Vineet Ahuja
Vineet has a passion for manufacturing and operations improvement, helping businesses to achieve their aspirations along with personal growth in leadership and governance for the business owners and their senior management. He has working experience from operational floor level to advisory boards, covering 47 years of management in implementing excellence in oil, plastics, chemicals, food, pet food, confectionary, health foods, medical devices, healthcare products, and working in global icons companies to small company in partnership. With direct experience of advisory, production, procurement, planning, logistics, quality, business development, technical sales & services, engineering, consulting and project management, Vineet is a “thinker-doer mentor” with high people skills and strong customer service orientation.
Vineet has technical and leadership skills with achievements in organizational transformations of loss-making businesses of global icons, improving business growth, increasing profits, reducing costs and waste, developing people to achieve “HIGHER”, turning around morale and businesses, improving safety, influencing cultural change for continuous improvement and setting up self-managed teams, teaching and mentoring senior managers to set and execute strategies across the organizations. His achievements are also spread across implementing best practices in manufacturing, business development, consulting to Australian & global companies, representing USA technology companies in Australia and technology transfer projects in Malaysia, India and Mexico.
As an adviser, Vineet helps businesses to expand markets, take advantage of government. incentives, grants and assistance, running networking groups for alliance and collaboration across the SMEs.
Vineet is a qualified Mechanical Engineer, holds an MBA, a PG Dip in Quality Management, as well as being a TAE40110 qualified trainer and a mentor.
Specialties:
- Advising start-ups to large SMEs
- Strategic business plans and execution
- Value Proposition
- Developer of RAAT tool (Responsibility, Accountability, Authority, Trust)
- Continuous Improvement Projects and LEAN
- Changing culture
- Business turnarounds
- Business financial analysis and foundations for profitability, costings, cashflow
- Project management, plant layouts, process optimization
- Conversion to running by self-directed/self-managed TEAMs.
- Mentoring all levels, shop floor to senior managers,
- Coaching & training on operational excellence & certificates I to IV
- Restructuring into flatter organizations.
- Manufacturing management: procurement, inventory, planning, engineering, quality, warehouse