Biswajit Chakravarty

About Biswajit Chakravarty

Senior Management Professional with over 13 years of experience in leading Overall Plant Operations, setting up new Manufacturing plants and managing large cross-functional teams for Personal Care, Beauty and Nutrition. Certified Green belt in Lean and Six sigma, with a passion for delivering results and proven expertise in handling Greenfield and Brownfield projects. Sound experience of ensuring compliance by implementing HACCP, GMP & IMS (ISO 9001 & 14001, OHSAS 18001), AM and Capability management. Proven expertise in entire gamut of Plant Operations like Production, Maintenance, Quality Management, Logistics & Inventory Management, Installation & Commissioning of equipment, TPM, handling of statutory requirements, Safety & Health, General Administration and HR supportDeft in planning & implementing the preventive, predictive & breakdown maintenance schedules for improving the overall reliability and safety of plant equipment & machinery leveraging various pillars of TPM including Autonomous maintenance, Planned Maintenance and Focused Improvement. Proven technical expertise in manufacturing for FMCG products and others. Key areas of expertise include:• Packing of Personal care and Beauty products • Mixing & Packing of protein powder, Fiber, chocolate drinks using high-speed imported machines• Mixing for tablets and capsules using different types of blending techniques; Compression off tablets using Korsch compression machine and high speed tablet line; coating and IMA filling lines (equipped with X ray, Harland labeling line, etc,)• Physical & chemical refinery for edible oil (both PLC & semi-automated plant having capacity 400TPD, 200TPD & 100TPD) involving steps degumming with Phosphoric Acid/Citric Acid (both batch & continuous), Neutralization with caustic Bleaching (continuous) & De-odorization (continuous)• Dry Fractionation of RPO to produce olein and superolein (PLC Plant of 400TPD & 200TPD capacity) with the Membrane Filter

Experience

1. Senior Vice President Global Eng and Analytics

   Amway

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Responsible for Supply chain strategy, Engineering projects and systems

Education

• University of Calcutta

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemistry

  1996 — 2000

• ICFAI

  Diploma in Business Management

  2007

• University of Calcutta

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Chemical Technology

  2000 — 2003

Skills

• Inventory Management
• Six Sigma
• Management
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (Fmcg)
• Operations Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Greenfield Projects
• Quality Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Negotiation
• Cross-Functional Collaborations
• Manufacturing
• Supply Chain
• Equipment Installation
• Total Productive Maintenance (Tpm)
• Risk Management
• Fmcg
• Production Planning