THE PROCUREMENT ACUMEN – Hardcover

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About the book

Factors such as a growing demand for procurement management as customer centric, systems thinking, innovation, collaboration, agility, technology, global and regional perspective, risk and opportunity management, quality awareness, sustainability in procurement, visibility and value creations are addressed in this book in detail. After 2015, procurement as a function gained its importance in all sorts of companies. Along with that digital transformation at its beginning and innovation in procurement, which is the need of the hour also addressed in this book. Reading this book and following a practical execution of the same will help procurement professionals face challenging situation in the future with strength and confident that’s “your future proof practical guide”.

About the author

Mr. Sendil Arasu VIJAYA KUMAR – attained bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from Madras University and master degree in marketing management from Loyola Chennai, having 20 Years of professional work experience. He worked with automotive industry for 5 years and for 15 years with the energy management and automation industry. Sendil started his career with auto ancillary in India who are also high precision auto components exporters to auto OEMs across globe. After spending 5 years in the automotive industry, Sendil relocated to France to work for new products procurement and projects procurement for different business segments (Renewable energy, Oil & Gas, Marine, Navy, Datacenter, Transport, Mining nd Utility). After spending 8 years in France, Sendil moved to UAE with 5 years expatriate assignment to strengthen solution procurement functions in Middle East and Africa execution centers i.e Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia, Turkey & Central Asia, Anglophone Africa, and North-East Africa. After successfully completing his mission in MEA with tremendous success, he moved back to France and currently handling procurement for European manufacturing cluster. Sendil has got a rich experience leading procurement transformations, Industrialization activities, managing high complex & critical turnkey customer projects, contract management, partnership agreement, Supplier development & quick subcontractors on-boarding for different Customer Project segments, maintaining C-level relationships, Supplier Qualification and Selection, Risk and Opportunities assessment, Providing training, Category management and driving digital transformation. Also, he has got some of the notable training and certifications like Six sigma Certification from Cummins India, Manufacturing Quality Verification by Cummins USA, Layered process audit training by Eaton corporation the USA, Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain Transformation by Allan Lloyds, Leadership program by INSEAD France and many competency enhancement training in supply chain domain. In addition to being dedicated, and focused, he has got the passion for procurement domain, Sendil coming up with this highly valuable life-changing book “The Procurement Acumen”