Kalpit Bhatt

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About Kalpit Bhatt

Kalpit is a Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Professional with 10+ years work experience in sourcing and procurement of capital equipment and services for AgriBusiness, Food and Beverages, FMCG and Chemicals industries. Currently, responsible for Equipment, MRO (Opex), Capex projects for the South Asia and Australia business portfolio of Cargill. Through L&T he has had exposure of working with renowned clients such as Unilever, Mars, Henkel, AkzoNobel, Adani Oils, Atul Chemicals. Currently managing spend of $ 30 mn USD. Kalpit has been playing an key role in Automation as well as Strategic sourcing and procurement of all Plant Materials & Services (Process Equipment, Mechanical, Piping, Packaging, Electrical, Instrumental Control supply and installation services part). Adept in Sourcing, e-Sourcing, Negotiations, Contracts, TCO, SRM, Automation, Digitisation, Strategy, Stakeholder management, SAP Ariba, E-Auctions, Category Management, Category Buying / Category Sourcing, Global Procurement, Effective communication, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Procurement ERP. As a Sourcing & Procurement Professional Kalpit is looking for opportunities to work with Global teams, be responsible for global procurement, make difference in his area of work - bring huge cost savings via Cost Avoidance and Cost Reduction, income generation and add value to the organization that he works for. He is enroute gaining comprehensive knowledge in the Supply Chain space to increase the revenue, profit and effectiveness of the organization. Open to international opportunities.