Suryakant Bhosale

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Professional Summary

Suryakant Bhosale has over 18 years plus of industry experience in both IT & domain for managing supply chain extensively. He played a significant roles being in procurement for Automotive & Consumer Goods Industry. He has proven experience in SAP consulting in both Business & IT. Besides procurement, he has managed supply chain for domain industry perspective, and worked on delivering IT solutions in Supply Chain for venerated and fortune 500 clients. His experiences in deploying supply chain solutions (IT) cuts across various industry verticals such as: Automotive, Manufacturing, Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Forest, Fashion, Hi-tech, Retail, Wholesale Distribution, Research & Development and Healthcare. He has experience of implementing multiple full Life Cycle SAP Projects in Procurement & Supply Chain space. His contribution for new dimensional Warehouse Management solution (SAP-EWM) was recommended by product company (SAP). He has worked on SAP solution audit for steel Industry and provided valuable inputs toward processes & measures (KPI). He played a central role in recommendations and process enhancement that resulting into improved utilization of SAP processes across different business units for various clientele during engagements. He has worked on various SAP ERP assignments for industries with diversified, complex business processes and global presence. Mr. Bhosale’s SAP experience includes prototyping, requirement analysis, business blueprint, design, Gap Analysis, configuration; testing, documentation, in the various project model like Implementation, Roll-outs, Re-implementations and Application Managed Support. He has got exposure to key processes in multi-system complex environment(s) and Global/Intercontinental single instance of implementations. He is having in-depth experience in supply chain activities and detailed study of business processes notably in supply chain execution (Procurement, Inventory and Distribution). He is considered as a well trusted mentor & sought after resource on all levels of client’s organization. He has customer oriented attitude with good communication & presentation skills and attitude of gel with clients to understand their pain areas & brings on-time quality delivery with creative solutions that expected by clients.

Expertise: SAP SCM

Has contributed in SAP’s eminent WMS Product “Extended Warehouse Management (SAP-EWM)” development through SAP One Partnership.

Has detailed knowledge about ECC & SCM (EWM 9.2 & TMS 9.2) integration and analytics.

Has worked on implementing SAP SCM-EWM for Manufacturing, Consumer, Utility, Retail, Fashion and Wholesale Distribution Industries.

Has managed application support for EWM and controlled the system downtime during support through establishing prompt responsive mechanisms.

Exposure to latest SAP SCM offerings like Event Management, Transportation management (9.2), Global Batch Traceability, Product Lifecycle Management, and APO- DP & GATP. Expertise: SAP ECC

Has worked on implementing SAP ECC for Automotive, Manufacturing, Consumer, Hi-tech, Medical Device, and Forest & Retail Industries.

Has worked on implementing Materials Management module (Purchasing, Inventory Management, Foreign Trade/Customs, Services, Consignment, Account determination, & inter/intra company transfers)

Has worked extensively on integration of cross functional modules like Plant Maintenance, Quality Management, Project Systems, Production Planning, Central Functions (Batch Management, Document Management System, and Engineering Change Mgt.) and Finance & Costing.

Has worked on implementing Business Intelligence & various Reporting tools, Conversion tools, Interfaces to SAP and non-SAP systems.

Has worked on specialized processes like outsourced manufacturing, Advance returns Management and Executive Information system.

Has worked on implementing add-ons of SAP & integration with Non-SAP products.

Has extensive experience with Integration of SAP IS-Auto & system consolidation across three continents. Suryakant Bhosale

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Has basic knowledge of ABAP and Basis administration.

Has well versed with ASAP Methodology, Solution Manager and other non-SAP methodologies. Expertise: Domain

Mr. Bhosale has over four years of domain experience in large-scale consumer & Automotive manufacturing organization managing Supply Chain. His functional tenure includes experience in: Procurement, Planning & Vendor development and Outsourcing. He was responsible for formulate & execute the procurement plan as per the requirement for the manufacturing such as to maintain the inventory on JIT basis at plant. He was participating in the Price negotiation with Vendors in consultation with costing department. He used to coordinate with manufacturing for procurement of various materials such as semi-finished component, Electrical Items, Sheet Metal Parts, and Hardware per requirements. He also participated in ISO 9002 / QS 14000 Certification for Centralized Division & executed the departmental activity control procedures. He designed the complete Total Cost Management to achieve Increasing Capacity, Controlling the cost as per market material rate with Value Engineering and alternative sourcing. With this could able to achieved major cost reduction across all product range. He carried out the detailed aspects of different strategies for various new developed components for OEM's & Converts into regularized that affects turnover significantly.

Firms worked: IT consulting

PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA (Jan2011 Till Date)

Wipro Technologies, INDIA (May 2004 Dec 2010)

TATA Technologies, INDIA (Feb 2003 Apr 2004)

Ygyan Consulting, INDIA (Jun 2000 Feb 2003)

Firms worked: Domain

M/s. Kitchen Appliances India Ltd. Procurement Engineer (May 1998 to June 2000)

M/s. Patheja Forgings & Autoparts Mfrs. Ltd. Vendor Development Engineer (Sep 1996 to May 1998) Professional Experience Summary

Mr. Bhosale’s experience in assisting various industry clienteles with SAP as a technology solution in Supply Chain space includes:

Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 09/2015 –Till date Utilities AmeriGas Propane

Inc.

Lead Consultant ECC 6.0 (with OGSD)

Project: Assessment project using SAP as technology & analytics He is leading the SCM track for Inbound & outbound processes and responsible for assessing the supply chain KPIs across business processes. The project is to assess current business solution to provide insight about the losses incur through analytics. He provided inputs to improve supply chain processes to achieve more efficiency

& cost saving in the processes.

Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 03/2015 –09/2015 Cross Internal Lead Consultant ECC 6.0, EWM 9.2 & TMS 9.2

Project: Internal project for Supply chain execution. He was leading for this internal project for supply chain execution across order management to fulfillment by integrating the ECC, EWM & TMS system. Implemented various functional processes that covers different scenarios in this integration successfully. Trained SCM practitioners in the firm through training program. Suryakant Bhosale

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Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 10/2013 –03/2015 Retail Forever21 Inc. Lead Consultant ECC 6.0 (Retail)

Project: Business transformation project using SAP as technology He was leading the SCM track for indirect procurement (SAP MM & EWM) responsible for implementing the supply chain for indirect materials across globe. The project is to implement business solution to manage the indirect materials in retail environment globally. He designed business processes in supply chain for indirect materials to achieve more efficiency & cost saving in the processes. Due to complexity of the processes in retail environment, customer hold the warehouse management functions for time being and decided to implement post ERP implementation. He also reduced the redundancy in the workflow (Paper & System) from the existing instance to provide crisper insight of the end to end process. He contributed in the designing the objects with SAP’s SCM advanced concepts through ABAP programming with technical team. Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 01/2013 -10/2013 Medical Device NuVasive Inc. Lead Consultant ECC 6.0

Project: Business transformation project for a leading Medical device company using SAP as technology He was part of the Distribution (SAP MM & WM) team responsible for implementing the Loaner Management of surgical kits & loaner component’s supply chain. The project was to implement integrated simplified business solution to manage Loaner inventory for surgical kits and achieve improved supply chain for better inventory planning across distributions and hospitals. He modified & redesigned some of the business process steps in distribution and customer service to achieve more efficiency in the process while minimizing the development efforts. He also reduced the redundancy in the workflow (Paper & System) from the existing instance to provide crisper insight of the end to end process. He contributed in the designing the objects with SAP’s SCM advanced concepts through ABAP programming with technical team. Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 03/2012 -12/2012 Manufacturing Swagelok

Company

Lead Consultant SCM-EWM 7.02, ECC 6.0

Project: Business transformation project for a leading highest quality fluid system products and solutions using SAP as technology.

He played imperative role in the supply chain execution (SCM-EWM & ECC-IM) team for SAP implementation at a leading highest quality fluid system products manufacturer and solution providers. He was responsible for understanding legacy business processes and pain areas in the processes. Applying industry best practices and designing end-to-end To-Be processes using SAP and integrating complex legacy applications. He was responsible for identifying and designing custom objects and interfaces in order to meet the client's unique business requirements. He played a liaison role between the client's business team and the COE team. He played a pivotal role in designing TO-BE process/solution for various business processes including critical & complex one.

Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 01/2011 -02/2012 Utility PG&E Corp Lead Consultant SCM-EWM 7.01, ECC 6.0

Project: Business transformation project for a leading SAP SCM-EWM Implementation project for one of the largest combination of natural gas and electric utilities. Suryakant Bhosale

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He played a pivotal Functional lead role for a SAP SCM- Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) Implementation project for one of the largest combination of natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. This was the first kind of implementation in the utility industries. This project was for SAP SCM-EWM to address functional and technical limitations in the existing legacy WMS, to improve the efficiencies of the warehouse operations. His responsibilities were to coordinate and execute all requirements gathering, design, configuration, mappings, conversions, system and integration testing and all related RICEF Functional Designs; Facilitate all RICEF coordination with China GDC and performs related system and integration testing in EWM. He was solely responsible for implementing the Inbound, outbound & internal processes including specialized processes like Quality inspection Engine (QIE), Cross-Docking that aligned with inbound & outbound, Subcontracting and consignment logistic processes that tightly integrate with ECC. He worked with SAP closely for all missing functionality in these specialized processes for the solution that customer seeking for across industry. He participated in the Execution of the project tasks that PwC is responsible for, Change control, Production of deliverables that PwC is responsible for on a timely basis, Confirming the deliverables meet desired quality standards, Communications as it relates to project status, changes; Tracking, resolving, and escalating project issues; He facilitate issues maintenance and resolution throughout the project and Work closely with the Project Management to provide detailed status updates throughout the project. He was adhered to Project Governance processes, checkpoint reviews with Steering Committee in this project. Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 10/2008 – 12/2010 Manufacturing SONY Electronics

Inc -USA

Lead Consultant SCM-EWM 5.1, ECC 6.0

Project: SAP Supply Chain solution optimization, SAP SCM system upgrade and Application managed services for a world leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.

He played imperative Supply chain execution lead role in Onsite-Offshore model for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) implementation roll-out & support engagement with larger team size for US Geo. He was solely responsible for resolution of issues related to EWM processes including non-SAP interfaces within SLA. He supported for EWM component in SCM for different seven Warehouses varying with different business processes included development, modification, and enhancement in the areas of Master and Transactional data, Portal and Technical development and Process improvements. He managed development and Testing for Change Requests along with Technical team & Business. He was responsible for root cause analysis of the critical issues & resolution through short and long term fix. He developed Interactive reports to ease in the determination of KPI for business. He provided critical inputs for implementing support pack upgrade project followed by monitoring Support Pack upgrade implementations, issues, testing & execution. As a part of support, analyzing and reporting L2 and L3 resolution performance via ‘Remedy’ - an Incident Management tool. He ensured during this assignment for strict adherence to Quality practices and guidelines. Along with this, he was responsible for monitoring and improving the customer satisfaction index through status reporting. Along with regular activities, additionally he was responsible for close interaction with SAP for various implementation & technical issues. Regularly monitored system performance; carried out appropriate performance tuning measures in tandem with the Technical team. Prior to EWM engagement at same client, he played in R/3 Implementation as a lead MM consultant for VOICE RETAIL project. He was primarily responsible for the interfaces migration for R/3 to Legacy (G-7). He coordinated for RICEF Development with offshore team. He also performed UAT & integration testing for VOICE RETAIL project. Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 06/2007 - 10/2008 Wholesale Distribution &

CP-AFS

SAP -AG Lead Consultant SCM-EWM 5.1/ 7.0, ECC 6.0

Project: SAP Supply Chain solution for WMS product development for the World leader in enterprise software and software-related services.

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He played indispensable role through One Partnership program for SCM-EWM product with Product Company in Europe. He managed the major deliverables were to build best practice for EWM for CP-AFS & Wholesale Distribution-Food industry with close co-ordination with IBU & Development team with Product company. The activities of building Best practices included start from Business Blueprint to Implementation of the EWM processes that caters for Food industry & CP-AFS. He built the Gap-Analysis for CP-AFS integration (R/3 & EWM). He was responsible for configuring the Extended Warehouse Management Org Structure in the landscape of Add-on & Part of SCM with various flavors of processes. This includes setting up the Interfaces between ECC and SCM-EWM. He performed Unit & integration testing for BBP, Participated in the testing for Graphical Warehouse Layout EWM 7.0 & Resource management. He also helped in enhancements in EWM 7.0 as per different industry sector. He analyzed & provided inputs for Production planning (PP) Integration functionality in EWM 7.0.

Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 10/2006 - 06/2007 Automotive Honeywell (HTT) -

USA, Mexico

Lead Logistics Consultant R/3 Ent & IS-Auto

Project: SAP supply chain benefit Optimization project to improve utilization of SAP in supply chain business processes for automotive industry (Racing & consumer Auto part). He led this project as a logistic consultant, one of the multi-geographical locations in three continents with bilingual scenario in this unique kind of project for Automotive Industry in USA. He was responsible for Design to incorporate Third Party Processing (3PP) a unique automotive solution with IS-Auto component into R/3 Enterprise to address the streamline business profile with Tax procedure & supply chain under NAFTA regulation. He coordinated with offshore team for Development activities. He led successful cutover & conversion activities for entire project by introducing ALE way that promotes to accelerate conversion at six- sigma level. He was responsible for performing Unit & integration testing and post live support followed by smooth transition. He was Single Point of Contact for SAP AG as logistics lead for implementation of IS-Auto Component integration. He re-designed the logistics inbound processes to ensure smooth workflow due to foremost modification in entire organization. He designed the automation of all the inbound & outbound processes through EDI & ALE. And he introduced Queries for data migration in landscape from one system client to other. Also, he helped in business processes to tune their KPI from logistics point of view with the help of system changes.

Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 05/2005 - 09/2006 Forest Weyerhaeuser

Company -USA,

Uruguay

Lead Logistics Consultant

(Implementation)

Data Analyst

ECC 5.0

Project: SAP implementation project for SAP logistics processes for forest Industry Company. He was logistics functional lead for implementation project for multiple geographical locations for one of the largest forest industry in USA. He made project “Live” on time from realization phase, when main implementer gave up this project on short notice for Uruguay facility & Distribution centers. He managed client resources for the project in spite of language barrier, lead the Data conversion & migration activity before go live. He took initiative for re-designing the process especially in Logistics area with minimal customize objects. In parallel, he was part of Implementation of complete Transportation module after Go-Live within short span of time more effectively that increases clients ROI significantly on logistics planning. He also helped client to harmonize the master data & managed lots of training that helped users to use of the system more proficiently. As a part of support, incidents monitoring through Remedy that included development, modification, and enhancement in the areas of Master and transaction data, Portal and Technical development & modifications in MM module. He was responsible for developing Standard and Interactive reports including BW reporting. He provided for resolutions of the pending issues by conjunction with several communications with the business. He participated in non-SAP Data Management modeling that contributed in the designing the Data models in line with SAP processes. He was responsible to translate the configured business processes in the data modeling. Suryakant Bhosale

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This activity was mainly to perk up communication as “DATA” is a common language. This in turn enhances the competitiveness, improves managerial reporting and decision-making. In the long term this has add support for process re-engineering and reduced costs.

Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 04/2004 - 04/2005 Consumer Colgate-Palmolive

Company -USA

Lead Logistics Consultant SAP 4.6C

Project: SAP implementation project to improve utilization of SAP in supply chain business processes for Global R & D division of Consumer Company.

He played functional lead for R & D division of Consumer Company in USA for SAP implementation project. He was responsible for functional requirements through Business Case Scenario (BCS) & due diligence. This includes, analyzing and redesigning logistics processes that integrated with Materials Management, Quality Management, Handling Unit Management, Batch management and other functionalities to comply business processes. Workflow set up for alert monitoring & reporting. He was alone responsible for customizing for Materials Management, Quality Management & Central functions likes Handling Unit Management, Batch Management. He lead centrally for consolidating the Master & Transactional data elements that to be migrated per conversion & cutover strategy. He was the part of preparation of specifications for new developments modifications that interfaces with KIOSK & RF Part of post live support to stabilize the system and handover to regular production support.

Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 02/2003 - 04/2004 Automotive TATA Motors Ltd -

India

Lead Consultant -MM SAP 4.6C, IS-Auto

Project: SAP reimplementation project for logistics processes for Automobile manufacturer. He worked as a functional lead of SAP implementation project for one of the biggest Automobile manufacturer in India for various business units including multiple regional locations at country level for SAP's MM Module along with regular reimplementation engagement. He performed requirement gathering and participated in Business Blueprint for different organization elements across business division. His responsible was in contributing the re-design of the tax procedure per government norms. This gratifies the various Indian tax procedures and duties along with foreign trade particularly in procurement. In realization, he was a responsible for Configuration, Conversions & Cutover activities for MM modules. He introduced the conceptual reporting through SAP standard queries. These unique changes were accepted by customer very openly compare to prior implementation and that eliminated custom reporting that saved plenteous efforts in the entire project. He was part of Post live support that includes stabilization & Support activities. Duration(MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 10/2002 - 02/2003 High-tech Apple Computers

Inc -USA/APAC

Lead Consultant -MM SAP 4.6B

Project: SAP Application Managed Services project for one of the largest consumer electronics and computer designer/manufacturer in USA.

Mr. Bhosale played essential role as SAP Logistics lead at offshore for SAP Post implementation support, at one of the largest Consumer Electronics and Computer design /manufacturer in USA. It has operations concentrated in 3 regions – Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Client uses SAP R/3 Core and Retail as their base transaction processing system for their worldwide operations. As a module lead, the key areas of his job were Materials Management, Logistics – Purchasing, Inventory Management, MRP, Valuation and account assignment, LIV, Warehouse Management, Central Functions – Material Master, Archiving, Batch Management, ECM, LIS, EDI and Interfaces. This implementation project was in two phases to facilitate successful integrated roll out in their Suryakant Bhosale

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various international service centers in US, Europe and Japan. He was responsible for all aspects of this assignment, from initial study, conceptualization, and design right through implementation. The assignment culminated with knowledge-transfer and training sessions for all SAP development teams at Offshore. Lead Master data conversion between multiple SAP instances across US, Europe & APAC as part of realization. This was achieved by using ALE mechanisms for Change control and Message control. His responsibilities in this project that included development, modification, and enhancement in the areas of Master & transaction data load programs utilizing direct input/call transaction/batch/session methods in MM (Material Master, Vendor Master, Inventory Balances, fixed assets).

Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 07/2002 - 09/2002 Manufacturing Sunflag Iron &

Steel Co Ltd –India

Lead Logistics Consultant SAP 4.6B, CIN 3.0

03/2002 - 06/2002 Manufacturing The Premier

Automobile Ltd –

India

MM Consultant SAP 4.0B, CIN 2.2A

Project: SAP Implementation audit & rollout for Steel (Sun flag) & Auto Parts Manufacturing Industries (Premier Auto).

He played vital role as a system auditor for logistics processes in line with new requirement as a part of Roll Out for Steel & Auto parts manufacturing industries. It helped in designing the new requirement in line with existing landscape considering supplementary organizational elements as per Business segment profiles. New Configurations and changes were introduced by providing flexible options for the processes where there was a conflicted in performing earlier. He performed unit, integration testing, UAT, Conversion and cutover activities

& to streamline the business transaction during multiple roll outs. He has worked in the key areas of Materials Management – Enterprise structure setup, Purchasing, Inventory Management, MRP, Material Valuation, Material Master, Batch management, External Service Management, Country India Version, Logistics Info System (LIS), Reporting, Making User Menu's and Authorization Profiles for different users from specific areas; Post Implementation support; Data migration, EDI setup for division of SAP in multiple instances. Duration

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Industry Sector Client Role Environment

11/2001 - 03/2002 High-tech Messung Systems

Ltd –India

MM-BW Consultant BIW 2.0B, SAP 4.0B and

CIN 2.2A

Project: SAP BW- Implementation for High Technology discreet manufacturing company. He played key role in this Business Intelligence (BI, formerly Business Warehouse-BW)Implementing the SAP- BW solution for a High Technology Discreet Manufacturing Company spread across multiple regions in consistent with the various complex regional requirements. He has worked in the key areas of procurement & inventory Management. He was responsible for Design the data access solution to satisfy defined business requirements. Understand how best to meet customer requirements knowing the capabilities and limitations of the business warehouse & Identify requirements for organizational change. He was involved in requirement scope definition, analysis, and design. He assessed requirements against business content during that time. He built Interfaces with operations to identify the way end users want to analyze the data in BW Design and build required queries and associated objects. He developed & provided multiple and flexible options for data access

(i.e. R/3 drill through, ODS reporting & master data reporting) & Integration testing of data accesses solutions. He managed multiple BW environments within business requirements with the team. He was solely responsible for design extraction, transformation and load solutions. During this, he maintained BW technical design documentation with regard to BW data structures, cubes, queries, architecture, and technology. He performed configuration in the system to replicate the required business processes and analytical/reporting needs followed by Test, modify and document system design. Suryakant Bhosale

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Duration (MM/YYYY) Industry Sector Client Role Environment 07/2001 - 11/2001 Manufacturing European

Refrigeration

Company -ITALY

MM Consultant SAP 4.0B

Project: SAP Currency Conversion for refrigeration component manufacturer in Europe. He played vital role as lead logistics consultant on one of biggest refrigeration component manufacturer in Europe. This was the project for currency conversion includes implementing the missing functionalities due to new currency regulations. He worked on IMG settings for currency conversion and customized MM functionality. He was responsible for developing the Functional Specifications for country specific enhancement, layouts and reports. That includes generating the specifications for validation rules through ABAP developments, to comply with government requirements. He monitored Business transactions for changes due to currency conversion in the system along with all integrations mainly with FI module during various stages of the project. He also performed unit, integration testing, UAT, Conversion and cutover activities. He modified training material and customizing documentation due to currency conversion. He trained end users according new functionality and business validations. He has also worked as a single point of contact and managed post Go-live support and maintenance of complete solution. Duration

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Industry Sector Client Role Environment

01/2001 - 06/2001 Manufacturing Jindal Group of

Companies -India

MM Consultant SAP 4.6B, CIN 3.0A

Project: SAP Implementation for a leading Photo film manufacturer. He played a key role SAP implementation project team for one of the biggest Photo film manufacturer in India. He was responsible for realigning procurement processes according SAP functionality to the best business practice fit for all facilities wide spread over

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