Harshvardhan Malpani: Building the Future on a Foundation of Humility
Harshvardhan Malpani: Building the Future on a Foundation of Humility The Lesson Sangamner Taught Him When Harshvardhan Malpani returned to Sangamner in 2018 with an Industrial Engineering degree from the United States, he carried the quiet confidence of someone ready to modernize a family enterprise. The plan was straightforward: bring global best practices, streamline operations, and introduce efficiencies the business had never seen. Then he walked onto the factory floor Shadowing process owners across sub-departments — inward logistics, quality control, material movement — he found something unexpected. Every process was documented. Every workflow was mapped. The Group wasn’t just running on legacy intuition; it had built an in-house ERP system long before most Indian businesses had even heard the term. And at that exact moment, the organization was in the middle of implementing SAP. “I thought I was coming back to teach,” Harsh reflects. “Instead, I had to learn.” That reali...