VP Operations | Supply Chain & Manufacturing Leader
Krishna Raj is a VP Operations with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain, and operations leadership. Across his career he has worked across multiple industries — including automotive, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, engineering, and electronics — building a practitioner's understanding of what it takes to run complex operations well.
His experience spans manufacturing leadership, end-to-end supply chain transformation, operations excellence programs, and the development of teams and leaders who sustain improvement long after the initial push.
SCMIQEDGE is a personal knowledge-sharing platform where these experiences, frameworks, and lessons are shared for the benefit of others working in, or studying, operations and supply chain management — written alongside his full-time role as VP Operations.
Five themes that run through almost everything published on SCMIQEDGE.
Running plant and production operations with a focus on safety, quality, throughput, and people — the fundamentals everything else is built on.
Redesigning how demand, supply, and inventory decisions are made — moving from reactive firefighting to planned, data-informed operations.
Embedding structured problem-solving, standard work, and performance management so improvement becomes routine, not an event.
Growing the next generation of operations and supply chain leaders through coaching, delegation, and deliberate exposure to hard decisions.
Treating improvement as a continuous discipline — small, compounding changes sustained by culture rather than one-off projects.