Mr. Biswajit Roychowdhury has 33 years of Core Operations and Management experience
across functional areas in the integrated steel major, Tata Steel Limited. He has led major
Business Transformations and executed several Projects and Initiatives in Operations, Supply
Chain Management, Marketing & Sales, Organization Design and Structure with a strong accent
on adoption of new Technologies, IT and Digital.
A Metallurgical Engineer from IIT Kharagpur, he started his professional career in shop floor
plant operations in Steel Making and hot rolling. Subsequently, he trained on wide ranging
functional areas of production processes such as demand planning, production planning and
scheduling, master scheduling, master planning, distribution planning, transportation planning
and execution, strategic network planning, inventory management, external processing
management, manpower planning and other processes. With focused analytical acumen, he
achieved breakthrough performance metrics viz. improvement in productivity, throughput and
reduction in order cycle time through meticulous planning.
He devised a strategy for the design and set up of a new Greenfield integrated steel plant and
d ecided on the process flows, technology selection, shaping and sizing of the equipment for the
proposed plant. He designed the organization structure and manpower requirement; identified
the outsourcing activities and designed a strategy. He formulated the Human Resource
development plan for the proposed plant, including designing and deploying the Rehabilitation
and Relocation strategy of the displaced people.