Vijay M. Karthik has over 10 years of experience in capital procurement, projects, production, planning and cost reduction at Ashok Leyland Limited. He has handled major projects involving setting up of manufacturing lines and achieved cost savings of over 300 crores. As senior manager, his responsibilities included investment analysis, purchase negotiations, relationship management, and monitoring budgets. He has also worked on cost reduction initiatives involving operating costs, fixed costs, cash flow deferral and monetization of non-core assets, achieving total savings of over 400 crores.