Parag Dhakulkar
Strategy & Value Delivery | Manufacturing & Supply Chain Excellence | ISB
- Role
- Supply Chain Excellence & Strategy at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Parag Dhakulkar
With over 2 decades of expertise spanning in strategy formulation & execution, value…
Experience
Supply Chain Excellence & Strategy
Jan 2021 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
I’m a strong advocate of LEAN and digital transformation to drive measurable business impact across the value chain for both commercial and new launches using SDP \"Strategic Deployment Plan\" with cross-functional collaboration and leadership.I’ve unlocked over INR Cr in working capital through EVSM, reduced DOC from 180 to 170 days, and achieved 35% lead time reduction with >90% OTIF. Export logistics efficiency improved by 15%, and container utilization rose by 25% through improving Air-Sea mix ratio. Pioneered zero-touch dispatch planning, cutting air shipment costs by 15%, and reduced monthly planning cycle by >50%. Drove Procurement transformation across the organization for both direct and indirect categories. Automated PR-PO process to deliver 5X productivity. Reduced material delivery lead time from the supplier and improved supplier OTIF. Potential sourcing opportunity identification through Spend Analytics using #SIEVO tool. In manufacturing, deployed LEAN + WCOM to achieve 30% operational efficiency gains and doubled capacity. Institutionalized the \"Cost of Quality\" framework to reduce deviations. Improving asset & product-process robustness to meet market demand and gain additional market share.Developed an ML-powered yield improvement app using Orange. I build resilient, data-driven operations that scale efficiency, speed, and customer service.
Education
INSEAD
Global Strategies Merger & Acquisition Venture Capitalist
Indian School of Business
EMBA, Strategy and Leadership
The University of Texas at Austin
PGP- Business Analytics & Business Intelligence
Nagpur University
B.E, Industrial Engineering
2000 — 2003
Skills
- Kaizen
- Business Process Improvement
- Value Stream Mapping
- Industrial Engineering
- Process Improvement
- Lean Manufacturing
- Tpm
- Manufacturing
- Quality Management
- Operations Management
- Six Sigma
- Operational Excellence
- Management Consulting
- Business Transformation
- Process Engineering
- Process Excellence
- Project Management
- Business Process Mapping
- Theory of Constraints
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Product Development
- Supply Chain Management
- Automotive
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