A bit about me
                            
                            
                                Male |  | from: India
                                
I am currently in Jining Shangdong
                            
                           
                            
                             Chandrashekhar Garge
Phone: 0086 21 39939501
Mobile: 0086 13788972922
Email: crgarge@rediffmail.com
Shanghai, China
Plant Mgr/General Manager: Proven expertise in Plant Operations and Supply-Chain Management.
 
OBJECTIVE
Seeking General managerial positions to exploit rich expertise gained in the field of plant operations and supply chain.
SUMMARY
•	Senior professional holding progressively responsible management positions for more than 18 years, both in India and China.
•	Well recognised and applauded employee for bringing about impressive results.
•	Managing a plant consisting of 1500+ Employees successfully, ensuring profitable growth.
•	Qualified Internal Auditor for TS16949/ISO 9001-2000 Quality Systems.
•	Set-up bonded warehouses with expertise in material planning, warehouse management, inventory control and logistics cost management.
•	Proficient in customer coordination, supplier evaluation, distribution planning, forecast analysis, obsolescence management and implementation of ERP and KANBAN systems.
•	Thorough knowledge of manufacturing processes, quality requirements and various project concepts.
•	An efficient leader with abilities to ensure effective manpower utilisation and focused team work. 
•	Skilled at training and motivating team members.
•	Excellent communication skills handling Customers, suppliers, internal functional heads and other business partners. 
•	 Plan & supervise the Budget & cost Controlling. 
WORK EXPERIENCE
General Manager, LEONI Electrical Systems (Shanghai) Company .Ltd.
From Jan-2009 till date,
Working as General Manager for the plant having workforce of 1500+ Employees & planned turnover of 80 Mio Euro for year 2010, Handling more than 10-15 customer base which includes well known OEMs like SVW, SGM, Mercedez-Benz , Cummins etc.
•	Monitor & ensure smooth running of Daily operations, new projects & production ramp ups.
•	Ensure adherence to specific quality requirements from each customer.
•	Ensure accuracy in the budget planning & adherence to planed budget.
•	Co ordination with headquarter for mid term planning & strategic planning.
•	Involved in finalisation of sales quotations for different customer base.
•	Intensive involvement for decision making strategies of Business Area. Asia
Achievements
	Year 2009, Ramp up for Engine harness from 300 /day to 900/day in period of 4 months
	In year 2010, expanded the plant capacity to cater high volumes from Customer like Mercedes,GM & VW.
	Successfully develops plant  from 300 people to 1500+ people
Location- Changchun, China .From Mar 2007 –DEC-2008
Worked as Operations Manager for Changchun plant then become the Plant manager from Feb 2008,
Responsibilities:
•	As Plant Head responsible for Production Manufacturing, Quality, SCM, Engineering, & Administration having yearly sales turnover more than EUR 8 Millions. 
•	Design and implement policies, systems and procedures as required for the efficient management of facilities.
•	Management of production functions as per the systems and procedures.
•	Efficient utilisation of the resources to meet production targets.
•	Ensure competitiveness in terms of quality and efficiencies.
•	Recruit, train, lead and motivate Management team.
•	Coordinate plan and execute new Production projects.
•	Coordinate with other functional heads from business area China & competence centre Germany for smooth Production and plant operations.
•	Lead and manage the resources to achieve the vision, values, strategies and targets of the corporation.
•	Plan for budgetary expenses and control them.
•	Finalise the relocation of plant to cater the customer increased demand.
•	Actively involved to finalising location & negotiation with Landlord.
Logistics Expert, LEONI Bordnetz System GmbH & Co, Germany, Located in China, 2004-Mar 2007.
  
Responsibilities:
•	Responsible for overall logistics function of all four plants in China.
•	Implement the ERP & KANBAN systems and train the team for the same.
•	Coordinate with the local as well as overseas suppliers.
•	Conduct analysis for forecasting activities.
•	Coordinate with the customer for deliveries.
•	Strategise to reduce inventories and optimise level.
•	Generate new concepts for projects and coordinate for upcoming and existing projects in China.
Achievements:
•	Successfully completed the SPARK-SGMW project at Changzhou in a short span of five months.
•	Sold obsolete inventory worth Euro-60,000 out of Euro-200000 to other group plant in year 2005. 
•	Appointed as Logistics Head for the entire China business Area in January, 2005.
Previous Work Experience
Asst. Mgr. Logistics, AUTOMOTIVE WIRING SYSTEMSLTD, Pune, 1999-2004
Member Materials, Tata Johnson Controls Automotive Ltd., Pune, 1996-1999
Stores In-charge, The Indian Card Clothing Company Ltd., Pune, 1995-1996
Stores In-charge, Videocon International Ltd., Aurangabad, 1992-1995
EDUCATION
•	B.Sc., Physics, Maths & Electronics, Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 1990
•	EMBA -Appered
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Training & Certificates
•	Intensive Training on ERP in Germany and Portugal
•	Certified Internal Auditor for TS16949 /ISO 9001-2000 from BVQI
IT Skills: Proficient with MS Office and ERP (MFG-PRO, FORS-GB)
PERSONAL
Date of Birth: May 3, 1970
Spoken Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, basic Chinese & Basic German