Dr. K Ganesh

Associate Partner

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India23 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in supply chain transformation.
Published 200+ papers and authored 15+ international books.
Global lead at McKinsey's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Center.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in supply chain consulting with extensive experience in logistics and operations management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Supply Chain ManagementConsulting

Other Skills

Logistics and Distribution OptimizationDemand Planning and ForecastingInventory Planning and OptimizationInventory PlanningLogistics OptimizationDemand PlanningInventory StrategySupply Chain Network DesignMarket Facing BusinessIntegrated Site Logistics SimulationSupply Chain ConsultingSupply Chain OptimizationReverse LogisticsStatisticsQFD

About

Dr.K. Ganesh is Partner and Global Lead of the “Manufacturing and Supply Chain Center of Competence" at McKinsey & Company, Chennai, India. He is specialized in logistics and supply chain transformation for various industry verticals - auto, consumer, chemicals and pharma. He graduated in Production Engineering with the university's first rank and pursued his Masters’ degree in Industrial Engineering at NIT Trichy with the college first. He did his Ph.D. in supply chain at IIT Madras. He has a total of 20+ years of research and consulting experience. He has published more than 200papers in leading international journals and written 15+ international books. He is on the editorial board for 5 international journals and on the review board for more than 10 renowned international journals.

Experience

Mckinsey & company

5 roles

Partner

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Associate Partner, Senior Knowledge Expert and Global Lead of MSC Center

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

Dr.K.Ganesh is assuming the additional role as Associate Partner

Global Lead of MSC CoC & Senior Knowledge Expert

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Knowledge Expert

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Focusing on Consulting in Supply Chain Transformation

Knowledge Specialist

Oct 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Working as Knowledge Specialist with Supply Chain Management - Center of Competence of McKinsey & Company.
Focusing on Consulting in Supply Chain Network Optimization, Inventory Planning and Optimization, Supply Chain Diagnostics, Logistics and Distribution Optimization, Demand Planning and Forecasting, Segmentation, Warehouse Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling, Supply Chain Maturity Assessment, SKU Rationalization and Supply Chain Transformation

Supply Chain ManagementConsultingLogistics and Distribution OptimizationDemand Planning and ForecastingInventory Planning and Optimization

Ibm india private limited

Senior Consultant

Oct 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

Worked as Senior Consultant in Global Business Services, Global Delivery, IBM India Private Limited, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Consulting assignments with clients such as L&T, Essar Steel, Finolex, Idea and Weir BDK Valves. Worked in the areas of SKU classification, SKU rationalization, demand planning and forecasting, inventory strategy formulation, inventory norms setting and optimization, supply chain network design and optimization, production planning and scheduling, location analysis and integrated supply chain transformation.

Demand PlanningInventory StrategySupply Chain Network DesignSupply Chain ManagementConsulting

Tata consultancy services limited

Consultant

Aug 2007 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

Worked as Assistant Consultant in Integrated Supply Chain, Manufacturing Industry Solutions Unit, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Consulting assignments with clients such as Dow International Chemical Company Private Limited, Electro Motive Diesel and Sherwin Williams. Worked primarily in the area of supply chain network design and optimization, market facing business and integrated site logistics simulation.

Supply Chain Network DesignMarket Facing BusinessIntegrated Site Logistics SimulationSupply Chain ManagementConsulting

Lakshmi machine works ltd - machine tool division

Research Analyst

Nov 2005 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

Worked as Research Analyst in Supply Chain Management Department of LMW. Worked for the five major consulting assignments namely business transformation, balanced scorecard implementation, serial supply chain inventory optimization, load allocation for vendors and knowledge management implementation.

Indian institute of technology, madras

Teaching and Researh Assistant

Jan 2002 – Nov 2005 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

Half-Time Teaching and Research Assistant awarded by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, India at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
Assisted in the following courses at IIT Madras during the Doctoral Programme for “Master of Business Administration (MBA)”
o Logistics and Distribution Management
o Project Management
o Operations Management
Training on Project Management and MS-Project 2000 as Co-Faculty with Dr. L.S. Ganesh, Professor and Head, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, Chennai for Kennametal Widia and General Electric (GE) Capitals, Bangalore, India. (4 visits during the period of December 2003 to December 2004), Tube India Cycles Limited, Chennai, India. (2 visits during the period of January, 2005 to October, 2005), Carborundum, Chennai, India. (1 visit during the period of January, 2005 to October, 2005).