The Problem

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Most manufacturing companies between ₹100 Cr and ₹1000 Cr are underperforming for the same structural reason.

Planning does not connect to the shop floor. Working capital is trapped in inventory no one owns. Order-to-cash cycles quietly kill liquidity. Accountability gaps appear on every ops review — and reappear the following week.

No ERP fixes this. No restructuring addresses it. The cause is different in every operation — it takes an outside eye, with no political stake, to locate it precisely.

That gap is locatable. It is fixable. It does not require a year.

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The Proof

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Thirty years across manufacturing operations — Hexagon, Exicom Tele-Systems, Moser Baer, Timex, HCL, and Escorts, and independent advisory since 2023 — have produced results that a manufacturing CEO would recognise:

— Working capital reduced by 22%
— Planning accuracy taken to 97%
— Order-to-cash cycle cut by 15 days
— On-time delivery improved from 65% to 95%
— Air freight costs reduced by 97%

Corrections are implemented within 90 days. The financial impact — working capital released, margin restored — reflects in the books across two to three planning cycles.

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How I work

 

I work directly with your leadership team. No junior consultants. No subcontractors.

The engagement begins with diagnosis — three to four weeks on-site. I study how decisions are made, how information moves across functions, and where the organisation loses alignment between what was planned and what actually happens.
 

This is work that cannot be done from the inside. The people closest to the problem have adapted to it. They no longer see it as a problem — they see it as the way things work here.
 

An outside eye, with no political stake and no history in the organisation, locates the fault precisely. Thirty years of experience across industries and geographies means the patterns are recognisable — even when they are dressed up differently in each organisation.
 

That diagnosis produces a corrective action agenda with measurable targets. Implementation follows. I work alongside the leadership team until the corrections are embedded and holding.
 

No dependency built. No retainer extended beyond the work.​

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