MATERIAL MANAGEMENT
About the Department
Materials Management (MM) department has responsibility and accountability ensuring professionalism and that the methodology adopted for procurement should not only be reasonable and appropriate for the cost and complexity but should also effectively achieve the planned objective of the procurement. Every authority of Materials Management delegated with the financial powers of procuring goods and services in public interest shall have the responsibility and accountability to bring efficiency, economy, transparency, effectiveness and integrity into the procurement process and ensure fair and equitable treatment of suppliers and promotion of competition in public procurement. The procedure to be followed in making public procurement must conform to the specified yardsticks, rules and regulations. MM dept follows guiding principle of professional conduct, and abide by the codes of ethics, including considering first the total interest of one’s organization in all transactions without impairing the dignity and responsibility of one’s office, subscribing and work for honesty and truth in buying, denouncing all forms and manifestations of commercial malpractices and eschew anti-social practices, according a prompt and courteous reception so far as conditions will permit, to all who call up on legitimate business mission. Materials Management department of Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) is responsible for procurement of GOODS viz. non-high capacity Heavy Earth Moving Machinery (HEMM), Other Plant & Machineries, Spares and Consumables etc. MM Dept of WCL has two levels of Procurement i.e. procurement at WCL Hq level and areas (SBUs).
Head of Department
Dr Y Venkata Ramana
General Manager (Materials Management)
Dr Y Venkata Ramana, General Manager (Materials Management) and Head of the Department, holds Bachelors in Engineering (Mechanical), Masters in Business Administration (MBA), a supply Chain Professional with Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management. Dr Y V Ramana is a Certified Purchasing Manager by National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM), USA. He is formally trained in Oracle and Visual Basic and Diploma holder in Import and Export Management. He joined Coal Industry in 1992 and is acknowledged with many accolades in his career of more than three decades in the various spectrums of Materials Management i.e. Purchase & Stores departments of Areas and Company Hq, and Vigilance department (Best Depot Officer for four years, Best Staff Officer etc). He is instrumental in drafting of Purchase Manual of the Company. Under his leadership, the MM dept achieved GeM procurement targets, MSE procurement targets in last two years. He was instrumental in procurement through “Cost Cap” and highest ever disposal of Scrap in a year. He is a Resource Person in SCM and a regular faculty to various organizations. He is actively associated with the development of MM profession and is a Hon. Chairman of Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM), Nagpur branch and won Best Branch Chairman for two consecutive years.
Key Roles & Functions
Procurement of Goods
HEMM, other P&M, spares, and consumables at both WCL Headquarters and Area-level.
Mentoring & Training
Upgradation of SCM skills, soft skills, team building.
Organisational requirements
Promotes cost-effective, efficient, and timely procurement
Leadership
Professionalism, accountability, efficiency, economy, transparency, and integrity.
Ethics & Morals
Adopting procurement methodologies based on cost, complexity, and organizational objectives.
Strategic sourcing
Supply chain optimization, improve procurement outcomes, organizational performance.