Business Head
Steel Company
Total years of experience :29 years, 11 Months
Sales & Marketing, Operations, Finance, Projects, Procurement, HR & Corporate Affairs
Lead and direct Strategy deployment and execution, Business performance review and action planning, Capex evaluation and implementation tracking, Project Management, Balanced Scorecard based Performance Management, SAP, IT, Industrial Engineering, Quality Management, Process Management, Operations Management, Systems & Support. In specific:
1. Analysis of group businesses operational & performance gaps. Troubleshooting and tracking implementation plan.
2. Technology up-gradation of group operations.
3. Feasibility study and implementation of Alternation fuel project for manufacturing cost reduction.
4. MIS, CAPEX & PMS review of group companies with focus on growth & profitability.
5. Product costing, profitability analysis and optimizing product mix with manufacturing capacity.
6. Implementing lean manufacturing practices in group’s FMCG business
1. Improving plant OEE, First Pass Yield, Quality and Energy consumption
2. Scaling up Silafrica group’s plastic business with minimum overheads through Shared Services Model. Preparing blueprint for scale up organization structure & staffing for continuous growth through expansion in other African countries and facilitating through setting up sound systems and controls.
3. Winning CIO award in Kenya, East Africa for best ICT infrastructure and CIO Impact Award 2014 in San Francisco, USA for Cloud computing project
4. Setting up centralized data entry center leveraging IT using cloud based scanners.
5. Implementation of FSSC 22000 standards across food packaging manufacturing facilities of plastic group companies
6. Implemented SAP ECC project with 8 modules, Financial Consolidation and Business Reporting to achieve organizational strategy of centralized controls with lean organization having low management overheads.
7. Implementation of operational excellence model addressing 20 areas of continual improvement of plant operations including 5S, TPM, TQM and lean flow management practices.
8. Technical training - Provision & assessment of technical skills in the areas of Injection, Extrusion Blow, Extrusion, Rotational molding and mold maintenance.
a. Implementation of Kaizen Management System in Group’s pharmaceutical, Plastic and FMCG business verticals
b. Improving plant utilization factor through TPM practices
c. Planning & implementation of organization’s strategy through Balanced Scorecard, linked and Performance management system and automating the reporting system through Actuate BSC software.
d. Improving monthly operational performance review and controls
e. Design of methods and reports to minimize constraints and increasing manufacturing efficiency by eliminating bottlenecks
• Facilitate implementation of World Class Manufacturing practices in ABMCL group companies using Key Manufacturing Focus Areas approach.
• Improve capability of WCM cells in group companies
• Facilitate Six Sigma implementation approach for problem solving in group companies.
• Conduct comparative analysis and recommend actions for improvement
• Deploying Strategy in the Group companies through Balanced Scorecard framework, Implementation of Customer Service Standards, Dealer Process Reviews, ISO 9001 Quality Assurance System, measuring & improving Selling processes including Prospecting, Greeting, Consulting, Product Presentation, Negotiating, Delivery and Follow up.
• Facilitate formation of project teams, train them and equip them to handle quality issues. Reduce Process Variability, reworks and rejects; suggest corrective and preventive actions.
• Conduct process and quality audits. Analyze feedback from the regular customer satisfaction surveys/mystery shoppers survey conducted by external agencies linking performance of internal processes to improvement in Customer Satisfaction.
• Executing specific projects and providing performance improvement, quality management solutions to the client organizations to increase productivity by application of industrial engineering, Process Management and Total Quality Management techniques through consultancy, training and facilitation.
• Operation and Management of 2400 TPD Blast Furnace operations
• Controlling the movement and composition of Blast Furnace Feed ensuring uniform descent and higher furnace capacity utilization
• Development of Quality Control Plan and monitoring the variation in composition of hot metal
• Supervision and administration of production workforce
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2 years full time Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering
B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering