Stellantis has appointed Parag Sharma as its head of global purchasing and supply chain for India and Asia Pacific (IAP). Parag moves from Daimler Truck in India, where he was most recently associate vice-president for purchasing and supply chain, and head of supply chain management.

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Parag Sharma moves from Daimler Truck to lead supply chain and procurement for India and Asia Pacific at Stellantis

Parag has 28 years’ experience in automotive supply chain roles across a range of major vehicle makers, including Daimler, GM and Tata Motors, as well as working for AirBus.

Parag will report to Stellantis’ head of global purchasing and supply chain Maxime Picat and functionally to Stellantis IAP’s chief operations officer Ashwani Muppasani. Parag’s predecessor in the role was Shailesh Hazela who was recently appointment as managing director and CEO of Stellantis India.

Here Maxime Picat reveals how Stellantis will improve supplier relations, plan the battery supply chain, localise where it makes sense, and invest in logistics.

In April this year Stellantis announced it is making India its hub for exporting electric vehicles (EVs), particularly for the south-east Asia region. It started with the export of 500 units of its E-C3 to Indonesia, with plans to expand to other markets such as Nepal and Bhutan.

Stellantis’ IAP operation is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and it has manufacturing sites there and in India, and a joint venture assembling partnership in Vietnam. Stellantis also has a joint venture with Chinese EV maker Leapmotor and shipped its first volume of battery EVs from China to Europe in July, including the T03 and C10. It has also confirmed that the first pre-production units of the Leapmotor T03 model have been assembled at the Stellantis manufacturing site in Tychy, Poland.

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