Romit Babbar

• Spearhead the long-term capacity planning and strategy for TE’s automotive manufacturing sites in North America. • Coordinate with procurement and material planners to understand the capacity at suppliers/vendors to ensure correct stock levels and prevent stock outs and provide on time delivery to customers. • Identify Over-utilized and Underutilized machines and collaborate with different teams in the organization to devise long term strategy for such machines. • Lead the consensus meetings with the stakeholders and kick off projects to get new machines and tools to get additional capacity therefore preventing past dues and premium freight charges. • Liaise with materials managers in TE North America sites to model Labor requirement & demand vs supply snapshot to analyze long term impact to the sites. • Analyze the demand variances from customers for multiple scenarios to help customers in long term production planning and order placement. • Manage tool and machine hierarchical flow by using SAP IBP attributes and key figures for all the equipment available in house and at outside suppliers. • Run simulations to show the impact of new tools and machines on the long term capacity of the site and create business charts to project recovery timing from the constrained situation.

• Strategized capacity expansion through outsourcing and developing internal resources to meet the growing market demand, generating additional sales worth $1M/year. • Streamlined sales and operations planning dashboard for prototype product by consolidating demands from different customers, reducing the expedited delivery costs by $400K/year. • Performed root cause analysis on critical projects missing milestone targets, enabling resolution and reclaiming stuck CAPEX

• Collaborated with international cross functional teams to make test runs to analyze and improve machine performance during commissioning of a flagship manufacturing project worth $30M. • Managed the installation of Automated Packaging Facility by integrating multiple network platforms and directing equipment procurement, reducing manual packing load by 60%. • Streamlined the planning process for a reengineering project by defining ideal timelines for each milestone and job distribution, reducing time to completion from 60 to 42 days. • Enhanced the reliability of plant operations and eliminated operational losses in 3 plants by process improvement, generating net profit of $150K/year. • Optimized resource utilization by analyzing and facilitating the feasibility of using existing equipments while commissioning a new production facility, reducing project budget by ~$80K. • Orchestrated a process redesign initiative to facilitate fabrication of a new product in existing manufacturing line, saving capex of $1.2M/year.

• Remodeled equipment to improve heat flow from system, decreasing downtime by 960 hours/year and equipment replacement cost by $150K/year. • Introduced intelligent lighting system using motion sensors, reducing energy cost by $20K/year. • Facilitated plant operations during contactor strike by taking additional area ownership, preventing system operations from coming to a halt, saving $3.1M. • Directed the installation of forte chips manufacturing facility in high demand time and completed it before stipulated deadline, resulting in net profit of $120K/year. • Mentored 10 new employees to help role alignment quickly, leading to better retention, increasing operations efficiency by 10%.

• Supervised a team of 15 engineers and technicians, creating standard operating procedures to help introduce global practices in plant. • Negotiated with suppliers and contractors to build strategic relationship with key suppliers, achieving 10% saving in annual budget spending. • Envisioned the modification of automatic switching scheme for power distribution panels to prevent production losses of ~$84K/year. • Improved inventory and material management by incorporating new SAP module, saving ~600 personnel hours per month.

Involved in ongoing Electrical Power saving projects in Paper and Towel plants. Improving the automated packing line.

Optimizing the Power distribution network to nearby areas.