SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of professional experience Proactively initiating interactive discussions with Supply Chain leaders to understand end to end business scenarios &top supply chain challenges.
• Providing solutions that address various business challenges e.g. System Implementation, Process Stabilization & Simplification, Data conversion & MDM, Vital Data Visibility Needs, etc.
• Leverage over 12 years of business consulting & domain experience with 10 Years of Oracle Supply Chain to approach those challenges. Specialty in the following Oracle Confidential areas:
• Order to Cash
• Inventory iStore & Advanced Pricing
• Procure to Pay
• Bills of Material
• Work in Process
• Quality (Discrete & Process)
• Enterprise Asset Management
• Field Services
• Depot Repair
• Custom Solutions
• Data Conversion & MDM
• Reporting Needs & Dashboards
• Understand the bigger picture & offer solutions those are simple, robust and scalable.
• Deliver on time and ensure better business results.
• Help business improving customer satisfaction by providing solutions that cater crucial business needs
• Improved User Experience and Business Users who understand how to use implemented system / solutions to achieve better business results
• Key Reports, Training Material & SOPs, specific to industry needs
• Improved Business Process Efficiency, Reduced Cycle Time & Dollar Savings

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Process Related: Lean Action Workout, Kaizen, Waste Removal

Oracle Apps: Oracle Applications R12, 11i, Oracle Apps Modules Implemented, Order Management, iStore, Advanced Pricing, Shipping, Purchasing, Inventory, Bill of Materials, Work in ProcessOracle Confidential modules worked on: Landed Cost Management, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payables, Field Services, Depot Repair, Oracle Process Manufacturing, Oracle Quality (Discrete / OPM), eAM, System Administrator.

BI / Reporting: Qlikview, OBIEE, Discoverer

Tools: Rally, Flowdock, Mercury Quality Centre, Microsoft Visio, PL SQL Developer, WIN SCP, TOAD, UPK,

Perform: OS iOS, Windows 95/98/2000/XP/2003

Implementation / Project Methodologies: AGILE & Scrum Methodology, AIM, Rapid, Release Methodology,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager, New Orleans, LA

Responsibilities:

• Confidential decided to further simplify their Global Supply Chain Operations. They planned to developed a mobile app that closely integrated with Oracle Confidential to facilitate on - site real time transactions.
• Complete ownership of Project, Deliverables, Quality, Client / Internal Communication
• Facilitate and conducting CRPs / SITs / UATs with issue closures
• Review of deliverables and Quality Management
• Daily Client Communication and Management
• Coordination with other teams / vendors for getting various supports for Shared Services, DBA, Technical Activities
• Based on current Confidential design and changed business requirements, I am responsible for design and architecture of mobile app (iOS) as well as its integration with Oracle Confidential
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver Business Requirements Documents
• Responsible for reviewing business requirements, managing scope, functional specs, use cases, test cases, changes to Setup Documents and workflow diagrams.
• Helped technical teams to develop the integrated End to end solutions as per business requirements and security standards.

Confidential

Oracle SCM Lead, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Took over project as Onsite Lead Consultant from UAT Phase to Supplement Implementation Team and then to Support the business for operational issues.
• Multiple Systems (Oracle, AS400 & Syteline) were used to managed various operations so data extraction & cleansing, identification of data for conversion was huge challenge. Worked very closely with various business functions to understand data need and challenges & provided automated solution to identify conversion data for Open Sales Orders, Purchase Order, On Hand Quantity, Invoices (Payable & Receivables)
• Designed & actively monitored User Training Sessions for Key Business Users / End Users across locations resulted in improved user experience and understanding of the system
• Provided temporary yet robust solution to identify the Order Backlog. Also helped Supply Chain Executives to realigned the shipments as per planning suggestions
• Worked very closely with Top Management to understand the key business needs to helped developing the Dashboards like Sales Order Details, Material Movement, Demand Vs Fill Ratio, Pending Purchase Orders, Overdue Projects, Invoice Ageing, etc.
• Helped Finance Teams for Month End Period Close Activities. Proposed & developed month end closure monitoring system to identify Pending Transactions, Unprocessed Transactions, Pending Costing Transactions, Error Transactions & Period Status dashboard.
• Ensured SLA to GL synchronization for smoother Financial Reporting. Provided support on SLA issues.
• Sub-con Repair Solution: Pressure control business does a sub-con repair process with other Confidential business. Initially, implementation team has suggested end to end repair cycle to meet this requirement, which was time consuming &have non-value add steps. Identifying this as a key pain area for business, I have suggested few changes in the process and replaced entire repair cycle with standard solution. This resulted in fewer clicks per cycle and improved efficiency of cycle by 55%

Confidential

Solution Architect, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Pressure Control business used to have Independent ServiceMax & Oracle EBS Systems to manage Field Services & Invoicing respectively. Due to disintegrated nature of systems, it was difficult to manage “Request to Invoice” Cycle and no reporting facilities were available.
• As a part of digitization initiative, have suggested an integration between these 2 systems
• Carried our requirement gathering sessions with key Field Services, Order Fulfillment and Receivable executives to identify the current business processes and detailed future requirements. Also, traced business requirements & delivered functional specifications for new solution integration solution
• Coordinated with the technical teams to deliver the solutions as per the functional designs and customizations
• As per business requirements, created new ‘Auto-Invoice Grouping Rules’ to meet the specific requirements of the business
• Lead discussions with key stakeholders, business users to understand key reporting requirements. Helped business to define Customer Satisfaction & worked closely with technical & BI teams to developed Reports & Dashboards e.g. Field Services Efficiency Analysis, Field Engineer Utilization, Inventory Consumption, Hit - Miss Analysis, etc.
• The integration provided reporting facilities and ability to track the process end to end.
• Customer Oracle CoE has reviewed this solution and decided to use this across businesses. I have received an appreciation from CIO, Confidential & Gas

Confidential

Solution Architect, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Pressure Control business provides end to end solutions to its customer for Field Services, Repair Operations and Inventory Parts. Business was using Order Management Quotes & Excel based templates to manage its quoting needs and once approved it used to create orders in individual module to fulfil customer requirements. This was disintegrated, time consuming process.
• In one of the workout session, I have identified this as a major pain area for business. Discussed and agreed with customer to spend some time on simpler and better solution. Initiated & drove initial business discussion to deeply understand the business challenges.
• Conducted detailed and comprehensive Business Analysis by working with end users and other stake holders to identify current business processes & its mapping in system, operational requirements and suggested / presented the detailed custom solution map to Business and IT Leaders & created a downstream project.
• Solution has provided an ability to create various types of order (SO, SR, & RO) from a single document (OM Quote) instead of creating quotes in different modules.
• Worked closely with technical teams to develop the custom solution and implemented it.
• This custom solution has improved efficiency of “ Confidential ” cycle by 50 % and resulted in annual savings of 80K USD.

Confidential

Lead Consultant, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• D & S Business decided to implement iStore in order to serve better its customer. The implementation aimed at eliminating manual efforts for pricing by automating it, reducing order entry cycle for spare parts for its top 10 customers using user-friendly e-commerce gateway.
• Customer wanted to roll-out iStore as quickly as possible, preferably before Holiday’2013 season to have edge over its competitors & pass maximum benefits to its customer.
• Had discussions with business & IT leadership & proposed “Minimum Viable Product” approach to meet the expected timelines. Customer readily accepted the proposal and finalized 8 weeks of timeframe for rollout.
• Conducted & lead the workout session with business stakeholders & Project Managers to understand the key business requirements, prioritization & finalization of the mandatory requirement for first rollout using MVP methodology.
• Closely worked with DBA & Technical teams for Instance Preparation / Patching, Conversion & development activities.
• Successfully completed CRP, SIT & UAT in 6 weeks of timeframe and actively participated in configuration, Confidential activities for production Confidential
• Post Confidential Support & Transition to Support Teams.

Confidential

Lead Consultant, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Confidential & Gas has acquired Artificial Lift business which has sites across Globe. Confidential has decided to roll-out Oracle E-Business Suite Blue Print sites on Pascal Instance.
• Understood and studied the current business processes / requirements and future business flow in order to provide an integrated information system solution to meet the business needs of the company.
• Mapped the requirements to the Oracle applications for Inventory, Purchasing & Order Management. Identified gaps and offered solutions.
• Also have designed “Procure to Pay” process, different from Blue Print so as to meet business goals. Suggested to have & successfully implemented AL’s own “Inventory Master”. (Very rare scenario of dual inventory master)
• Prepared the Oracle Application Setup documents, Functional Design documents & Test Documents
• Created and Reviewed User Guides, Training Material & SOPs, also provided user training
• Coordinated with Oracle Support for various issues & issue closure.
• Monitoring Conversions, helped technical teams for data extraction, data cleansing, conversion, etc. for Open Purchase Orders, Sales orders, Open AR Invoices. Worked closely with technical team and done required setup changes in TCA to ensure smooth conversion of AR Invoices &Customers.

Confidential

Lead Consultant - SCM, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Allanasons has implemented complete range of Oracle EBS integrated with Bolt-on applications like OTM, Hyperion, Demantra and Business Intelligence Tools like Discoverer.
• While addressing its huge Inventory, Order Fulfillment and Design challenges, Allanasons was operating in environment where every internal movement of the material, multiple transactions was needed to perform.
• Re-designed the process completely and suggested & successfully implemented IR-ISO solution with localization features. This has helped minimizing the number of transactions per material movement.
• Identified & resolved Costing related issue for the transactions between Process & Discrete Organizations in Average Costing Environment
• Worked extensively on WMS enabled Inventory Management Environment with integrated Confidential and addressed various issues related to Bar Code Scanners & its integration, Receiving, Inventory Movement, Picking& Shipping LPN & Lot Controlled Items.
• Suggested Quality Inspection, Isolation & Return to Vendor process for items having shelf life.
• Developed an automated mechanism for reviewing& correcting monthly pricing uploads for more than 50K sellable items. It was done by huge manual & time consuming process.
• Extensively worked with Demantra team to prepare the historical data of the Meat Business of the company for migration. Provided inputs from Confidential side in order to Level Control aggregating of the records. Based on the analysis of historical data, provided inputs for Causal Factors for sudden increase in demand, helped Demantra team for chaining on Item Similarity basis.
• Roll-Out Management: Responsible for Roll Outs for new sites / LOB from Supply Chain Side (mainly for Inventory and Order Management). Ensuring timely and smooth roll-outs.
• Proposed & developed Training Material using Oracle UPK in different formats (Video, PPT, PDF, etc.). Conducted frequent training sessions across the sites to develop highly knowledgeable business users who know how to use the implemented systems

Confidential

Onsite Lead Consultant, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Designed and guided technical team on Complex Report Development like Daily Stock Report, Sales Order Details Report, Purchase Layer Report, Certificate of Analysis Report, etc.
• Since business had huge complexities like Lot Controlled items, Single Lot requests, dangerous goods etc. Custom solution was provided for Picking and Order Fulfilment
• Proposed & implemented a custom solution to automatically create receipts against Drop Ship PO as soon as Deliveries are shipped from manufacturing plants. This helped business largely and delay in Invoicing has been eliminated.
• Designed & helped technical team to develop interfaces between Quality Application and Oracle OPM. Also, designed interface to capture process related data in Apps.
• Proactively worked on Costing related issues because of Inventory Transfers from Process Manufacturing Environment to Discrete Manufacturing Environment.
• Proactively worked on Counting and encouraged business to perform physical counting in order to improve the Inventory accuracy across warehouses. Proposed & successfully implemented the physical count strategy. Participated in few physical counting activities, monitored the progress and helped business to manage these activities from IT side.
• Implemented Advanced Pricing to cater pricing needs of business based on customer, region, product, volume & also promotional offers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Come up with Value Stream Map of AS - IS Process
• Identify Business Pain Areas and help Prioritize Business Process Improvement in context of long term goals of the company and in line with Management guidelines
• Develop Map of TO BE process
• For accepted gaps develop a High level Functional Design for customization. Make Simple, robust, scalable designs
• Performing Setups and configurations to meet user community requirements
• Helped technical team to migrate the data from legacy application to Oracle Confidential (Item, Customers, Suppliers, On-hand Quantity, Open Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, etc.)
• Worked extensively in Process Manufacturing Environment. Considering requirements for Process Manufacturing made appropriate setups in Inventory module.
• For simple & standard process manufacturing sites, instead of using Process Manufacturing, suggested and successfully implemented Discrete Manufacturing.
• Lead, Drive, Communicate during Confidential and create Confidential Summary Reports
• Developed User Productivity Kit for users mainly for Oracle Inventory, OM, Purchasing, WIP, BOM and Quality modules

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Chemical division of Confidential has implemented Oracle EBS to manage its Supply Chain Operations whereas implementation has multiple flaws and even many of the basic requirements were not met. Confidential has decided to review its Confidential implementation and asked to come up with review & suggestions report to overcome the challenges being faced.
• Lead the discussions with Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Finance Leaders & Executives to understand the big picture of challenges being faced & business requirements to run the business seamlessly.
• Reviewed AS - IS, TO - BE & other Confidential documentation like MD50, BR100, BR110, etc. & analyzed of Key Confidential setups & Custom Components and also performed testing based on various business scenarios and recorded the test results
• Running various Diagnostic Scripts and Tests
• Based on the reviews and test results, identified flaws in the system. Proactively corrected setups wherever possible to streamline various functions.
• Prepared and Presented Review Report to Top Management of the company and suggested improvements needed.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential has implemented Oracle Confidential to manage its Supply Chain Operations. Confidential System was integrated to other legacies (mainly systems being used at Outlets, Reselling Shops) to capture Orders being booked on daily basis.
• The project FT Sigale was aimed to enhance the existing functions, resolve the issues related to interfaces &simplify the Order Entry process.
• For Order Entry Process, there were 13 different interfaces which used to load more than 3000 orders per day in batch process. This was huge overhead to business due to maintenance cost involved. Identified as critical pain area, suggested and designed simplified integration approach using .csv files, eliminating much complex multiple interfaces.Few simple changes at source changes clubbed with new integration design helped business eliminating different interfaces. This was huge cost saving for business.
• Also worked on other enhancements which resulted stability& improvement of the interfaces and business processes.

Confidential

Functional Consultant, Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• Life Science business of Confidential has decided to implement Self Service iProcurement & Purchasing for Confidential as a part of Corporate Initiative.
• As a functional consultant I was involved in Project from all phases e.g. Requirement Gathering, Design, Setups, Testing and Go Live
• Worked very closely with Corporate Team in order to catch the current train schedule and roll out Confidential seamlessly
• Responsible for configuration, conducting SIT, UAT & Production Confidential Activities
• Prepared & updated the functional documents like BR100 & BR110. Also prepared training material, user guides & SOPs.
• Conducted Training Sessions for Key Business Users

Confidential

Functional Consultant, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Due to high decentralized nature of different geographies, there was increased need of reshaping the current services team to operate as a one global services team.
• As multiple legacy systems were involved, customer has decided to have single unified platform for its field services operations. The main objective of this project was to increase Resource Visibility & Utilization, Standardize Business Processes and to have single Centralized Platform for Resource Management.
• As a functional consultant, I have assisted Solution Architect & participated in various requirement gathering sessions. Prepared detailed AS-IS & requirement documentation.
• Based on the requirements, helped team in instance preparation & done configuration for Confidential .
• Provided Confidential demo to business stakeholders and field services leadership.