Skip to content
avinash sadana

Work

Operations, sourcing and the work in between

Procurement and supply chain inside heavy engineering, quality and production planning on a live manufacturing floor, and the programme work I’m running now.

Experience

Professional experience

Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Intern — Business Operations & Supply Chain

Jun 2025 — Aug 2025

Procurement, strategic sourcing and global market research inside the process equipment business — the part of heavy engineering where a single delayed steel order stalls an entire fabrication line.

  • Worked end-to-end across procurement, strategic sourcing and supplier development for steel and specialised internals used in process equipment manufacturing.
  • Negotiated on cost while holding the quality and delivery windows that fabrication schedules depend on.
  • Studied sustainability-driven practice in supply chain and manufacturing operations, and how it changes sourcing decisions.

Project

Improvement in Project Flow Process Leading to Purchase Order

Mapped and optimised the Procure-to-Pay cycle, cutting friction between engineering release and purchase order issue. The work targeted the handoffs where accuracy and cost control usually leak.

Project

Global Market Study for Penetration in New Countries

Researched demand for process equipment across oil & gas, power, energy and hydrogen sectors in target geographies. The findings fed directly into international sales and expansion strategy.

Heavy engineering rewards people who can hold two things at once: the commercial picture and the physical reality of what is being built. This role sat exactly there — between the suppliers who cut and roll the steel, and the sales teams selling into markets on the other side of the world.

The Procure-to-Pay project was the more instructive of the two. Most of the delay in a procurement cycle is not in the negotiation; it is in the waiting between steps. Making that visible was most of the work.

TopNotch Foods LLP

Quality Control & Production Planning Intern

Feb 2023 — May 2023

Ran the floor for ice cream cone manufacturing — raw material intake through to finished, sleeved product — with daily output and quality targets that did not move.

  • Supervised production, operations, supply chain and quality control across the full manufacturing line.
  • Managed the production workforce day to day against output and quality targets.
  • Learned where theoretical process control meets a real line running at speed with real people on it.

Food manufacturing is unforgiving in a way that teaches quickly. A cone that fails quality control cannot be reworked; it is waste. That makes the feedback loop between planning, line supervision and quality immediate — which is the best possible environment to learn production planning in.

Capabilities

What I bring

Grouped by where it was actually learned rather than by keyword.

Supply Chain & Procurement

Sourcing, supplier development and the Procure-to-Pay cycle, learned inside heavy engineering where delays are expensive and visible.

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Procurement & Strategic Sourcing
  • Supplier Development
  • Cost Negotiation
  • Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Optimisation

Operations & Manufacturing

Time on a real production floor, plus process improvement methodology formalised through Lean Six Sigma.

  • Manufacturing Operations
  • Production Planning
  • Quality Control
  • Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)
  • Process Improvement

Project & Programme Management

Running work end to end — scoping, sequencing, and keeping the people involved aligned long enough to finish.

  • Project Management
  • Programme Delivery
  • Strategic Planning
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

Business & Market Strategy

Market research that ends in a recommendation rather than a slide deck.

  • Business Analysis
  • Market Assessment & Research
  • Business Development
  • International Market Entry
  • Competitive Analysis

Leadership & Communication

Built by founding things, running events, and speaking in front of rooms that were not obliged to listen.

  • Leadership
  • Public Speaking
  • Storytelling
  • Team Building & Recruitment
  • Mentorship

Certifications

Formal training

  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

    KPMG

  • Designing and Modelling of IoT, AI & ML Systems

    AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy

  • Communication Masterclass — Public Speaking & Storytelling

    The Think School

  • Project Finance Fundamentals — Infrastructure & Energy

    Meta Brains

  • Fundamentals of Quantitative Modelling

    University of Pennsylvania

  • FLY Scholar Leadership Program

    The Competitiveness Mindset Institute (CMI), USA