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Atlanta, GA, 30328
Posted:
January 19, 2011

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HARISHANKAR AWASTHI

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CAREER OVERVIEW

IT professional with a total of 15+ years experience of which 10 years

experience in design, development and implementing software solutions.

Successfully implemented and supported Oracle E-Business Suite Applications

for OTC and ATR

Experience in Implementation, customization, design, development, testing

and production support of Oracle I-procurement, Oracle Inventory, Order

Entry,Advanced Pricing, Purchasing, Cost Management, Planning Products,

Work In Process, Bill of Material, Oracle Accounts Payables, Oracle

Accounts Receivables, General Ledger, Oracle Fixed Assets, and Oracle EDI

Gateways, Oracle Advanced Planning and Scheduling(APS), Order Configurator.

End to End implementation including analyze business requirements and user

requirements, design, document and CRP, Integration and UAT testing using

AIM methodology.

Delivered training on ASCP Fundamentals at Oracle Education that included

Model Supply chains, generate plan (Constrained/ Unconstrained), use

Planner workbench, Review and resolve exception messages, Analyze demand

and supply and planning strategies.

R12 Implementation

Supported I2 Demand planning.

Build enhancement for Supply Chain planning.

Implemented Ecommerce Gateway for Inbound and Outbound transactions.

Experience in using Application Implementation Methods, doing gap analysis,

working on sizing.

Experience in Conversion and Migration from Legacy Systems to Oracle

Applications.

Project executed in Discreet and OPM manufacturing tracks.

Rich experience, which includes project management, application design,

application development, architecture and technical leadership.

Strong analytical, planning and forecasting, problem solving and management-

client liaison skills.

Excellent track record of on time delivery and customer satisfaction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AT&T, Atlanta US.

April `10 - Till date

Description

AT&T is a telecom giant with more than 61 million subscribers who use the

nation's largest digital voice and data network. AT&T is dedicated to

providing customers with wireless technology designed to enrich their

lives. AT&T has upgraded Oracle Apps (11.5.10) for their Forward logistics

and reverse logistics. AT&T Financials are on R12. The project enables AT&T

Wire Line business to consolidate purchases from suppliers with single

application. The project empowers AT&T users to do strategic negotiations

with suppliers and better control. Across AT&T multiple applications were

used to procure Field and office supplies. The project was 1st phase of

phased roll out. Modules involved were Iprocurement, Isupplier, Contracts,

Purchasing and Account Payables.

Roles and responsibilities

Technical Architect

Business Process Analysis - Current State and Future State Analysis.

Requirement gathering and Solution approach

Design Custom Catalogs based on Item usage/account

Design Custom Catalog access security

Setup I-procurement, purchasing module

Spearheading Regression testing, CRP, UAT effort.

Create Training documents and new process flows for Super users

Production set ups and Go-Live and Post Go Live Support.

AT&T, Atlanta US.

July `09 - Mar '10

Description

AT&T is a telecom giant with more than 61 million subscribers who use the

nation's largest digital voice and data network. AT&T is dedicated to

providing customers with wireless technology designed to enrich their

lives. AT&T has upgraded Oracle Apps (11.5.10) for their Forward logistics

and reverse logistics. The project enables AT&T Mobility (ATTM) to deliver

Wire Line UVERSE products to Customers that requires Self Install. UVERSE

is delivered to customer using a combination of products are self installed

and technician Installed. Modules involved were Oracle Order management,

Oracle Shipping, Order Purchasing, E-commerce Gateway, Oracle Bill of

material, Oracle Work In Process, Oracle Quality and Inventory modules.

It required backward integration with Red Prairie WMS for Pick, pack and

ship.

Roles and responsibilities

Technical Architect

Gather business requirement, Build use cases for Purchasing process

Define new business process

Design the Purchase Order import process

Design enhancement for WIP to integrate with WMS Red Praire

Configure BOM

Design the return process with / without return Authorization

Spearheading testing effort.

Prepare Cut over strategy

Business Objects BI reports

Production set ups and Go-Live and Post Go Live Support.

AT&T, Atlanta US.

Jul `08 - Jun '09

Description

AT&T is a telecom giant with more than 61 million subscribers who use the

nation's largest digital voice and data network. AT&T is dedicated to

providing customers with wireless technology designed to enrich their

lives. AT&T launched U-verse to deliver better television experience than

Cable. AT&T mobility will support the supply chain for this new product

launch across 16 states. AT&T has upgraded Oracle Apps (11.5.10) for their

Forward logistics and reverse logistics This project enables AT&T Mobility

(ATTM) to deliver Wire Line CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) / DSL

/Worldnet products on behalf of ATT 2.0 to AT&T work centers and directly

to AT&T End Users, as applicable, from inventory maintained at Distribution

Centers. The Project will re-define ATTM supply chain (SCM) to handle many

different customers instead on a single Mobility customer as it does today.

This will mean that ATTM will generate and track inventory, forward and

reverse data specifically for the ATT Wire line business domains (VDSL 9

states South East). Modules involved were Oracle Order management, Oracle

Shipping, Order Purchasing, Ecommerce Gateway, Oracle Work In Process,

Oracle Quality and Inventory modules. It required backward integration

with Red Prairie WMS for Pick, pack and ship.

Roles and responsibilities

Oracle Functional lead

Design EDI layout Mapping for incoming Order request to oracle POI 850.

Configure E-Commerce gateway for new Feed

Develop API to extract Order statues from Oracle for CSR

Item Conversion

Brainstorm and Design BOM for new items

Design API to interface WIP Job with WMS

Business Objects BI reports

Spearheading testing effort.

AT&T, Atlanta US.

Nov `07 - Jun '08

Description

AT&T is a telecom giant with more than 61 million subscribers who use the

nation's largest digital voice and data network. AT&T is dedicated to

providing customers with wireless technology designed to enrich their

lives. AT&T has upgraded Oracle Apps (11.5.10) for their Forward logistics

and reverse logistics This project enables AT&T Mobility (ATTM) to deliver

Wire Line CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) / DSL /Worldnet products on

behalf of ATT 2.0 to AT&T work centers and directly to AT&T End Users, as

applicable, from inventory maintained at Distribution Centers. The Project

will re-define ATTM supply chain (SCM) to handle many different customers

instead on a single Mobility customer as it does today. This will mean

that ATTM will generate and track inventory, forward and reverse data

specifically for the ATT Wire line business domains (13 states). Modules

involved were Oracle Order management, Oracle Shipping, Order Purchasing,

Ecommerce Gateway, Oracle Work In Process, Oracle Quality and Inventory

modules. It required backward integration with Red Prairie WMS for Pick,

pack and ship.

Roles and responsibilities

Oracle Functional lead

Design EDI layout Mapping for incoming Order request to oracle POI 850.

Configure E-Commerce gateway for new Feed

Design pre-processor for Importing orders in Oracle

Design API to interface WIP Job with WMS

Build BO reports to support management review and control

Production set ups and Go-Live and Post Go Live Support.

Item Conversion

Build Alerts to preempt order processing delays and meet fulfillment SLA

AT&T, Atlanta US

Aug `07 - Oct '07

Description

Erstwhile Cingular now AT&T is a telecom giant with more than 61 million

subscribers who use the nation's largest digital voice and data network.

Cingular is dedicated to providing customers with wireless technology

designed to enrich their lives. Cingular has implemented Oracle Apps(11.5.8

) for their Forward logistics and reverse logistics. They have a custom

solution for stores sales. Apple launched iPhone in collaboration with

AT&T. The project involved on boarding Apple as Supplier in AT&T Supply

Chain. Solution involved setting up EDI transactions (850, 860, 810) for

Apple.

Roles and responsibilities

Oracle EDI Functional lead

Design EDI layout Mapping for outgoing Order request to oracle POO 850,

POCO 860 and INI 810.

Gap analysis for standard maps of POO 850, POCO 860 and POCO 860

Configure and set up E-Commerce gateway for new Feed of 850 with custom

extension

BR30, BP80, Test scripts, MD50, Setup documentation

EDI reconciliation for every transaction

Design interfaces to report daily sales and daily on-hand to Apple at each

store for serial number granularity.

Load testing iPhone Launch across stores

Cingular Wireless, Atlanta US

Feb `07 -Jul '07

Description

Erstwhile Cingular now AT&T is a telecom giant with more than 61 million

subscribers who use the nation's largest digital voice and data network.

Cingular is dedicated to providing customers with wireless technology

designed to enrich their lives. Cingular has implemented Oracle Apps(11.5.8

) for their Forward logistics and reverse logistics. They have a custom

solution for stores sales.

Roles and responsibilities

Business System Analyst

My role involved preparing the design documents using AIM methodology

(BR30, BR100, MD50, MD70, TE40).

Redesigning and improve the processes to improve the cycle time.

Solution Error handling for custom interfaces of Inbound

Inventory,Workflow, Purchase order receipts and RMA receipts from WMS,

Outbound Sales Order to WMS.

Build Alerts to monitor data processing at each stage of Order fulfillment

Designing and testing extensions to support error resolution in OM/PO/INV

modules.

Ingersoll Rand, Davidson US

Jul `06 - Jan '07

Description

Ingersoll Rand is fortune 500 company with worldwide businesses comprising

an enviable roster of leading industrial and commercial brands. Ingersoll

Rand's Industrial Technologies business is implementing Oracle Apps and

Siebel. The project deals with development of extensions in Oracle Apps

(11.5.8) and integration with Siebel using EAI web methods.

Roles and responsibilities

Gather business requirement for building extensions on Financials AR, AP

and GL

Review BR100 for AR, AP and Chart of account

Develop use cases for new business process

Write functional design document MD50 for extensions

Develop test cases

Enhancement and global Production support for i2

Toshiba Corporation, Tokyo Japan

Dec `05 - June '06

Description

Toshiba Corp has implemented i2 SCM application for its Consumer Products

(Audio Visual Division) and Storage Devices Division. The modules

implemented are SCP, DP, DF and FP. The project is 24x7 production support

for i2 and custom applications.

I was the delivery manager for Toshiba Corporation US. Role involved

addressing enhancement request, configuration changes, simulation request

and resolution of issues. Also required competence building in support team

and building knowledge base.

Implementation and customization for Oracle 11i OTR and Manufacturing

Matsushita Electric Works, Osaka, Japan

May '05 - Dec `05

Description

Matsushita Electric Works is Electrical and Electronic Giant of Japan with

Brands such as National and Panasonic. Turnover stands at $10.7 billion

with a workforce of 15 thousand plus workforce in Japan alone. Overseas

operation is spread across 37 countries with overseas sales of $140+

billion. Its products comprises of Industrial as well as consumer durables.

The project was implemented for their Automation Control Division in Japan.

The modules involved for implementation and customization are Order

Management, Inventory, Purchasing BOM, WIP and Advanced Supply chain

planning. The implementation was done by other vendors Fujitsu, Toshiba

and Oracle Japan. The add-on customizations were done by TCS.

1 Role: Project Leader

Client Interfacing with aid of interpreter and bilingual consultant

Review the requirement specification and design documents for enhancement

request

Evaluate / Modify the requirements/ designs

Offshore co ordination for progress on development and functional inputs

for customization development

Design Inventory structure

Prepare Set ups for inventory and Advanced supply chain modules

Conduct CRP and UAT for Inventory and Advanced Supply Chain module

Ensuring the testing from client, and delivery of all the bug fixed add-

ons.

Implementation and customization for Oracle 11i OTR

GE Healthcare, Beijing China.

Jan '04 - April -05

GE Healthcare is a US based conglomerate that has been newly incorporated

by merging the businesses of GE Medical systems, Instrumentarium and

GEMS Information Technology. They are implementing Oracle Applications for

their worldwide operations.

Datex Ohmeda was a part of Instrumentarium for which GE Healthcare is

implementing Oracle. Project is to implement Oracle in select countries as

a pilot run. China was a part of this pilot run. There is a global design

in place for the implementation, which has to be modified to suit the site

requirements.

2 Role: Project Leader - OTR Functional Lead Consultant

Implementation involved

China site specific business Process Study, User Requirement Study, Gap

Analysis, Process Mapping and Solution fitment.

CRP testing, Integrated testing and evaluation of defects

Data migration from the legacy systems through Interfaces and data load.

Suggestions for probable improvement in the business processes of the

client

Handle the entire life cycle implementation of Order Management Shipping,

Pricing, Discrete Inventory and Purchasing.

Customized implementation of Web enabled Quoting tool (Sales Work bench),

Order management tool eOM (eOrder Management) were tested and implemented.

Production set ups and Go-Live and Post Go Live Support.

Conduct various training sessions for new functionalities introduced during

the project to Super user

Implementation and customization for Oracle 11i OPM

Walkers Snack Foods Ltd. Reading UK

April '03 - Nov '03

Description

Walkers is Britain's favorite snack food and the biggest chips

manufacturer, employing over 4,000 people in 15 locations. It is estimated

that 11 million people will eat a Walkers product EVERY DAY.

The modules involved for implementation and customization are OPM

Inventory, OA Inventory, OPM process Planning, OPM Costing, Formula

Management.

1 Role: Project Leader

Preparing the requirement specification and design documents for

enhancement request and new reports across all modules.

Offshore co ordination for progress on development progress monitoring and

functional inputs for customization development

Ensuring the testing and delivery of all the customization

CRP, Production Setup, and Go Live /Post Go live support

Global Support for Oracle 11i OPM/OM/PURCHASING/ Financials

HEMPEL Pte. Ltd, Singapore

Aug '02 - April '03

Description

The first HEMPEL factory was opened in 1915 in Denmark. Today, the Group

has grown to become a world-wide enterprise comprising three research and

development facilities, 24 manufacturing plants, 128 sales offices and more

than 160 stock points strategically situated on all five continents. The

product ranges from Marine paints, protective Paints, Container Paints,

Decorative paints and Yacht Paints.

The modules involved for support are OPM Inventory, OA Inventory, OPM

process Execution, OPM process planning, Account receivable, Account

Payable, cash management and Order Management. The instance is MULTI org

enabled with two operating units, one for Singapore and One for Korea. I

was responsible for OPM and Distribution onsite support. There was offshore

support for Finance.

2 Role: Senior Consultant -Onsite Coordinator/ ROLL-OUT lead Consultant

Client Interfacing

On site Bug fixing for OPM and Distribution modules incidents

Preparing the requirement specification and design documents for

enhancement request and new reports across all modules.

OPM and GL reconciliation, costing

Offshore co ordination for progress on bug tracking, progress monitoring

and functional inputs for incidents

Ensuring the testing and delivery of all the bugs raised in time line.

Solution testing that included unit testing, system testing and in the

process of CRP2 acceptance testing.

Rollout E biz for Malaysia manufacturing Plant

Key user training and documentation.

REPORT DEVELOPMENT OPM/OM/Financial 11i. (11.5.3)

HEMPEL Pet. Ltd, Singapore

April '02 - July '02

Description

The first HEMPEL factory was opened in 1915 in Denmark. Today, the Group

has grown to become a world-wide enterprise comprising three research and

development facilities, 24 manufacturing plants, 128 sales offices and more

than 160 stock points strategically situated on all five continents. The

product ranges from Marine paints, protective Paints, Container Paints,

Decorative paints and Yacht Paints.

The modules involved for development were OPM Inventory, OA Inventory, OPM

process Execution, OPM process planning, Account receivable, Account

Payable, cash management and Order Management. The reports were developed

on Discoverer 3.1 and Reports 6i

Role:

Implementation involved

User Requirement Study and specification, Solution Design.

Building test cases

Testing for completeness and accuracy

End-user acceptance.

IMPLEMENTATION OF ORACLE PROCESS MANUFACTURING 11i

ITC Agro tech, Hyderabad India

July 2001 - March 2002

Description:

ITC Agro-Tech, 51% subsidiary of ConAgra the world's fourth largest food

company, has been

re-christened as AgroTech Foods Limited. The company's key businesses

include oilseeds and edible oil and branded packaged food products. The

company's branded oil business and has host of packaged food products under

the parent Conagra's well-known brands - Healthy World and Act II. The

company has 19 manufacturing plants (Own/Leased) across India and has a

strong distribution network with more than 60 stock points.

The objective of the project was to seamlessly integrate (Manufacturing,

Distribution and financial) all the business entities for updated supply

chain information and guided decision-making.

3 Role: Functional Consultant

Implementation involved

Business Process Study, User Requirement Study, Gap Analysis, Process

Mapping and Solution Design. An extensive training for the end-users was

carried out.

CRP testing was carried out in coordination with the end-users.

Requirements not being met by the standard product were customized.

Data migration from the legacy systems was done through Interfaces.

Giving suggestions for improvement in the business processes of the client

was also part of the implementation

Handled the entire life cycle implementation of OPM Inventory, OPM Physical

Inventory, OPM Process Planning (MRP/MPS), OPM product development.

Customization and implementation of Rebate calculation for Rebate on in

coming raw material quality Systems (Customized Module for PURCHASING).

Suggestions given for business process improvements and accepted by the

client.

Supported the Purchasing post implementation for refining the clients

requirement

Global-e-procure

ISPAT Industries Ltd. Mumbai India

March 2001 - May 2001

Description:

Integration of E-procure suite with SAP and upgrading the offline module of

E-procure from Access executable to VB6. DLL. The EAI bridge would be

called through this DLL from SQL Server using extended stored procedure.

This would integrate the modules of E-procure suite with a third party

solution

Role: Team Leader

Study the existing architecture and the design of the application.

Detail design of the interface

Integration testing

Sales and Distribution and ERP

Milton Plastics Ltd. Mumbai India

July 2000 - March 2001

Description:

Milton Plastics is in the business of manufacturing Plastic House hold

items such as Water bottles, Casseroles and lunch packs with more than 60%

market share in India. It has 3 manufacturing facility and 16 stock points

for distribution.

The project deals with connecting the C&F-dealer distributor distribution

network of client spread across the country to the Head office located at

Mumbai and the manufacturing plants at Bombay, Pune and Daman. The network

of C&F and distributor would access the application locally with

replication of data at regular intervals from Head Office.

Distribution planning and manufacturing planning

Receipts and Distribution of goods at C&F

Invoicing and payment collection at C&F and at HO

Finance and accounts

Sales promotion analysis and sales force daily sales reports

Distributors accounts payable, credit / debit note, claim management

Role: Project Leader

Macro level business study at plants and the distribution channel.

Devise a prototype for the proposed model using NetObjects

Detail business study as is and business process re-engineering

Prepare SRS

Facilitate team members for preparing Functional Road Map, Technical

Architecture

Preparation of Use Cases, Sequence diagram, DFDs and IR diagrams using

Rational Rose

Design and develop database

Plan, Monitor and control project progress

Prepare and Conduct UAT test plan

Sales Force Automation and CRM

Product - Gold Mine and ACT 2000

TATA housing, BNP bank, Mumbai, India.

Jan '2000 - June'2000

Description:

Maintain Prospect / Client database and track transaction history

Plan and control activities for sales force and their efficiency evaluation

Mass mailing and auto mailing

Role: Team Member

Customization Analysis and SRS

Testing

Implementation & End user training

Project Planner

Hindustan Dorr Oliver (I) Ltd. Mumbai, India.

Aug '98 - Jan ' 99(6 months)

Description:

Maintain all Technical and Commercial details and their subsequent

revisions of purchase order of Client

Maintain detail BOM of Equipment for invoicing

Maintain invoice values for items in BOM

Forecast and actual monthly shipment reports

Progress reports on projects

Planning reports (Vendor wise, item wise and Job wise)

Reports for design action pending and purchase action pending

Invoicing (Performa and actual invoices)

Role: Team Member

Design table structures, forms and reports for this module

Coding,

Testing, Bug Fixing

Implementation and User Training

Functional experience:

Employer GTL limited

End-To-End IT Solution Provider

Designation Consultant

Duration March 2001 - April 2002

Scope study, "As is" and "Would be" scenario for Key business processes for

Oracle Apps

Conduct scope demo for Oracle Apps and E-procure suite

Prepare Functional road map, technical architecture, integration points for

E-procure

Estimate Man months and prepare Project Plan

Implemented Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM Inventory, OPM Product

Development, OPM Process Execution, OPM Process Planning and OPM Sys-

Admin.)

Employer Hindustan Dorr Oliver (I) Ltd. Bombay. India

Project Consultants for Solid Liquid Separation processes

Designation Engineer

Duration March'96 - Dec '99 (3 years and 10months)

2 Engineering Functions & Responsibilities:

Project appraisal (Commercial and Technical)

Project execution, scheduling & project monitoring using software Yojana.

Yojana is project management package.

Forecast shipment, Cross functional Coordination, Vendor control,

Invoicing and Despatch

Employer Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., Automotive Division, Bombay. India

Designation Engineer (Campus Recruitment)

Duration Oct'94 - Feb '96 (1 year 5 months)

Functions & Responsibilities:

Manpower planning, Troubleshooting during shifts, Cross functional

Coordination

Updating production status on MAPPICS

EDUCATION:

3 B.E. Production from University Of Bombay, 1994.

TRAINING

4 Training Attended/Conducted:

Training courses Attended

Oracle Apps (11i) at Oracle Education for following modules

WIP and Manufacturing Scheduling, Supply Chain

Costing, Quality

Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM)

Configurator

12 weeks course on JAVA At NIIT

14 weeks course on BAAN At NITIE

Training course Conducted:

ASCP fundamentals at Oracle Education

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