Suryakant Sahoo

- Designed & Implemented Organizational Structure for setting up a Sales & Operations Planning(S&OP) team for a leading Bearing manufacturer and exporter by integrating business process to focus and achieve strategic goals.

- Designed and set-up business process for a Tier-1 Automotive Supplier to improve materials management efficiency and accuracy by reducing on-site inventory, increasing accuracy of electronic shipments, streamlining flow of info and products throughout all tiers of supply chain and reducing cost.

- Improved working capital of a Tier 1 Automotive supplier, by designing and implementing inventory norms for Export warehouses, helping reduce inventory DoC by 21%

- Managed operations for 8 flagship motorcycle brands & 'Smart Mobility' projects such as 'Quadricyle'. o Lead operational excellence and quality team in initiating and implementing best manufacturing practices in aspects of quality control, assurance and operational excellence tasks. o Responsible for driving the manufacturing, quality and process improvement initiatives in three manufacturing plants. Supported the operations through implementation of lean techniques. o Introduced statistical variation analysis (first time in India) to pinpoint root causes for process variation and help find pro-active solutions, leading to reduction in re-engineering cost. o Managed varied supplier base through effective processes for supplier quality management, corrective actions, responses and improvement implementations. o Oversaw defective materials analysis for the determination of root causes and resolution of nonconforming parts, documents, processes and implementation of improvement.

- Led a six-member testing team to launch 14 products as per the new & stringent emission norms of India by streamlining testing procedures and reducing cycle time for testing and validation by 80%.

- Increased loading capacity of export containers by 15% by optimizing export cargo space, leading to 11% reduction in freight costs & 10% less Green House Gases emission.

- Consulted & setup automated warehouse for dispatch of spare parts valued at USD 350 million to 600+ dealers, resulting in 67% manpower reduction.

- Initiated 26+ lean six sigma projects to improve logistics & supply chain operations, leading to cost saving of USD 4.5 million & raw materials saving of 430Tons.