Partner Consultant
Mandar is a thought leader, consultant, and professional trainer with 25 years of experience across 26 countries in designing and implementing sustainable value chain enterprise business transformation systems. He is also an author, a technology advisor, and an entrepreneur.
He is the founder and CEO of Strenbiz Consulting. He has travelled extensively across the globe, primarily in an advisory role, providing consulting to various large manufacturing and service organisations. His valuable inputs as a subject matter expert and domain consultant continue to help several business organisations achieve growth and government institutions make policy.
A large paint company managed its huge supply chain operations through all the multi-modal transportation modes. They faced the big challenge of managing their logistics operations to scale up to the high rate of business growth. He led the project to implement a technology-based AI solution. The AI-based Transportation Management System brought simplification and precision through automated controls and monitoring. This transformation resulted in an overall cost reduction of over 26%, time savings through automated planning and execution control of over 4 hours per bulk planning run, translating to over 12 hours per 24-hour 3-shift working day, and an overall productivity improvement of over 36%, further strengthened by organisational restructuring, the development and measurement of KPIs, and increased accountability through transparency, traceability, and performance measurement. This improved customer relationships and brand strength, as the company was now looked upon as a reliable business partner providing quality products and services.
A rapidly growing electrical components manufacturing company in India had manual operations, leading to a loss of valuable business time and inefficient performance. Through a business transformation programme, he automated their entire set of operations using AI-technology systems and applications. He set up a dedicated 24/7 analytics centre supporting multi-customer, multi-segment, multi-region consolidation and optimisation. Reducing manual operations, facilitating paperless electronic document exchange and control, reducing DEPS (damages, excesses, pilferages, and shortages) cases, and increasing the vehicle utilisation percentage, this business transformation programme turned out to be the strongest driver of business growth with enhanced visibility through multilevel reporting and faster, accurate, and timely decision-making. The reported sales increase was over 24%, cost reduction was at an average of over 32%, and time savings due to automation, integration, and mobile app-based transmission were substantially high at over 95 seconds per transaction for an average volume of over 2400 transactions per month.