Mollify Selva

28 years of experience as Director of Purchasing with thorough knowledge of End-to-End Supply Chain Management and proven ability in navigating all manner of complexities in purchasing by collaborating with various stake holders, executive leadership and internal departments.

Proven

Expertise in Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Management, Budget Oversight, Inventory Management, Logistics Coordination, Warehousing Alignment, Production planning collaboration and ensuring seamless integration between procurement, logistics, manufacturing, accounting, finance and sales. Attested to expertise in negotiation skills, stream lining acquisition process, analytical capabilities, building resilient, high performing supply chains and capability to work under extreme and continuous pressure. Delivered substantially measurable outcomes and kept operations, production and sales continue seamlessly and with significant profit margins for the corporation even during severe pan-global catastrophes such as COVID that severely affected costs, supply chains and logistics and also during trans-national calamities such as severe storms that damaged and disrupted harbors, warehouses, shipping, roads, bridges and all transportation.

Thorough knowledge of ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and Excel). Have cultivated and built long term sustained relationships with procurement leaders and attending industry conferences. Meet customer expectations in a timely manner with agreed upon quality control by having supply chain functions running smoothly without production disruptions or delays, leveraging blanket order opportunities with JIT deliveries with reliable streamlined suppliers with negotiated payment terms.

Was significantly instrumental in growing VPC's gross income from $70 million to $180 million in 6 years and improving its profit margin by 15% by developing supplier risk management strategies and instituting contingency plans, optimizing inventory turn over, contract compliance and forecasting accuracy. Coordinated closely with Operations, Manufacturing, Sales, Logistics, Accounting and Finance to ensure operational efficiency

Director of Purchasing - VPC Group Inc - 150 Toro Road, North York Ontario, Canada, M3J 2A9

(1999-01 - 2022-12)

North American leaders in Foam and Fiber Manufacturing

• Meet customer expectations in a timely manner with agreed upon quality control by having supply chain functions running smoothly without production disruptions or delays, leveraging blanket order opportunities with JIT deliveries with reliable streamlined suppliers with negotiated payment terms.
• Was significantly instrumental in growing VPC's gross income from $70 million to $180 million in 6 years and improving its profit margin by 15% by developing supplier risk management strategies and instituting contingency plans, optimizing inventory turn over, contract compliance and forecasting accuracy. Coordinated closely with Operations, Manufacturing, Sales, Logistics, Accounting and Finance to ensure operational efficiency

Director of Purchasing - Domfoam Inc. - 8785 Bou. Langelier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H1P 2C9

(2023-01)

• Since joining as Director of Purchasing in January of 2023, turned the bottom line of the corporation from operating at a production loss of $6 million to break even within 1 year and kept increasing production efficiency, by streamlining vendors and negotiating payment terms.

Diploma - Supply Chain Management and JIT inventory management - Seneca College (2007) Markham, ON, Canada

Bachelor - Visual Communications - University of Madras (1994) Chennai, India