Kirthiga S.

14 Years experienced award-winning management consultant with specialization in Supply- chain, Industrial Engineering , Corporate warehouse, strategic sourcing, global purchasing, process/lean six sigma and project management profiles at 3M, Caterpillar and Cummins (Fortune 500 companies) and served as a consultant with Indian Startup. Hold a postgraduate in Supply chain and operations from India’s Premier institute, Great Lakes in association with Illinois Institute of technology, USA. As a certified Lean & Six Sigma BB from Caterpillar University (Fortune 100 company) have mentored projects that add to the P&L and coached Lean/process Green belts and Black Belts at the above MNC. Hold the distinction of driving Supply Chain programs across various sectors such as Retail, Agri products, Microfinance, Manufacturing and engineering industry. Core Expertise areas: Lean and process improvement, project management, Supply Chain and procurement analysis, strategic sourcing, cost reduction & Warehouse optimization. Expertise in spearheading strategy, planning, design, execution, risk assessment and hand over with clearly defined SOP to meet/surpass organizational goals. Extensive knowledge & experience on Lean, Six Sigma (DMAIC & DMEDI), 5S and Kaizen. Lead global purchasing project as Program Manager at leading Indian engine supplier. Global Exposure on handling Projects across USA, UK, Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa, Mauritius and Japan. Chairman Award for global performance and best Cost reduction project Winner at Cummins India. Best project turnaround time award winner from 3 M India. Expertise in Tools – VSM, TOC Tools, Six Sigma Tools, Lean Tools, TQM and 5S Expertise in Software – Minitab, MS Project, Microsoft Visio, Bizagi, Inkscape I'm passionate towards driving Process Excellence in an Organization and my strength lies in solving complex business problems through simple and effective business solutions using statistical and tactical analysis which breaks-even in short span. Through multiple projects, I have demonstrated, -Maximum value from existing resources through usage of tool but not limited to Lean and process Six Sigma, TOC, Optimizing space at warehouses to increase the cubic space utilization, Optimize Supply chain to run on least inventory, minimal Through put time and maximum output, Maximize productivity and cost through eliminating waste in the process flows by using VSM.