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