Supply Chain Management

Nilesh Agrawal

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Summary:

More than 12 years of experience in Managing and implementing ERP

applications for different industries. Focus on Requirements Gathering, Gap

Analysis and Full Life Cycle Implementation. Experienced in Project

Management, Leading teams, Sales presentations etc. Experienced in ORACLE

Applications mainly Purchasing, iProcurement, Data Warehouse, iSupplier

Portal, Sourcing, Advance Procurement, Inventory, Order Management,

Accounts Payables, Public Sector Purchasing, Encumbrance Accounting. Most

recent experience has been Release 12 upgrade. Masters' degree in Business

Administration.

ERP Expertise:

. Oracle Procure to Pay Cycle, Public Sector Financials.

. Oracle Apps Release 12, 11i - Purchasing, Accounts Payables, Inventory &

Order Management

. Managed teams of more than 5 consultants on various engagements

. Implemented Procurement Best Practices at various clients

. Procurement suite Implementation lead at Deloitte

Certifications:

. Harvard Business School - Management Essentials

. Harvard Business School - Leadership Essentials

. 6-Sigma Green Belt

Work Experience:

|July 2006-|Supply Chain and Procure to Pay Lead, Release |Manager |

|Current |12 upgrade at Housing Authority, Bearing | |

| |Point/Keane Inc | |

Bearing Point is a leading Management and Consulting firm. This is a Public

Sector client, one of the biggest housing authorities in the US and

provides housing for the low income families. It has about 2,618

residential buildings in 340 developments.

Major Tasks Included -

. Lead a team of 4 to support and enhance Oracle Purchasing, iProcurement,

iSupplier Portal, Inventory, Order Management, Accounts Payables &

Sourcing modules.

. Responsible for Oracle Supply chain upgrade from 11i to Release 12

. Responsible for full life cycle of the Release 12 upgrade for modules -

iProcurement, Purchasing, Accounts Payables, Inventory, Order Management,

iSupplier Portal, Sourcing.

. Responsible for full Setups, Testing, Business Process changes, new

functionality - eg. Buyer Work Center, Catalog Extractor changes etc.

. Full interaction with users. Responsible for various management reports

for inside and outside agencies.

. Interfacing with Projects, General Ledger (Budget) & Grants

. Responsible for Oracle Supply chain upgrade from 11.5.8 to 11.5.10.2

. Responsible for System Configuration, Documentation, Unit Testing,

Integration Testing, System Cutover, Post Production Support.

. Functional Lead for Maximo - Oracle Procurement integration - including

Business process analysis and configurations.

. Functional Lead for Oracle Purchasing integration with Oracle Advance

Procurement suite implementation.

. Supporting all issues related to encumbrance accounting/grants from

Oracle Purchasing perspective.

Major Challenges and Achievements -

. Helped the client develop business case for Advance Procurement

implementation. Also helped develop pricing and sales pitch resulting in

bringing revenue of $2 Mn.

. Helped client define & implement Department Spend Analysis/Commodity

Spend Analysis of their yearly Purchases.

|Mar 2005- |Supply Chain Lead at Large Manufacturing |Senior |

|July 2006 |Client, Deloitte Consulting |Consultant |

Deloitte Consulting is one of the Big Five Consulting Firms. The

implementations with Deloitte included Business Process change with Best

practices. The project included implementing the full suite of Oracle from

Manufacturing and Supply Chain Planning to Finance.

Major Tasks Included -

. Lead for Implementation of Purchasing, iProcurement, iSupplier Portal,

Inventory, Quality version 11.5.10 and Siebel-Oracle Integration.

. Lead for Oracle Purchasing Integration with Siebel Service

. Responsible for End to End Process Design, As-Is Business Process

Mapping, To-Be Process Mapping

. Responsible for System Configuration, Documentation, Unit Testing,

Integration Testing, System Cutover, Post Production Support.

. Coordinated with RICE team for Interfaces, Conversion, Reports and

Enhancements development.

. Responsible for Integration with Inventory, Planning, Accounts Payables

modules.

. Solution design for Manufacturing Processes. Facilitate Training

activities and change management.

Major Challenges and Achievements -

. Developed a semi-automated Process flow for Supplier Owned and Managed

Inventory, which included Kanban replenishments, Consigned Inventory and

Auto Invoice Creation.

. Lead End to End Testing. Creation and execution of Scripts and

coordination with different functional teams involving client

representatives.

. Organized 'Road to Manager' Workshop at Deloitte.

. Continuing Education and PMM (Project management methodology) Champion at

client site.

|Nov 2004 -|Lead for Implementing iSupplier Portal, |Functional |

|Mar 2005 |iProcurement at Alcoa Ltd |Consultant |

Alcoa is the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated

aluminum, and alumina and is active in all major aspects of the industry.

Alcoa has a vast usage of ERS (Evaluated Receipt Settlement) in its

indirect purchasing - the whole functionality has been used to create a

'MALL' purchasing concept.

Major Tasks Included -

. Supporting around 150 Operating Units on iProcurement.

. Managing the suppliers for Indirect Purchases

. Managing the Catalogs for the Suppliers

. Responsible for implementing Punchout Sites - Full end to end

implementation of IDI Inc., Applied Industrial Technologies

. Responsible for evaluating Supplier websites for Punchout - eg. Boise

Cascade Corp

. Managing Relationship with Saqqara (3rd Party catalog Management vendor)

. Functional Lead on Migration to 11.5.10 for iProcurement and iSupplier

Portal

Major Challenges -

. Provide with a business case to use iSupplier Portal against a custom web-

based application for suppliers.

. Provide with a business case for hosting catalogs in-house vs. using a

3rd Party Tool.

|Jan 2004 -|Lead for Support and Implementation of Federal|Sr. |

|Oct 2004 |- Oracle Purchasing, iProcurement, Accounts |Functional |

| |Payable at Department Veterans Affairs, |Consultant |

| |(Bearing Point - Comsys) | |

Department of Veterans Affairs (Federal Government) has three major

divisions - Hospitals, Cemetery and Health Benefits. VA has one site fully

functional on Oracle Apps and plans to implement this at more than 160

sites. As a functional consultant, my work included full interaction with

the users to solve issues and gather functional specifications for

enhancements.

Major Tasks included -

. Production Support Lead for Purchasing, iProcurement.

. Resolving issues related to Purchasing, iProcurement, Accounts Payables,

Encumbrance Accounting and Budget

. Identify gaps in the existing interfaces and work with developers to

rectify the same

. Worked on P-Card Reconciliation Extensions, Issues and Training

. Worked on Full Procure-To-Pay cycle

. Resolve issues with the Approval Hierarchy related issues

. Help in PO conversions and interfaces

. Gather requirements for Data Warehouse being build for Purchasing

Intelligence

. Help users to Amend Purchase Orders, Receipts, Invoices, Prepayments,

Credit Memos etc

. Customization on different kind of Purchasing activities eg. Adding

Shipping and Handling Line

Other Responsibilities :-

. Conducted a 3 day training for users on Purchasing - Covered iProcurement

Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Receiving - Trained a class of 20.

. Managed a team of 2 technical consultants

. Helped in Maintaining interfaces from various legacy systems like Vista,

Zegato, Dynamed, Maximo

. Received appreciation from users, got 6 recommendation letters from

Client - right from Station officer to Chief of Purchasing

|June 2002 |Lead Liaison for Oracle Purchasing, |Functional |

|- Jan 2004|iProcurement, Accounts Payable, iSupplier |Consultant |

| |Portal for GE Corporate | |

GE Corporate caters to different GE Businesses with a Centralized

Purchasing system based on Oracle Applications Purchasing Module. Most of

the GE Businesses do their Direct and Indirect Purchases through this

application.

Major Tasks Included -

* Primary point of contact and liaison between all GE businesses worldwide

and the GE SSS team.

* Responsible for complete Setups from Multi - Org, Multiple Currency, Sets

of Books, Chart of Accounts, Purchasing Setups, AK Regions, Approval

Hierarchy, Financial Options, Purchasing Options, Suppliers, Workflow,

Accounts etc

* Full Roll-Out of iSupplier Portal application and integration with

Purchasing and Accounts Payable modules.

* Set-up pre-implementation Calls with Businesses for requirement gathering

and analysis, discuss implementation timelines and project plans

* Help GE Businesses in implementing various interfaces like Item,

Supplier, GL, HR to and from the Purchasing system

* Enforce Oracle Design Standards and Six Sigma Standards on Businesses

like coding standards, naming conventions, table creation templates etc

* A part of the Tollgate Review Team from corporate for all Businesses,

monitoring the test cases for each functionality, verifying test results

* Coordinate and oversee all Unit and Quality Assurance and CRP testing.

* Project Lead for rolling out Oracle SSP and Core Purchasing in Chinese

and Korean.

* Got appreciation from GE Capital for helping them through an

implementation.

* Six Sigma Certified - Green Belt.

* Implemented Service Level Agreements

|Aug 2000 -|Integration between Purchasing and AP system, |Functional|

|May 2002 |Inventory, General Ledger, Purchasing (GE |Consultant|

| |Aircraft Engines), Cincinnati, OH | |

GE Aircraft Engines is one the major manufacturer of Aircraft Engines and

major air machines for various Government and commercial uses. It has a

very complex structure of inventory and purchasing.

This project included Design and implementation of some interfaces like

Items, Purchase Orders, Vendors, Currencies, Employees, and Buyers etc.

Final objective being that the invoices be generated from Release 11 and

the Purchase Orders be generated on Release 10.7 MRO.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the functionality of the modules like Purchasing, Inventory

and Financials of Release 10.7 MRO and Release 11.

* Developing interfaces between the two systems Purchasing 10.7 and

Accounts Payables 11.

* Mapping of Data and Structure for the two systems.

* Doing required set-ups in both the Releases for modules like Purchasing,

Inventory, Accounts Payable and Human Resources.

* Maintaining these interfaces for two sites.

* Creating test cases and testing the full functionality of the interfaces.

* Documenting each and every detail of the interface functionality.

|June 1998 |Post Graduate Studies - Management in Finance |Management|

|- June |and Marketing, SIES Collge, Mumbai, India |Student |

|2000 | | |

As a part of the full 2 year course, we are required to do a 3-4 month

project with a company. My project was with IndusInd Bank on Business

Process Re-Engineering. IndusInd Bank is one of the leading private banks

of India. The International Banking division of this bank contributes to a

large part of the total turnover of the bank.

1. Understood the working of International Banking division

1. Worked with the End Users of the Bank to understand the business

processes.

1. Mapped the AS-IS processes of this division

1. Provided gap analysis for the existing processes

1. Came up with suggestions on the TO-BE processes

1. Trained and made presentations to the End Users on the To-Be Processes.

1. Used a full fledged CASE Tool for the project

|Feb 1997 -|Sales of Instrumentation Products, J.S. Group |Sales |

|May 1998 |(Fisher Rosemount (I) Ltd), Mumbai, India |Executive |

Responsibilities :-

. Conducting Market Research and Feasibility for Products in India

. Promotion of products on an all India basis

. Promoting products through Seminars, Exhibitions and Demonstrations

. Taking care of specific industries like Energy, Pharma etc

. Worked on Client Accounts like Enron, Jindal Steel, Reliance etc

. Co-ordinate shipping of goods, Invoicing and Payments from Customers

|Jul 1996 -|Purchasing Department SAP Implementation, |Trainee |

|Jan 1997 |Siemens Ltd, Mumbai, India | |

Responsibilities :-

. Understand the working of the Purchase Department for Siemens

. Talk to the Users to get the AS IS Process

. Work with SAP team to understand the functioning of SAP for Purchasing

. Worked on identifying the gaps in the Business Process and the SAP PO

module

. Worked with the SAP team and the Purchasing Buyers to come up to TO-BE

Process

. Was a part of the Training team for SAP Purchasing

Education:

. Masters Degree in Management, Mumbai University, India

. Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Electronics and Communications) from

Gujarat University, India

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