Industrial engineering

ANIK BARUA, OPERATIONS EXCELLENCE PROFESSIONAL

QUALITY AND MANUFACTURING - APPAREL

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A diversified manufacturing engineer with extensive experience in production and change management within the apparel and retail industries of Asia and West Africa region.Skilled in operations and production, industrial engineering, and lean manufacturing. Proven track record of leading projects focused on sustainable sourcing, cost-saving, and quality improvement.

My key accomplishments are:

- Developed 25+ garment factories to the international quality and technical standard system for export orders in USA and UK markets – Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ghana, and Benin

- Achieved 98.75% quality inspection pass rate and 95% first-time delivery through setting up the effective QA process and the Six Sigma project (Bangladesh and Ghana)

- Trained total of 800+ management staff on Quality and IE tools – (Bangladesh, Ghana, Benin, Pakistan ) Expert:

- Lean sensei yellow belt certified by Greoge and DCg in 2013

-GSD practitioner (License no- 13736) by GSD Corporation Ltd. in 2014 Core skills:

- Operation and production - Lean Manufacturing - Six Sigma – QMS – MS Excel and PowerPoint

- Training and Development – Project lead with KPI -Sustainable production Product knowledge:

- Woven top and bottom ( Shirt, jacket, blazer, aprons, Chino, denim, cargo, skirt, etc) 5 years

- Knit top and bottom ( Tee, polo, Jogger, legging, hoody jacket, tank top, etc) 7 years

- Knitwear ( sweater) 2 years

Key Responsibilities :

Strategic Leadership :

- Developed a roadmap for the management team to improve 10% production and cost efficiency

- Provide the justified CM for the marketing to secure the order and verify the profit across the orders.

- Managing smooth operations & production functions to ensure the total manufacturing objective (CM) is achieved

- Developed a cross-functional team to achieve 100% plan revenue

- Developed a project milestone roadmap with Walmart to improve the quality and efficiency

- Developed 25+ factories to establish 100% quality and technical standards for the USA, UK, and EU market

- Introduced 3 factories on the “Digitization of excellent” project to achieve the sustainable business goal.

- Engaged 100% sourcing partners to make a strong relationship with the factories to improve the quality standard

- Engaged automated machine suppliers on board and ensured 40% of the production has been implemented in the value chain to achieve the sustainable business goal

- Initiated Manufacturing Excellence/Six Sigma project with the suppliers to achieve 100% targeted OQL

- Managed a diversified team in the development stage for easing the quality requirement and the production process

- Support the production team by introducing different innovations in the process

- generate different kinds of reports for the management to understand the business's current state vs the next steps

Quality :

- Coordinated the team and supported factories for the successful implementation of QMS in the factory

- Regular follow-up on OML, In-line, PP, and final inspection results and guide team to support factories

- Developed and aligned 100% of factories to follow standard SOPs’ in the quality

- Achieved a 98% pass rate in a final inspection by implementing an effective QA system.

- Trained and guided the Internal quality team at TESCO and EAA on root-cause analysis by using fishbone

- Supported and guided factory departments according to the buyers’ recommendations during technical audit

- Applied different quality tools (5S, TLS, Fishbone, etc) to achieve suppliers’ quality performance standards at a 95% pass rate

Costing :

- Provide day-to-day support to the departments to inline and achieve the target costing (FOB, CM) for smooth planning activity in the business

- Established the systematic production approach (VSM) to achieve a 100% cut-to-ship ratio

- Established an effective Kanban system in the production process to control the “cost of inventory”

- Developed an effective cost control tool (OTT) to optimize the operating and labor costs per min

- Engageged all key stakeholders with the lean program to reduce 15% of waste from the production

- Supported our UK buying team on product re-engineering concept to achieve 95% target cost

- Successfully implemented GSD in the BD and China hub for 100% accurate SMV

- Applied lean tools (QCO and TPM) to the key suppliers to achieve 99% on-time delivery

- Established cost-effective analysis at the product development stage Training:

Designed an effective training matrix for all levels of management in the factories to develop quality and production goals by using lean tools.

- Educated 400+ TESCO suppliers’ TCQC under quality empowerment initiatives KPI:

- Prepared and presented quarterly, and yearly KPI reports to the director to set standards at new level Experiences :

1. General manager- Industrial engineer and lean manufacturing -PP & QA Sep 2022 – continue Palmal group of industries (Walmart Canada and Levi’s division) – Bangladesh 2. Technical training & Manufacturing Excellence – Apparel Quality, production & industrial engineering Global apparel training association-GIZ Foundation (West Africa-Ghana) Nov 2020 – Aug 2022 3. Production technologist -Technical July 2014 - Feb 2016 Industrial and Costing Engineer-Technical Feb 2016 – Nov 2020 Tesco international sourcing

4. IE and Planning Manager

Denim Plus Ltd. Jan 2014 - Jun 2014

5. Lean Manufacturing Consultant

Dagher Consulting Group Aug 2010 – Jan 2014

Training and Certifications:

Organization Name Training period Training focus

- Dagher Consulting Group 2004 - 2005 Lean manufacturing DCg

- Solution of management 2014 – 2015 Reduce absenteeism and turnover International -S4Mi

- COATS 2014 Upskilling on the thread ( construction And consumption)

- Partnership for cleaner

textile ( PACT) 2015 Sustainability (Water, energy, Gas) Education:

Executive MBA in Business Process Management, North South University Mar 2016 BSc. in Industrial Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology Aug 2004 AWARDS

Exceed performer in TESCO for Manufacturing excellence project, sustainable project 2017 & 2019 Service award in TESCO for cost-saving project 2015 – 2019 Best lean consultant for exceed performance 2011 -2013

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