Harshad Kulkarni

About Harshad Kulkarni

A mechanical engineer with 14.5 years of experience in Supplier Quality Assurance & Vendor Development (Forging, Injection Molding, Machining, casting, Steel mfg), NPD QA, Import Quality-SQA and Receipt Quality. Currently associated with Bosch Ltd (Diesel Injectors manufacturing Division) for SQA and complaint management activities (Part development/Inspection, PPAP activities, Supplier process release, Poka-yoke implementation, Measurement method finalization, Customer & field complaint management, 8D problem solving, Six-Sigma, Concession Management). Experienced in working on Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Internal and external IATF16949 & VDA 6.3 customer and supplier audits. Experienced in working on MSA, Short and long term capabilities (Cg, Cgk & Cm, Cmk, Cp, Cpk), Lab scope, Engineering changes (ECN), Failure risk evaluation, Weibull analysis(Failure Predictions), Logistics Quality. Work closely with engineering and manufacturing engineering (design for manufacturing) for design related Q issues reported from customer (DFMEA review). Support in deployment of DFMEA and CTQ flow during Design phase and give inputs for Gate Review preparation regarding Engineering scope. Update and monitor SQA related KPI’s i.e supplier PPM level, Inc/bn, 8D timeline (2-14-60), Top offender suppliers and defining actions through PDCA approach to bring down supplier absolute incidences. Effective use of SQA IT tools i.e. SAP (POE/P47) IQS, SupplyOn 8D problem solver, Q-Das, SRM, Minitab, BOT etc. Experienced in SAP migration activities i.e testing for SAP QM module for POE & S/4HANA in MFALM. Analyse data, business needs, process gaps, business requirements and drive end to end technical automation solution (Robotic Process Automation) to support core project team in building business case, assigning tasks to automation engineers & supervise automation engineer tasks.

Experience

1. Team Lead Purchasing Quality Assurance (Pqa)

   Bosch

   Apr 2011 — Present · Nashik, IN

   Since Apr’11 working with SQA profile and responsibilities are:\\\\n. SAP process Expert (SAP R/3 QM module) 2nd level support. New business models\\Customer and government requirements testing and implementation. User department tester in international IT projects.\\\\n• Complaint & risk management for incoming inspection IPN plants, Production & customer complaint.\\\\n• Evaluation for new product release. Supporting platform projects, RPP.\\\\n• Supplier visits for escalation topics and customer complaints.\\\\n• Planning competency preparedness for new and future products.\\\\n• Involvement in platform projects to ensure quality from development stage (C samples stage)\\\\n• Quality strategy meeting with plant management and VS owners.\\\\n• Handling customer audits pertaining to purchased parts.\\\\n• Visiting customer plants for discussion and convince Risk associated with root cause caused by purchased parts.\\\\n• Capturing, recovering & convincing suppliers for defect cost (sorting, value addition etc.) incurred due to quality issues from supplier.\\\\n\\\\nJoined Bosch in Apr’11 in procurement and planning dept. for Common Rail injector components with below responsibilities:\\\\n. Scheduling & forecasting vendors through MRP\\\\n• Supplier rationalization.\\\\n• Experience in Purchase management with expertise in subcontracting area.\\\\n• KANBAN & VMI implementation.\\\\n• Analysis & preparation of liquidation plan for non & slow moving material.\\\\n• EDI implementation.\\\\n• Core team member of NPI team.\\\\n• Interface with Customer order planner, Sales Planning Team to monitor demand variations and trends.\\\\n• Co-ordination of the suppliers quality Issues with the help of PQA team to settle out the problems through problem-solving techniques and monitoring the same till the streamlining the same.\\\\n• 3. Localization of steel grades (100Cr6, C45PbK, X8CrNiS18-9, 18CrNi8) with Indian steel mills.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• University of Mumbai

  DME, Mechanical Engineering

  2002 — 2005

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  BE MECHANICAL, DESIGN, IFP, RAC

  2005 — 2008

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  PGDEM, Electric mobility