PROFILE:

• He is also a highly skilled project manager and a business solution architect with PMP . He has over 20 years of extensive business and technology implementation experience and demonstrated ability leading initiatives in capacity of project manager / solution architect in numerous industries such as Professional services, Automobile, Semi - Conductor, Engineering, Food Distribution, Aerospace & Defense industry, and Public sector industries.
• His early industry experience of 9 years includes positions in the areas of production, warehouse management, procurement, and supply chain planning (buyer planner).
• His plus points are Strong cross functional knowledge in various business functions as well as Extensive ERP experience.
• He was very involved in various tasks during his tenure .
• These tasks include solution implementation as consultant, participate in pre-sales, close coordination with sales teams to understand customer requirements, standard solution fit / gap analysis and finally create proposals.
• He worked very closely with SAP client partners and SAP Innovation IBU to identify fit / gap, lead discovery calls, solution design, integration tests, UAT and final delivery to customer.
• Collaboration implementations with non-SAP ERP in US”.
• Project Management and Implementation Experience using onsite as well as offshore teams.
• Strong cross functional knowledge in SAP modules such as Materials Management (MM), Quality management (QM), Production planning (PP) Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supplier Collaboration and Plant maintenance (PM).
• SAP Materials Management consultant with experience in end to end life cycle projects.
• SAP Procure to pay consultant with experience in end to end life cycle projects as a consultant as well as Lead / project manager.
• SAP EHS Experience as a Project Lead for specification management.
• SAP certified in Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM E-Procurement)
• Working Knowledge of eCat, LSMW, HPQC, SharePoint tools and UI5 technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

ERP Manager (SAP & non-SAP) / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leading, coaching, mentoring and encouraging a dedicated SAP Analyst team (12 FTEs) in the capacity of ERP manager to implement, deploy and support best in class solutions such as Human Capital Management (HCM), Materials Management (MM), Plant maintenance (PM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM PPS), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) using Fiori UI, Enterprise Reporting using BOBJ / BW.
• Responsible for developing a working partnership with METRO’s business units to determine the SAP and related IT systems and resources required to achieve their strategic and tactical goals and objectives.
• Participate in interviewing, hiring decisions, on-boarding, and mentoring of new team members. Also help them with onboarding with a goal to make them productive team members.
• Work with the CIO and other ITS leaders to develop overall IT strategy keeping in mind overall organizational business strategy.
• Work with the chief information security officer (CISO) to ensure security compliance.
• Makes formal presentations and documents recommendations and finding to senior staff.
• Assists in preparations, review, consolidation and reporting IT operating and capital budgets and business plans.
• Responsible for providing leadership, vision and direction to the application team to achieve organizational goals.
• Responsible for managing external supplier relationships and support contracts worth $2.5 million per year.
• Implement best IT practices and methodologies for application management, change management and release management.
• Emphasize on continuous improvements to bring business value to improve business and IT processes.
• Manage relationships with major application vendors and service providers and manage budgetary targets.
• Manage multiple complex projects using inhouse IT resources, business units, outside vendors as required.
• Manages and prepares detailed specifications and project plans to provide for system implementations including proposed system architecture.
• Oversees all changes to the SAP and non-SAP landscape and ensures proper documentation by utilizing solution manager, CHARM.
• Build and expand team from 9 to 12 and upskill / cross skill people looking at future pipeline.
• Successful implementation and stabilization of FICO SRM project. Production support issues were brought down from 300 to 4.
• Successful implementation and stabilization of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) project. All production support issues were resolved.
• Successful implementation and stabilization of SAP Warranty Management for BUS line of business. We will next roll this out to lite RAIL (LRV) line of business.
• Successful implementation of a new RISK management system (non SAP). This now caters to all claims being raised on METRO by other parties and integrated with SAP for all financial transactions and reporting.
• Successful implementation and stabilization of SAP Success Factors - Performance and Goal Management. This has now replaced PDF based system to an online state of the art system for all employees.
• Successful implementation and stabilization of SAP Success Factors - Recruiting Management. Provide help and guidance to build internal skills for long term production support.
• Successful implementation of a new PERDIS operator time management system (non SAP). This now caters to time management for BUS, RAIL operator and integrated with SAP for payroll and legal reporting.
• Successfully retired legacy systems BANNER, Oracle financials, Operator Time Keeping system (OTS).
• Successful implementation of Solution Manager ChaRM for release management.
• Streamlined process for SAP change / release management including project documentation such as functional spec, technical spec etc. resulting in better support.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SAP EHS Master Data (PDM) Lead

Responsibilities:

• Product data management (PDM) co-Lead with overview on strategy, project planning, business process design, resources and time lines.
• Responsible for collection, analyze, transformation and conversion / load of the product data in to SAP for PDM track.
• Lead design sessions to capture business requirements for specifications (raw material, supplier, manufacturing and packaging specifications).
• Lead design sessions to capture business requirements for compliance data (regulatory end use, notification status, composition and impurities).
• Manage key stake holder communications to get Confidential in for critical business decisions.
• Provide valuable business know how as well as SAP implementation methodology inputs throughout the project to customer team.
• Provide valuable input on best practices for data collection and architecture using existing available tools.
• Act as a key gate for all pre and post validation reports for each object
• Monitor project milestones and work with team of 4 consultants and 5 customer team members to deliver as per timeline.
• Very well versed with ETL processes for master data transformation projects.
• Packaging the solution as standard SAP product and support launch activities.

Confidential, WI

Procure To Pay (PTP) Lead and solution architect

Responsibilities:

• PTP IT Lead with overview on business process design, resources and time lines including plan and manage project schedules,
• Participate in PMO meeting for status updates, Review and approve design documents (such as process design documents, functional specifications, process flows, test scripts and test results), Review and manage SAP release cycles for PTP, Manage resources and milestones.
• Collaborate with business leads to conduct design sessions, drive business Confidential -ins for PTP design in scope.
• Creating / reviewing functional specs for various RICEFW objects identified during stabilization phase following initial rollout.
• Facilitating high-level design and detail design workshops with plant SMEs to validate current process design and gather new requirements for second rollout.
• Revising L3 and L4 ARIS flow models for various PTP processes and updating corresponding Process Definition Documents.
• Managing the PTP workflow project by re-designing the highly customized workflow process for all ECC purchasing documents in order to be compliant with DOA standards and policies.
• Proposing workable solutions for challenges at hand via extensive research and testing (POC).
• Working with fellow process team members on SRM and Confidential integration with ECC system for both direct and indirect material procurement process.
• Handling interface requirements for sending out Purchasing Documents electronically via EDI X12 850 and creating mapping spec for EDI team.
• Undertaking requirements for various KPI reports and other customized reports as needed by business in both ECC and BI environment.
• Working on conversions specs for various master and transactional data migration from legacy to ECC system.
• Changing various PTP related configuration objects for baseline configuration as well as final configuration and updating existing configuration documents.
• Supporting the testing team in developing test plans and creating test scripts for FUT, SIT and UAT in HP Quality Center.
• Working with other process teams like OTC - for third party procurements; PTD - for MRP scenarios and enhancements; RTR - for issues and disputes resolution with external vendors regarding invoice verification and account postings.
• Supporting OCM team and providing them with concise material and updates on changes introduced in various PTP processes due to change requests and/or bi-monthly stability releases.
• Guiding and supporting the AMS team on critical and high priority support tickets and providing them with KT on newly developed objects.
• Responsible for supplier collaboration implementation as Confidential expert for PO collaboration, Release collaboration and Dynamic Replenishment scenarios.

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for building Confidential practice from ground up from 2 to 8 people for 2012.
• Lead for supply chain industrialization project for developing and standardizing content for Confidential .
• Took initiative in establishing and coordinating a monthly Confidential call across Confidential to bring Confidential members on one platform to share knowledge.
• Was responsible for of offshore resources in Confidential supplier as well as customer collaboration solutions.
• Was responsible for building internal systems and solution offering for Confidential working with offshore teams.
• Developed and wrote a thought leadership paper “Enabling Next Generation Supplier Collaboration”.
• Key contact for North America for supporting numerous pre-sales deals for Procure to Pay track involving ECC PTP, Confidential and SRM offerings.

Confidential, TX

Senior Supply Chain Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing Master data conversion team in the capacity of team lead.
• Provide inputs in MM procurement area such as organization structure design, configuration issues, pricing procedures based on prior MM implementation experience.
• Responsible for analysis of business processes and conceptualization of the overall solution.
• Responsible for supplier collaboration implementation team in the capacity of team lead.
• Close coordination with partner consulting team to provide guidance on supplier collaboration best practices.
• Extensive involvement in user adoption / & supplier on boarding strategy.
• Responsible for EDI integration of PO confirmations, ASNs with Confidential based on prior experience.
• Responsible for Overall Confidential Implementation project as Confidential Lead.
• Active Involvement in Confidential Design, configuration, Supplier on-boarding, Performance testing and tuning, Go-live preparations and successful Go-live.
• Lead contact and architect for Complex enhancement of pricing conditions and their confirmations in Confidential PO process.

Confidential, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide inputs in MM procurement area such as organization structure design, configuration issues, pricing procedures based on prior MM implementation experience.
• Responsible for overall design of Confidential supplier collaboration for PO collaboration, release collaboration process & work order collaboration for phase I.
• Provide over all guidance to customer core team about business process mapping, design / blue printing, gaps & their resolution including integration options.
• Responsible for configuration of Confidential, PI & ECC systems.
• Responsible for Active support for B2B integration development for PO confirmations from suppliers due to extensive knowledge of Confidential interfaces / XML requirements.
• Shortest Confidential implementation (4 months) (with custom enhancement) with a successful go-live to support service purchase orders.
• First Confidential implementation that supports service or TEXT based purchase orders to support customer’s business requirement.

Confidential

Team Lead / Ramp up Coach MM Procurement

Responsibilities:

• Provided over all guidance to partner consultants during designing of processes, with integration options in the light of SRM SUS presence, Best business practices and for timely system builds by resolving issues, identify gaps & suggest suitable mitigation options.
• Achieved status of trusted advisor to customer team lead with valuable inputs in the area of materials management due to extensive prior experience.
• Conceptualized key enhancements - Purchasing group integration (ECC - PI - Confidential ) via custom field in PO collaboration process, Custom field in work order collaboration for buyer approval, Visibility restrictions for SMI relevant products in SMI process etc.
• Overall responsibility of configuration for Confidential & ECC systems and status monitoring for mile stones.
• Resulted in huge savings as custom development was dropped and process was standardized across organization.

Confidential

Project Manager and Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project management activities e.g. project planning, communication, monitoring of mile stones, sign offs etc.
• Responsible for resource allocation, leveling, cost budgeting, monitoring of margins during project life cycle.
• Responsible for managing cross functional and multi site client team of 15 members along with 8 member consulting team.
• Close coordination with SAP Labs development team for product issues.
• Overall responsibility for configuration of ICH 5.0, PI 7.0, and Web UI related changes to enhance business processes.
• Active guidance and involvement in PI 7.0 for developments for non SAP ERP.
• Overall responsibility for design, configuration, integration with non SAP ERP, enhancements in ICH, testing, pre go live, go live and post go live support.

Confidential

Procure To Pay Lead and Senior SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as Team Lead for a cross functional team (Materials Management and Supplier Relationship Management Consultants)
• Overall Responsibility of Business Blue Prints for the Materials Management, Quality Management and Supplier Relationship Management modules
• Business process consulting for Best of breed IT landscape to latest enterprise version of SAP
• Responsible for Scoping quality management module functionality and that resulted in implementation of QM module to help maintain one system of record.
• Designed RMA (return material authorization) process by utilizing “QM in SD” functionality
• Designed Material rejection process by using Quality notification feature in QM. “Action box feature was introduced for one system of record for all business needs”
• Responsible for reengineering procurement processes to reduce unwanted levels of approvals, redundant developments to match best practices.

Confidential

Senior consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible Managed cross functional team of two members along with a two member consulting team.
• Overall responsibility for configuration of ICH 4.1, XI 3.0 for customer collaboration process - responsive replenishment.
• Analyzed business processes and conceptualized the overall solution including exploration of ICH Responsive Replenishment benefits.
• Responsible for building a business case document with detailed explanation of each functionality for IT function. This was used to sell internally to business.
• Responsible for building a full scale working internal ICH System with responsive replenishment.

Confidential

Senior MM/ICH consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, configuration and integration of ICH with R/3 including enhancements, testing, pre go live, go live and post go live support.
• Active involvement in XI 3.0 configuration for standard business process
• Effectively coordinated with SAP AG support and development for resolving software issues for customer specific configurations
• Responsible for integration testing for Business Scenarios, User documentation and .
• Extending help to project teams for SAP R/3 MM issues e.g. crucial BAdi implementation for Inventory exclusion from MRP.
• Provided project deliverables per the milestone schedule resulting in on time go-live
• Configuration of ICH, XI and related ERP was handled on own and achieved effective knowledge transfer to the core team member.