Sales Project Manager

Srinath Rao, **** Park place circle, round rock, tx-78681 Austin, Texas

*********@*****.*** 512-***-****

SAP Project Manger

Project Manager Manufacturing Expert Global

Executive Highlights:

SAP professional with 19 years SAP project experience.

Managed projects in North America, India, China, Japan, and EU.

Focused expertise in SAP’s Sales, Distribution and Materials Management modules.

Known for innovative problem solving cost and time effective solutions.

Deep experience as team lead and mentor.

Collaborate with functional heads to identify business ‘pain points’ and strategize to ensure critical business requirements are addressed.

Communicates at multiple levels to gain buy in at top levels and can be hands on teacher with subordinates.

Sound operational skills.

Chemical engineering degree and expected MBA next year.

Multi-lingual with strong communication skills.

Leadership History

Thermo Fisher Scientific – Austin, Texas August 2000 to October 2015

Program and Application Management, Project Manager, SAP

Implemented SAP solutions as a part of business transformation initiatives of several business units. These include:

1.Shared service centers in India, China, Japan and several EU countries.

2.Manufacturing facilities in North America including warehousing and distribution features.

Roles and responsibilities

Identifying key stake holders within the business to ensure key business issues are identified. The project deliverables are aligned to address these issues.

Providing regular updates to the business leads and seeking inputs in a proactive manner.

Ensure cohesive working of the various teams so as to provide maximum value to the business.

Responsible for addressing the project’s steering committee to get risky situations redressed.

Key Achievements:

Led and completed European Shared Services implementation project.

oTotal project cost was $ 2.5 Million

oLed resources in the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France, Spain, and Germany

oResponsible for sales and distribution module requirements gathering, configuration, testing, user training and maser data coordination.

oThis project streamlined intercompany operations across these countries.

oThe project culminated in the following benefits to the company :

Savings in inventory of $ 700,000 per year

Reduced order processing cycle time by 1.5 days thus improving employee productivity

Improved freight cost tracking and collections to the tune of $ 250,000 per year.

Led the sales and distribution team during the implementation of SAP in Japan.

oTotal project cost was $ 1.8 Million

oStandardized order entry and shipping processes for 4 business units

oProvided visibility to special dealer pricing processes

oCost Savings achieved

Improved sales order ‘turn around’ cycle leading to about $ 250,000 per year increase

Inventory reductions leading to cost savings of $100,000 per year

Improved control and visibility on customer discounts resulting in $150,000 savings per year.

Led and completed two projects implementing SAP for the India operations. These projects have resulted in streamlining business processes and improving productivity across the India organization.

oConsolidated working of 5 legacy systems within SAP

oIntroduced country India version (CIN) – thus facilitating excise transactions

oFirst major initiative for Thermo India

oImproved inventory handling and count accuracy by more than 50%

oRationalized master data thus improving data handling discipline

oImplemented APO thus improving forecast efficiency

oProject involved 3 manufacturing units and 17 stocking locations across the country

oCost Savings

CIN helped on-time capturing of ‘Excise’ tax – a regulatory mandate.

Reduced inventory errors resulting in savings of $100,000 per year.

Reduced order cycle times hence inventory turn around – savings of $ 150,000 per year.

Reduced customer returns and this helped save $50,000 per year.

Streamlined SAP related operations in China.

Led the Implementation for an FDA regulated facility in Los Angeles, California

oThis involved manufacturing, sales, distribution, finance, quality management and warehouse modules

oTransitioned the business unit to a standard product cost accounting mechanism. This meant re-engineering critical data objects.

oEnd to end batch traceability with quality checks during manufacturing and shipping processes

o Interfaced label generating software with SAP.

oSetup hand held devices for the shop floor operations

Helped Standardized SAP implementation methodology as a member of the Global SAP Template Development Team.

oDefined standard configuration settings for the SD module. This helped establish best practices and hence shortened implementation cycle time.

oDesigned methodology and documentation to establish standards for testing and training

oEstablished standards for key inter modular design features

Senior SAP Consultant – Austin, Texas October 1995 to August 2000

Contracted to Cyber Tech International and Softline Consulting

Established sales and service modules of SAP for clients in various industrial sectors: computer hardware, food processing and analytical instrumentation for health sciences.

Key Achievements:

Implemented SAP for a computer hardware manufacturer. Standardized their sales, procurement and quality control processes.

Streamlined quality control processes for food manufacturer using SAP.

Led the sales and distribution module group during the SAP implementation at a health sciences analytical instruments company.

Asian Paints Ltd – India 1990 to 1995

Production Executive

Established credentials as one of the organization’s effective production executives in the area of Resin manufacturing. Spearheaded several initiatives which improved manufacturing efficiencies leading to reduced costs.

Key Achievements:

Installed and commissioned a new paint manufacturing unit, resulting in cost savings for the organization. Benefits realized were equivalent of $100,000 per year.

Gained expertise in trouble shooting resin manufacturing processes. Streamlined the resin plant operations of the company’s second indigenously setup unit.

Developed leadership team now heading operations at several leading organizations.

Previous Employers in India

Marico INDUSTRIES, Galaxy SURFACTANTS, Standard Alkali

Production Manager, Works Manager, Shift-in-charge

Educational Background

University of Texas, Dallas 2014 – 2016

Pursuing an Executive MBA degree. Expected to graduate in May, 2016

Mumbai University, India. Department of Chemical Technology 1978 - 1982

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering

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