Ing. Harshil Shah

- Accountable for all procurement activities within the Wärtsilä Marine Ship Electrification Solutions division, incl. new builds, dry docks, and retrofits. - Develop and manage suppliers, negotiate to secure delivery capacities and long-term forecasts. - Ensure quality, delivery, lead time and cost development, as well as compliance with regulations. - Analyze expenditure for cost planning and tracking. - Support non-conformity/warranty escalations. - Implement supplier life cycle management process.

• Strategic buyer for Mechanical; Auxiliary; Electrical building groups & Production material for all new build projects. • Develop and implement of sourcing strategies. • Supervise the operational purchasing activity and support the negotiation of contracts and commercial updates. • Coordinating the project requests and purchasing activities in with cross functional departments. • Streamlining the procurement processes. • Participation in Cash flow calculations together with finance.

• Overall responsible for the Project in Purchasing: BOM costs, project milestones, maturity level, assignments and ensuring compliance with project goals (deadlines, costs and quality). • Controlling and monitoring of assigned project tasks. • Development of options to solve problems together with the core team and preparation of decision documents and recommendations for action. • Internal reporting on the planning status and coordination with the customer.

• Construction and Handling costed BOMs (Bill of Material) for current projects • Analysis and reporting of different KPIs for cost down projects • Support Program Purchasing for RFQ preparation for future projects. • Support Commodity Purchasing for capacity and cost negotiation by analyzing Green Field and Brown Field raw material as well as production scenarios. Master’s Thesis: Process Optimization in BOM Management: A benchmarking Approach

• Warehouse Management • Processing of Outbound Logistics • Quality Control and Inventory Management • Assisting the Supervisors in Work Allocation, Problem Solving and Dispatch process.

• Ensure full utilization of the available men-power. • Handle the customers and negotiate with them. • Ensure that customers get their deliveries at the promised time to keep the customer satisfaction level in check. • Manage purchasing of spare parts and ensure that there is enough stock of spare parts. • Make reports of the incoming and outgoing vehicles in the workshop.

• Quality control on the production line • Assistant to a quality manager • Discovered the rejection rate of the sub-assemblies as 13% and reduced it to 3% • Part of the KAIZEN Promotion team from TATA motors for the same.

Global Supply Chain Management, Automotive Management, Project Engineering Management, New Technology and Innovation, Strategic Marketing

• Systems module • Mechanical module • Electronics module

Parallel Hybrid Vehicle (Bachelor Thesis) (Feb 2013 ‐ May 2013) • Hybrid bike uses electrical and fossil fuel and can switch to different modes as per the situation required. Concept made by using different development software. • Motive: Increase fuel efficiency of the vehicle