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Tushar Choraghe

Tushar Choraghe

Pune

Summary

Professional with over 22 years of experience in managing large supply chain shared services teams, overseeing delivery, transition, and operations. Proven ability to enhance business processes and drive organizational growth aligned with strategic objectives. Expertise in project management and compliance, excelling in dynamic environments. Committed to operational accuracy and achieving optimal profitability through effective team development and performance improvements.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SCM & Quality Manager

Signify
09.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: Signify Innovation India Ltd
  • Leading SCM & Quality COE team of 50 resources executing Purchasing, Planning, reporting and analytics and supplier quality professional to consistently deliver and meet functional excellence.
  • NPI/NPD prototyping procurement site logistics managements
  • USD 200 million with 21K active material parts for Cooper lighting solutions divisions buy for resale 12 supply planners.
  • Process standardization and improvements across Purchasing, planning, and reporting functions.
  • Leading the SQE & AQE team for AQE, PPAP, DMR’s and CCRA activities.
  • Site lead for IT integration with Signify from Eaton post-acquisition.

Senior Manager Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Flex
09.2018 - 09.2020
  • Manage procurement team of 140-160 resources.
  • Manage direct procurement activities for multiple manufacturing facilities in Americas region.
  • Transition process/projects from multiple sites and other business services to Pune site.
  • Responsible for managing team executing direct material spend of over $ 300 million annually.
  • Support & control logistics and material cost based on YoY plan for respective site/business.
  • Worked with RPA COE to automate repeated, transactional, and standard activities for procurement function.

Manager Global Procurement and Supply Chain

Flex
08.2016 - 08.2018
  • Manage procurement team of 80-100 resources.
  • Responsible to manage spend of $300 million for Manufacturing facilities in Americas region supporting Industrial, office and medical segment of the business.
  • Worked with critical suppliers to align demand supply alignment along with reinforcement of EDI and Portal tools.
  • Transition business process between Business services locations and from the plant to Shared services.
  • Successfully stabilized operations post transition by addressing the process gap’s and developing team to meet the business expectations.
  • Achieved 12% improvement in productivity for Q2FY-18 while generating efficiency through Lean and Kaizen projects.
  • Defined and centralized management of critical suppliers to improve delivery and responsiveness to business.
  • Work with diverse stake holders in challenging environments to meet and exceed role requirements.
  • Lean Green Belt certified with Flex.

Manager SCM SSC Electrical Sector

Eaton Corporation
05.2015 - 08.2016
  • Managing a team of over 50 FTEs for Eaton’s Electrical sector and helping develop growth strategy for the SSC over the next 3 years.
  • Complete ownership of process transition and delivery for all regions of Electrical sector (APAC, NA & EU)
  • Responsible for developing organizational capability and capacity for the team.
  • Complete ownership of Procure to Pay cycle for the parts transitioned and OTD of the same.
  • Leading and participating in various performance review meetings and establishing strong governance model for transition and delivery.
  • Responsible for communication portfolio of the department which includes reviewing content on the webpage and monthly newsletter to customer and stakeholders.

Operations Manager SCM SST

BE Aerospace, Inc.
05.2014 - 04.2015
  • As an Operations Manager I was responsible for setting up BE Aerospace Consumables office in Pune location.
  • The scope included Hiring and transition process from different US locations to Pune office.
  • Defining the office networking and IT requirements so that the IT team design the network and office setup, procuring ILL for office setup etc.
  • Was a part of core team for defining indirect process setup of the CM division after spinning off from BE Aerospace, Inc.
  • Was actively involved in the business closure activity for Pune office which was a result of the strategic objective of the business to focus on existing markets after the spinoff.

Project Leader Supplier Performance (Eaton Aerospace)

Eaton Corporation
04.2013 - 04.2014
  • Monitor OTD, Action messages and Demand alignment of suppliers in India region and work with supplier and SDE’s to achieve Eaton Standards.
  • Training suppliers and SDE’s on effective usage of Eaton Portal to understand Vendor Managed Inventory, Supplier schedules and Min Max levels of respective parts.
  • Lead weekly Project meetings between supplier, commodity managers and manufacturing site and transitions team.

Transition and Operations Manager (Eaton Aerospace)

Eaton Corporation
04.2012 - 03.2013
  • Managed a team of over 40 people working on procurement, planning & MDM processes.
  • Build Organization capabilities for managing Direct and Indirect Procurement, Action Message reports.
  • Work with SCM managers and Divisional leaders to identify new opportunities to leverage Shared Services capabilities.
  • Design Team and Organization structure to leverage the Skills and capabilities.

Team Leader Procurement (Eaton Aerospace)

Eaton Corporation
04.2010 - 03.2012
  • In-direct & Direct procurement transition from different sites of Aerospace business and managing team of over 15 FTEs.
  • Define SPQ’s and hire talent for growth and expansion of the team.
  • Established a Voice process for the Electrical business in India region to manage after sales support and service-related queries which worked 24X7 operations.
  • Travelled to the US for transition of the Metal surcharge process for Eaton hydraulics business. This helped to save over $300K with a team of two people in the India Shared service team by evaluating surcharge invoice against receipts.

Supply Chain Representative (Eaton Aerospace)

Eaton Corporation
06.2009 - 03.2010
  • Invoice reconciliation: Reconciled over 6K invoices within a year maintaining a resolution rate of more than 90% to be resolved without the site help.
  • Procurement: Learned direct and indirect material sourcing for site with 99 % efficiency in PO processing and trained new employees joining the team.
  • Demand Alignment Boeing: Download Boeing requirements from CBO portal and align Eaton MRP requirements accordingly.
  • Training and coaching new hires.
  • Managing administrative activities for the team under Managers guidance.
  • Set daily goals and drive to achieve process targets.

Inter-Company Material Transfer coordinator (Eaton Hydraulics NA)

Eaton Corporation
04.2007 - 05.2009
  • Responsible for issuing credit notes RMA, QAR after validating and confirming from various departments.
  • Tracking shipment, expediting orders for customers by coordinating with planners and schedulers and the shipping team.
  • Entering quotes, for Special parts, Application Engineering parts and Pricing quotes.
  • Setup new parts in system, co-ordinate with various departments such as technical support, pricing, credit to ensure smooth operations.
  • Co-ordination with the supply chain and logistics team.
  • Documentation for ITAR parts from the customer.
  • Working closely with SCM teams for the Hybrid Series project and new project implementation team.
  • Decision making is a critical part when it comes to RMA as returning parts from international locations back to the manufacturing facility incurs huge cost.
  • Choosing the right carrier for parts which are urgently required in the field.
  • Help to improve on time delivery to customers by generating open order reports, unconfirmed line reports, working on interface issue received from the IT team.
  • Coach and guide customers towards efficient use of the Order management (Customer connect) portal which helps to reduce manual transactions.

United Airlines

Wipro BPO
PUNE
12.2004 - 04.2007
  • Within six months, I was promoted as a subject matter expert with the United Air Web Support Pilot team.
  • Was responsible for working with the transition team from the US to define the train the team member for the new process.
  • Define process flow and support operation team with queries agents come across while managing customer calls for issues with online reservations.
  • Handle customer escalation calls special services request, build fares for customers in case of fare expiration and web issues.

Dell Technical Support

Wipro BPO
12.2004 - 08.2006
  • I was responsible for troubleshooting Software issues of the Dell Dimension Desktop Series of Business.
  • Standard equipment drivers troubleshooting and reinstallation of Operating system due to blue screen errors.
  • Trouble shooting web browser, desktop mail clients etc.

Project Engineer

Enares Infranet Pvt Ltd
05.2003 - 08.2004
  • I was responsible for Operation and Maintenance of existing Optic Fiber Networks for VSNL and TTML.
  • Worked as a Project Engineer for setting up a new 140 kms fiber network for VSNL in Kerala, which included CIVIL works like trenching, ducting and cable blowing activities.
  • Was also responsible for connecting, testing and qualifying the link as per client standards.
  • Achievement: Recruited as a Technician through college placement and got promoted to a project Eng. in 6 months with the Organization.

Education

Executive MBA - Operations and Supply Chain management

IIBM
DELHI
07-2024

Engineering - Instrumentation

Y.B. PATIL POLYTECHNIC (Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education)
Pune
01.2003

Secondary School Certificate -

JUDSON HIGH SCHOOL
Pune
03.2009

CPIM - Planning & Inventory Management

Association of Supply Chain Management
USA
04-2024

Skills

  • Business process knowledge and transition management
  • Project management
  • Process optimization
  • Effective communication
  • Team building
  • Operations management
  • ERP systems proficiency
  • Team management
  • Self motivation
  • Quality assurance
  • Process improvement

Languages

English, Hindi, Marathi

Hobbies and Interests

Technology, Motor biking

Training

  • UPS and Battery Systems (Amara Raja Power Systems Tirupati)
  • Basics of Generators Operation and Maintenance (Greaves India)

Affiliations

  • Accomplished motorcycle tourer with over 200K km of riding across the Country.

Certification

  • Certified professional in inventory management

Languages

Marathi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

SCM & Quality Manager

Signify
09.2020 - Current

Senior Manager Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Flex
09.2018 - 09.2020

Manager Global Procurement and Supply Chain

Flex
08.2016 - 08.2018

Manager SCM SSC Electrical Sector

Eaton Corporation
05.2015 - 08.2016

Operations Manager SCM SST

BE Aerospace, Inc.
05.2014 - 04.2015

Project Leader Supplier Performance (Eaton Aerospace)

Eaton Corporation
04.2013 - 04.2014

Transition and Operations Manager (Eaton Aerospace)

Eaton Corporation
04.2012 - 03.2013

Team Leader Procurement (Eaton Aerospace)

Eaton Corporation
04.2010 - 03.2012

Supply Chain Representative (Eaton Aerospace)

Eaton Corporation
06.2009 - 03.2010

Inter-Company Material Transfer coordinator (Eaton Hydraulics NA)

Eaton Corporation
04.2007 - 05.2009

United Airlines

Wipro BPO
12.2004 - 04.2007

Dell Technical Support

Wipro BPO
12.2004 - 08.2006

Project Engineer

Enares Infranet Pvt Ltd
05.2003 - 08.2004

Executive MBA - Operations and Supply Chain management

IIBM

Engineering - Instrumentation

Y.B. PATIL POLYTECHNIC (Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education)

Secondary School Certificate -

JUDSON HIGH SCHOOL

CPIM - Planning & Inventory Management

Association of Supply Chain Management

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