Naveen Kumar Loganathan

Procurement and logistics professional with 9 years of experience across manufacturing, logistics, and consulting, covering direct and indirect sourcing, supplier negotiation, contract and purchase agreement management, and inbound and outbound logistics. Hands-on with SAP MM (Materials Management) and SAP Ariba across the procure-to-pay cycle: purchase requisitions, purchase orders, material master, purchasing info records, source lists, RFQ and sourcing events, and supplier onboarding. Experienced sourcing metals, plastic components, and capital equipment, negotiating multi-year purchase agreements and delivering savings through should-cost modeling, total landed cost analysis, and make-versus-buy evaluation.

APICS CSCP certified; M.S.

Supply Chain

Management, University of Texas at Dallas.

Supply Chain Operations Analyst, Procurement - Viz Tech Solutions, LLC - Plano, TX

(2026-01)

• Assigned ownership of 30+ metal commodities (sheet steel, aluminum extrusions, castings) with fragmented supplier coverage; ran competitive RFQ events in SAP Ariba, benchmarked quotes against should-cost models, and consolidated spend to 5 qualified mills, reducing unit cost by 6% on $20M of annual metal spend.
• Tasked with de-risking plastic component supply across 4 product lines; qualified 8 injection-molding suppliers, negotiated tooling ownership and amortization terms, and released purchase orders through SAP MM, shortening resin part lead time from 4 weeks to 3 weeks.
• Led negotiation of 5 long-term purchase agreements covering $10M in annual spend; secured index-linked pricing on resin and metals, extended payment terms from 30 to 45 days, and added volume rebate tiers, delivering 4% year-over-year savings.
• Faced rising landed cost on inbound metal and plastic shipments; consolidated 3 LTL lanes into full-truckload and multi-stop moves and re-tendered carrier rates, cutting total landed cost by 5%.
• Needed real-time stock visibility across 5 sites; built an automated inventory management tool in Power Apps linking LLM-generated demand forecasts to SAP S/4HANA data, improving inventory data accuracy by 20% and reducing expedited buys by 9%.
• Charged with removing manual effort from sourcing analysis; mapped end-to-end procurement workflows in Power BI and automated supplier scorecarding with LLM tools, saving 3 analyst hours per week.

Supply Chain Analyst, Procurement (Intern) - Winaxis LLC - Dallas, TX

(2025-04 - 2026-01)

• Owned day-to-day SAP MM administration for a growing buy desk; processed 100 purchase orders per month, maintained material master, purchasing info records, and source lists, and aligned system configuration to organizational requirements, reducing order cycle time by 10%.
• Supported SAP Ariba supplier enablement after an off-catalog spend audit; onboarded 30 suppliers to catalog-based ordering and configured requisition-to-purchase-order approval routing, cutting maverick spend by 7%.
• Asked to tighten component sourcing across metals and plastics; issued RFQs for machined metal parts and injection-molded components to 50 vendors, modeled landed-cost scenarios per supplier, and recommended awards that saved 8% versus incumbent pricing.
• Identified repetitive intake-to-award handoffs; automated procurement workflows with LLM tools integrated into procurement databases, standardizing the process and cutting manual processing effort by 30%.

Manager, Procurement - ISBS Infinity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. - India

(2020-01 - 2022-09)

• Inherited a fragmented supply base for metals and polymer resins; built a category strategy covering $5M in annual spend, segmented suppliers by risk and value, and dual-sourced 10 critical items, reducing single-source exposure by 20%.
• Faced supplier price increases during a commodity upswing; led annual negotiations with 5 strategic suppliers using should-cost teardowns and index-linked clauses, holding increases to 8% against a market rise of 12%.
• Directed a cross-functional CapEx and procurement team for the ABS division; oversaw $3M in investments and tracked procurement milestones, delivering 3 projects on schedule.
• Implemented a structured sourcing framework for manufacturing equipment through market research and multi-round vendor negotiation, achieving 5% cost savings across $5M in equipment spend.
• Negotiated flexible capacity agreements with clients and vendors to absorb demand volatility, increasing capacity utilization by 5%.
• Optimized warehouse inventory flows using real-time analytics, reducing inbound and outbound inventory levels by 10%.

Assistant Manager, Procurement and Logistics - ISBS Infinity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. - India

(2017-01 - 2019-12)

• Held responsibility for outbound logistics spend; ran a structured RFP with 10 third-party logistics (3PL) providers and freight forwarders, benchmarked lane rates, and negotiated multi-year rate agreements that reduced cost per shipment by 6%.
• Identified sourcing risk in tooling; conducted comparative cost analysis across mold designs and negotiated with 10 toolmakers, delivering 8% savings in mold procurement.
• Evaluated in-house versus outsourced injection stamping through make-versus-buy and total landed cost analysis, identifying 20% cost savings and supporting the sourcing decision.
• Monitored 5 3PL providers through a real-time inbound and outbound freight dashboard, improving on-time delivery to [FILL]% and enabling data-backed carrier negotiations.
• Coordinated warehouse capacity planning and space utilization, increasing operational throughput by 5%; standardized outbound package sizes to reduce packaging cost by 5% per unit.
• Established in-house rapid prototyping with CAD and 3D printing, cutting design-to-production cycles by 40% and reducing prototype tooling spend by 15%.

Graduate Engineer Trainee, Procurement and Logistics - India Yamaha Motors Pvt. Ltd. - India

(2014-07 - 2015-04)

• Assigned to reduce CKD (completely knocked down) export logistics cost to 5 destination markets; reworked packaging density and container loading plans, cutting export packaging volume by 6% and increasing units per TEU by 3%.
• Negotiated pricing and delivery terms with 8 domestic vendors for maintenance spares and consumables, achieving 10% savings against prior-year benchmark prices.
• Procured and commissioned capital equipment and consumables valued at $1.5M for the maintenance department, sequencing deliveries to hold equipment availability at 95%.
• Sourced forklifts and material-handling accessories for the forward inventory area through comparative total landed cost analysis, reducing landed cost by 2% per unit.
• Managed spend rationalization for capital procurement using analytics dashboards, surfacing $[FILL] in savings opportunities and improving budget accuracy by 5%.

Teaching Assistant, Supply Chain Management - The University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX

(2023-08 - 2024-05)

• Supervised and evaluated [FILL] undergraduate supply chain capstone teams from problem definition through final deliverable.
• Supported graduate coursework in Statistics, Operations Research, Lean Six Sigma, and Product Life Cycle Management, holding office hours for 200 students per term.

M.S. - Supply Chain Management - University of Texas at Dallas (2023-01 - 2024-12)

B.Tech. - Production Engineering - NIT Tiruchirappalli (2010 - 2014-05)