Lead Planner for EV Business in Order Fulfilment
I ensure a smooth Order to Delivery Pipeline;plan, report and mitigate variance on short-medium term order fulfilment and undertake long range planning for Cost, delivery and quality. In this period, we have
+Increased Market Share from 4% in FY 2022 to 20% in FY 2025
+Ramped up EV delivery 0.1 Lakh (FY22) to 1 Lakh (FY23) to 1.9 Lakh(FY24) to 2.7 Lakh (FY25)
+ Reduced material cost by 13% CAGR over two consecutive years through use of design and commercial levers
Digital manufacturing
Oct 2021-Feb 2022
+ Integration of MES for traceability, work order management and scheduling into Process, infrastructure and facility for all Manufacturing Shops, enabling capacity of 1000/day
+ Functional responsibility for starting MES Operations for Vehicle Assembly, Welding and Battery Manufacturing Lines from Start of Production, ensured >90% line availability by avoiding line stops due to MES
Manufacturing Planning
May 2020-Oct 2021
Leading Advanced Planning and Projects for the Manufacturing Team. This team built Ola's Greenfield Future Factory in a record time of 11 months.
+ Led Initial Plant Masterplan Development for Ola's Future Factory for full capacity of 10 Million. In just 3 months, finished process development required to understand investments, manpower requirement, Major Shops and Block Layouts so that we could release data to teams dealing with construction, finance, sourcing and line builders for the initial capacity of 0.5 Million
+ Identified, Qualified and Finalized Vendors for 4 different Shops in a record 4 months :- Weld, Paint, Assembly and Battery as well as for robots and AMRS.
+ Created the Manufacturing Organization. Wrote all the Job Descriptions and conducted more than 200 interviews to form the initial core team of around 25 Manufacturing professionals.
+ Led the Plan for Hiring and Training of more than 1000 blue Collared Workers.
Operations Strategy
Head of Manufacturing
Manufacturing Strategy
Product Realization
Toyota Production System
Vehicle Assembly Engineering
Vehicle Inspection Equipment
Greenfield Plants and Brownfield Plants
Manufacturing Strategy
Manufacturing Operations
Manufacturing technologies
Operations management
Lean manufacturing techniques
Value stream mapping
Investment management
Risk assessment & mitigation
Operational reporting
Cost Management and reduction
I am a Lead Planner for Electric Vehicles at TVS Motor, with 15 years of planning and execution of new initiatives in advanced manufacturing. I have an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a Master in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Core competencies include Manufacturing Operations, Manufacturing strategy, Greenfield Plant Setup and Government Engagement. I have earlier worked with Ola Electric, Ather Energy, Cyient, and Toyota Motor. I have also received top performance awards in the first year of my stint for three of the firms I have worked with.
I am passionate about technology, blogging, and yoga.
I write on the Medium Platform : https://medium.com/@x16aniruddha