Prashant Sharma
Chief Technical Officer
Zydus Lifesciences
Prashant Sharma
Chief Technical Officer
Zydus Lifesciences
ABOUT THE WINNER
Prashant Sharma believes curiosity and learning agility are a leader’s greatest assets: the willingness to learn, unlearn, and drive change before it becomes necessary. Across multiple organizations, he has built his reputation on introducing disruptive ideas and executing them with rigor, always ensuring that agility and operational excellence translate directly into business results. Outside of work, Prashant loves spending time with his family and the animals that share his home and community.
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Case Study Highlights
Selected from over 400 nominees representing more than 350 organizations, Prashant Sharma points to three transformations shaping Zydus Lifesciences’ supply chain. The first tackles cost leadership amid rising product complexity: rather than optimizing individual functions, his team optimizes the entire value stream through greater process automation, autonomous mobile robots and intelligent warehousing, and AI-driven procurement and capacity planning. The second is a shift toward lights-out manufacturing, where operators become process owners, supervisors become data-driven decision makers, and engineers move from reacting to problems to preventing them, achieved by involving teams early and demonstrating quick wins. The third is simplification and quality transformation, eliminating duplicate approvals and non-value-added documentation through structured risk assessment rather than accepting more risk. Prashant credits his colleagues across Zydus for making these transformations possible.