Amrit Soni

About Amrit Soni

High-Impact Entrepreneur and Strategic Operations Architect with a proven history of driving substantial organizational change and financial health across global supply chains. My core mission is to optimize complex systems and build scalable, resilient systems that deliver extraordinary results.As a results-driven leader, I leverage a Six Sigma methodology and expertise in Lean Manufacturing to transform organizations from the ground up.Driving Impact and Change:My entrepreneurial approach focuses on engineering end-to-end value chains, leading to immediate and sustained impact:Financial & Cost Transformation: Successfully sourced parts in best-cost regions, delivering $1.8M in annualized savings, and secured $2M in rebates through the development and implementation of Supplier Master Term agreements.Operational Excellence & Scale: Engineered key product value chains, optimizing inventory and achieving a 33% reduction. My process improvements, managed by global cross-functional teams, reduced time-to-market by 75% for certain product lines.Strategic Supplier Management: Executed strategic supplier rationalization (10% Y-o-Y) and drove significant performance improvements, including an 80% past due reduction and 50% delivery performance increase with key suppliers.Leadership Philosophy:I excel at coaching, mentoring, and providing direct, influential leadership to global, multi-cultural teams. I specialize in building strong internal and external partnerships to successfully deploy and scale up new, complex processes and tools, ensuring challenging assignments are delivered on time and within budget.CORE COMPETENCIES:*Supply Chain & Global Operations *Internal | External Relationships *Cross-Functional Leadership *Inventory Management *Supplier Performance Management *Staff Leadership & Training *Tactical Planning & Execution *Analytical Problem-Solving *Supplier Relationship Management *Cost Savings | Financial Health *Lean Manufacturing Methodology *Executive Communication *Contract Negotiations *Product | Process Management *Complex Project Management

Experience

1. President

   Rapid Supply Chain Solutions

   May 2020 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Grow Aerospace Ecosystem in India and Broader Asia Pacific to meet US and Europe based Aerospace Customer needs. Leverage and Accelerate Business development for Aerospace Suppliers based in best value regions.Active support to implement and accelerate Aerospace Strategy in best value regions to support US based organizations.Connect industry certified and major aerospace prime\'s approved suppliers with extended supply chain customers. Focused on overall value delivered to organization.Key evaluation parameter include, but not limited to, Capabilities, Capacity, Sub-tier management, leadership structure, financial stability, delivery, quality and cost performance indicators, supplier vision and values, dedicated representatives and dedicated manufacturing cell capabilities.

Education

• Shri G S Institute of Technology & Science

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Industrial & Production Engineering

  1998 — 2002

• Wayne State University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Industrial Engineering

  2003 — 2004

Skills

• Dmaic
• Six Sigma
• Value Stream Mapping
• Fmea
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Kanban
• Process Improvement
• Lean Manufacturing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Toyota Production System
• Kaizen
• Black Belt
• Continuous Improvement
• Manufacturing
• 5s
• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Supply Chain
• Mrp
• Supply Chain Management
• Industrial Engineering
• Spc
• Apqp
• Jit
• Ppap
• Green Belt
• Manufacturing Operations
• Operational Excellence
• Supplier Quality
• Root Cause Analysis
• Poka Yoke
• Minitab
• Tpm
• Tqm
• Process Engineering
• Iso
• Design of Experiments
• Smed
• 5 Why
• Assembly Lines
• Design for Manufacturing