About

Jitendra Kachhawa is a Senior Expert (Associate Partner) at McKinsey & Company, based in India, with global exposure and experience. With 12+ years of work experience in serving clients on supply chain consulting projects and 8 years in formal education in supply chain and operations, Jitendra has emerged as a recognized SCM professional. He has served clients from various industries including FMCG/CPG, Consumer electronics, Oil & Gas, Metal & Mining, Automotive, High tech etc., and in multiple countries across Australia, SE Asia, China, North America and Western Europe, besides India, enriching himself with multi-industry, multi-culture global exposure and experience. Jitendra has the right mix of expertise and experience in analytics intensive projects and process transformation projects. His area of expertise includes sales & operations planning (S&OP), integrated business planning (IBP), inventory management, segmented supply chain policy design, supply chain performance management & control tower, supply chain strategy, network optimization and logistics optimization, application of digital products and solutions, advanced analytics and IoT in Supply Chain. He is a recognized expert in the firm for SC planning, e.g. inventory management, demand/supply planning, S&OP etc. and leading development and deployment of firm's offerings in supply chain planning topics. Jitendra is also a solution leader for multiple proprietary, ready to deploy flagship solutions of McKinsey & Company and knowledgeable practitioner of 3P solutions from collaboration partners. He regularly supports client development, capability building, training and coaching for client professionals as well as colleagues. Besides this, he leads and drives service line and office level initiatives. Jitendra's past experience includes working as an Expert: Supply Chain Consulting at McKinsey and as a Doctoral Student (Fellow) specialized in Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management. He has a BE in Production and Industrial Engineering from MBM Engineering College, JNV University. In his current role as Senior Expert (Associate Partner eq.) at McKinsey, Jitendra brings distinctive knowledge in supply chain to complex client problems, drives LOP process and participates in client discussions and negotiations, leads client projects to develop distinct and lasting solutions for real business problems, guides the project team to deploy right processes, solutions and technology relevant to supply chain, is a thought partner and advisor to senior management clients, shapes knowledge agenda in partnership with service line leaders, and leads knowledge projects. He also enhances latest thinking and builds/refreshes