Eaton’s global EVP for SCM, Rogerio Branco, and the company’s head for its global supply chain centre of excellence in pune, and SB Raju talk about its programmes aimed at fortifying Eaton's manufacturing operations
What were Eaton’s objectives behind setting up its Global Supply Chain Centre in Pune?
Branco: Being a diversified organisation with more than 300 sites, Eaton embarked on the journey to integrate its supply chain, leveraging the global scale while providing additional opportunities to its suppliers. The Global Supply Chain Centre of Excellence in Pune is an important tool for fulfilling this objective, through process innovation and standardisation, governance and functional and executional excellence. Started with a handful of analysts in 2009, the centre has evolved and diversified itself into key aspects of SCM including procurement, materials, logistics, quality, business intelligence (BI), sourcing, governance risk and compliance (GRC) and global trade management (GTM).
What are some of the distinct capabilities that this centre brings in to the enterprise?
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