• Instituted a Partnership Firm with an objective of helping Indian Manufacturing SMEs adopt Industry 4.0 Solutions predominantly built on SAP By Design Manufacturing suite.• Executed digitization assistance projects for 17+ clients spanning vendor management, Quality Assurance, Procurements, contract Management & PPC domain modules within SAP ByDesign Ecosystem. • Worked with clients to customize ByDesign solutions as per their specific enterprise level needs. • Handled end-end business scoping and execution, right from incorporation to day-to-day operations, resource management, marketing and all other intricacies associated with a micro-fledgling business.

• Acted as a sole point of contact between Norgren & its supplier bases responsible for spearheading IMI’s Supplier development program, designing & implementing targeted custom incubation & improvement programs in cohort with Industry 4.0 liaisons for different supply chain verticals.• Managed inventory of a new product line that generated over $8M in annual sales. Tracked, analyzed and interpreted trends in sales and inventory of this product line to cut cost by upto 8% • Lead Supplier facilitations for major NPI project with capex totaling $ 0.7 Million. Leading team through supplier selection and evaluation phases, conducted on site IATF compliant audits and acting as a project enabler right from the onset of design approval phase. • Worked closely with sales and marketing team to design and implement strategies to improve lead time of various product lines. • Created a pricing tool generating (should cost) using VBA for the sales team to carry out contract negotiations with customers saving 15+ hours a week.

•Sole Point of Contact for ERP related issues (created new parts, BOM updates, new production models, routings, parts structure flattening), executed ECOs, PCNs,•Took decisions on manufacturability & valuation for make parts, assigned pick tasks, conducted capacity analysis & oversaw production planning module.•Analyzed incoming machined, forged & injection molded components to decide feasibility of bringing them in- house, took preliminary decision on their Manuf. processes while conducting capacity/ resource analysis.•Other daily duties of a Manuf. engineer (Making WIs, resolving part shortages), supporting New product Introductions, deciding their fab processes and prototype runs.•Developed new Manufacturing Processes, wrote specifications for custom configurations to enforce DFM/A.

• Devised a new safety stock policy based on probabilistic model which when implemented on a sample size of 114 parts, reduced the inventory cost by 17% with a confidence rate of over 93%. • Conducted Several statistical experiments and an In-depth Study of planning, Logistical, Receiving, warehousing and Line placement processes to identify possible root causes and drew a priority action-plan starting with fixing MRP metrics, implementing new supermarket replenishment policy and recommending an improved receiving process which brought down the average check in time by 18.7%.

• Optimizing Shipping Quality Control Documentation by getting rid of redundancies, decreasing the man-hours spent on documentational work by upto 40% with the help of cloud initiatives & reassessment of customer needs.• Conducted Root Cause Analysis using 7 QC tools, and applied DMAIC approach for Process improvement.

• Design & validation of process check sheets, updating control charts & work instructions, filing CAPA in case of non-conformity/ non-compliance, supporting parts of ISO 9001/TS 16949 internal audit structures.• Drastically reduced the setup time for Jig clamp mounts through Process standardization for design families (SMED), Used Poka yoke to error proof chaplet placement process in foundry molds.• Worked with Quality & product development tools such as SPC, MSA, APQP, PPAP on a regular basis for Process design, analysis, Control & Modification.• Acted as a Quality Liaison for NPI meetings, involved in the complete process right from Product design (with QFD) to process control & validation to the final production run. • Collaborated with customers & Design Dept. for development of pre-production sample trials for NPIs. Acted as a point of contact for Gauge R&R, process capability and final FMEA reports for PPAP submissions.• Resolved a critical Quality Issue with tolerance mismatch in a high-volume Daimler part by carrying out statistical Experiments (DOE) to evaluate process hypothesis, potential causes and feasibility of implementation. Timely rectification of the process issue led to saving of 3 whole product batches worth over $43,000.• Contributed to annual QIP (Quality improvement plan), followed up on key Vendor KPIs, Vendor selection based on capability & other operational metrics. Advised vendors on process improvement initiatives to facilitate better supply chain integration & product reliability.