PRKU

26 Years, Operations
ADDRESS

Mumbai

Maharashtra

EXPERTISE AREA
Domains
Operations
Sub Domains
Business Process Re-engineering
Cost Reduction
Lean Six Sigma
Maintenance
Manufacturing
Supply Chain and Logistics
Management Consulting professional with over 20 years of experience
INDUSTRY
Apparel and Fashion
Chemicals
Consulting
Consumer Durables
Manufacturing
Metals
Textiles
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

BE/BTech: SIT Tumkur

Executive Program in Management: IIT Mumbai

PROFILE SUMMARY

• Experienced Management Consulting professional with over 20 years of proven record of accomplishment in delivering sustainable & high impact business results for clients in various industry sectors.
• Expertise in conceptualising, designing and executing on the growth & transformation agenda related to Sales acceleration, Operations Excellence, EBIDTA & Cost transformation, Supply Chain programs in B2B businesses.
• Delivered 5-10X ROI on projects in various industry sectors by leveraging value discovery, organisation & people alignment, implementation planning and change management
• High cultural awareness and sensitivity within the management and delivery of organisational change programmes
• A personal culture strongly focused on the consistent delivery of results and the creation of 'win/win'

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

21 years

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Consulting Engagements
• EBIDTA & Cost Improvement Programs

o EBIDTA improvement program for a textile manufacturer with focus on Sales & Product Mix improvement, Key account management, ontime delivery improvement, Pricing optimization and other variable cost elements. Delivered 300bps improvement in EBIDTA over 11/2 year engagement
o Logistics Cost reduction for largest road construction player; focus areas were clean sheet costing, improving operational parameters -planning, vehicle allocation modelling trip turnaround times,
o EBIDTA improvement for a large plastics manufacturer with focus on direct & indirect costs. Key improvements included reduction in purchasing/bought out cost reduction, logistics cost reduction, manpower & contract labour costs and power cost reduction.
o Cost optimization project for a leading textile player in Northern India. This involved optimization in resource deployment, manpower cost, energy cost and reduction in process wastages

• Customer Experience & Service Excellence
o Customer Experience Improvement Program for India’s largest Steel Service Center resulting in 15% improvement in on-time deliveries along with other improvement in customer facing processes. Project also focused on improving customer journey & touch points from order generation to customer service by developing Self Service web enabled tools for the empowering customer
o After Sales Service Improvement for a capital goods manufacturer to improve service revenues through improvement in field service effectiveness, spares parts planning & sourcing; inventory management

• Supply Chain & Manufacturing Strategy
o Develop the supply chain and aligned manufacturing strategy for various clients based on customer segmentation, product classification, demand response strategy, supply chain planning, S&OP, RCCP, inventory management using replenishment model
o Operational transformation program for India’s largest fashion leather manufacturer with focus on procurement streamlining, throughput improvement, customer service and quality improvement

• Throughput/ Productivity Improvement/Manufacturing Excellence
o ·Secondary Steel Manufacturer: Throughput maximization for an Integrated Steel & Ferro Alloys Manufacturer by improving shop floor management & maintenance reliability improvements. Improved kiln efficiency by 10%, EAF tap cycle time by 12% and ROI of 400%
o Manufacturing strategy and throughput enhancement projects for a large plastics manufacturer. Designed and implemented analytics and other shop floor, maintenance, planning solutions to optimize the manufacturing output. Delivered over 35% productivity improvement and 8% manufacturing cost reduction for client over a 12 months engagement.
o Throughput improvement project for a large speciality chemicals manufacturer by improving maintenance reliability, maintenance planning, panel level decision control systems, laboratory test improvements. Delivered 5% improvement in bottleneck capacities and reduction in unplanned outages by 25% across plant
o Productivity Improvement project with end to end business focus and redesign of systems & processes in manufacturing & Quality, maintenance, planning processes. 12 months engagement focused on setting the right systems & processes in above areas leading to improvement in 10-20% across tube mill and finishing operations along with improvement in quality rejections etc.
o Steel Service Centre: 1. Manufacturing Excellence project across 6 plants with focus on OEE improvement along with maintenance systems improvement, SMED, lean manufacturing

Employment History
- Progility Consulting; Director- Jan2021- Present
- Ernst & Young; Director-Business Consulting; May 2014 to Dec2020
- Renoir Consulting; Operations Manager-Business Consulting ;Jan 2012 to April 2014
- PricewaterhouseCoopers; Principal Consultant-Supply Chain & Operations; May 2010 to Dec 2011
- Renoir Consulting; Project Manager-Business Consulting; Sept 2004 to April 2010
- Boutique Consulting firm Visisht Associates; Senior Consultant; March 2000 to Aug 2004
- Bharat Forge Limited Engineer-FMD Division; Sept 1997 to Feb 2000