Profile Summary

• Over 16 years of driving successful SAP ECC, APO SCM programs for some of the leading companies in the Automotive, Mining, Manufacturing, Retail and Electronics industry segments
• Currently managing a large automotive account having multiple SAP projects and roll-outs
• Familiar with the automotive specific EDI, Accounting, Manufacturing, Distribution and other processes.
• ERP SCM Specialist, with focus on production planning, shop floor control, procurement planning, inventory management, supply demand planning, network design and optimization, transportation replenishment planning.
• Deep project management experience in SAP ECC APO and other SCM applications
• Specific consulting experience with SAP ECC, SAP SCM, i2 and JDA Manugisitics solutions
• Program Delivery management experience Managed multiple concurrent SCM, SRM and SAP projects across different customers.
• Summary list of engagements:
• Current Engagement: SAP Program Management for a large Automotive Parts Manufacturer: Applications support, projects and rollouts
• SAP ECC: At least 4 implementation projects
• Upgrades 1 SAP ECC , 3 engagements each for Ariba and SAP SRM
• Implementation: SAP SCM at least 6 engagements , JDA Ariba and SAP SRM
• Applications Support: At least 10 engagements in solutions like JDA i2 and Manugistics , SAP SCM, Ariba and SAP SRM
• Lead large presales and marketing initiatives
• Conversant with various project methodologies: SAP's ASAP, Wipro's SPEED, Agile and other customer specific methodologies. Ability to develop/customize the existing methodologies to best suit the project deliverables, quality and the timelines
• Ability to adopt working in different roles like program manager, project manager, presales specialist, business analyst PMO specialist
• Expert skills in MS Project, Excel, Visio and other tools

Skill Summary

• SCM Skillsets: SAP APO: DP and SNP JDA: Strategy Fulfillment, Demand Master Planning i2 factory planner, SCP collaboration solutions
• SAP: SAP IS Automotive, ECC: MM, PP, SD, SCM, SPM, SNC, SRM
• New dimension solutions: Deep solution knowledge in SAP BI, Mobility and SAP HANA
• Past certifications: PMP and APICS CPIM
• Education: Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial and Production Engineering

Career Summary

Confidential

Role: Program Management

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing a collective annual portfolio of over 10 million
• Program Manager and Account Manager for a leading automotive company. This includes delivering the SAP solutions services with a global team across USA, Mexico and India
• Conduct weekly/monthly planning review sessions with the client.
• People management Over 45 consultants across different geographies
• Competency development in the SAP new dimension solutions like HANA, Fiori and Lumira
• Solutions strategy development for the SAP and other niche offerings
• Working closely with SAP and other partners in solutions, services development
• GoToMarket GTM Strategy, plan and execution for SAP solutions, analytics and test automation. The SAP solutions include applications, accelerators and tools developed in SAP ECC, HANA, Mobility and BI
• Developed the strategy and approach to embark on the Big data and analytics solutions in the Non SAP space
• Deep experience with Worksoft Test Automation Solution. Lead various test automation projects to deliver the test automation for the SAP projects
• Developed competency and GTM for openbravo solutions, an open source ERP for SME segment
• Knowledge management building the reusable tools, accelerators for the Implementation and Rollouts
• Competency and operations management

Confidential

Primary Role: Senior Program Delivery Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Planning, Team onboarding, Stake holder management
• Established the program management processes and documentation standards
• Contributed in developing the detailed project plan and establishing the monitoring and tracking process
• Resource planning fulfillment and People Management
• Established the risk management process and conducted periodic risk review meetings
• Setup the onsite-offshore delivery model for the development, data and testing teams
• Published weekly, and monthly project metrics
• Contributed in Project Management Office PMO related activities like establishing project documentation standards and schedule management
• Contract management with the customer team, project financials
• Project plan monitoring and tracking of the development track SAP development, testing and data migration
• Secondary Role: Senior functional consultant P2P
• Responsible for developing the overall P2P SAP MM strategy, high-level approach and the blueprint deliverables.
• Developed the pre blueprint materials, executed the blueprint workshops and developed the overall SAP MM flow
• Introduced the reusable project artifacts and contributed in developing the project specific deliverables.
• Conducted interim solution design reviews to ensure solution fitment
• Provided direction to the ARIS based business process modeling process
• Blueprint materials overall review and facilitating the customer signoff

Confidential

Role: Senior consultant/Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Developed SOW agreements, project planning and kick off
• Delivered the 3 year annual spend review for over 7.0 billion USD
• Planned executed detailed requirements gathering workshops
• Demonstrated numerous solution options in spend analysis and visibility
• Established an elaborate data collection, cleansing and transformation process
• Conducted trainings / workshops for the new users
• Overall program management and delivery plan, track and reporting metrics
• Close collaboration with the SAP solutions management, consulting and support teams
• Developed expertise in SAP DSE and SAP BI setup for SPM solution
• Developed and streamlined KPIs and the best practices for the deep dive data analytics

Confidential

Role: Program Manager/Senior Consultant JDA Manugistics Implementation Team size: 15

Key Responsibilities:

• Involved in pre-program planning, Kick-off and Stakeholder management, including CXO level relationship management
• Executed the challenging program despite facing significant data challenges
• Lead application configuration efforts for all the modules
• Contributed as senior functional consultant in implementation of JDA strategy, fulfillment and master planning modules
• Setup data management process-data collection preparation from disparate systems
• Developed number of what-if scenarios in Strategy and Fulfillment
• Deployed the optimized strategy, fulfillment and master planning modules to cater to over 6000 plus distributors, 130 manufacturing locations and 20 regional sales locations.
• Developed rapid processing of more than 10,000 shipments/day in JDA fulfillment
• Demonstrated projected cost savings using various features in the JDA Strategy Module

Confidential

Role: Senior Delivery Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all overall delivery of approximately 35 plus supply chain projects across 25 customers. The projects involved implementation/upgrade/rollout/support of SCM solutions like SAP APO, i2, JDA Manugistics and Ariba
• Conducted periodic delivery reviews of all the engagements
• Strategic Delivery and Talent Planning in line with the business plan
• Developed implemented the best practices for the execution of the SCM projects
• Resource planning, Recruitment, Training and operations management
• Managed the SCM center of excellence, developed numerous POC for customers
• Developed the flex delivery model for applications support development
• Delivered 95 projects that received excellent formal customer feedback
• Developed executed cross skilling training programs for the SCM consultants

Confidential

Role: Program Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Engagement involved transition of applications support, rollouts and new projects. The solutions portfolio included SAP APO DP SNP, i2 DP SCP, and few other custom SCM solutions. The global SCM footprint comprised a combination of more than 20 i2 and SAP instances, 4-5 custom databases, 24 X 7 batch management schedule with a daily challenge of managing over 1500 jobs
• Pre-program kick-off Team identification, program metrics and PMO setup
• Developed different strategies plans to address complex global business requirements.
• Established governance framework to include periodic program reviews, processes for risk, issues, escalation management
• Driven delivery excellence initiatives: Implemented numerous process improvements
• Significant Contributions
• Demonstrated quality delivery and excellent customer satisfaction leading to the revenue growth from 2.2 million to 4.0 million within a year.
• Contributed in the additional role of a Senior SCM consultant in SAP SCM i2 SCP responsible for solution management and issues resolution
• Solution design implement continuous process improvements
• Received 'Super Star' a customer reward successful program execution

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Developed a high level and a detailed project plan for separation of IT infrastructure over 1800 applications between Boeing and its new business partner
• Accountable for driving the subproject for over 400 applications, developed the detailed project plan, conducted deep analysis of pre-requisites, dependencies and risks
• Conducted workshops to integrate various IT business groups and development of one integrated project plan
• Project Monitoring Control PMO support, developed various program metrics, expedited the project tasks and developed an extensive set of automated tracking reporting tools in MS Project, MS Excel Visio
• Weekly dashboard and detailed reporting Developed an automated weekly dashboard detailed reports, metrics
• Risk management Managed the program level risk management process, which included risk planning, prioritization, developing mitigation plans and closure