accurate records of imports, purchase orders and inventory in ERP system (SAP modules)

Ø Import Operation Management:

· Oversee End-to-End import operation including vendor coordination, documentation, customs clearance, shipping and logistics.

· Ensure compliance with Import/Export regulations, DGFT norms and other statutory requirements.

· Coordinate with Freight forwarders, CHA and port authorities for timely clearance and delivery of goods.

Ø Compliance and Risk management:

· Ensure compliance with ISO, IATF and other relevant quality and process standard.

• Taking care of daily-to-daily operation of Husbandry matters UAE seaports & cargo ops (Tanker & Dry) assistance to respective teams wherever required & supporting for Business development to the management basis on reports and marker news.
• Training session / programs for the team / new joiners to keep up for next level of development to make them as an operator to handle the vessel individually basis on providing new task & monitoring on it.
• Conducting Weekly meetings with agency in UAE / interacting with the Network professionals within our agency & outside in shipping industry to keep ourselves updated.
• Process Role:
• Handled vessel operation for the Fujairah port calls for 2 month in UAE ( On site ) related to Husbandary services and also for crewing calls to the Synergy owned vessels.
• Checking and approving the PDA request from the principal.
• Assigning FDA invoicing calls to the teams and following up on the Calls related issues, finally submitting those to the principal
• Following up on the payments related to calls submitted against the service's rendered to the principal.
• Preparing SOA ( Statement of accounts and submit the same to the management regarding no of calls handled for specific vessel and ports.
• Approving the vendor invoices in the Eyeshare portal for processing the invoices to the vendors.
• Preparing Monthly report regarding the no of vessel handled for the UAE port calls and also the productivity report of the team.

• New Process Migration: USA
• Responsible for Handling the U.S. Military shipments cargo Detention & demmurage process to collecting the invoices from various regions customers like Europe, Africa, North & south America
• And WCA regions also work from all worldwide agency and customers.
• Successfully Migrated Four New Invoicing Process from GCE(Front Office) North America Team.
• Futile Trip Process.
• Cargo Recall Process.
• CVED Process.
• Container Purchase Process.

• Planning the shift for both day and night shift users.
• Preparation of monthly and weekly performance for All the process in SSC Hyderabad.
• Attending weekly conference call with USA agency with Regards to performance and Migration plans.
• Maintaining the attendance and pay roll for all the staffs.
• Preparation of presentation for SSC Hyderabad with Regards to the Process, Performance and Headcount Planning.
• Process Role:
• Assigning the volume to the team.
• Migration and Head count planning for Process.
• Reviewing the Weekly performance for all the users.
• Attending the weekly call with agency for process clarification and Process discussion.
• Taking daily review and weekly review meeting for all the team mates with regards to the performance.
• Conducting self appraisal for the team Mates and gives the rating to Upper Management

• Export Documentation - Germany
• Export documentation & Bill of lading Creation For Germany Export Documentation.
• AMS Fillings for USA Destination.
• ACI Fillings for CANADA Destination.

• Preparing Customs Import Checklist.
• Tracking Container Movement & IGM Details Filing Customs Import Declaration.
• Arranging Consol as well as Liner Delivery Order for Clearance purpose.
• Handling Vendor & customer Documents.
• Dispatching Original Documents to Customers & Vendor.
• Preparing Weekly Reference invoice.
• Maintaining Customer Daily Status Report.
• Following up Ocean Import for issuance of Delivery Order to the CHA.
• Maintaining Customer & vendor payment Outstanding.
• Communicating with Customers and Vendors about shipment status through Mail or by Telephone.