Archive

Manufacturing, Iron & Steel,
Skill development, MSME

Mr Sushim Banerjee

CEO

Indian Iron & Steel Sector



Skill Council (IISSSC)

Date: 26.05.22

Presentation topic:
Indian Manufacturing with special reference to the Iron and Steel industry and the role of MSME sector
Presentation summary

• Relation of GDP with manufacturing & Steel Industry
• Key growth enablers- Strengthening of MSMEs and Skill development
• Diversification of products
• Green Energy for sustainable growth

Mr Banerjee addressed the cohort of PGPEX-VLM Batch-16 about current trends in the Indian Manufacturing Sector, the Potential of the Iron and Steel Sector, and the need for manufacturing sector growth as an effective tool for accelerated GDP growth. Mr Banerjee emphasized “Strengthening of MSMEs” and “Skill development” as two key enablers in sustaining and enhancing the growth trajectory of the sector. He also elaborated on the need for diversification of products, moving towards alternative cleaner fuels, reducing Carbon footprint, increasing innovation, and greater participation in the global value chains as a way for sustainable growth.

Digital Transformation, Innovation,
I4.0, Smart product & factories

Mr Samip Mutha

Vice President and Head



of Digital and Innovation

RPG Group

Date: 29.05.22

Presentation topic:
Challenges in for Indian Industry in adopting Industry 4.0
Presentation summary

• Importance of Industrial Revolution 4.0
• Four pillars of Industrial 4.0
• Conglomeration of Manufacturing and I4.0
• Potential of I4.0 to increase Manufacturing pace and efficiency

Mr Mutha addressed the cohort of PGPEX-VLM Batch-16 about the importance of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (I4.0), touched upon reduced decision time due to real-time data availability, the four pillars of I4.0 -Connectivity, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine interaction, and Advanced Engineering, Conglomeration of Manufacturing & I4.0, and the potential of I4.0 to increase Manufacturing pace and efficiency for the RPG group as well as for Indian Manufacturing Sector as a whole. He concluded with the line "Do something Everywhere and Do Everything Somewhere“.

Leadership, Value creation,
Chasing Obscene Success, art of
selling, life’s purpose

Mr Ashok

Ramachandran

CEO & President

Schindler India

Date: 20.06.22

Presentation topic:
How failures define your true success and the art of selling
Presentation summary

• Importance of having purpose in life
• Make strong impression, network and learn continuously
• Being a colleague to your team members first, and the boss later.
• Don’t compare yourself. Individual’s performance & potential is importance not experience.

Mr Ramachandran addressed the cohort of PGPEX-VLM Batch-16 about the importance of having “Purpose” in one’s life despite facing failures and setbacks. He guided that a leader’s approach should be towards collaboration and value creation for the organization and people’s skills. His motto is always going the extra mile for colleagues and delivering more than required. He emphasized the importance of humility & practice a belief of “being a colleague to your team members first, and the boss later” to build a stronger bond with employees.
He concluded by his highly inspiring mantra of “Chasing Obscene Success” which is driven by the purpose of adding value and taking ownership, going beyond the call of duty and changing the rules of the game.

Supply chain management,
logistics, agile, resilient,
flexibility, skills, technology

Mr Sunil Bharadwaj

Ex. Principal

Qwixpert Consulting APICS




CSCP, and CLTD certified

Date: 25.06.22

Presentation topic:
SCM Trends, Opportunities and Careers
Presentation summary

• Skills & Career options in Supply Chain Management
• Government initiatives to improve logistics & distributions
• Agility, flexibility, resilience and resource planning in supply chain
• Technologies aiding supply chain
• Supply Chain is all about trade-offs
• De-globalization in supply chain
• Focus on sustainable supply chain

Mr Bharadwaj addressed the cohort of PGPEX-VLM Batch-16 about the how augmented, the perspective of the supply chain is, and how it extends to many areas such as Food & Agriculture, Metals & Mining, Electric vehicles and Edible oil, modern Business concepts like People Dimensions, Ethical Dimension, Diversity, Equality & Inclusion. He also touched upon the ongoing projects like Sagarmala, Bharatmala, and ONDC projects and how they are going to redefine the boundaries of Supply chain growth in India and asked the batch to always think in the direction of fair practices and proper working conditions as future leaders of the industry. He concluded the talk by stressing the fact that in today’s world, Supply chain managers ought to be Agile, Flexible, and Resilient.

Customer needs, agile forecasting,
theory of constraints, connecting
demand & supply

Dr Rakesh Sinha

Founder & CEO

Reflexive Supply Chain Solutions

Date: 29.06.22

Presentation topic:
Demand-Driven Supply Chains
Presentation summary

• Agile forecasting (Auto vs monthly forecasting)
• Focus on 3 constant customer needs (On-shelf availability, freshness and assortment)
• Theory of constraints design elements (Drum, Buffer & Rope)
• Developing supply chain fast feedback loop
• Demand Sensing

Dr Sinha addressed the cohort of PGPEX-VLM Batch-16 about how some firms in the industry are rewriting the rules in Supply Chain Management as he shared the industry’s best & latest practices in the domain. He also brought in a new perspective as he emphasized looking at things that haven’t changed and have stood the test of time in terms of customers’ prime needs, which is a fresh departure from looking at ever-changing customer needs. He also shared some of the key fundamentals of Demand-Driven Supply Chains as he compared them with conventional supply chains. He concluded the session with “small dose of continuous supply is better than a big dose”.

Competitive strategies,
sustainability, cement industry growth,
organization structure

Mr Arvind Pathak

MD & CEO

Birla Corporation Ltd.

Date: 07.07.22

Presentation topic:
Competitive Strategies of BCL in light of the Changing Structure of the Cement Industry
Presentation summary

• Competitive strategies for growth and transformation of a company
• Importance of sustainability for continuous long term growth perspective
• Regional buying aspects and logistics role in success of the Cement Industry
• Industry practices, technology and investment in R&D to enhance the use of existing resources

Mr. Pathak addressed the cohort of PGPEX-VLM Batch-16 about the regional buying aspects of the Cement Industry that differ nationwide and how logistics played an important role in the overall success of the Industry. He iterated on how to build an environment and structured approach by using technology & investing in extensive R&D to enhance the existing resources and combat environmental pollution. He gave a wider picture of how the Birla team has built its six pillars of strategy – Growth, Raw material Security, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Brand Positioning & Sales, People & Communication, Technology & Innovation, which are based on the company’s core values and philosophies thereby protecting the interest of stakeholders subtly and sustainably. He concluded the session on how competitive strategies are key to stabilize-sustain-expand in a fast-changing industry.

Net Zero, Decarbonisation,
Energy Transition, Clean Energy, Digital

Mr Anish De

Global Head- Power & Utilities

KPMG

Date: 21.07.22

Presentation topic:
Managing the global energy transition
Presentation summary

• Changing energy landscape and energy transition
• Opportunities in the new energies space in India
• Key evolving Renewable technologies like Hydrogen and Storage
• Integrating the energy and digital economies
• Net Zero and carbon optimization framework

Mr. Anish De addressed the cohort of PGPEX-VLM Batch-16 about the various aspects of the Indian Energy landscape like Energy transformation, centralized grids, increase in efficiency of electricity consumption, and emerging renewable energy sources. Four Ds; Decarbonisation, Decentralisation, Digitalisation and Democratisation are the driving forces of the energy transition. Also, he guided that to achieve target of net zero, we will require the incorporation of 4 climate actions i.e. Reduce, Substitute, Compensate and Re-use. He also touched upon pathways to achieve a Low Carbon footprint, energy-intensive growth, and use of various substitutes like low carbon electricity and the use of green hydrogen eventually. In the end he concluded with how to integrate the energy and digital economies.

Startups & Supply Chain Consulting

Mr Ashish Gupta

CEO & Founder

Bambinos.Live

Date: 04.05.22

Presentation topic:
Start-up ecosystems and ed-tech as a choice for own venture
Presentation summary

• Pre & Post VLM Journey
• VLM life-How to make the most out of it!
• How Working in Startup is different from MNC’s
• Opportunities and Risks in Indian Startup World
• How One Can Learn from Success and Failure Stories of Different Startup

Mr. Ashish Gupta, CEO & Founder- Bambinos.Live , addressed the subjective aspects of leadership and how students can leverage the VLM program to become a visionary leader. He enlightened the batch on how start-ups are creating value, tapping untapped opportunities and facing challenges in the Indian start-up ecosystem.He advised the audience to also follow start-up stories of the various sectors and understand one’s expectations if one has desire to be part of the start-up revolution.

Startups & Supply Chain Consulting

Mr Alok Sahu

Director

Tetrahedron Manufacturing Services

Date: 18.05.22

Presentation topic:
Role of Startups in Implementing I4.0 in India
Presentation summary

• Acceptance of I4.0 in Indian Industries
• How I4.0 Can be Enabler for our manufacturing sector
• Importance of identifying future technological advancements.
• Delegation of Task in Startup Environment
• Pre & Post VLM Journey

Mr. Alok Sahu, Director- Tetrahedron Manufacturing Services , shed light on what Industry 4.0 is, how it presents a huge opportunity to the industry, its acceptance level in the Indian Manufacturing Sector and how it can be an enabler for our industry. He guided the batch to “Graduate from Engineering mindset to Management Mindset and Look at the Bigger Picture” and focus on “Why” rather than “How” when building solutions, for creating superior value. He shared the importance of identifying future Technological advancements, forecast market needs, Time management & Delegation of tasks, especially in a start-up environment.

E- Commerce Operations
and Supply Chain Management

Ms Tanvi Hait

Senior Manager

Flipkart

Date: 02.07.22

Presentation topic:
Career Pathways in Supply Chain Management
Presentation summary

• Supply Chain Design in E- Commerce Companies
• Career Options in E- Commerce Sector
• How to get best out of three institutes involved in VLM Program
• Inventory Management
• Pre & Post VLM Journey

Ms. Tanvi Hait, an aluminus of 8th batch, explained to the cohort regarding Supply chain design in E-Com companies and the type of role involved and gave insights into varied career options that one might have in the E-com sector – which include Planning, Operations, Warehouse, and Operation Excellence. She also briefed about Inventory Management, Automation, Data Science, and Logistics related roles and how they are entangled with each other, and the way this glue together to achieve a Capex-free & Opex-oriented delivery. She encouraged the batch to know one’s passion and work towards it by taking learnings from the three institutes involved in the VLM program.

Management Consulting & Strategy

Mr Gaurav Nanda

Vice President

Corporate Strategy, Aditya Birla Group

Date: 09.07.22

Presentation topic:
Journey Beyond VLM
Presentation summary

• Importance of Career Planning
• Career Pathways in Management Consulting
• Importance of Professional Networking
• Importance of being loyal to organzation
• Pre & Post VLM Journey

Mr. Gaurav Nanda, an aluminus of 2nd batch, enlightened the visionary leaders on various learnings of his long professional journey which included- finding a mentor for professional guidance, investing in building a network that can help to further one’s career, being a team player, being loyal to one’s organization, and working for one’s own passion instead of working only for money as well as building one’s own personal brand. He also elaborated on various ways to plan one’s career planning, do self-assessments, and emphasized the importance of career planning as it’s our future and we need to make our career decisions and motivated the cohort for choosing operations for their future career by citing the rising count of first time CEO’s form operations background.

Strategic Procurement & Logistics

Mr Prashant Sinha

National Head, Strategic Procurement

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Limited

Date: 09.07.22

Presentation topic:
Strategic Sourcinh and Commodity Management
Presentation summary

• Formulating Procurement Strategy
• Integration of Procurement Strategy to business objectives
• Importance of Identifying Stakeholders
• Converting Business Requirements into Functional Requirements
• Pre & Post VLM Journey

Mr. Prashant Sinha, an aluminus of 4th batch, spoke at length about formulating a procurement strategy for the future and the integration of strategy to business objectives. He stressed the importance of identifying stakeholders and understanding their requirements as prerequisites of a good procurement strategy. He also discussed the importance of analysing historical data and converting business requirements into functional requirements.

Finance

Prof. Sudhakara Reddy

Associate Professor

IIM Calcutta

Date: 02.06.22

Presentation topic:
Understanding Financial Derivatives
Presentation summary

• Understanding of market behavior patterns to take approriate decision
• Use of statistical tools to look for in stock market
• Risk hedging in Options
• Way in to Options Chain and Futures Contract

Prof. Sudhakara Reddy shared his pioneer ideas on “Financial Derivatives” on 2nd June 2022. His pragmatic approach toward financial markets nurtured the students’ interest in market liquidity. Thanks to Prof. Reddy for bringing the Share Market’s Knowledge from a perspective that is easy to grasp even by a Common Man. The signature knowledge shared by Prof. Reddy cultivated the newer interests among students. Thanks to the VLM Office’s Team for remarkable support for sowing the seed of “Financial Curiosity” among young Brains.

Finance

Dr. Vikram Singh

Indian Revenue Service

Central Board of Indirect



Taxes and Customs

Date: 22.06.22

Presentation topic:
Leadership in Financial Decisions
Presentation summary

• Challenges faced in Govt Financial System
• How EQ rather than IQ plays an vital role while taking decision at field level
• How finance decisions are taken in govt offices

Dr. Vikram Singh addressed the cohort of PGPEX-VLM Batch 16 on the topic of "Leadership in Financial Decisions". He shared his experience as an IRS officer to look beyond just numbers. He gave us a glimpse on how government offices are working to identify and mitigate governance issues through digitization. In the end, he interacted with students with intriguing insights while answering the questions.

Finance

Mr Vibhu Goel

Indian Administrative Service

Joint Secretary, IT & E Dept., West Bengal;




CEO & SPD SRLM,




Project Director KEIIP, Kolkata

WBHDCL

Date: 10.07.22

Presentation topic:
External Financing - ADB Projects in India
Presentation summary

• Rationale of External Financing
• Asian Development Bank(ABD)'s Focus Sector and Themes
• Approach for ADB Financing
• Institutional mechanism
• Case of Kolkata Municipal Corporation(KMC)

Mr. Vibhu Goel conducted an insightful session for PGPEX-VLM Co'16 on the Financial Perspective of Asian Development Bank's Projects and Kolkata Municipal Corporation's Projects. He described how external financing arrangements are better than internal ones for India. He also gave us a glimpse of the project work undertaken by the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Investment Program(KEIIP). Additionally, He emphasized continuous review and in-depth involvement at the ground level for the time-bound completion of projects.

Digital Warehousing, Digital
supply chain solutions

Mr. Sangeet Kumar

CEO and Co-founder

Addverb Technologies Private Limited

Date: 21.06.21

Presentation topic:
The leverage of warehouse automation and IoT in supply chain management.
Presentation summary

• Design of digital warehouse.
• Managing ML and AI enabled intelligent vehicles for digital warehouse.
• Innovations in microfulfillment centres and their immense capability.
• Operational effectiveness of digital warehouse.

Mr. Kumar addressed the students of PGPEX VLM 15th batch, about the innovations he implemented and the challenges faced in the digital warehouse. He discussed the importance of AI and ML-enabled solutions in modern digital warehouses and emphasized the role of micro fulfillment centers in supply chain management. Mr. Kumar also showed various robotic vehicles and conveyors that he introduced in the digital warehouse solutions.

Electric vehicle, green energy
mobility solutions

Dr. Amitabh Saran

CEO and Co-founder

Altigreen Propulsion Labs

Date: 24.06.21

Presentation topic:
Entrepreneurship, innovation and electric mobility (as the future of transportation, in the context of India)
Presentation summary

• Electric vehicle potential in the Indian Automobile Sector.
• His unique policy of "made in India" and "made for India" thought process and his journey of entrepreneurship.
• Necessity of Innovation and the economic benefit of innovation.
• How to make the world greener than today.

Dr. Saran addressed the PGPEX VLM 15'th batch about his journey, from his early days to founding Altigreen Propulsion Labs. He emphasized the mindset of being an entrepreneur to serve maximum value to society. He explained today's environmental challenges faced due to hydrocarbon pollutions and suggested efficient ways to counter it for a better tomorrow.

Digitalization & Project Management

Mr. Vivek Javani

Digital Officer & IT Lead L&T Defence

Hazira Factory

Date: 26.06.21

Presentation topic:Achieving Manufacturing Optimization through Digitalization.
Presentation summary

• Product Lifecycle Management
• Digital Supply Chain
• Challenges in Digital Transformation
• Robotic Process Automation

Mr. Vivek Javani, Digital Officer & IT Lead - L&T Defence addressed the cohort of PGPEX VLM Batch-15 on 26th June 2021 on the topic"Achieving Manufacturing Optimization through Digitalization". He shared his experience as a Project Manager, how he delivered several high complexity defense projects successfully over years at L&T. He also discussed how to overcome resistance during Digital Transformation and certain concepts of the Digital Supply Chain.

Strategy formulation, Operations
management, Process Excellence

Mr. Rakesh Singh

CEO & Executive Director

Mahindra Solarize

Date: 27.06.21

Presentation topic:
Future of Solar Energy
Presentation summary

• Solar power in India and its future potential.
• Changing scenario of renewable energy generation.
• Challenges in adopting roof-top solar panels for domestic purposes.
• Government policies to energize renewable sources.

Mr.Rakesh Singh, CEO & Executive Director, Mahindra Solarize addressed the cohort of PGPEX VLM Batch-15 on the topic "Future of Solar Energy ". He shared his experience as CEO, Mahindra Solarize how he has driven the extraordinary journey of executing the solar power business with a sense of greener tomorrow. He also shared the huge potential of the Indian market especially that of the domestic consumption of solar power and he described how we can achieve the targets of reducing carbon footprint reasonably.

Management & Automotive
components Manufacturing

Mr. Kaniappan P

Managing Director

ZF Group, WABCO India Limited

Date: 04.07.21

Presentation topic:
Manufacturing excellence
Presentation summary

• Digital Transformation and its importance
• Systematic approach towards manufacturing excellence
• Enhancement of employees' capabilities
• Data analytics and its importance in today's manufacturing

Mr. Kaniappan addressed the students about the step-by-step approaches he followed in WABCO INDIA Ltd to achieve Manufacturing excellence. He also discussed the importance of daily operation management and policy management in WABCO. He explained the enormous opportunity in digital transformation and the electric vehicle industry in India. In the end, he interacted with students and enlightened them with some more insights while answering the questions.

Technology Development
& New Materials Business

Dr. Debashish

Bhattacharjee

Vice President

Technology & New Materials

Business, Tata Steel

Date: 11.07.21

Presentation topic:
Sustainability Challenges for India
Presentation summary

• Sustainability Challenges in Steel Manufacturing
• Advantage of Carbon Sequestration, Use of Hydrogen for decarbonization, etc.
• Opportunity related to recycling of e-waste
• How urban mining is overtaking conventional mining

Mr. Bhattacharjee discussed the Carbon Emission problem in the Steel Industry and various sustainable solutions like Carbon Sequestration, Use of Hydrogen for decarbonization, etc. He also emphasized the importance of Urban Mining which can help in sustainably meeting the growing material demand across the globe. He also discussed the Innovation opportunities regarding the Indigenization of Advanced Battery Materials for EVs in emerging economies like India.

Spearheading India's various
chemical industries, former board
member of Indian Chemical Council,
FICCI, CII, MCCI, BIS and many
industry and various Government
associations.

Mr. C G Sethuram

Group CEO

THIRUMALAI CHEMICALS LIMITED

Date: 18.07.21

Presentation topic:
Organisation and Individual - Experiences in Technology Oriented Management
Presentation summary

• Efficient way of managing an organization
• Role of digitalization in today's organization management.
• Role of leadership in nurturing an organization's vision and mission
• Maximum value addition being either an employee or an employer

Mr. Sethuram addressed the students of the PGPEX VLM 15th batch about the most desired way to run an organization and how to get the maximum output from fellow workers by treating them with maximum respect and empathy. He also shared his vast experience and described the change he brought while working in various organizations for excellence. He emphasized the role of digital technology in today's plant management and the need to change the mindset towards newer technology-oriented management.

New Product Introduction, Program
Management, Automotive

Somesh Joshi

Platform Lead Utility Tractors

John Deere

Date: 20.06.21

Presentation topic:
Reflections from VLM Journey and Imperatives as leaders
Presentation summary

• Journey Post VLM
• VLM life-How to make the most out of it!
• Future of John Deere in perspective of EV
• Role of analytics vs intuition in decision making.
• Agile manufacturing practices.

Mr. Somesh Joshi, Platform Lead-Utility Tractors, addressed the subjective aspects of leadership and how students can leverage the VLM program to become a visionary leader. He shared his experiences on how being a leader means owning failures, distributing success, and real-life problem solving using FSDP. He discussed his journey in digital transformation, program management and interacted at lengths on topics ranging from analytics to agile manufacturing to alternative fuels.

IT sourcing, consulting,
purchase, supply chain

Mausam Agrawal

Director Sourcing & OPS

UBS

Date: 04.07.21

Presentation topic:
Sourcing IT, Indirect Purchase, Business Strategy and Consultancy
Presentation summary

• FSDP & Broadening your horizon
• Structured intuition and Prof. Shoji Shiba's learnings
• Insourcing and outsourcing
• Why startup ecosystems are an excellent learning environment?
• Family vs Career: Managing parallel timezones

Mr. Mausam Agrawal, Director-Sourcing IT & Ops at UBS, discussed with students on topics like sourcing, startup ecosystems, and supply chain bottlenecks. He also stressed the importance of peer-to-peer learning and balancing family vs career. He also enlightened the batch with his interactive Q&A sessions as well.

Sourcing-Indirect Purchase

Sachin Gupta

GM & Lead-Indirect Purchase

PSBU, Cummins India Ltd.

Date: 05.07.21

Presentation topic:
Indirect Purchase & Business Strategy
Presentation summary

• How to get the best out of VLMP
• Design thinking & structured creativity
• Importance of processes and how to express understanding of process flow
• Kano model & Application
• In-company selling & stakeholders buy-in.

Mr. Sachin Gupta, A gold medalist from the first batch of VLMP, highlighted the ways of getting the maximum out of VLMP. He went on to describe the method of design thinking and how creativity can be structured. He also explained the methodology of formal meetings on team building and shared his experience of implementing an e-platform for Tata Motors.

Product Development, Process
Development, Project
Management

Divakar K

Assistant General Manager,

Project Management

WABCO

Date: 17.07.21

Presentation topic:
VLM Journey & its relevance in Professional Life
Presentation summary

• Journey Post VLM
• Interorganisational best practices
• Role of the project over technology
• MBA viewpoint vs industrial reality
• Benefits of being an entrepreneur

Mr. Divakar Karthikeyan, Assistant General Manager, Project Management at WABCO gave an interactive session spanning diverse topics like product management, deep mining equipment, industry best practices, etc. He described his wonderful professional journey and advised the batch to focus on developing entrepreneurship skills.

Strategic sourcing, procurement,
management consulting

Shivendra Ojha

Director

Strategic Sourcing & Procurement,

Cargill

Date: 18.07.21

Presentation topic:
Sourcing and Procurement & Journey after VLM
Presentation summary

• Diversity and inclusion
• Generalists vs Specialists in the industry
• Localisation vs globalisation
• Accelerating role of digital technologies

Mr. Shivendra Ojha, Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement-Cargil industries addressed students in an interactive session ranging from topics related to strategic sourcing & management consulting. He ended up giving many wise words, which will be etched permanently in the minds of all the participants

Digital Warehousing, Digital
supply chain solutions

Mr. Sangeet Kumar

CEO and Co-founder

Addverb Technologies Private Limited

Date: 21.06.21

Presentation topic:
The leverage of warehouse automation and IoT in supply chain management.
Presentation summary

• Design of digital warehouse.
• Managing ML and AI enabled intelligent vehicles for digital warehouse.
• Innovations in microfulfillment centres and their immense capability.
• Operational effectiveness of digital warehouse.

Mr. Kumar addressed the students of PGPEX VLM 15th batch, about the innovations he implemented and the challenges faced in the digital warehouse. He discussed the importance of AI and ML-enabled solutions in modern digital warehouses and emphasized the role of micro fulfillment centers in supply chain management. Mr. Kumar also showed various robotic vehicles and conveyors that he introduced in the digital warehouse solutions.

Electric vehicle, green energy
mobility solutions

Dr. Amitabh Saran

CEO and Co-founder

Altigreen Propulsion Labs

Date: 24.06.21

Presentation topic:
Entrepreneurship, innovation and electric mobility (as the future of transportation, in the context of India)
Presentation summary

• Electric vehicle potential in the Indian Automobile Sector.
• His unique policy of "made in India" and "made for India" thought process and his journey of entrepreneurship.
• Necessity of Innovation and the economic benefit of innovation.
• How to make the world greener than today.

Dr. Saran addressed the PGPEX VLM 15'th batch about his journey, from his early days to founding Altigreen Propulsion Labs. He emphasized the mindset of being an entrepreneur to serve maximum value to society. He explained today's environmental challenges faced due to hydrocarbon pollutions and suggested efficient ways to counter it for a better tomorrow.

Digitalization & Project Management

Mr. Vivek Javani

Digital Officer & IT Lead L&T Defence

Hazira Factory

Date: 26.06.21

Presentation topic:Achieving Manufacturing Optimization through Digitalization.
Presentation summary

• Product Lifecycle Management
• Digital Supply Chain
• Challenges in Digital Transformation
• Robotic Process Automation

Mr. Vivek Javani, Digital Officer & IT Lead - L&T Defence addressed the cohort of PGPEX VLM Batch-15 on 26th June 2021 on the topic"Achieving Manufacturing Optimization through Digitalization". He shared his experience as a Project Manager, how he delivered several high complexity defense projects successfully over years at L&T. He also discussed how to overcome resistance during Digital Transformation and certain concepts of the Digital Supply Chain.

Strategy formulation, Operations
management, Process Excellence

Mr. Rakesh Singh

CEO & Executive Director

Mahindra Solarize

Date: 27.06.21

Presentation topic:
Future of Solar Energy
Presentation summary

• Solar power in India and its future potential.
• Changing scenario of renewable energy generation.
• Challenges in adopting roof-top solar panels for domestic purposes.
• Government policies to energize renewable sources.

Mr.Rakesh Singh, CEO & Executive Director, Mahindra Solarize addressed the cohort of PGPEX VLM Batch-15 on the topic "Future of Solar Energy ". He shared his experience as CEO, Mahindra Solarize how he has driven the extraordinary journey of executing the solar power business with a sense of greener tomorrow. He also shared the huge potential of the Indian market especially that of the domestic consumption of solar power and he described how we can achieve the targets of reducing carbon footprint reasonably.

Management & Automotive
components Manufacturing

Mr. Kaniappan P

Managing Director

ZF Group, WABCO India Limited

Date: 04.07.21

Presentation topic:
Manufacturing excellence
Presentation summary

• Digital Transformation and its importance
• Systematic approach towards manufacturing excellence
• Enhancement of employees' capabilities
• Data analytics and its importance in today's manufacturing

Mr. Kaniappan addressed the students about the step-by-step approaches he followed in WABCO INDIA Ltd to achieve Manufacturing excellence. He also discussed the importance of daily operation management and policy management in WABCO. He explained the enormous opportunity in digital transformation and the electric vehicle industry in India. In the end, he interacted with students and enlightened them with some more insights while answering the questions.

Technology Development
& New Materials Business

Dr. Debashish

Bhattacharjee

Vice President

Technology & New Materials

Business, Tata Steel

Date: 11.07.21

Presentation topic:
Sustainability Challenges for India
Presentation summary

• Sustainability Challenges in Steel Manufacturing
• Advantage of Carbon Sequestration, Use of Hydrogen for decarbonization, etc.
• Opportunity related to recycling of e-waste
• How urban mining is overtaking conventional mining

Mr. Bhattacharjee discussed the Carbon Emission problem in the Steel Industry and various sustainable solutions like Carbon Sequestration, Use of Hydrogen for decarbonization, etc. He also emphasized the importance of Urban Mining which can help in sustainably meeting the growing material demand across the globe. He also discussed the Innovation opportunities regarding the Indigenization of Advanced Battery Materials for EVs in emerging economies like India.

Spearheading India's various
chemical industries, former board
member of Indian Chemical Council,
FICCI, CII, MCCI, BIS and many
industry and various Government
associations.

Mr. C G Sethuram

Group CEO

THIRUMALAI CHEMICALS LIMITED

Date: 18.07.21

Presentation topic:
Organisation and Individual - Experiences in Technology Oriented Management
Presentation summary

• Efficient way of managing an organization
• Role of digitalization in today's organization management.
• Role of leadership in nurturing an organization's vision and mission
• Maximum value addition being either an employee or an employer

Mr. Sethuram addressed the students of the PGPEX VLM 15th batch about the most desired way to run an organization and how to get the maximum output from fellow workers by treating them with maximum respect and empathy. He also shared his vast experience and described the change he brought while working in various organizations for excellence. He emphasized the role of digital technology in today's plant management and the need to change the mindset towards newer technology-oriented management.

New Product Introduction, Program
Management, Automotive

Somesh Joshi

Platform Lead Utility Tractors

John Deere

Date: 20.06.21

Presentation topic:
Reflections from VLM Journey and Imperatives as leaders
Presentation summary

• Journey Post VLM
• VLM life-How to make the most out of it!
• Future of John Deere in perspective of EV
• Role of analytics vs intuition in decision making.
• Agile manufacturing practices.

Mr. Somesh Joshi, Platform Lead-Utility Tractors, addressed the subjective aspects of leadership and how students can leverage the VLM program to become a visionary leader. He shared his experiences on how being a leader means owning failures, distributing success, and real-life problem solving using FSDP. He discussed his journey in digital transformation, program management and interacted at lengths on topics ranging from analytics to agile manufacturing to alternative fuels.

IT sourcing, consulting,
purchase, supply chain

Mausam Agrawal

Director Sourcing & OPS

UBS

Date: 04.07.21

Presentation topic:
Sourcing IT, Indirect Purchase, Business Strategy and Consultancy
Presentation summary

• FSDP & Broadening your horizon
• Structured intuition and Prof. Shoji Shiba's learnings
• Insourcing and outsourcing
• Why startup ecosystems are an excellent learning environment?
• Family vs Career: Managing parallel timezones

Mr. Mausam Agrawal, Director-Sourcing IT & Ops at UBS, discussed with students on topics like sourcing, startup ecosystems, and supply chain bottlenecks. He also stressed the importance of peer-to-peer learning and balancing family vs career. He also enlightened the batch with his interactive Q&A sessions as well.

Sourcing-Indirect Purchase

Sachin Gupta

GM & Lead-Indirect Purchase

PSBU, Cummins India Ltd.

Date: 05.07.21

Presentation topic:
Indirect Purchase & Business Strategy
Presentation summary

• How to get the best out of VLMP
• Design thinking & structured creativity
• Importance of processes and how to express understanding of process flow
• Kano model & Application
• In-company selling & stakeholders buy-in.

Mr. Sachin Gupta, A gold medalist from the first batch of VLMP, highlighted the ways of getting the maximum out of VLMP. He went on to describe the method of design thinking and how creativity can be structured. He also explained the methodology of formal meetings on team building and shared his experience of implementing an e-platform for Tata Motors.

Product Development, Process
Development, Project
Management

Divakar K

Assistant General Manager,

Project Management

WABCO

Date: 17.07.21

Presentation topic:
VLM Journey & its relevance in Professional Life
Presentation summary

• Journey Post VLM
• Interorganisational best practices
• Role of the project over technology
• MBA viewpoint vs industrial reality
• Benefits of being an entrepreneur

Mr. Divakar Karthikeyan, Assistant General Manager, Project Management at WABCO gave an interactive session spanning diverse topics like product management, deep mining equipment, industry best practices, etc. He described his wonderful professional journey and advised the batch to focus on developing entrepreneurship skills.

Strategic sourcing, procurement,
management consulting

Shivendra Ojha

Director

Strategic Sourcing & Procurement,

Cargill

Date: 18.07.21

Presentation topic:
Sourcing and Procurement & Journey after VLM
Presentation summary

• Diversity and inclusion
• Generalists vs Specialists in the industry
• Localisation vs globalisation
• Accelerating role of digital technologies

Mr. Shivendra Ojha, Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement-Cargil industries addressed students in an interactive session ranging from topics related to strategic sourcing & management consulting. He ended up giving many wise words, which will be etched permanently in the minds of all the participants

Consulting

Venkatesh Seshadri

Head, Supply chain consultant

CII

Date: 11.07.20

Presentation topic: Supply chain

Presentation summary

• Impact of COVID'19 on global supply chain.
• IOT in supply chain evolution.
• Policy issues hindering supply chain growth.
• CII initiatives for MBA Grads.

Mr. Venkatesh Seshadri, Head-Supply Chain Consultant- CII addressed the students on Supply Chain on July 11 2020. He has discussed about the impact of COVID'19 on global supply chain and IOT in supply chain evolution. He shared the insightful journey of Supply Chain Transformation in the era of digitalisation.

Consulting

Sandeep Chatterjee

Associate Director

Deloitte India.

Date: 18.07.20

Presentation topic: ERP and Supply Chain

Presentation summary

• Sustainable and Green Supply chain.
• Last mile delivery issues in india.
• Integrated ERP and Blockchain impacts on supply chain network.
• New businesses and startups in supply domain.

Mr. Sandeep Chatterjee, Associate Director- Deloitte India conducted insightful session on Supply Chain and ERP on July 18 2020. He shared with us the wonderful insights on problems of traditional supply chain management and its transition to responsive and adaptive supply chain. He also emphasised the importance of digitalisation & AI in decision making as well as design of supply chain network.

IOT

Amit Rai

CEO

MachineMax

Date: 23.07.20

Presentation topic: Application of AL&ML,
IOT in Mfg. sector

Presentation summary

• Scope of IOT in heavy manufaturing/ construction insdustries.
• AI&ML in manufacturing sector.

Mr. Amit Rai, CEO- MachineMax addressed the students about Application of AL&ML, IOT in manufacturing sector on July 23, 2020. He shared with us the scope of telematic solutions and how it can transform the conventional industries. He emphasised on how ML can revolutionise the construction and capital intensive industries and gave examples of how MachineMax is trying to bring and connect 30 M equipments world-wide on a single platform.

Manufacturing

Subrat Baral

Chief, Venture and
New Alliances

Tata Steel Ltd.

Date: 01.08.20

Presentation topic: New Ventures and
Sustainable dev.

Presentation summary

• How Tata Steel is in incubating home grown technologies and startups to make succesfull corporate ventures ?
• Tata Steel business thrust areas towards sustainability goals.
• What opportunities and challenges New Material business brings across steel value chain ?

Mr. Subrat Baral, Chief, Venture and New Alliances- Tata Steel Ltd. presented about Tata Steel business thrust areas towards sustainability goals on August 1, 2020. He spoke about Some of the biggest challenges and opportunities that an Integrated Steel company faces and he emphasised on why innovation in this sector is the need of the hour. He also described, what are the thrust areas for scope of improvement and how Tata Steel is driving innovation in areas such as OE, Energy, Decarbonization, Mobility, Particulate matter, waste water treatment etc. In this talk the way he articulated, how Tata Steel is leveraging and monetising the internal and external ecosystem through ventures ( In-house, Start up incubation and investment) and alliances ( Strategic Collaboration with institutions and corporates) to take the industry leadership role, was very thought provoking.

Bike Rental, Startup

Vivekananda Halikere

CEO

Bounce

Date: 01.08.20

Presentation topic: Indian Startup Culture

Presentation summary

• How mobility startups have battled Covid-19?
• How startups keep pace with rapidly chaning environment without bleeding capital?
• Challenges of electric and connected mobility?
• What does it take to build a successful startup?

Mr. Vivekananda Halikere, CEO- Bounce has shared his vivid experience on Indian Startup Culture in Bike Rental Industry on August 1, 2020. He discussed about Mobility Solutions.

Electronics

Yogesh Sarin

Supply Chain,
Director, South East Asia

Dell Technologies

Date: 08.08.20

Presentation topic: Dell Tech, Supply
chain Strategy

Presentation summary

• Dells unique Supply Chain.
• Dell's business diversification Startegy.
• Use of Blockchain technology in Dell's supply chain.
• New technologies/ ventures by Dell.

Mr. Yogesh Sarin, Supply Chain, Director, South East Asia- Dell Technologies shared an engaging interaction on Dell Technologies Supply chain Strategy with the students on August 8, 2020. He spoke about various challenges and opportunities in the PC, Server making industry and what are the new strategies dell is adopting to rejig its supply chain network. He also described how dell is diversifying its business and promoting new technologies such as blockchain, Smart warehousing, IOT and digital twin aided by advanced data analytics.

Automotive

Satyakam Arya

CEO

Daimler India,Commercial Vehicles

Date: 20.08.20

Presentation topic: Business Scenario of
Indian Comm. vehicle sector

Presentation summary

• How daimler handles its GVC? And with the growing international trade restrictions how he is able to keep the supply chain alive?
• What is the growth potential of these industry in india ?
• What are the growing challenges with stricter environmental norms in vehicle emission ?

Mr. Satyakam Arya, CEO - Daimler India, Commercial Vehicles would also be interacting with the students on August 20, 2020 about current business scenario and growth outlook of all segments of commercial vehicle in India and export markets.

Kishan Kona

Head, Business strategy

Mangal Industries

Date: 11.07.20

Presentation topic: Business strategy &
Digital transformation.

Presentation summary

• Upcoming technologies in operations.
• Internship guidance.

Mr. Kishan kona is Alumnus of PGPEX-VLM IIM-Calcuta (3rd Batch).Mr. Kishan Kona started his career as a process engineer at Semicondutor complex Ltd-Hyderabad. He worked as Senior Manager- Special projects at TVS for automotive,energy and Green Technologies. He joined Amara Raja group and held various position in Corporate Strategy & planning, Business IT & Automation, Business strategy & progamme management. He done his Electronics & communications engineering from JNTU-Hyderabad.

Senthil Raja

Manager, Business Development

L & T

Date: 19.07.20

Presentation topic: Pandemic effect in the
economy & manufacturing.

Presentation summary

• Insights about recent Industry Trend, Smart Grid.
• Brand visibility & Promotion.

Mr. Senthil Raja is Alumnus of PGPEX-VLM IIM-Calcuta (7th Batch). Mr. Senthil Raja started his career at Bharath aluminium company limited and worked in Power Plant Maintenance and Project management departments. He joined L&T as a Executive Assistant to Group Executive Chairman & Currently the Manager for Business Development. He done his Electronics & Instrumentation engineering & Filed a Patent for Project which got Published in Patent Journal.

Anurag Pandey

Head, Fulfillment centre quality assurance

Flipkart

Date: 25.07.20

Presentation topic: E-commerce &
its verticals, Opportunities.

Presentation summary

• Working of SCM at Flipkart.
• How to be more productive and cope with the new normal.

Mr. Anurag Pandey is Alumnus of PGPEX-VLM IIM-Calcuta (9th Batch). Mr. Anurag Pandey started his career at Ambuja Cements, worked in Automation department and later moved to Plant operations. He joined flipkart as Head Fulfilment Center Quality Assurance East & North India, Regular Supply Chain and later took as Head of Fulfillment Center Quality Assurance, Groceries Business He is a Electronics & Tele communications engineer.

Divakar Karthikeyan

Assistant General Manager

Wabco

Date: 15.08.20

Presentation topic: Project Management
in automobile industry
& its scope.

Presentation summary

• Briefed about Project management team roles & resposibilites.
• Placement tips & guidance.

Mr. Divakar Karthikeyan is Alumnus of PGPEX-VLM IIM-Calcuta (7th Batch). Mr. Divakar Karthikeyan started his career at Tubes Investments(Murugappa Group) & worked in New product development & Introduction. He joined Daimler as Senior Manager - Project Management System team leader chassis & later moved to WABCO as Assistant General Manager heading Project Management team. He done his Mechanical engineering from Anna University-Chennai.

Zubin Mulla

Professor & Chairperson

Centre for Social
& Organisational Leadership

Prof. Zubin Mulla, Professor & Chairperson, Centre for Social & Organisational Leadership,School of Management and Labour Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai had been invited on July 9 and 14, 2020 by Prof. Randhir Kumar to share his insightful experiences with students.

Gordhan K. Saini

Associate Professor

School of Management
and Labour Studies

Prof. Gordhan K. Saini, Associate Professor, School of Management and Labour Studies invited by Prof. Randhir Kumar, addressed the students on July 21, 2020.

Atanu Ghose

CEO

Salt n Soap

Prof. Atanu Ghose, CEO, Salt n Soap addressed the students on July 29, 2020 on current Industry trends.

Sethuraman
Janardhanan

Vice President

Tiger Analytics

Mr. Sethuraman Janardhanan, Vice President, Tiger Analytics had been invited by Prof. Debasish Saha on August 4, 2020 to share his vivid experiences with the students.

S M Fahimuddin Pasha

Education & Programme Officer

Industri All Global Union

Dr. S M Fahimuddin Pasha, Education & Programme Officer, Industri All Global Union had taken an interactive session with the students on August 12, 2020 invited by Prof. Radhir Kumar.