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K Ganesh

PartnerChennai

Leads McKinsey’s supply chain planning and logistics management work in India and advises clients across India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States on large-scale supply chain transformations

A partner in McKinsey’s Chennai office, Ganesh leads the firm’s work in supply chain planning and logistics management in India. He specializes in supply chain planning and logistics transformations across sectors, including auto OEM and component manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, consumer, and agrochemicals.

Ganesh provides direction on network design, inventory optimization, demand forecasting, supply planning, S&OP and control tower enablement in supply chain. He also advises clients on digital warehouse design, supply chain nerve center, advanced planning systems, resilience improvement, and end-to-end AI and gen AI enablement of the supply chain.

In addition to his client work, he serves as sponsor and lead for the global supply chain center of competence, lead for deliver initiatives in Asia, and core faculty of innovation and the learning center in India.

Examples of Ganesh’s recent client work include the following:

  • spearheading the logistics transformation and end-to-end supply chain network design for an Indian tire company
  • leading the end-to-end supply chain and logistics transformation for a global consumer packaged goods company
  • creating next-generation supply chain planning, network, and logistics for a lubricant manufacturer in India
  • leading the end-to-end supply chain digitization of a large agricultural chemical manufacturer in India

Before joining McKinsey, Ganesh spent over nine years consulting large multinational companies globally in supply chain planning, logistics, and warehousing topics. He has published over 207 research papers in international journals, 15 international books, and ten international patents on the topics of supply chain. Ganesh served as editor on the editorial board for a team of international journals and as a reviewer for over ten renowned international journals.

PUBLISHED WORK

GenAI transforming supply chain management,” The Hindu Business Line, September 2024

Playing defense or attack to future-proof our resilient supply chains,” Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre, University of Sheffield, UK, September 2024

Strengthening supply chain resilience,” Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Institute of Logistics, September 2024

Autonomous supply chain planning for consumer goods companies,” McKinsey & Company, March 2022

India’s postpandemic logistics sector: The need for technological change,” McKinsey & Company, December 2021

PAST EXPERIENCE

IBM India Private Limited
Senior consultant, supply chain

Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Consultant, supply chain

Lakshmi Machine Works Limited, India
Research analyst, supply chain

EDUCATION

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
PhD, supply chain and logistics

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
ME, industrial engineering

National Chung Hsing University and University of Bordeaux
Postdoctoral research, supply chain