Navdeep Singh Duggal, CII-SCMPro

As AGM Global Sourcing & Category Management for Blue Star, handle below responsibilities Develop and implement strategic sourcing strategies for assigned categories across global markets. Build and manage supplier relationships to ensure quality, cost efficiency, risk mitigation, and timely delivery. Conduct supplier negotiations, contract management, and final supplier selection. Lead category strategy: opportunity identification, spend analysis, segmentation, and alignment with business goals. Monitor global market trends, raw material costs, and risks to inform sourcing decisions. Manage the full product lifecycle from sourcing to end-of-life, ensuring alignment with market demands and internal objectives. Identify and execute cost-saving initiatives and drive continuous process improvement. Collaborate cross-functionally with Supply Chain, R&D, Marketing, Finance, and Operations teams. Oversee the supplier performance review process and ongoing relationship management. Conduct market and supply analysis, benchmarking, and risk management to drive decision-making. Report category and sourcing activities, including KPIs and improvement initiatives.

Plant Procurement Head, HP CPAG

Managing Product cost by drivinh various sourcing initiatives Managed Factory SCM operations which includes planning, material procurement, stores management, FG Dispatch and New product development portfolio Drastically improved plant payables by 3X Enhanced capacity throughout the supply chain to 2X instrumental in capex procurement for plant capacity expansion to 4 Lakhs/months driving cost reduction of 2.5% of RM cost YOY implementation of SAP Hana in plant Supported for Zero waste to landfill (ZWL) certification Successfully delivered 22 NPD in a span of 1 year.

Managed Purchase and development activities for EWA business instrumental in driving various initiatives as mentioned below Cost Saving initiative worth 3% of BV supplier consolidation Near the Factory JIT

Cost Optimization projects using strategic sourcing levers. • Make or Buy Analysis, Process cost estimation & Product cost estimation for Refrigerator and Washing machine components aimed at value creation and value addition for the organization. • Assessment of suppliers to ascertain their Technical Capabilities, Managerial Expertise, Layout Design, Machinery Employed, Statuary System Compliance and to recommend improvement in overall operational efficiency. • Selection of qualified suppliers for manufacturing of Refrigerator & Washing Machine components, their performance monitoring and continuous Improvement. • New Product development as per APQP/PPAP within the specified budget. • Process Design, Process Capability Assessment and improvement. • Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Techniques like 5S, Kaizen Culture, TPM, Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) using Cluster approach at supplier’s end for waste identification, waste elimination and productivity improvement. • Time Study/Method Study for assessing manpower utilization, Line balancing & effective layout design for assessing and improving equipment efficiency and manpower productivity improvement at supplier’s facility. • Imparting training to the suppliers on Lean Manufacturing tools and best industry practices.

Looking after end to end supply chain management of direct/indirect items of compressor manufacturing plant. Notable Accomplishments • Successfully implemented IMS in the company in 2010. • Reduced inventory levels to 8.2 DOH from 14 DOH and improving this level further. • Pivotal in handling the inventory control & consumption analysis of A class and B class items • Successfully implemented IMS in the company in 2010. • Instrument in developing and circulating MIS reporting. • In April 2014, awarded with Appliance League of champions for reduce the BOM cost by reduction in oil charge per compressor by Rs 12.52/compressor leading to annualized saving of 25L. • In August 2013, awarded with Appliance League of champions for reduction in material cost by developing New supplier for MIG wire, thereby leading reducing cost by Rs 0.5/compressor(10LPA) • Reduced transportation cost by changing packing material, optimum use of vehicle load/volume which lead to reduction in cost by Rs 1.5/compressor (30LPA).