Rishi Ghuldu
MINING “ To be successful , we had to be candid about our capability of doing this ourselves , so we took our ego out of the equation . We realised that there were companies around the world we could build partnerships with that are very skilled at what they do – we understand that we can ’ t do it all ourselves . We believe that by forming this partnership , we have been able to achieve in 18 months what companies going at it alone might take seven or eight years to achieve . That ’ s enabled us to overtake some of our competition . We want to be an industry leader – we ’ re not gunning for second place .”
“ We took the decision to go ‘ all-in ’, so each of our sites is in the process of being converted to the new model . It ’ s a lot of change in a short amount of time but it ’ s been communicated in a clear and consistent fashion and we completely believe there is value in doing it this way rather than over a longer , phased period of time .”
Ghuldu is keen to stress that under the new model , it is the planning of the Supply Chain that is centralised , with
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EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Rishi Ghuldu
Rishi Ghuldu is currently Vice President , Supply Chain & Asset Management at Goldcorp Inc . Rishi ’ s expertise includes formulation and implementation of enterprise Business Improvement strategy , global supply chain management , asset management , change management , and merger integrations . Prior to joining Goldcorp , Rishi led Barrick ’ s Business Improvement function and worked with the Supply Chain group to launch Barrick ’ s Supplier Development Program . Rishi started his career in the automotive industry and holds a Manufacturing Engineering degree from McMaster University and an Executive MBA jointly offered by Kellogg-Schulich ( Northwestern / York University ) School of Business .
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