Venu Bandla Resume phone: 630-***-****
Venu G. Bandla
abnjlj@r.postjobfree.com
CAREER PROFILE:
Demonstrated ability to successfully plan, design and implement Supply chain
projects, specifically in Demand Planning, Replenishment, Transportation and
Warehouse management.
Proven Ability in Systems Evaluation/ Needs assessment and coming up with
creative solutions.
Excellent track record in completing projects on time and within budget.
Ability to Simplify business processes and to streamline operations.
Extensive experience in delivering Supply Chain projects (8 years) for top
Consumer Packaged Goods companies (ConAgra Foods and Kraft Foods) with
14 years of overall experience in designing, developing and managing IT
projects.
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Solution Architect/Consultant
KRAFT Foods 2006 - 2009
• Successfully implemented Demand Forecasting for Canada market by
integrating the market into ADF (Advanced Demand Forecast) system
(Manugistics SCPO). This resulted in significant forecast accuracy
improvement for Canada market compared to existing legacy forecasting tool.
• Fine tuned short term forecast (Short term Pacing) for US market by
implementing a cutting-edge demand-sensing tool, Terra Technologies’ DS
resulting in significant short-term forecast accuracy improvement obviating
the necessity of too much Planner’s involvement for managing short-term
pacing.
• Responsible for design and implementation of VMI forecast (Vendor Managed
Inventory forecast) for France market into ADF system.
• Responsible for improving the functionality of ADF and APS (Advanced
Planning and Scheduling) systems.
Supply Chain Consultant
ConAgra Foods 2001 - 2006
• Successfully Designed and implemented Integration of SAP ERP, TMS
(Manugistics 6.x) and WMS (RedPrairie Process) systems for SAP Order-to-
Cash ERP implementation (Release 1).
• Responsible for designing and developing the interfaces between ERP,
Transportation and Warehouse management systems resulting in seamless
transaction communication.
• Successfully synchronized master data between SAP, TMS and WMS systems
for SAP implementation project.
• Successfully handled system integration for 3 new Dry and TCDN Mixing
Centers.
• Responsible for defining, capturing, measuring and distributing Key
Performance Indicators (KPI) Reports for Logistics division.
• Designed and Developed a Reporting System for Logistics for capturing KPI
and distributed the reports using Crystal Enterprise Dash board.
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Technical Lead
Whittman-Hart, Inc 1997 - 2001
• Designed and developed Respiratory Asset Tracking and Billing Application for
a pharmaceutical services company. This is a mobile computing application,
with the company technicians having the tracking application on their laptops
and visiting the nursing homes, scanning equipment and usage and
replicating the data with central server frequently. The billing is done on the
central server.
• Administered SQL Server database for a financial services company.
• Designed, developed and implemented a financial subsystem that was used to
fill the gaps in functionality between the original system on the AS/400 and
the package software purchased to replace the existing system.
• Developed a number of custom reports for an insurance company using
Crystal Reports and SQL Server’s Transact-SQL.
Sr. Programmer Analyst/Consultant
The Coca-Cola Company 1995 - 1997
• Designed, developed and tested a “Financial Accounts Payable Processing
System” (FSAPPS) that automated a large portion of the manual A/P voucher
process that the user was required to perform monthly.
• Installed SQL Server RDBMS and designed logical and physical database and
implemented database design. Responsible for security, backup and recovery,
tuning and troubleshooting.
• Designed and developed the “Check Transmission” application, which was
used to transmit check distribution information to CITI Bank.
• Designed and developed an “AS/400 to SQL Server Vendor Account Transfer
System” that transferred the vendor and account number information from
AS/400 to SQL Server tables using RUMBA File Transfer.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
System Architecture, Integration, Interfaces
Project Management
Supply Chain Software: Manugistics SCPO, Manugistics Transport,
Terra technologies DS, Red Prairie WMS, SAP
Platforms: Windows, UNIX, AS/400
Languages: Visual Basic, SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL
RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server
Report Writer: Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise
EDUCATION:
Master of Science in Computer Science, Western Michigan University, 1993- 1995.
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications, Andhra University, India.
CERTIFICATION:
Pursuing Certification in Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
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