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Manufacturing sector growth and GDP of the country runs in tandem. In today’s world, the increased level of globalization and competition is forcing the firms to gain competitiveness, this ‘improved competitiveness’ in its broadest level is referred as manufacturing excellence . And as the business meet theme goes, we are here today to discuss on manufacturing excellence in India: Opportunities and challenges . India has already gone through a strict policy regime for the industries in an era of 1970s and 1980s, which ended after liberalization came to India in 1990’s and changed manufacturing sector a lot after that. Today, Indian firms are working on a world class quality (WCQ) and total quality management (TQM) approach to achieve manufacturing excellence at par with the scale at which global leaders run their operations in respective fields. The manufacturing sector is moving from conventional sources to greener technology. Reduction in emission levels, use of ERP & MR...

27th April, 2015  was a big day for an Indian industry when Westlife Development, which owns Hardcastle Restaurants, the master franchisee of the American restaurant chain in India, announced that Mr. Vikram Ogale will be elevated from his position of general manager, national supply chain to director national supply chain and quality assurance at McDonald's India. This is not the first time that an Indian has made it upto this position. Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo), Anshu Jain (Deutsche Bank), Rakesh Kapoor (Reckitt Benckiser) and many more have proved the level of talent and leadership skills Indian professionals have. McDonald's is the largest chain of fast food restaurants in the world. It has more than 35,000 outlets worldwide. The first outlet was opened on October 13, 1996 in Delhi and now the chain has grown upto 250+ outlets in India. McDonald's has planned to set up 175-250 new restaurants by 2020 in west and south India, as well as to...