Rahul Shahani is a partner based in New York leading the Manufacturing & Supply Chain practice in North America. He advises and serves a diverse range of clients, helping them achieve significant performance improvements through digital transformation of their operations. Rahul is dedicated to attracting top talent to McKinsey and actively contributes to MBA recruiting at Cornell University. His areas of expertise encompass Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), end-to-end supply chain optimization, and agile and digital transformations.
Examples of Rahul’s recent work include the following:
- Designing zero-based digital supply chains for a top consumer goods company that drove a 60 to 90 percent reduction in lead time across a global portfolio of products
- Assisting a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) in rapidly building digital and advanced analytics use cases to boost capacity of COVID-19 vaccines and developing a framework to scale across a network of sites
- Guiding a telecom equipment manufacturer’s journey to design and build a greenfield lighthouse factory that leveraged 5G and IIoT to drive a 120 percent increase in productivity across operations
- Partnering with a specialty chemicals company to optimize their production process using advanced analytics
- Deploying digital performance management use cases at a site of 5,000+ employees for a leading medical device company to address the shortfall caused by COVID-19 absences and labor shortages
- Supporting a Tier 1 automotive supplier in rolling out advanced automation on three brownfield production lines that drove a 60 percent increase in productivity
- Directing the development and end-to-end deployment of an IIoT stack and over ten Industry 4.0 solutions at McKinsey’s Digital Capability Centers in North America
- Developing the 3-D printing strategy for a consumer goods leader to fuel innovative and accelerated product development and fulfillment
- Designing the operating model for the operations group at a top pharmaceutical player to facilitate cross-product portfolio optimizations and enable efficient scaling