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How Shailesh Mahajan helped Airtel save crores on reverse logistics

Mahajan has now received a pre-placement offer from Bharti Airtel

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Shailesh Somshankar Mahajan claims that his project on improving the reverse logistics for the movement of network equipment has actually helped Bharti Airtel in saving crores in 2018-19.

Mahajan, a 25-year-old pursuing his MBA in supply chain management and operations from Mumbai's National Institute of Industrial Engineering, was the second runner-up at the Business Standard Best B-School Project Award 2018. The key objective of his project was to conduct value re-engineering of the existing packaging standards, without damaging the network equipment, to reduce associated costs. 

After finding potential alternatives to the existing process, Mahajan also determined the sourcing