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