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Manufacturing – A Competitive Advantage for the Company
FOOD MANUFACTURING, VIDEO, MANUFACTURING

Manufacturing – A Competitive Advantage for the Company

Sarvi Bajwa is the Senior Vice President of Manufacturing for Danone, North America. Danone is a multi national food products corporation based in Paris, with well known brands in our markets such as Danon, Oikos, Activia, Danimals, Silk, and International Delight.

Prior to Danone, Sarvi was with Coca Cola North America as a Vice President of Supply Chain, responsible for operations in US and Canada for Juice, Dairy, Hydration, and Food Service. During his time with Coca Cola, Sarvi was also a champion of gender diversity initiatives in supply chain, becoming the founder and sponsor of “WE RISE” (Women Elevated Results in Success for Everyone).

Before Coca Cola, Sarvi held various manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics assignments with consumer products companies such as Procter and Gamble, Avon, and Alberto Culver, in Texas, Maryland, and Delaware. Through out his career, he built a reputation of turning around underperforming operations into high performing organizations by building strong teams, developing future leaders, creating a culture of winning, and chalking out strategies that provided competitive advantage to the organization and the enterprise.

Sarvi has Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Houston, and an MBA in Marketing from Loyola University in Maryland. He has also completed a Supply Chain management and leadership certification from the Georgia Tech.

Sarvi and his wife Sonya reside in Columbia, Maryland. They have two children. Raj, who is a graduate of University of Maryland, and University of Texas, also lives in Maryland and is in the investment field for a large commercial and retail banking services company. Their daughter, Sameena is a graduate of Boston University, and is a software engineer for global event management company.

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Thinking Strategically About Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Management
SUPPLY CHAIN — NA, VIDEO

Thinking Strategically About Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Management

During the 2018 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit, Executive Platforms was proud to partner with SupplyChainBrain to conduct a number of onsite interviews between our speaker faculty and SupplyChainBrain’s Managing Editor Robert Bowman. — Anish Buch VP Supply Chain, Consumer Products L’Oréal Anish Buch is the Vice President of Supply Chain at L’Oreal USA. His responsibilities include leading planning as well as channel and customer collaboration for 8 global brands within L’Oreal’s Consumer Products Division. L’Oreal is the world leader in beauty, present in 130 countries on 5 continents. For more than a century, L’Oreal has devoted energy and…

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Risk Assessment and Management
FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY, VIDEO

Risk Assessment and Management

Discussing the role of upper management in Risk Management Best practices in identifying and managing risk factors in an operation or process Applying risk assessment and management to minimize or eliminate potential loss Implementing a risk-based strategy and making risk management part of the culture — Leonard Heflich, VP Food Safety, Quality and Crisis Management (Retired) at Grupo Bimbo Len recently retired after 42 years in the food industry from Grupo Bimbo in Mexico City, where he was VP of Food Safety, Quality and Crisis Management with responsibility for 150 bakeries in 23 countries. He recently authored a chapter on Risk…

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