Surya Theja Gummadi

SOURCING - Vendor Management • Led the transactional sourcing portfolio for the Hyderabad and Mumbai clusters, with a total monthly spend of INR 30 crores across white-meat, red-meat, and seafood categories. • Managed a 30-vendor base while consistently achieving a 5% reduction in purchasing costs compared to market rates. Over the course of a year, I successfully reduced the cost of key materials by 10%. • Pioneered the establishment of the vendor base for the exotic meat category, which now accounts for 20% of overall sales. • Built and stabilized Hyderabad's transactional sourcing vertical from the ground up, from identifying and onboarding 25+ vendors to managing ongoing vendor relationships. • Successfully executed strategic projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Quality, Planning, Finance, Production, NPD, and Marketing. • Optimized the indenting and inventory model by integrating planning and invoicing systems with stores and finance teams. • Established direct relationships with farmers in the freshwater category and enabled them to become our supply partners, who now account for 40% of all supplies. • Conducted regular reviews with supply partners to assess supply risks and develop mitigation plans.

Project Title: "REASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SOLAR IRRIGATION SERVICE MARKET IN CHAKHAJI, BIHAR" -Impact assessment of solar pumps on the Chakhaji agronomy -Conducted a comparative analysis between the Quality of Services at Monopoly water markets and competitive water markets -Comparative analysis of different types of Solar Irrigation Service Providers in terms of asset utilization -Evaluated the impact of electric pumps on the existing Chakhaji intervention. -Analyzed the effect of the latest technology in terms of gender dynamics through the emergence of female sellers and buyers

Village Fieldwork Segment Title: Supply Chain Analysis of Cotton & Paddy ▪ Undertook a feasibility study for the viability of Farmer Producer Organisations ▪ The focus was on supply chain assessment and thorough understanding of the elements of costing and Value chain ▪ Basis of the study, our recommendations also included an advisory regarding the implementation of storage models to ensure higher price for farmers by selling in the lean season, for which the relevant cost-benefit models were assessed

Title: Designing of a Digital Evaluation System for public/government schools  As the Scrum master, I was responsible for my regular contribution in terms of coding as well as coordinating with the senior management to ensure that their directed objectives are broken down into deliverable tasks to be fulfilled by the project team.  The overarching objective of the project was to fulfil the aim of reducing physical activities in public school evaluation process and instead automate the evaluation process as much as possible, to which my team contributed to the interface and backend logic of the overall system.