Automobiles
Hari Ramachandran
Senior Manager - Operations
Salzburg
Summary
A Strategic Operations Leader with 14 years of impactful roles in Manufacturing management, Supply chain management, Strategic sourcing, Project Management & Continuous improvement across corporates like Danaher, L&T, Fortive. Passionate believer of Lean methodology who prefers Hands-on approach.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
5
5
Languages
Work History
Senior Manager - Production
Gilbarco Veeder Root
Coimbatore
06.2021 - 07.2023
- Responsible for Manufacturing operations of 3 Export oriented product value streams with an annual revenue of 55 Mil $.
- Daily MIS Stand-up meet ( Own KPI’s - Safety, Quality, OTD, Cost & Productivity )
- Lead and mentored team of 6 Engineers & 345 operators across 3 shifts.
- Collaborate with Supply chain, Warehousing, Engineering etc to achieve goals.
- Identify & drive LEAN project funnel aligned to organization's long term strategy.
- Facilitate Kaizens (SW, 5S, 3P, Opex reduction)
Senior Manager– Sourcing, New Product Introduction
Gilbarco Veeder Root
Coimbatore
06.2018 - 06.2021
Handled dual role - Sourcing and NPI as part of Leadership Succession program.
Strategic Sourcing (Electronics, Electrical commodities, Annual spent - 10 Mil$)
- Supplier selection, Price and payment terms negotiation, Replenish strategy
RFQ, Producibility review, PPAP, Line-Of-Sight costing.
PPV improvement via strategic negotiation, value stream simplification, make/ buy analysis, local sourcing & volume leveraging.
Address operational issues, resolve performance bottlenecks.
Assist Global sourcing team for part development at Indian suppliers.
Align Sourcing team with Development team for time bound VA/VE actions.
Mentored and lead 4 member team to meet PPV & project milestones.
Project Manager NPI - Lead CFT of Engineering, QA, Sourcing & Manufacturing
- Anchor Steering Control meetings - Update program status, seek L1 leadership support for key Impediments.
- Plan & conduct quarterly All-hands build for feature additions in BML cycle.
- Tollgate review, track documents - FMEA, SOP, Control plan etc.
Manager - Production
Gilbarco Veeder Root
Coimbatore
03.2010 - 05.2018
- Managed multiple value streams (High volume - Low mix, Low volume - High mix)
- Quality & Safety Process adherence - Chair Kamishibai audit process & closures.
- Led Ops on product line transfers to India for Nozzles (USA) & Dispenser (Germany).
- Ensure functioning of sequencing (Kanban, Heijunka) for maintaining production line flow.
Over the years, I progressed to Manager role from Senior Engineer role with increased responsibilities.
Senior Engineer - Procurement
Larsen & Toubro
Coimbatore
08.2008 - 03.2010
- Establishment of supply base for Electronics, Electricals & attained the OTD of 96%
- Achieved 6% PPV on YoY in the assigned commodities thru Rationalization, Negotiation and Indigenization of Suppliers.
- Managed 25 suppliers worth 5 Mn USD.
- Conducting Supplier Audits on Quality & Delivery constraints periodically, Publishing of Supplier score card monthly based on QDC and drive CAPA.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies
University of Calicut
Kerala, India 06.2004 - 06.2008
Skills
Supply Chain Systems
Inventory control
Lean Six Sigma
SAP
MS Excel
Team Leadership
Project Management
Cost saving
Value Stream Mapping
Strategic Negotiation
Data Analysis
Kaizen
Accomplishments
Supply chain improvement projects
- Supply chain simplification - Restructured sequential manufacturing processes across multiple locations (France, US & Germany) to single site (Germany)
- 55% reduction in Lead time, 40% reduction of Logistics cost.
- Order fulfillment time reduction and improved Inventory turnover. - COVID Supply chain risk mitigation - 2020
- Fast track EMS source location change from China to Italy in 3 months.
- Test tool dev & transfer, proto build approvals and PPAP completion. - Achieved 6% PPV YoY in assigned commodities by Rationalize, Negotiate & localize.
- Implemented Kanban replenishment system for 85% of C-class items.
Leadership. Management & Quality
- Pilot run “AGILE - Lean Start-up” concept in Project Management (Build, Measure and Learn) - Latitude (NPD) – 5 months Early to Market - 2019
- India Ops. representative to Global Fish Bone Team ( Horizontal deployment of Lean initiatives across India, Germany, China, Brazil & USA locations).
- Factory Project lead for SAP 6.0 ERP implementation - 2017
- Initiated from Ops and led 3 Product Line Transfers over past 4 years from other OpCo’s (US, Germany, China) to India (adding 50+ Mil $ annual revenue).
- Created Quality Kamishibai Audit platform to ensure Process adherence – 2018
- Implemented IDT&R (Defect track, resolve) forum - faster issue resolution - 2018
Environment, OHS programs
- Led Energy Kaizen - Created ESG framework for Energy sustainability audit and action planning guidelines for GHG emission reduction -2023
- Led Environment Management Program on resource usage reduction - 2022
- 33,900 litres reduction in hydrocarbon fluids consumption.
- 22,300 Kg reduction in Plastics/ Polymer consumption.
- 361 trees saved by Reduced Corrugated consumption. - Introduce AC4P to prevent work place injury - Warehouse and Production - 2022
Additional Information
I possess work permit for Austria (RWR+) and currently available to join immediately.
Certification
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Interests
Travel
Lean - Simplifying things !!!
Quality time with family