Baliram Tikande

• Highly experienced Purchase Officer with over 15 years of expertise in diverse industries in procurement, supplier negotiation, and materials management.
• Adept at handling purchasing operations, from validating production requirements to managing the rejection & replacement of materials.
• Demonstrated skill in vendor development, store management, and dispatch responsibilities
• Strong team player with excellent negotiation and commercial skills, comfortable in a high-tech, challenging, and creative environment.
• Expert in supplier selection, setting up terms and conditions with parties, ensuring adherence to delivery schedules and quality specifications, and procurement processes, such as creating indents, floating inquiries, obtaining quotations, and negotiating.
• Competent in production planning and controlling, ensuring material availability according to production needs with well Skilled in Vendor Development, contributing to an extensive and reliable supply network.

Oct 2021 – Jan 2023Purchase Officer @ M/s. MNCAS India Pvt Ltd. | Pune, India

July 2016 - Oct 2021Purchase Officer @ M/s. HYT Engineering Company Pvt Ltd. | Pune, India

July 2012 - July 2016Purchase Officer @ M/s. Accurate Industries | Pune, India

Dec 2011 - July 2012Purchase Assistant @ M/s. G B Rubber Products | Pune, India

Sep 2008 - Oct 2011Purchase Assistant @ M/s. HYT Engineering Company Pvt Ltd. | Pune, India

• Bachelor of Arts from the Mumbai Hindi Vidyapeeth, India.