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PRAVEEN KUMAR SHARMA E-mail:boss_praveen@yahoo.com

bosspraveen99@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE: Obtain a challenging leadership position applying creative

problem solving and fine management skills with a growing company to achieve
optimum utilization of its resources and maximum profits.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Organisation: HG Infra Engineering Ltd, Jaipur

Designation: General Manager-Operations
Duration: Dec’2021- Till Date

Organisation: RPS Contractor, Jaipur

Designation: Operations Head
Duration: Jun’2017- Nov’2021

Organisation: Sundaram Clayton LTD, TVS Group, Chennai

Designation: Head- PPC, Warehouse and Outbound logistics (AGM)
Duration: Oct’2016- May’2017

Organisation: TATA CUMMINS LTD, Jamshedpur

Designation: DGM- Materials
-Supply chain functional excellence Leader
-Synchronized Business Planning Leader
Duration: Apr’2011 – Sep’2016

Organisation: ASHOK LEYLAND LTD, Pantnagar

Designation: Manager- Production Planning & Control (PPC)
Duration: Sep’2008 – Mar’2010

Organisation: MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LTD, Gurgaon

Designation: Deputy Manager (Production)
Duration: Sep’2007 – Aug’2008

Organisation: HERO HONDA MOTORS LTD, Gurgaon

Designation: Senior Engineer (Production & PPC)
Duration: Apr’2003 – Aug’2007

Summary of Professional Experience:

Company Name Designation Profile/Role Experience

Project Logistics Planning, Plants and
camps Planning and Installation,
General
Manpower and machinery planning, Site
HG Infra Engineering Ltd Manager- 6 Months
Administration, Aggregate production
Operations
Planning & control, Distribution
management and optimization.
End to end Business operations- Tendering,
Cost Analysis, Site management,
Head - 4 years 1
RPS Contractor Customer/Client Management, Planning,
Operations Months
Data Analysis, Purchase, Sourcing,
Warehouse & Logistics, Billing and EHS.

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 PPC, Warehouse & Logistics, Customer
Sundaram Clayton Ltd AGM 8 Months
Order Management, Demand Planning
Material Planning, Process Excellence,
Synchronized Business Planning, Data
Tata Cummins Pvt Ltd DGM 5.5 Years
Analytics, Foundation of Planning and
Control
PPC, Warehouse & Logistics, Green Field
Ashokleyland Ltd Manager 1.5 Years
project
Deputy
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd Production, Quality, Process Excellence 1 year
Manager
Hero Honda Motors Ltd Sr Engineer Production, Process Excellence, TPM 4.5 Years

PERSONAL QUALITIES

 Good communication skills with fluency in English Communication-Written &

Spoken
 Ability to manage multiple priorities and assignments successfully
 Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills
 Possess effective presentation, verbal and written communication skills
 Capability to approach problem solving, effectively and creatively
 An effective team player, bringing enthusiasm and energy into group efforts
 Analyse problems and break them down to root cause. Makes systematic and
rational judgments based on relevant information.
 Demonstrates readiness to make decisions, takes the initiative and originates action
 Effectively organizes and schedules events, activities and resources.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

 Good knowledge of plant wide processes including manufacturing, Sourcing

Material Planning, Production planning, Warehouse, Logistics and
Inventory management.
 Knowledge of end to end business process including Product management,
Demand Planning and management and end to end supply chain
management process.
 A strategic planner with expertise in planning, managing and executing projects,
developing technical resources for greater value addition and increased margins .
 Excellent team building & troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in planning
and managing resources.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

COMPANY: HG Infra Engineering Ltd - Jaipur

PROFILE: - General manager - Operations (Dec’21- Till date)

 Managing operations for construction of 6 lane expressway (Bharatmala Project)

project with project cost of INR 1500 Cr.
 Logistics Planning for site operations including finalization of Plants and Mines
locations, Material logistics planning, Camp locations, Manpower and Machinery
deployment planning.
 Aggregate Production Planning & Control: Planning production of aggregate at
crushers as per execution plan and monitor the distribution and logistics to
optimize the distribution cost.

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  Plants and Camp Installations- In line with Logistics planning, ensure timely
installation of production plants and construction of camps for operations including
offices and residential buildings.
 Subcontractors and labour management at site.
 Liasoning–Coordination with Liasoning team and ensure timely receiving of
Statutory approvals for production plants like CTE/CTO, Mining approvals for
mines, EC for Plants and Mines.
 Ensuring efficient utilization of machinery and plants.
 Ensuring proper coordination between Administration, stores, SCM and P&M teams
for availability of materials & resources as per execution plan.
 Coordination with HO team for expediting the execution work at site and provide
required support to execution team.

COMPANY: RPS Contractor- Jaipur

PROFILE: - Operations Head (End to end business operations)- (Jun’17- Nov’22)

 Managed end to end business operations for construction of 75 Km long Highway

project with Project cost of INR 300 Cr.
 Tendering: Identify the suitable tenders as per firm technical capacity, ensuring
proper documentation for bidding, Responsible for reviewing of BOQ,
Specifications, estimation of quantity, rate analysis, cost estimation, optimization of
specifications and final bidding.
 Site Management- Overall responsible for management at working site
Subcontractors and labour management
 Liasoning with government officials- Local administration, PHED, PWD, Electricity
distribution department, Forest, Railways and Clients (NHAI, PWD, MoRTH)
officials.
 Managing and coordinating with Design consultant, Safety consultant and Authority
engineer for Drawings and specifications approvals as per agreement with Client.
 Monthly Budget planning and Analysis of deviation from budget in previous
month and get approval from management.
 Monthly project planning review with reference to Project Milestones given by
Client.
 Expedite the actions to achieve the Project milestones on time.
 Daily site visit to ensure proper execution of work as per specifications and discuss
with subcontractors and staff to understand difficulties faced during execution and
provide them the required support from management.
 Review the project status on weekly basis with Project manager and respective
section in-charges and discuss the action plan to expedite the execution of project.
 Monitor Bill preparation of material purchase, services and sub-contractors
(Monthly and Full & Final) bills by Stores and Planning functions. Verify and
approve the bills and forward to accounts for final payment.
 Purchase: Manage, direct and control all aspects of direct / in-direct and project
purchase. Raw Material, Bought out parts (BOP), Capex, Consumables and
Spares (MRO), Contracts (Civil work and Third-Party Logistics 3PL), AMC
etc. Monitoring Inventories, Capital Purchases, Negotiations and deliveries.
 Sourcing: Focus on new Vendor development; ensure specification & Quality
compliance, RFQ, Price Negotiations and Purchase Order.
 Warehouse Operations & Logistics: Facilitate the setting up of new warehouses
at construction sites. Defining and monitoring the Inventory levels in line with
the inventory cost targets. Ensuring quarterly reconciliation of system stock with
physical stock and release the stock reconciliation report.
 Managing Inbound and Outbound Logistics.
 Ensuring safe working environment (EHS) at site.
 Hiring and development to ensure best talent pool to fulfil organization
requirement.
 Managing P&L of the firm and working closely with CA audit firm to maintain and
improve health of financials.

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COMPANY: SUNDARAM CLAYTON LTD, CHENNAI

PROFILE: Head- Production Planning & Control, Warehouse and Outbound Logistics
(Oct’16- May’17)

 Planning and co-ordinating the delivery of new & existing products as per the
customer requirements. Managing customer order management.
 Ensuring availability of raw material & capacity to meet the production plan.
 Long term and short-term data analysis and come out with CAPA plans.
 Implementing continuous improvement projects to achieve benchmark delivery
levels and capacity utilization.
 Team member of Demand planning CFT along with Marketing and Operations
team for 3 months rolling demand plan.
 Coordinating with Plant Operations, Marketing (Exports & Domestic) to sign-off the
rolling production plan in accordance with the sales plan & capacity plan for 3
plants of SCL.
 Coordinating with New Product Development (NPD) to sign-off the capacity,
production, and Raw material plan for new products.
 Communicating effectively with Purchase, Marketing and Production teams and
ensuring on time delivery (Domestic & Export) as per the production plan.
 Leading the daily production review and weekly delivery assurance review to
ensure delivery of products as per the plan (monthly, weekly and daily).
 Coordinating for capacity planning reviews for entire supply chain as per the
production plan.
 Maintaining optimum inventory of finished goods as per customer requirements
and ABC analysis.
 Managing sales warehouse operations for FG goods and outbound logistics for
domestic and export customers.
 Maintaining raw material stock levels and ensuring availability to cater production.
 Implementing the Pull production system (KANBAN) as per the production plan
and the scheduling strategy, by mapping the current state, addressing barriers,
designing a communication system, and providing necessary training.
 Benchmarking and continually improving the Production planning and control
process.
 Generating and distributing MIS reports in accurate and timely manner,
continuously updating the current MIS to improve reporting efficiency and
consistency.
 Promoting Total Employee Involvement (TEI), and developing high quality talent
through constant motivation and guidance.

COMPANY: TATA CUMMINS LTD, JAMSHEDPUR

PROFILE: Synchronized Business Planning (SBP) & Supply chain Functional Excellence
(SC FE) Leader, Materials & Procurement- Deputy General Manager
Profile: SBP & SC FE Leader (Aug’14-Sep’16)

 Lead the implementation of Synchronized business planning at Organization level.

 Involved in rolling short term sales & Operation planning process (S&OP) with
0-3 months’ time horizon with Order management and customer support team and
long-term demand forecasting process with 0-36 months’ time horizon with
Product planning and Marketing teams.
 Review of all assumptions, opportunity and Vulnerabilities in the Demand plan
for short term as well as long term demand forecast.
 Involved in understanding and closing supply chain gaps to meet the unconstrained
demand by reviewing the internal and external supplier’s capacities. Depending
upon the firm plan from all customers, allocating the production plan to 3 plants of
TCL.

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  Monitoring the abnormal demand and forecast accuracy (PE & Bias) and make
adjustment in demand forecasting and make customer commitment on deliveries
on the basis of demonstrated internal and external capacities and key supplier
commitments.
 Ensure that short term abnormal demand is handled by using FPC process (Time
fence, Published lead time & MCR process) and proper communication to
customer and internal supply chain and come out with final demand plan (MDS)
and subsequently production plan (MPS).
 Quarterly review of Published lead time and release it to customers for various
models and new models included.
 Monitoring the key KPIs like OTD to request, OTD to Promise, backlog,
manufacturing schedule attainment, supplier delivery performance etc and
action plans to improve if any gap to target is there.
 Regular interaction with plant PPC teams for weekly commitment Vs. actual
despatch status and facilitating the capacity planning review meeting to discuss all
action plans with supply chain, sourcing and SQI teams to make sure that weekly
customer delivery commitments are met.
 Presenting the business case and escalating all critical issues to Business leader to
get the decision on the future action plan to bridge the gaps between
unconstrained demand and supply chain capability to meet the business goals.
 Support to improve the FPC (Foundation of planning & Control) and DC
(Demand control) process by mentoring the DC facilitator.
 Facilitate all assessments and audits on Business excellence process
(Synchronized Business Planning-SBP) by regular interaction with all
stakeholders on suggested improvements by consultant firm-Oliver Wight.
 Coordination between Product planning team, marketing team and supply chain
team (including Manufacturing, Sourcing, Material planning, warehousing &
logistics) for aligning resources and debottleneck constraints for achieving the
company’s bottom line targets in next rolling 36 months’ time horizon.
 Working with the global Cummins teams to ensure the alignment in terms of
Business Process change.
 Track and ensure the timelines for proposed actions are met as decided by senior
management.
 Drive new projects to improve the FPC process and regular review with the project
leaders and sponsors.
 Analyse & design end to end supply chain flows and business processes.
 Develop, understand and improve necessary KPI’s, Metrics/KPI design and
Performance management
 Establish the scope of work & project plans; gather data & voice of customer,
developing improvement options.
 Work with supply chain and business leadership to develop and manage projects.
 Consistently and clearly communicate the status of all projects in the portfolio and
ensure conformance to project schedule.
 Create detailed financial analysis to ensure cost and benefit trade-offs are
understood.
 Participates in the development and implementation of global functional excellence
initiatives.
 Assist the leadership with functional talent management process.

PROFILE: Materials & Procurement (Apr’11- Jul’14)

 Managing central planning of direct parts for three plants of Tata Cummins (TCL)
and effectively optimizing material resource planning between plants for all raw
materials. Managing ordering of approximately 100 Cr per month of raw material.
 Meet AOP (Annual operating plan) Inventory and Inventory turns target for
TCL.
 Manage daily operations across function to ensure a dependable and efficient
supply chain.
 Lead continuous improvement projects that align with COS and Functional
Excellence direction
 Mitigate supplier constraints by collaborating with functional stakeholders

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  Approach daily problem solving and continuous improvement opportunities
strategically and tactically to achieve performance targets. Responsible for
continuous cost reduction and inventory reduction with yearly targets in line with
company goals.
 Analyse operational trends and develop corrective action plans. Address supply
chain failures promptly to ensure operations stability
 Ensure completeness, control & compliance of legal & statutory requirements
 Ensure common processes are being utilized and internal controls are in place.
Processes like KANBAN & FIFO are maintained from both supplier managed
transporter warehouses (Super Market Concept and VMI) and in house
warehouse.
 People management and improving the deliverables of function and all staffs
reporting. Manage, coach, and develop subordinates; work with them to set goals
in training and development, performance, and career planning
 Drive key initiatives like maintain delivery compliance, stock accuracy, cycle count
and annual inventory
 Monitor supplier delivery performance, Share of Business compliance,
Report critical supplier performance, Adherence to MRP etc.
 Ensuring supply of parts to After Market Spares as per demand
 Leading the team managing supplies in order to avoid material criticality and hence
premium freight
 Leading green technology initiative by implementing returnable packaging for
key parts.
 Building reliable supplier base for cost effective procurement of materials.
 Conducting suppliers’ audits on a regular basis to measure supplier performance
against contractual standards and implement necessary corrective actions
 Define inventory policy norms at plant level of imported & indigenous parts. Lead
the improvement projects to meet Inventory accuracy and Inventory turns
targets.
 Optimize and control inventory levels to improve inventory turns.
 Decide the implementation time line for ECN (Engineering change notes)
from materials perspective considering supplier Capacity and inventory levels.
 Facilitate and monitor conversion of obsolete parts to runner parts in order to
reduce dead inventory
 Ensuing various records are maintained for Audits – Delivery performance
reports, MRP deviation sheets, sourcing performance review, Parts
handover record etc. Certified internal Auditor (ISO TS: 16949).
 To conduct internal communication and manage change of supply processes and
sourcing strategies for the materials team.
 To maintain relationships with suppliers / vendors as business partners and keep
suppliers motivated for enhanced results.
 Ensure the statutory and ISO standard requirements in respect of all purchases.
 TS-16949 Internal Auditor.

COMPANY: ASHOKLEYLAND LTD PANTNAGAR

PROFILE: Production Planning & Control (PPC)

 Preparing monthly plan in co-ordination with marketing & MPS Cell- Master
Production Scheduling. Receiving demand from customers and sending them
commitment to supply as required by the customers.
 Weekly & Daily scheduling- Ensuring a robust raw material & tooling procurement
plan with purchase department in line with production plan (Daily shortage meeting).
Breaking the monthly plan into weekly & daily schedules for different production areas
and ensuring that there is no criticality in supplies to the customer as per the
requirements.
 To ensure the availability of the material to production as per daily plan.
 Communication of revised plan to internal stakeholders as per the production
constraints.
 Conducting daily production meetings and Daily production reporting to top
management.

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 Follow-up with respective departments to ensure machine loading (Manning level) plan
and providing a proper production plan for a possible & most efficient use of resources.
 Ensure Optimisation of finished goods inventory & WIP. Organize salvaging of
non-moving and surplus stocks as required.
 Implementation of ERP system for PPC/Materials PP/MM Module including Item
master creation, BOM creation, DOM creation, Line wise part master, Product
type master, Stock master, made here master, Routing master, Mfg Line
master, production norms master etc. for both assembly line & machine shop.
 Responsible for Work Order release, Issue list generation, internal co-ordination
between Stores, Purchase & Production & item wise requirement schedules generation.
 Responsible for BOM maintenance & EDM control.
 Ensuring Spares Parts servicing, Inter unit material Transfer with logistics team.
 Preparing the despatch schedules as per the commitment to customers
 Ensuring logistics for supplies to customers as per commitment.
 Conducting Inventory accounting & analysis, with regular inventory verification of
stock items. Governing the inventory function so as to curtail inventory holding
expenses.
 Overseeing the Warehouse management and maintaining optimum inventory levels.
 Ensuring quality packaging solutions to prevent goods from getting damaged in transit.

COMPANY: HERO HONDA MOTORS LTD, GURGAON

COMPANY: MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LTD, GURGAON

PROFILE: Production, Quality & Kaizen

 Sound knowledge of machining of auto components-Cylinder head, Cylinder

block, Crank shaft, Cam shaft & Transmission case (Both Aluminium & Iron
machining).
 As Shift In-charge, Handling Manpower to ensure production target and quality
adherence.
 Implementing new ideas for enhancement of productivity, reduction in rejection
and improvement in quality (Kaizen, Suggestion scheme, Quality circles)
 Control and monitoring of Manufacturing Variable Cost
 Facilitate deployment of various equipment, gauging, and tooling for production lines
for making improvement in productivity, quality, cost and safety and call
vendors for quotation (RFQ), organize trials, coordinate the procurement of finalized
equipment and installation.
 Extensive knowledge of cutting tools (undergone 6-days Kennametal India ltd.
Bangalore, Comprehensive training on cutting tools)
 Lead the improvement projects -Higher Tool life and its effective cost control,
Improvement in Material Handling System, Improvement in Straight Pass of the
Production Lines, Time study and Line balancing etc.
 Organising training programmes. Member of team of internal trainers for TPM
initiative in the company
 Involvement in commissioning of new machines and proving out components on
new fixtures.
 Involvement in ordering, commissioning and trial of machines at the
manufacturer end
 Sound knowledge of CNC programming.
 Responsible for manpower planning and scheduling for resource optimization
 Coordination with R&D for new product development and other improvement projects
& trials for change in design in existing models in existing lines
 Provide input & support for preventive maintenance to the maintenance
department
 Specify ergonomic requirements for machines, equipment, & facilities & Layout
planning for new lines
 Trouble shooting of problems related to quality like dimensional deviation or finishing
problem
 Member of C.F.T. for making Control plan, PFMEA & develop error proofing plan.
 Hands on experience in problem solving by diagnosis / analysing causes of failure,
taking corrective and preventive action for rejection reduction and cost reduction

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 Defect analysis and finding out their root causes (Why-Why Analysis), Warranty
Analysis, Conducting the process and product audit & taking corrective and
preventive action against Nonconformities
 Knowledge of World class manufacturing, JIT, SIX SIGMA, TPM.
 Knowledge of Q.C. tools, kaizen, Poka-Yoke, 5-S.
 Knowledge of tools like SPC, MSA, flow charts, control charts, PFMEA.
 Undergone SAP-PP module implementation training.
 Knowledge of Value stream mapping, five step discovery process, Lean
manufacturing.

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

 Productivity improvements through automation in the Block Line at MSIL (Increase

in production from 320 to 343 components per shift).
 Cycle time reduction of bottleneck M/c by developing combined tools in Cylinder Head
line in HHML (36 sec to 28 sec per cycle).
 Layout change of multimodal machine line to enhance line productivity by reducing per
shift manpower from 8 to 6 operators.
 Poka-Yoke done for various operations in Crank shaft & Cylinder block line to avoid
rejection & engine assembly defects at MSIL (Oil gallery fool proofing in crankshaft and
leak testing M/c fool proofing in Cylinder block line).
 Introduction of special inspection jigs for reducing online inspection time at MSIL
 Implementation of Best practices like KANBAN and Visual management system at AL
 Value stream mapping for Crown wheel & pinion shop (M/C Shop) at AL
 Configuration of Oracle based ERP system for Material planning and PP module at AL.
 Implementation of Returnable Packaging as a part of Green Manufacturing initiative
in TCL (Turbochargers, Pumps, Injectors, HP Lines etc).
 Implementation of Super Market Concept for high value parts from supplier managed
transporter warehouses at TCL (Fuel Injection Pump and Injector).
 Implementation of ASN (Advance Shipment Notice) system including training to
suppliers at TCL.
 Reduction in excess & obsolete inventory (E&O) of outdated FIPs.
 Established Demand plan Hand-off’s process between PGBU & IEBU (Cummins
Customer) & TCL by using Demand control and SBP process.
 Collaboration of critical suppliers like Bosch & CTT in Demand forecasting for short term
and long term time horizon.
 Commissioning of all FANUC drill centres and proving out of fixtures for the new model
launch in HHML

CERTIFIACTIONS & TRAININGS

 TUV SUD Certified Internal Auditor for Quality Management system ISO/TS 16949:
2009
 BUREAU VERITAS Certified Quality Management System Auditor/ Lead Auditor ISO
9001: 2008
 Six Sigma Green Belt Trained
 Active Team Member of Cost reduction initiative team “Accelerated Cost Efficiency
(ACE) Program” at Tata Cummins Ltd
 Completed Kennametal University Bangalore “Comprehensive Metal Cutting Application
Engineering Course”
 Internal Trainer and core team member of TPM implementation at Hero Honda
Motors Ltd.
 Completed SAP PP ERP module implementation training program

COMPUTER LITERACY

 Basic knowledge of working SAP & ORACLE ERP module - PP & MM Modules.
 Proficiency in Windows, MS-Word, Excel and PowerPoint

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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Post-graduation:
College / Institute: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), Kolkata
Course: PGPEX-VLFM (Visionary leadership for Manufacturing)-Full Time
Batch : 2010 - 2011

Graduation:
College / Institute: National Institute of Technology (NIT)- Allahabad
Course: B.Tech. (Mechanical)
Batch : 1999 - 2003

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Examination Year of Passing Board/University

H.S.C. 1997 C.B.S.E. Board
S.S.C. 1995 C.B.S.E. Board