Ankit Thappa Email & Phone Number

India

Ranjangaon

Leading operations size of 250 crore with different product technologies including heat shields, cylinder head gaskets, rubber gaskets, plastic cam covers. Responsible for budgeting process of all profit centers. Build and managed team of 5 managers & total 15 direct reports to turnaround plant performance in last 3 years. Key accomplishments: COPQ reduction from 2.7 % to 0.5% adding 4 crores to bottom line; Customer complaints reduction from 72/ year to 8 / year; Improving order fulfillment from 65% to >97%contributing 10% to topline, consistently delivering CIP target 100k euros / year; Reduction in SFG & WIP from 25 days to 5.5 days. Leading the operation excellence model EKOS & VSME to establish benchmark processes in lean management

Reporting to company COO and directly responsible for the functions of manufacturing, planning, maintenance, process engineering & HR as a part of plant senior management team. Oversees 8 direct reports and operation size of 75 crore. Coordinated the overall integration of operations and HR function of the JV.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Reporting to Group Managing Director and directly responsible for the corporate function of Excellence in Manufacturing. Responsibility included overseeing COPQ for 45 plants. Collaborated with all Quality managers of 14 companies to reduce group COPQ from 1.5% to 1% of sales adding 2.2mill $ to the group bottom-line.

Nashik, Maharashtra, India

Reporting to plant manager and directly responsible for the production function of piston rings plant. I was part of a successful turnaround team. Key accomplishments were COPQ reduction from 27% to 15% and leading labor negotiations to negotiate 8% increase in overall productivity and 50% productivity improvement on bottleneck machines.

Gurgaon

Head process engineering function at a young age of 23 years. Key notable accomplishments were: Improving 5 x in-crease in die life, introducing new design of synchronizer rings like bimetallic & steel rings as NPD projects in innovations. Company also filed patents for these new designs.