Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine February 2020 | Page 220
ROHIT DARODKAR
Supply chain thought leader Rohit Darodkar discusses the strategic approaches that generate success in the sector
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T he nature of supply chain operations is as diverse as business itself . For every country of operations , international relationship and industry or sector , the complexities of procurement , logistics and supply chain morph and shift . Executives in the space often settle within their niche , but one who has not only led operations in multiple industries but in wildly different territories is Rohit Darodkar , currently Global Procurement and Logistics Manager at Tritium , an Australian firm dedicated to EV charging infrastructure . Having begun his career in India in a graduate supply chain role at Tata Motors , Darodkar moved to Australia to complete his master ’ s in Mechanical Engineering at Queensland University of Technology , then his master ’ s in Business Management at Griffith University , majoring in Aviation . After that , Darodkar joined the newly instated Australian operations of Indian car manufacturing giant Mahindra & Mahindra where he remained for over six years . “ I worked in positions from warehouse manager to spare parts manager and operations manager and , in those roles , I developed strategies and