Cipla Limited announced that Mr. Venkata Sai Mungara, presently working as Vice- President and Head Regional Supply Chain, North America, has been appointed as Senior Management Personnel and Global Head - Supply Chain of the Company with effect from 1st April 2024. Terms of appointment: Full-time employment. Mr. Venkata Sai Mungara is an accomplished leader with over two and half decades of rich experience in the supply chain domain out of which over 10 years of his experience has been in the pharmaceutical industry.

In his earlier roles, Mr. Mungara has worked with Sun Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Reddy's Labs and Triniti Corp. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Statistics from Iowa State University, and a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. In Cipla, Mr. Mungara made significant contributions which enabled growth for North America business by ramping up and optimizing third party supply chain operations, re-designing and driving productivity enhancement projects.

His leadership helped in driving improvement in the visibility of supplies, reduction of air shipments resulting into significant cost reduction in logistics and de-risking of multiple products.