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
Fourteen years in operations, the last five independent.
I work with manufacturers between ₹20 crore and ₹200 crore in revenue — usually brought in when deliveries are slipping and nobody can agree on why.
Most engagements end up in the same place: the process exists, but it lives in three people's heads and one spreadsheet nobody else opens.
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
Skills
Process design · Operations
Expert · 14
Supply chain planning · Operations
Advanced
Services
Operations diagnostic
A two-week review of where orders actually lose time. · Hybrid
Interviews, shop-floor observation and data review, ending in a prioritised list of fixes with owners and dates attached.
S&OP setup
A monthly planning rhythm that survives after I leave. · Hybrid
Projects
February 2025 – August 2025
Order-to-dispatch redesign, auto components · Lead consultant
Dispatch reliability from 71% to 94% in six months.
Rebuilt the planning cycle and introduced a daily production review that the plant runs itself.
Awards and honours
March 2020