Arun Kumar
Supply Chain Director - India - iCEO #87781

Experience

Global Leader in Operations and Supply Chain with international experience Successful at creating and enhancing performance of international scale businesses. Strong Project management skills to drive improvement in value chain through value engineering, global footprint optimization, organization design improvements, global cost management, end to end value chain integration.

Major Achievements

Growth: Built autonomous product and service delivery organization in record 6 months to boost revenue from $70M to $86M in 2019, with organization on track to deliver further revenue increase to $150M by end of 2020. Lead manufacturing and distribution footprint optimization, in country value creation, Cost of service delivery optimization for the business. Strategy: Applied cost base optimization and best cost execution strategy to capture $210M in multiple large projects in 2019, including $105M Petrobras deal, with $275M project currently under bid with high probability of capture. Vision: Leveraged development of best cost country manufacturing and supply model to support local content and cost optimization and win major foreign oil company contract with forecast $500M aggregate value. Transformation: Lead and seeded the mind set of long-term S&OP Supply, Distribution and operation risk assessment and mitigation plan in different businesses over period. Turned around manufacturing operations and improved longterm cash flow by optimized shopfloor space and manufacturing processes, improved planning, visual lean management, and supplier-managed, just-in-time inventory. Value: Created comprehensive global category management model for sourcing $1B array of Asia service categories, developing network of over 100 suppliers, and negotiating favorable contracts to save $100M/year on annual $350M spend. Execution: Reversed 20% loss into 10% profit for $3M Asia hydroelectric project by resourcing strategy, enhanced metrics, more effective project management, and rigorous performance metrics to optimize labor costs as project manager. From 2021-2023 supported internal manufacturing activity growth of 100% , from $900m in 2021 to $1.8 bn in 2023. S&OP optimization, Fit for Business Strategy, Local/Global manufacturing, repair facility footprint optimization, establishing supply chain resilience has been part of this latest portfolio.

Industry Sector Competencies

Electronics

Aerospace

Automotive

Defense

Energy-Oil-Gas

Professional Objectives

Function: Chief Operating Officer, CEO, VP Global Operations, VP Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing

Sector: Oil & Gas, Automobile, Energy, Investment, Engineering, Agriculture, Food, Consumer,

Interim Manager: Yes

Permanent Position: Yes

Operational: Yes

Availability: Full time, part time

Prefered Locations: Any

Additional Professional Interests

Operational coaching on demand

Non executive director assignments

Personal financial investment: 150-350K USD

Countries Covered

China

India

UK

USA

Operational Competencies

Technologies to market (Professional)

Business development (Professional)

Acquisition and shadow management (Professional)

New product or service launch (Professional)

Geographical expansion (Expert)

Company rescue or turnaround (Professional)

Pre or post investment audit (Professional)