1. Seeking Managerial / Senior Managerial assignments in Production & Plant Management with
reputed organisations in Beverage & Juice Industry
Executive Summary
A result driven professional with over 19.9 years (13 years as a Manager) of experience in
Production Management, Process Engineering, Maintenance, New Initiatives and Resource
Management in Beverage & Juice Industries.
Demonstrated abilities to enhance the production operations, optimizing resource & capacity and
escalating productivity & operational efficiencies.
Proficient in developing and improving processes to stabilize products as per process parameters.
Adroit in managing production activities involving resource planning, in-process inspection, team
building, design & development and co-ordination with internal departments.
An effective communicator with excellent relationship management skills and strong analytical,
problem solving & organizational abilities. Possess a flexible & detail oriented attitude.
General understanding and implementation of HACCP / ISO 22000 & GMP norms. Proficient in
developing and improving processes to stabilise product integrity.
Hands on experience and in-depth systems knowledge, implementation and management of Pepsi
Cola Standards and Requirements and AIBI (American Institute of Backing, International) for
beverage facilities
The first Production Manager who achieved the highest ever Carbon Dioxide yield (90%) in Pepsi,
Visakhapatnam unit among all the plants in India during the Period 2002 - 2004, Key instrumental on
achieving Pepsi BU ranking from 32 to 5 in Visakhapatnam plant during the year 2008-09
Instrumental to achieve Visakhapatnam plant the “Best Manufacturing unit” for 2008-09. Major
contributor to bag Visakhapatnam unit- highest AIB score of 740 in the year 2008 which is the only
plant scored highest on that year.
Have excellent hands on experience in Returnable Glass, Non Returnable Glass, and PET, Canning
lines of carbonated beverages, energy drinks and Juice.
Possess excellent strategic & logical thinking, analytical, interpersonal, relationship building and team
building skills with proven ability in establishing systems and procedures.
Core Competencies
Administration & Direction
Integrating all logistics function including Purchasing, Inventory/ Management, Production
Planning and maintenance planning to suit the sales demand
Selection, developing and motivating team towards achieving common goals. Added Value
through challenging established practices and delivering creative solutions to complex business
problems.
Budgeting for all the plant activities, monitoring and control to deliver the results within the
budget controls
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Ravindra Inamala
Rich experience in production management,
maintenance, and quality and food safety in Beverage
& Juice industries
Email: ravindra.inamala@rediffmail.com
Mobile: +260971144413
2. Production Planning and Control
Planning of day-to-day strategies, production schedules, along with resource allocation for
optimum output.
Minimize performance bottlenecks for high productivity by ensuring Assets & personnel safety,
food safety, product quality, customer satisfaction, timely delivery, costs and environment.
Appraising the prevalent production systems / processes, identifying loopholes if any and
undertaking result-oriented measures for alleviating them and documenting the same.
Setting up production targets and achieving the planned production targets.
Preparing, implementing & monitoring the production plans.
Demonstrated abilities to enhance the quality & production operations, systems, optimising
resource & capacity and escalating productivity, operational efficiencies and water usage ratio.
Ensuring production processes / systems with minimal impact on people, equipment, material &
environment and adherence to the Food safety and GMP / GHK norms.
Quality, R&D, Product/Product development
Develop processes to ensure smooth establishment of product commercially.
Support to conducting regular audits for process compliance, Implementation of Quality
Management Systems such as ISO & HACCP.
Ensure to evaluate vendor performance for the good supply of quality material.
Support to Quality Control for in-process and final inspection of procedures, records & ISO
documentations
Suggesting and sourcing new technologies for new products. Perform trials of new material for
different application and end products uses.
Implementation of ISO quality standards to produce consistent quality product.
Suggesting and implementing required changes in process as well as in technology to improve
product quality and yield.
Maintenance
Handling plant maintenance and utilities.
More attention towards Energy conservation and R & M cost.
Suggesting and implementing 5’s system.
Ensure to keep up date the Machine history cards.
Other Responsibilities
Organizing regular periodic meetings & trainings for staff & workers and vendors for discussing current
work issues and devising solutions for enhanced operations.
Managing a team of multifunctional officers and other work force, ensuring their skills
enhancement through continuous training.
Optimizing man & machine utilization to achieve pre set procurement targets.
Liaising with internal and external bodies for the smooth working of operations.
Communicating ideas, goals and policies of the Company clearly to team members and business
partners through written and oral communication
Leading the team members to understand and follow the continuous improvement concept
Proactively identify areas of improvement and potential problems to ensure prevention and
identifying the root cause.
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3. Building relationships with business partners and departments to achieve overall objectives of the
organization.
Organisational Experience
• Trade Kings Zambia – Lusaka, Zambia Nov’15 to date...
• Seven up bottling Co.PLC (PEPSI) - Nigeria. Dec’13 – Sep’15
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• Al Watania for Industries (National factory for food stuff production) Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia. Oct’09 – Oct ’13
• Pearl Bottling Pvt. Ltd (Franchise of Pepsi Cola), CKJ Group. Visakhapatnam, India
Dec’07 – Oct’09
Deccan Airlines, Pune, India Jun’06 – Dec’07
• Pearl Bottling Pvt. Ltd (Franchise of Pepsi Cola), CKJ Group. Visakhapatnam,
India Jan’98 – Jun’06
REMI Sales and Services (Motor Division) Jul’97 – Dec’98
• Pinakini Beverages Pvt. Ltd (Franchise of Parle Agro India), Nellore in Mar’94 –
May’97
Trade Kings, Zambia Plant Manager, Nov’15 to date
Role:
Installed and commissioned a Brand new 8000 CPH line
Handling Canning line and upcoming new PET line Project and Injection Moulding
M/s. Seven up bottling co.PLC, (PEPSI) Nigeria Factory Manager, Dec’13 to Sep’15
Role:
Heading (Operations) production, maintainenace &Utilities and quality (functional support)
comprising of 600BPM –KHS RGB line and 250BPM NRB-O&H (PET) line also erection of new
400BPM –HILDEN RGB line.
Capacity of producing 18.6M cases with multi sku’s.
Providing functional support to quality and reporting to General Manager.
Notable attainments.
Reduced the blow moulding down time (due to chilled water temp) to ZERO and got
savings on POWER by introducing the shell Tube chilled water system.
Implemented RCA (Root cause analysis) system for the down time more than 0.5hr.
Reduced the over time by 40%
Improved the OEE from 55.2 to 61.5%
Reduced the utility cost from 41 to 37.5 naira /case.
Improved the co2 yield from 38 to 61.2%
M/s. Al Watania for Industries, Saudi Arabia Production Manager, Oct’09 to Oct’13
Role:
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4. Heading (operations) Production and Process and maintenance & Utilities comprising of 700 CPM
Canning lines-2 no, 166 BPM PET cum NRB swing line, also Tetra pack Aseptic 6 lines of different
SKU’s like 135gm (Paste )and 250ml/125ml and 200 ml,( TBA/9,19 &22) which can produce high
and Low viscous products.
Capacity of producing an annual volume of 38 million cases with multi SKU’s.
Management Representative of Food Safety System (ISO 22000).
Core member in Optimization projects.
Direct Responsible on plant waste & efficiency.
Managing the show with different kind of Nationalities staff and workers without any IR issues.
Over and above providing functional support to quality and reporting to manufacturing director.
Notable Attainments.
Successfully streamlined the manpower issues and controlled overtime by making multi-tasking.
Reduced the breakdown percentage from 15% to 9% by implementing the small group activity and
“5 why” analysis.
Reduced the Raw & Packaging materials wastage from 8 to 2.5% by implementing SGA
Minimised the workmen attrition rate from 20 to 5% by motivating on boosting their performance
and link rewards to the results also conducting monthly operations meet with the shop floor workmen
and sharing the plant efficiency and their personnel grievances.
Instrumental on Bagging ISO 22000 and HACCP certification.
Energy conservation in terms of fuel oil and refrigeration power.
M/s. Pearl Bottling Pvt. Ltd., Vishakhapatnam Production Manager Dec’07 – Oct’09
Role;
Heading Production department comprising of 400 BPM lines-2 no, 120 BPM PET line with blowing
capacity of 150 BPM.
Management Representative of Food Safety System.
Champion in M&W ( Manufacturing & Ware housing )
Direct Responsible on Raw & Packaging materials wastage and plant efficiency.
Notable Attainments
Instrumental in bringing the plant from 32nd
rank to 5th
rank
Successfully improved Co2 yield from 65 to 90% (best in the country) and line efficiency from 68
to 82%.
Significantly handled the M & W system.
Jun’06 – Dec’07 Deccan Airlines, Pune Station
Manager
A break occurred in my bottling carrier to take care of my personnel (Family) business( Ground
Handling ) which is the Franchise of M/s. Deccan Airlines at Pune / Jamshedpur and Bellary.
Role:
Heading the Ground passenger service team consisting 4 Team leaders and 5 technicians and 15
passenger service agents along with 20 loaders.
Direct responsible on maintaining the Aircraft timings and passengers complaints and
maintaining the standards of Aviation and Air traffic controls and reporting to Ground operations
Manager.
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5. Jan’98 – Jun’06 Pearl Bottling Pvt. Ltd., Vizag Unit Production Manager
(Franchise of Pepsi Cola International)
Started my carrier with Shift engineer and promoted as Production Manager in
Yr.2003
Heading Production department comprising of 400 BPM lines-2 no, 120 BPM PET line with blowing
capacity of 150 BPM.
Management Representative of Food Safety System.
Team Leader on Total plant waste.
Direct Responsible on Raw & Packaging materials wastage and plant efficiency.
Champion on M&W (Manufacturing & Warehousing) implementation which is process
improving Tool, introduced by PepsiCo -BU
Notable Attainments
Instrumental in getting Vizag unit from 34th position to 5th position in PEPSI BU ranking.
Core Member in HACCP & AIB—(Food Safety Systems).
Major Equipments Handled: Beverage Fillers, Para Mixers, C02 Plant its Chiller Systems, Conveyor
Systems, Bottle Washer Packer, Blow Moulders, Blowers, Fillers, Air Conveying Systems, High and
Low Pressure Compressors, DG Sets, Boilers, Refrigeration Plant and Water Treatment Systems, PLC
Circuits, Variable Frequency Drives, Electrical Panels, etc.
Jul’97 – Dec’98 REMI Sales and Services, Kirloskar Sales and Service Engineer
(Motor Division)
Commenced career from Pinakini Beverages (Parle group) Pvt. Ltd., Nellore in Mar’94
– May’97
Shift In-charge
Education
MBA in Operations Management from NIMS University – Jaipur in 2012 ( perusing )
B. Tech (Mechanical) from RVR & JC College of Engineering (Nagarjuna University) in 1993.
Board of intermediate education from V.R. College, S.V. University (Board of Intermediate
Education) in 1988.
Board of secondary education from St. Peters High School, Nellore (Board of Secondary Education)
in 1986.
IT Skills: Well versed with MS Office applications and Internet Applications
Personal Profile
Date of Birth: 25th
July 1971
Language: English, Hindi & Telugu and Arabic (Partial )
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6. Permanent Address: H. No # 9/430 , George pet ,Inamalavari street , NELLORE (AP)
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
No. of Dependents: 2
Passport No.: G6586135
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7. Permanent Address: H. No # 9/430 , George pet ,Inamalavari street , NELLORE (AP)
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
No. of Dependents: 2
Passport No.: G6586135
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