Global manufacturing operations and IT innovation hub for Kohler Co.
Kohler India operates three distinct business engines: Kitchen & Bath manufacturing (established 2005), an India Technical Center driving product design for global operations (2009), and IT Pune—a rapidly scaling digital-delivery hub launched in 2018 now handling enterprise systems, IoT, and AI work across Salesforce, SAP, and cloud platforms. The hiring mix is heavily skewed toward senior engineering and data talent, with current focus on ServiceNow implementations, real-time analytics, and AI governance—signaling maturation of internal platforms alongside acquisition integration challenges.
Kohler India serves as both a manufacturing footprint and innovation center for Kohler Co., the Wisconsin-based private manufacturer founded in 1873. Kitchen & Bath operations run advanced manufacturing facilities in Gujarat for vitreous and faucet products. The India Technical Center, launched in 2009, manages end-to-end engineering design and development across Kohler's global product lines. IT Pune, established in 2018, has scaled into a strategic delivery unit for web, e-commerce, IoT, AI, and enterprise software (Salesforce, SAP) across the global organization. Global Shared Services, formed in 2021, centralizes business process operations. The company employs 1,001–5,000 people across these divisions.
Core stack spans SAP (Process Orchestration, BTP, Cloud Platform Integration), Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Azure, AWS, GCP, and emerging AI services (Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker). Development languages include Java and ABAP; collaboration tools are Teams, Slack, Asana, and Trello.
Top initiatives include ServiceNow module implementations, real-time and streaming analytics, AI governance and compliance, secure AI frameworks, Microsoft 365 platform migration, acquisition email system integration, process automation via PowerShell, and data extraction and transformation for reporting accuracy.
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