Profile Summary

About Ten years of varied experience in Supply Chain Management and Logistics, with focus on Project Management, Procurement & Inventory Management

Extensive experience on end to end SAP ECC implementations in the modules of Master Data, Materials Management (SAP MM) and Warehouse Management (SAP WM), and SAP Retail Industry Solution (IS-Retail)

Project Lead & Trainer for ARIS Business Designer 7.1 for Business Process Blueprinting and Process Modeling for clients across industry sectors

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI, USA

Authored white papers on “Best Practices for Business Process Modeling” and new SAP functions such as Advanced Returns Management

Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) with a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering

Education

VINOD GUPTA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, IIT KHARAGPUR – Kharagpur, India

Master in Business Administration (Operations) CGPA: 8.86/10.0

THAPAR INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY – Patiala, India

Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Engineering) CGPA: 8.18/10.0

Employment History

DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP

SAP TECHNOLOGIES – Senior Consultant June 2009 – Present (7 years)

Responsibilities include:

Leading the project team workshops for the various business processes in the supply chain domain, including material, vendor and allied master data, procurement processes and inventory management

Assess the business processes and finalize the to-be business process design, in coordination with other teams and legal & compliance departments

Develop the design and functional specification documents for processes that deviate from the standard SAP system, including service procurement, custom reports & forms for French specific developments and concepts such as Positive Pay

Finalize the specific details of all master data and coordinate with the development team for data extraction, cleansing and transformation, with tools such as Informatica MDM

Coordinate with the technical team for the timely development of various custom development objects and end-to-end business scenario testing

Experience with RF devices and working through the overall Logistics processes

Extensive experience in working with master data conversions

Extensive experience with handling interfaces between SAP ECC and other legacy systems such as Manhattan, i2 DM/SCP, Red Prairie and KNAPP along with EDI interfaces

Experience in configuration of over 30 plants and 15 warehouses in a single project system

Project

Role

Duration

Industry Sector

Location

Avnet Electronics NA

Procure to Pay Lead

22 months (July 2014 - Present)

Hi-Tech Distribution Industry

Phoenix, Arizona

Glazer’s North America

Plan to Deliver Lead

1.5 years (Jan 2013 – Jun 2014)

Food & Beverages Distribution Industry

Dallas, Texas

Clarks North America

Master data and Logistics

11 months (Jan 2011 – Nov 2012)

Apparel & Footwear Industry

Boston, Massachusetts

Suncor Energy

Supply Chain & Accounts Payables

1.5 years (April 2010 – Oct 2011)

Oil & Gas Industry – Upstream

Offshore

CareFusion

Procure to Pay

2 months (Feb 2010 – April 2010)

Healthcare Industry

San Diego, California

Airgas, Inc.

Supply Chain

6 months (Aug 2009 – Jan 2010)

Utilities Industry

Offshore

MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LIMITED – GURGAON, INDIA

PROJECTS DIVISION - Assistant Manager June 2004 – July 2007 (3 years)

Capital Procurement for new Projects – Sourcing for equipment for new projects

Cost Analysis and Product Costing - Cost comparison to procure equipment through local and alternate suppliers and in-house costing for new models.

Project Management - Monitoring of Project schedules, budget utilization & deviations

ERP Implementation – Led the business team for processes related to procurement, coordinating user acceptance and testing and assessing future training needs for employees.

Improvements in Existing processes – Application of stand-alone IT applications to ensure correct accounting for Project expenditure and Model costing.

Risk Assessment – Assessing risks involved in the various supply chain business processes including Budgeting, Procurement, ERP implementation and Inventory Management.

Key Achievements:

Achieved a cost saving of INR 103 million (USD 1.6M) through cost analysis and control

Achieved a cost saving of 56% through analysis of sourcing of capital equipment and components for one of the new projects

Awarded as ‘Employee of the Quarter’ – for the quarter ended September 2006

Other Projects

Performance Cockpit – Helped develop a BI dashboard to help monitor the various metrics as per SCOR guidelines to evaluate the business performance.

Procurement Process Effectiveness – Modification of existing Terms and Conditions of Contract to remove redundancies and change the document.

ERP Process Improvement – Ensuring the ERP process improvement and removing most loop holes within three months of implementation

Other Achievements

Founder member of ‘Shraddha’ – a non-profit organization to help a school carry out self-sustaining activities in Kharagpur, India – Raised over INR 200,000 in 2 years and helped develop a self-sustaining model.

Received two “Outstanding Achievement” awards and various appreciations for exemplary teamwork and leadership at critical junctures on the client engagements.

Lead organizer for various social campaigns / drives throughout as a student and as a professional.

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