Mahesh Gawade has over 9 years of experience in supply chain management, planning, sourcing, and process improvement at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. He currently leads a team responsible for finished goods supply planning and production scheduling. Prior to this role, he managed strategic sourcing and procurement planning, implemented various process improvement projects, and reduced costs through initiatives like supplier scorecards and spend analysis.
1. Mahesh T. Gawade-
https://in.linkedin.com/in/mahesh-gawade-32979434
Mobile: +91-7702001820 • Email: mahesh.t.gawade@gmail.com • Address: Mumbai
Key Skills:- Manager-Supply Chain Management Professional
Operational Excellence Supply Chain Planning Project Management Inventory Management & Control
Production Planning Procurement Data Analytics Change Management
Procurement Planning Spend Analytics KPI dashboard Long Term Planning
Continuous Improvement Vendor Management Strategic Sourcing Stake holders Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: MBA& 9+ years SCM Planning + Sourcing + Process Improvement
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., Hyderabad, India May11- present
Manager, Supply Chain Management, Central Planning March16- Present
o Leading team responsible for planning of finished goods supply for manufacturing to meet customer demand ( orders and
forecast ).
o Conducting Demand and Supply Planning, Rough capacity Planning, Production Planning and detail scheduling, and
Procurement Planning to ensure that forecast can be fulfilled within time and ensuring health of related processes for
Formulation & API business in India, US, UK and Mexico having turnover of $2.3 bn
o Continually identify opportunities for system and process improvement and utilize operational excellence and project
management skills to implement change
o Highlight specifics risks and opportunities within the supply chain which could impact the cost or service levels expected by
the plan
o Ensuring adoption of KPIs-dashboard through gap identification and user acceptance through hand holding
o Rough cut capacity/ Supply Planning & Production scheduling : identification of gaps, reduction in manual intervention
below 10% and user trainings
o Improved sourcing OTIF from 55 to 85%
April 14 - Present
o Member of I^2- Intelligent Integration Project- implementation Core Team for consultation, diagnostic & design phase.
o I^2: A Supply Chain Operations transformation initiative of business ‘upgrading to industry leadership standards’ ensuring
a structured, end to end integration of Supply Chain and Operations Management. Worked closely with the Top
Management and Deloitte as well as Bristlecone Consulting.
o Track Lead for Procurement planning & Execution
o Track Lead for Long Term Planning in APO implementation linking together Strategic Planning, Capacity Planning and
Material Requirement Planning for 5 Years horizon.
o KPI dashboard created by defining KPIs, aligning Stakeholders on expectations, thorough testing and user trainings
o Smooth Change Management achieved resulting in to 100% adoption of new processes by end users.
o Saved 9 man days per month through Mass Contract- Outline Agreement & Auto PO creation Process implementation.
o Procurement linked with constrained production plan (RCCP) for better warehouse space management & inventory cost
reduction.
o Full kitting of production orders improved to 97%
Manager, Supply Chain Management, Strategic Sourcing & Purchase April 13- April 14
Packaging Material Category
Supplier Scorecard:
o Supplier performance management solution to help in making strategic decisions w.r.t. supplier. Driven by Senior
Management & Deloitte.
o Automate supplier rating system& Generate scorecard to monitor, evaluate & communicate back supplier
performance.
o Said project received Global Excellence awards Viz. CPhI Pharma Operations Excellence Awards, 2014
Project Managed ‘Business Continuity Planning & 80% of Business De-risking initiative’ with wide CFT spans:
o Analysis of Packaging material criticality w.r.t. top business Value at Risk.
o Develop alternate vendordevelopment plan for selected pipe line of packaging materials.
o Close coordination with RA, QA & Pkg. Development for meeting the time lines of AVD projects.
o Developing solutions proactively through brainstorming sessions.
Project Managed ‘Warehouse Space Optimization for Packaging Material’:
o No of total pallets space occupancy reduction from 8300 to 3200 Nos.
2. o Successfully drove the closing of outsourced warehouse operations with pallets space of 5100 Nos. focusing long
term plan of 4200 Nos. of pallets space and JIT implementation, jointly analysed with Meibach consulting.
Material Harmonisation/Standardization projects: To reduce procurement, warehousing and production complexities and
increase logistics efficiency.
o Foil Harmonisation: Reduced number of SKUs (Import material) from 80 to 11 nos.This reduced warehouse space
requirement in totality. Further it enabled us to avail volume discounts.
o Shipper Harmonisation: No of shipper SKUs reduced from 400 to 70. It enabled us to reach a volume for each SKU
suitable for VMI arrangement.
VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) for Bottles and Shippers:
o Lead time of material reduced from 25 to 5 days by establishing VMI arrangement for high runner products (80% of
volume). Warehouse pallet space reduction from 750 to 250 Nos. for bottles and from 2300 to 1000 Nos. for
Shippers.
Deputy Manager, Supply Chain Management, Strategic Sourcing and Plant Purchase May11-April 13
Packaging Material Category
1) Operational:
o Procurement of 70 Crs: Import Spend 50 Crs- , Domestic Spend : 20 Crs
o Daily review of materials in Symphony tool, identifying the gaps and expediting as required.
o Continuous End to end follow-up (incl. vendor, transporter& otherservice providers).
o Liaison with CHA for timely customclearance of imported material without any demurrages.
2) Strategic:
o Developing quality & supply agreements with vendors
o Developing Clean Sheet Costing, Price Indexing of materials and Reverse Auctioning aimed at reduction in Cost
o Actively supported analysis and spend budgeting for the financial year (INR 190 Crs)
o Facilitator for PACE (Performance Acceleration and Cost Efficiency Program) :
An organization wide cost efficiency project with a target of $140MN over 3 years.
Worked closely with Top Leadership and McKinsey Co.
Spend Analysis of entire packaging spend base
Application of Supply Levers like clean sheet costing,price arbitrage, LCC sourcing,AVD, LPP (Linear Performance
Pricing)
Conducting CFT meetings and Idea generation session for improvements in process.
Developing solutions and debottlenecking of initiatives.
Tracking of Idea implementation
Drove ideations worth @ 24 Crs & Syndication of ideas worth @ 15 Crs.
Larsen & Toubro., Mumbai, India July 06- May-09
Senior Executive Engineer in ESP/EBG
Production Engineering Department
o Design of press tools,moulds & electrodes using modelling software “Pro-E”
o Implemented a New Development Project ‘Omega’ to increase current carrying capacity with less copper in a record
time of 4 months.
o Successfully managed the project of scanning of 20000 drawing tracings & creating database to reduce average
retrieval time from 2 days to 1 min.
Larsen & Toubro., Mumbai, India July 02- May-03
Quality Inspection Engineer/Heavy Engineering - ensuring quality of heat exchangers & approval from third party inspectors.
EDUCATION
M.B.A SCM&HRD 2011 Operations 2.7/4
B.E. Govt. College of Engineering (COEP) 2006 Production Engineering 75.2%
L.M.E. V.J.T.I. 2002 Mechanical Engineering 82.7%
Class X Holy Family High School, Mumbai 1998 85.3%
Academic Achievement Hobbies
University Topper in BE. Cycling & Running
Scholarship in B.E. Playing Cricket
Best Student in High School