Sreeram Venkitakrishnan
London, England, United Kingdom
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I’m Sreeram Venkitakrishnan.
I am a builder at heart and work in…
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Ingredients of Success🏆 for Products and Product Based Companies
Ingredients of Success🏆 for Products and Product Based Companies
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Best New Procurement Technology - Tail Spend Management
Best New Procurement Technology - Tail Spend Management
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We are thrilled to announce that Simfoni has been named as a sample vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions…
We are thrilled to announce that Simfoni has been named as a sample vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions…
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🚀 New Win Alert! 🚀 We are thrilled to announce that Proservartner has secured a Global Accounts Payable transformation project with Nippon Sheet…
🚀 New Win Alert! 🚀 We are thrilled to announce that Proservartner has secured a Global Accounts Payable transformation project with Nippon Sheet…
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The rapid advancements in AI and machine learning promise to reshape our world, driving innovation across industries. While these predictions are not…
The rapid advancements in AI and machine learning promise to reshape our world, driving innovation across industries. While these predictions are not…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Senior Professional in Supply Chain Management
Next Level Purchasing
IssuedCredential ID NA
Courses
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MBA, Total Quality Management
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Projects
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Reduction of VAT Leakage
Project done to reduce the loss of VAT recoveries for European purchases.
Designed new process, defined metrics to ensure recovery and reduce the leakage. There was a direct impact worth $ 2.8 MM recovered which with out this project would have been a loss.
Quality Tool used : VSM -
Quality implementations strategies in the Service Industry
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A project that provides guideline for the small scale service industries to implement Quality ( Lean / Six Sigma ) in their Organizations. This was formulated post analysis and research of well known service providing organizations and also have taken inputs from leading Quality Guru's of the same Organizations.
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Req to PO span reduction
Project initiated to reduce the Requisition to PO creation span. Reducing the span will have direct positive impact on the OTD.
This VSM based project had multiple Kaizen identifyed and reduced the NVAs in the process ensuring a better and effecient flow. Impacted with ~ > 1500 of time saved / annuam. -
PO printing simplification
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Project done to reduce waste and implement a better process.
Before : POs created by the buyer, Pre-printed paper is loaded to the printer, prints the PO, Fax the PO to inbox, Send it to the supplier.
After : Created a Word template replicating the current PO template, Buyer creates the PO and copies the details in the application using an inbuilt option to paste it in the PO word template.
This project is used accross the business as it was compliant, easy and…Project done to reduce waste and implement a better process.
Before : POs created by the buyer, Pre-printed paper is loaded to the printer, prints the PO, Fax the PO to inbox, Send it to the supplier.
After : Created a Word template replicating the current PO template, Buyer creates the PO and copies the details in the application using an inbuilt option to paste it in the PO word template.
This project is used accross the business as it was compliant, easy and time/resources are saved. Time saved upto 8 Mins per transaction.
Honors & Awards
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Winner Ken's den
Xchanging PLC
Ken's den is an Xchanging idea generation competition driven by the CEO Ken Lever. The competition is open for all the employees and will need to meet certain criteria for participation. The ideas are put to test, goes through rigours rounds of screening, including the CEO and the Executive leadership, before short-listing the idea as a winner. The idea is validated for the alignment to Xchanging's strategy and area of business.
The winning idea is given a seed fund of investment, for…Ken's den is an Xchanging idea generation competition driven by the CEO Ken Lever. The competition is open for all the employees and will need to meet certain criteria for participation. The ideas are put to test, goes through rigours rounds of screening, including the CEO and the Executive leadership, before short-listing the idea as a winner. The idea is validated for the alignment to Xchanging's strategy and area of business.
The winning idea is given a seed fund of investment, for product and service development, which in turn is taken to market as part of the core offerings. -
Value Award (Team work)
Genpact
For living Genpact Value Team work and encouraging the same with in my team
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SDO Favorite Award
Genpact
For overall performance On and Off process
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Best Quality Catalyst Award
Genpact
For driving Quality initiatives for the SDO and supporting Quality team in driving Lean Six Sigma projects, Been part of the Q'Council (Genpact internal Quality group)
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Value Award
Genpact
For Living Genpact values..
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Individual Excellence Award
Genpact
For best performance in the process and handling the process individually with zero surprises
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Best Training Catalyst Award
Genpact
For driving training initiative within the SDO, Promoting Education @ Work, Facilitating Trainings
Languages
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Hindi
Limited working proficiency
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Kannada
Elementary proficiency
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Tamil
Limited working proficiency
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Malayalam
Limited working proficiency
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