Alex Joshua
Chennai
Summary
Accomplished Project Lead with a proven track record at Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, specializing in global supply chain management and project execution. Expert in risk management and budget mastery, demonstrating significant achievements in supplier engagement and cross-department coordination. Skilled in life cycle and engineering change management, adept at steering projects to success while ensuring quality and compliance standards.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Lead: Global Supply Chain Team
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles
08.2017 - Current
- Project management spoc of Global supply chain team handling Heavy-duty Powertrain & Commercial vehicle, coordinating with all functions to schedule, track, assess risks, report on status, and ensure overall supply chain targets
- Provided Project reporting to top management committee and tracked project metrics
- Projects Handled: HDT Tuck & Bus BS VI OBD II migration with budget of ~ 111 Cr INR, HDT Truck & Bus BS VI OBD I Powertrain migration with budget of ~ 60Cr INR
- Project planning and coordination: handling vehicle development from concept to production, ensuring timely delivery, and compliance with budget, quality, and regulatory standards.
- Supplier Engagement: engage with international suppliers to understand their product lifecycles and establish long-term partnerships for critical components
- Change Management: Manage and coordinate all internal and external project changes, ensuring proper communication and documentation
- Budget Management: Define, monitor, Prepare the project supply chain budget, ensuring alignment with project goals
- Decision Support: Prepare documentation for decision-making committees, challenging the project team on readiness and progress
- Obsolescence risk Assessment: Conduct thorough assessments of potential obsolescence risks import supplier components
- Cross-Department Coordination: Facilitate communication between departments to address bottlenecks, achieve production goals, meet timelines, and ensure timely supplier payments
- Risk & Issue Management: Identify and mitigate project risks to prevent delays and cost overruns
- Quality Assurance: Ensure vehicle meets safety, quality, and compliance standards
- Stakeholder Communication: Regularly update senior management and stakeholders on project status and performance
- Key international supplier regions: China, Fuso, Japan, Daimler AG, Germany, MB, Brazil.
New car Project Management/ Bill of Materials (BOM) - Electronics Divisions
Hyundai Mobis India Ltd
Chennai
06.2012 - 07.2017
- New car project Material Planning: (Audio Division) Developed and maintained comprehensive material plans for new car projects, ensuring seamless alignment with project timelines and production build schedules
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams and suppliers to ensure timely delivery of PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) for each unique part prior to SOP (Start of Production)
- Coordinated with Hyundai and Mobis R&D teams to finalize Engineering Order (EO) cut-off dates for individual new parts, ensuring alignment with project milestones
- Managed the import parts approval process of part engineering standard documents, ensuring compliance with customer requirements and securing necessary approvals
- Preparing timing plan for the product/ facelift parts based on kick off results as well as mould/ tool, jigs & fixtures, try out and samples preparation
- Familiar with quality norms (Past car quality issues, PFMEA, Control plan, process audits etc.)
- ECN Management: (Audio Division) Review and evaluate Engineering Change Notices for compliance with company standards
- Coordinate with engineering, production, and quality teams to assess the impact of changes on existing products
- Ensure timely implementation of approved changes and track their status throughout the process
- Maintain comprehensive records of all ECNs and associated documentation
- BOM Management: (Audio Division) Create and maintain accurate Bills of Materials for all products, ensuring alignment with engineering specifications and production requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to update BOMs as necessary due to design changes or new product introductions
- Supplier Coordination: (Audio Division) Work closely with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of materials and components
Program management - New Product Development
PRICOL LIMITED
Coimbatore
10.2010 - 05.2012
- Company Overview: (Tier one supplier to Multiple OEMS)
- Demonstrated successful program development and launch of switches and sensors for leading 4W (four-wheel) and commercial vehicle customers
- Collaborated with business development to gather customer input on product requirements and manage new product inquiries
- Schedules and Leads Gateway reviews as per pricol life cycle management system
- Prepared detailed costing inputs to align with customer target costs, ensuring budget compliance
- Responsible for leading all program activities per APQP, responsible to manage the projects in all the aspects of the business, technical, financial, and quality
- Provide support to the Account Manager in commercial negotiations, RFQ/RFI
- Lead the Change Management within the Project development
- Tracking and controlling project costs and investments such as: Vendor Tooling & product validation
- Provide fitment test report during the pilot and ensure proper quality standards in line while ensuring all test certified for the product quality as per ES/MS standard
- Served as the single point of contact (SPOC) for customer interface and stakeholder communication within the product development team
- Customers handled: four-wheeler segment premium customers: (Suzuki, Tata motors): Offroad & commercial: JCB & Ashok Leyland
- (Tier one supplier to Multiple OEMS)
Education
B. Tech - Automobile
Bharathidasan Institute of Technology
Trichy05.2008
Skills
- New Project management
- Global supplier management
- Risk Management
- Life cycle management
- Engineering Change management
- Data Analytics and KPI reporting
- Global supplier mananegemnt
- Budget mastery
Corekeyskills
- New Project management
- Global supplier management
- Japan Bilingual (Intermediate)
- Risk Management
- Life cycle management
- Engineering Change management
- Data Analytics and KPI reporting
- Power BI reporting
Training certifications
PMP Certification Training
PRINCE 2 - Foundation and Practitioner course
Languages
Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Japanese
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Accomplishments
- Two times awarded for best former in overall supply chain for the project (OBD 2 & XBC Bus launch in indonesia)
Timeline
Project Lead: Global Supply Chain Team
Daimler India Commercial Vehicles
08.2017 - Current
New car Project Management/ Bill of Materials (BOM) - Electronics Divisions
Hyundai Mobis India Ltd
06.2012 - 07.2017
Program management - New Product Development
PRICOL LIMITED
10.2010 - 05.2012
B. Tech - Automobile
Bharathidasan Institute of Technology
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