Gautam Pasari

• Founded and led TrueValueHub Inc., an innovative AI-native direct material sourcing solution for manufacturing. • Serve a dynamic team to build an award winning direct material sourcing platform that drives direct material cost savings within months for our customers. • Fostered partnerships with key industry players, expanding our market reach.

Leader for the global category team managing $1.2B in annual supplier spend. Leading a global team of commodity managers across 12 countries. * Led the category strategy development initiative and execution of the strategy for electronics, mechanical, computing, and software category with business, marketing, and technology team for improved supply base performance. * Transform the category management team from not meeting the targets to exceeding the targets within two year.

Leader for sourcing function for Americas for Honeywell Process Solutions(HPS) business, responsible for leading a team of supply chain professionals across six factories in the Americas. * Develop and implement strategies for supply risk mitigation, optimal raw material cost, maximize free cash flow, supplier value engineering, and end to end supply chain lead-time improvements. * Increased direct material productivity 3X within two year for the largest HPS factory with a history of delivering below AOP target.

Responsible for driving strategic and breakthrough initiatives aligned with business goals and objectives with cross-functional teams from the supply chain, marketing, technology, and business leadership. * Led the breakthrough initiative to develop a Honeywell product line (Honeywell branded manifolds). This initiative resulted in a 2X improvement in the product profit margin. * Led Kaizen event with internal cross-functional and supplier team to address supplier delivery issues, resulting in improved customer on-time delivery from less than 50% to above 95% and reduction in end-to-end cycle time from 30 days to less than 10 days. * Developed the strategy for supply risk mitigation program for a high growth product line for identifying and mitigating supplier capacity constraints, managing supplier financial and geopolitical risks, and reducing single and sole-sourced suppliers.

Leader for continuous improvement for the Americas region. Responsible for identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities and lead, mentor, and train team members in Lean Six Sigma methodology. * Led the strategic initiative to improve the overall customer experience for a major product line, resulting in a 30% reduction in the customer delivery cycle time and over 50% improvement in customer on time to request deliveries (OTTR). * Led Kaizen event to reduce Order to Cash (OTC) cycle time for central and south American customers resulting in over $5M improvement in working capital. * Facilitated numerous Kaizen events to identify cost-saving and cash flow opportunities through end-to-end Value Stream Mapping (VSM) exercises, detailed spend analysis, and cross-functional ideation events.

Leader for continuous process improvement initiatives, identify and drive process efficiencies across all business functions. Responsible for establishing a companywide lean-agile supply chain platform and supplier relationship management programs. * Led the digital transformation initiative for the end to end supply chain function. * Led the cross-functional initiative to design, develop and implement a lean supply chain platform for demand-driven material replenishment resulting in 10X improvement in inventory turns and 50% reduction in purchased parts shortages. * Developed a closed-loop procure to pay system resulting in a reduction in invoice hold from 20% to less than 1%. * Implemented an e-sourcing platform from the identification of opportunity to awarding business to suppliers using 7 step sourcing methodology, resulting in over 70% reduction in sourcing cycle time and 3X productivity savings in one year.

Led the operations team in an initiative to streamline core functional processes and de-customize Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications. * Led the exercise to streamline core processes in SIOP, material planning, purchasing, inventory management, and warehousing to eliminate process redundancies and drive automation through technology.

Responsible for process standardization, data analysis and implementation of best practices for Supply Chain function. Part of the team for conducting Plan for Every Part (PFEP), material flow analysis, standardizing and right-sizing containers, and implementing high-efficiency delivery methods (HEDM) for internal material flow.