Muhammad Ansar Email & Phone Number

An accomplished global leader in digital transformation and innovation with a proven success track record in a large enterprise company of >$18 billion dollars in annual revenue. Achieved >30% reduction in operation cost while achieving eco-efficiency and sustainability metrics. Driven by new challenges and desire to be successful in all endeavors with strong strategic leadership skills, 4IR technology, IIoT stacks and IT infrastructure implementation experiences. People leader with the mission to transform organizations and empower diverse global teams to achieve more

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  Sr Global Director Of Digital Transformation & Innovation

  Western Digital

  Jan 2018 - Dec 2023

  Lead global transformation office to establish and implement an End-to-End Supply Chain digital innovation strategy while instilling robust data governance framework to transform business model and increase agility and efficiency to fulfill ~50% of the world’s storage needs.Implement 4IR capabilities to augment intelligence into Procurement, Planning, Logistics, Manufacturing, and Quality to transform operations into achieving sustainable growth. For example, demand prediction, supply planning optimization, supply risk prediction, lights-out manufacturing, yield prediction, etc leading to multi-million dollar operation costs and inventory turns improvements.Total 5 manufacturing sites were awarded WEF (World Economic Forum) Global Lighthouse Network for showing leadership in applying 4IR technologies at-scale and achieving >30% financial and operational benefits. First Lighthouse in Thailand, Philippines, and Malaysia. First Sustainability Lighthouse in Asia.Responsible for digital strategy & innovation, solution architecture, enterprise data governance, digital capability assessments and roadmaps, transformation business cases, agile approach to design and implementation, advanced analytics use case and data management process design, lights-out automation, functional design of digital capabilities, etc

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  Bahauddin Zakariya University

  Information Technology