Management Supply Chain
Resume:
Kiran Thali
**********@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/pub/kiran-thali/6/360/953
Executive Summary
• 14 years of experience in providing solutions and having complete Project life cycle experience in
implementation, support, gap analysis and customizations in Oracle applications
• Oracle E Business Suite R12.1 Supply Chain Management Certified Implementation
Specialist: Order Management
• Functional Analyst for Oracle Applications R12 and 11i, having expertise in Supply Chain
Application - Order Management, Shipping Execution, Advanced Pricing, Configurator, Inventory
and BOM
• Extensive experience in requirement gathering, documenting, business process flow preparations
and project implementation
• Experienced in Full life cycle implementation going through Development, Conference Room Pilot
(CRP), System Integration testing (SIT), User Acceptance Test (UAT) and Production, User
Training, go-live and post go-live Support. Completed one upgrade / support project from 11i to
R12.
• Highly proficient in translating Business Requirements into Functional specification Design or High
Level Design Document (MD50), Business Requirement Documents (BR.035), Business Gap
Analysis Document (BR.010), Business Setup Document (BR.100), Functional Specification
(MD.050), Business Test Document (TE.020). Familiar with Oracle SOA and B2B Technologies.
• Experience in handling RICE components and testing functionality (Reports, Interfaces,
Conversions and Extensions).
• Very good analyzing capabilities, communication skills, team building skills to add value cross
functionally.
Skills Summary
• Oracle Applications Modules: OM, AR, Shipping, Advance Pricing, Purchasing, Inventory, BOM
• Oracle Application Releases: 11.5.5,11.5.8 and 11.5.9, and R12
• Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Progress
• Methodologies & Documents: Oracle’s Applications Implementation Methodology (AIM)
• Productivity Applications: MS Office, MS Visio
Experience:
VMware Technologies, Palo Alto, CA
March 2013 – till date
VMware, Inc. is an American software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and
services.
Role: Business Analyst
Activities:
• Working in the Bookings and Commissions team to understand and support the change requests in
Oracle 11i. My role is coordinating with the business users and the off shore technical team to
deliver enhancements and solution design.
• The activities involves the understanding of the business requirements of the users in extracting the
data from the EBS in order to analyze it further for paying commissions to the sales representatives
and the channel partners.
• Understanding the business requirements and documenting the same into FRDs. Hold JAD
sessions with the business users for understanding the business requirements and seeking
clarifications as necessary. After functional requirement document sign off from the business, taking
it up with the development team so as to deliver the business requirement.
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• Handling the customization, conversion, and integration testing and delivering the end user training.
• Application analysis, developing testing strategy, and providing Test case Planning &
design for all testing in full Test life cycle.
• Sending weekly reports and updates to business managers and IT managers
Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant, North Carolina
December 2012 – Feb 2013
Rocky Mount Engine Plant (RMEP) is part of Cummins Inc., a global power leader, incorporating
complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related
technologies and electrical power generation systems.
Role: Functional Lead – Order Management, WMS and Manufacturing
Activities:
• Role of Lead Functional Consultant for Inventory, Order Management, Shipping Execution,
Finance (AR) and Advanced Pricing
• Project deliverable involves the understanding the functionality of the plant to be relocated
and designing it to fit in the existing set up at RMEP
• Gather business requirements and propose solution considering the global processes at
Cummins Inc.
• As a part onsite-offshore model co-ordination with offshore technical development team for
RICE components
• Developing the functional documents as per Oracle AIM methodology
• Provide support and coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) including the creation and
updating of test scripts.
Cummins Generator Technologies, Fridley, Minnesota USA
May 2012 – Nov 2012
Cummins Generator Technologies is part of Cummins Inc.,
Role: Business Analyst – Order Management, Purchasing, Inventory and Finance
Activities:
• Responsible for the entire IT Business Analysis related to the Cummins Generator Technologies
(CGT) of the Americas.
• Successfully carried out the upgrade from 11i to R12 in May 12.
• Responsible for identifying cross functional dependencies and issues
• Worked closely with the development team on all application enhancement requests and bug fixing
• Provided post production support for Order Management, Purchasing and Inventory
• Render first point of contact for customer support during business and non-business hours to meet
customer support for Order Management, Purchasing, Finance (AR) and Inventory
• Job involves, working with multiple teams including the production support team, the OBIEE team,
the client business users in Customer services, Sales, Finance, Engineering and Warehouse.
• Responsible for reporting of the activities and issues to the management team in US and UK.
Cummins Power Generators, Fridley, Minnesota USA
Nov 2010 – Apr 2012
Cummins Power Generation, a division of Cummins Inc., is a world leader in the design and manufacture of
power generation equipment, including PowerCommand standby and prime power systems.
Role: Business Analyst (IT)
Activities:
• Involved in planning and implementing the upgrade to 12.1.3
• Performed the AS-IS and Gap Fit analysis
• Created BR100 and MD50
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• Provided support for O2C process
• Client communication, coordination and issue management
Cummins Power Generators, Fridley, Minnesota USA
Jul 2010 – Oct 2010
Role: Functional Consultant – Support
Activities:
• Rendered Production support in Order management, Configurator, Finance and Advance Pricing
• Updating and validating the BR100
• Responsible for tracking all issues and prioritize depending on the key business areas and time
constraints
• Created service requests with Oracle support and conducted online web conferences to resolve the
issue
Pratibha Industries Limited, Mumbai India
Dec 2007 – Feb 2009
Pratibha Industries Limited, the flagship company of the Pratibha Group is dedicated and committed to
providing the society at large with quality infrastructure.
Role: Business Analyst
Activities:
• Worked as Functional Analyst (implementation 11i)
• Analyzed the current business processes and performed Gap analysis to map user requirements to
Oracle apps functionality
• Performed a walkthrough of the TO-BE business flows
• Reviewed the implication of the functional decisions being made during the set up processes
• Involved in feasibility analysis of integrating oracle functionality and legacy system
• Setting up of complete order cycle setups from order entry in OM to ship confirm in shipping
execution
• Defined Price Lists, Modifiers and qualifiers for different orders and customers in Advance Pricing
• Involved in planning and execution of CRPs
• Prepared training documents for business users
• Participated in User Acceptance Training (UAT) planning
• Designed UAT test cases for various scenarios
• Conducted meetings for planning and cutover and go live phase
MAN Industries (India) Limited, Mumbai India Dec 2007 – Jan
2009
MAN Industries Limited, the flagship company of the MAN Group is a company providing SAW pipes and
coating solutions to the Oil and Gas Industry.
Job Title: Assistant General Manager
Hindalco Industries Limited (Foil & Packaging Business) Thane India Mar 2000 – Nov 2007
Hindalco Industries Limited, the metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group is the world's largest
aluminum rolling company and one of the biggest producers of primary aluminum in Asia.
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Job Title: Analyst
Education
• Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Power), KDK College of Engineering, Nagpur
University, India, 1999 in First Class
References: Available on request
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