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Sonal OrvelkarChief Operating Officer · Essays & perspective
Production and operations leadership
28 years
Career begins July 1998
Operations colleagues
330
Five managers across two sites
Annual operating expense
₹79 crore
₹6.4 crore approved capital expenditure

The next user needs the right material in the right condition

I am COO of Zerqavi Transit Materials in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. We make paper-honeycomb transit protection and reusable dunnage for non-food industrial goods, with a second site in Satara. The company employs 480 people and recorded ₹168 crore revenue and ₹18.6 crore operating profit in FY2026. I lead 330 operations colleagues through five managers, with ₹79 crore annual expense and ₹6.4 crore approved capital expenditure. Quality head Rafiq Neshvali reports separately to CEO Meena Talverhi; release decisions remain with qualified colleagues.

I entered paper-components manufacturing in 1998 after production engineering. My responsibilities grew through production management, plant leadership and a two-site operations role. The recurring lesson was that a completed process step does not settle what the next person receives. Panels can change during storage. Correctly made components can be assembled into a kit with mixed revisions. A returned frame can look available in a count before inspection establishes whether it can be used again. Operating responsibility includes those intervals and classifications.

The cases here describe four bounded decisions in a fictional business. We funded better storage arrangements after a defined panel review, changed kit segregation after mixed-revision dispatches, paid to inspect and restore part of a returned-dunnage group and reduced adhesive preparation quantities when the usable window was being exceeded. Each decision displaced time or money and retained a technical boundary. The figures are observations in named groups, not a claim that every product performs under every condition or that reuse automatically delivers a particular environmental benefit.

Storage condition remained part of the manufacturing account

Eighteen of eighty-four panels in a defined stored group failed the applicable bow criterion. An ₹82 lakh storage and handling programme was followed by a comparable group with four of eighty-four failures, retained for further investigation.

A complete kit could still contain incompatible revisions

Nine of thirty-six reviewed dispatches contained mixed-revision components. A ₹47 lakh segregation and kit-identity programme reduced the count to one in the subsequent thirty-six-dispatch review, without treating that remaining case as immaterial.

A return count was not a usable-stock count

Of 240 returned dunnage frames, sixty-three were held after inspection. Forty-one were repaired and released through the qualified process; twenty-two were retired. The ₹69 lakh programme retained the cost and the unusable group.

Current focus

I am examining the handovers where material changes condition or identity without the operating report noticing. The question is whether the next user receives a technically accepted item for the intended application, not simply whether the previous department completed its task.

Conversations I welcome

I would consider a first non-executive appointment with an industrial board, provisionally twenty days annually, subject to employer consent, relationship review and the actual duties.

Beyond the page

The record behind the perspective.

Formation

  • BE in Production EngineeringNervali Engineering College · 1998
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Packaging OperationsQorzemi Materials Institute · 2009; part-time
Sonal kept the cost of making returns usable in the operating proposal. The board saw the inspection, repair and retirement decisions behind the stock number, rather than a claim that every item arriving back could immediately serve another customer.
Meena TalverhiChief Executive Officer, Zerqavi Transit Materials
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Contact

I would consider a first non-executive appointment with an industrial board, provisionally twenty days annually, subject to employer consent, relationship review and the actual duties.

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