April 2021 – Present
Principal · Sharma & Co. Advisory
Self-employed · Hybrid · Pune
Operations and supply chain engagements for manufacturing SMEs across Maharashtra and Gujarat. Twenty-three engagements to date.
Rahul Sharma
Independent operations consultant for manufacturing SMEs
Principal · Sharma & Co. Advisory · Pune, India
I help mid-sized manufacturers fix the operational bottlenecks that show up as late deliveries, and I write about what I find on the shop floor.
Areas of expertise
Operations strategyProcess designSupply chainManufacturing SMEsS&OPCost reduction
Latest posts
A process that depends on memory is not a process
If a step only happens because a particular person remembers it, you do not have a system. You have a person, and a bad week away from a missed shipme…
15 August 2026
Late deliveries are usually a planning problem, not a production one
When dispatch reliability drops, the shop floor gets the attention. In most of the plants I have worked in, the shop floor was not the constraint. Th…
9 August 2026
The daily meeting that actually works
Fifteen minutes, standing, same time every day, in front of the same board. Three questions only: - What did we commit to yesterday, and did it happ…
3 August 2026
Work experience
January 2016 – March 2021
Senior Manager, Operations · Tata Technologies
Full-time · On-site · Pune
Led process improvement across three plants; reduced order-to-dispatch time by 31% over two years.
Education
April 2015
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management · MBA
Operations
June 2011
College of Engineering, Pune · B.E.
Mechanical Engineering
Get in touch
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