Ram Prasad

Results-driven Supply Chain and Strategic sourcing professional with 14+ years of experience leading global technology sourcing, strategic alliances relationship, procurement transformation, vendor negotiations, and digital supply chain initiatives. Proven success managing complex global transactions, stakeholder engagement, and business transformation programs.

Assistant Manager- Global Supply Chain Services - Ernst & Young Global Business Services India LLP - Bengaluru/Chennai/Trivandrum

(2015-06)

• Manage all global supply chain technology-related transactions in collaboration with alliance partners, ensuring compliance with organizational standards.
• Coordinate with internal business teams and partners to gather requirements for client engagements and strategic partnerships.
• Lead negotiations on complex and high-value deals, including sponsorships and technology initiatives.
• Oversee global and regional deals, ensuring smooth execution aligned with local requirements and business objectives.
• Collaborate with alliance partners on innovative technology-related transactions, driving adoption of new solutions.
• Maintain regular communication with alliance partners for transaction updates, issue resolution, and weekly performance reviews.
• Monitor and manage alliance partner spend, ensuring optimized resource allocation and financial compliance.
• Onboard alliance partner sub-entities to company systems at both global and regional levels.
• Coordinate internally across teams to resolve transactional blocks.
• Provide regular updates to senior management on alliance partner performance, strategic insights, and transactional progress.

Senior Officer- Procurement [Supply Chain Management] - Wipro Limited - Chennai The Boeing Company

• As Procurement agent sourced products for client Boeing Procurement activities.
• Right selection of suppliers to obtain RFI, RFP, RFQ for the requested bill of materials [BOM].
• Validate & maintain the bill of materials [BOM] as per the requirements.
• Sourcing and rate negotiation of material with proper delivery time and quality.
• Timely placement of purchase orders to the suppliers through Oracle tool.
• Ensuring availability of Materials at the correct delivery time.
• Managed catalogues, inventory management and the logistics distribution to make products on time.
• Resolving the payment quires, return for credit, freight, tax and Insurance issues with the orders.
• Co-ordinate with vendor and Manufacturing facility to process return material authorization [RMA].
• Ensuring three- way match process is completed from business side once the materials are received.
• Ramp-up vendors into system by completing required business size certificates.

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering - Anna University