Gokul Kannan

Logistics and Supply Chain professional with over 16 years of experience in warehouse management, production stores, materials handling, and logistics coordination. Proven expertise in inventory accuracy, lean practices, material flow optimization, team leadership, and SAP-based operations in fast-paced manufacturing environments.

Deputy Manager – Logistics & Production Stores - Sunbeam Generators Pvt. Ltd. - Puducherry

(2025-01)

Managed end-to-end stores operations including material receiving, storage, issuance, and stock control. Monitored stock movement, analyzed consumption trends, and optimized reorder levels to reduce excess inventory and cost. Driving inventory accuracy through daily cycle counts and on-the-spot reconciliation of variances.

Executing cost-saving initiatives and lean improvements across storage and dispatch processes. Handling manpower of 40 personnel across warehouse and logistics units, ensuring productivity and safety compliance. Ensuring compliance with TPM, EHS and QMS audits by maintaining systematic documentation and reporting.

• Creating Indent, PR and making Purchase order
• Ordering to supplier, material planning against the production plan
• Material followup with supplier
• Reducing inventory and liquidate the non moving inventory
• Achieved 98% on-time material availability through proactive planning and vendor follow-ups
• Reduced inventory holding cost by 15% through lean inventory techniques
• Played a key role in successful ISO and internal audits with zero non-compliance reports

Senior Officer – Spares, Production & Fabrication Stores - Schwing Stetter India Pvt. Ltd. - Chennai

(2016-05 - 2025-01)

Managed spare parts and production material flow across multiple plants, coordinating GR, MDN, and binning processes. Planned material picking based on Monthly Production Schedule (MPS), ensuring 100% availability at POU. Led warehouse transformation projects, optimizing layout, FIFO adherence, and inventory audits (IRA, SLA, SAV).

Implemented

Kanban and kitting strategies to streamline supply to assembly lines, reducing downtime. Coordinated XCMG heavy equipment inwarding, stock audits, and insurance claim processes. Worked extensively with bonded warehouse materials and dispatch coordination of finished goods.

• Preparing weekly/monthly/yearly stock statements & submitting to the management
• Monitoring all the XCMG heavy machines and excavators with spares in the Cheyyar plant and external warehouses
• XCMG heavy machines and excavators Machines in-warding and GR entries
• Raising insurance claims when damages are found on the machines
• Stock taking in monthly audits and completed from 2022 to 2025 year-end audits without dispute
• Good knowledge of bonded warehouse process
• Coordinating with a spares team to bill the spares and dispatch the materials on time
• Supporting the logistics team to dispatch the FG machines with the correct packing equipment and tools on time

Junior Officer – Warehousing & Logistics - Caterpillar India Pvt. Ltd. - Thiruvallur

(2012-01 - 2016-05)

Handled inbound logistics and inventory processes for domestic and imported components. Ensured binning and picking based on tagged locations for production and sales orders. Monitored inventory variance and implemented preventive audits with security and process teams. Initiated lean practices like Kanban and packaging material reuse for cost savings and sustainability. Executed packing, documentation, and dispatch for consolidated unit shipments.

Technician Apprentice - Delphi TVS Diesel Systems Ltd

(2008-09 - 2009-09)

SCADA Trainee - Leitner Shriram MFG Ltd – Windmill Division

(2010-09 - 2011-09)

Diploma - Electrical and Electronics Engineering (DEEE)