Bonnie Fetch on career path
From Cummins India Leadership Talk | Women in Manufacturing with Bonnie Fetch & Shubhankar Chatterji · · Cummins India Official
“I actually never wanted to be in manufacturing... When I landed in logistics what I liked about it was the variety — there's something happening every day — and the people. At the end of every day you understood whether you did a good job or not, and I loved that.”
On , Bonnie Fetch, Executive VP & President of Operations at Cummins, spoke about career path during Cummins India Leadership Talk | Women in Manufacturing with Bonnie Fetch & Shubhankar Chatterji on Cummins India Official.
About Bonnie Fetch
Bonnie Fetch, Executive Vice President and President of Operations at Cummins, has spoken about her career path and leadership philosophy in recent appearances. In a November 2025 fireside chat on women in manufacturing, Fetch said she initially avoided manufacturing because her father and grandfather, both welders at Caterpillar, experienced inconsistent work during the 1980s. She stated that she later found she enjoyed logistics because of the daily variety and the people. Fetch described herself as a "people leader" rather than a supply chain or HR leader, and said that the higher one rises in leadership, the more emotional intelligence matters over technical expertise. She also said that she wrote a book titled "Unmasking the Issues: A Guide for Well-Intentioned Men in Today's Workplace" to help men become aware of gender inclusion issues. Fetch has discussed supply chain trends and the use of technology at Cummins. She stated that artificial intelligence and machine learning will help analyze supply chain data to identify trends, and that she encourages her organization to "disrupt yourself before you get disrupted." Fetch said that global supply chains will move toward more regional structures due to trade and logistics challenges, and that Cummins has been moving to a regional structure. She noted that the company is investing in technologies such as collaborative robots, 3D printing for prototyping and low-volume legacy parts, and predictive logistics using sensor data and telematics. Fetch also said that the more diverse and inclusive a team is, the better the decisions and business returns, calling inclusion "not only the right thing to do but also the smart thing to do from a business perspective."