Project Manager Supply Chain
Resume:
Saroj Kumar Maharana
acxrgw@r.postjobfree.com
At a Glance
Project Manager with 11+ years of experience, successfully delivered large, complex ERP/Oracle projects. Proven experience in Consulting and Business analysis with excellent communication skills. Proficient in leveraging resources and leadership to implement best in class results.
Currently working in General Electric Appliances in Louisville, KY as a Project Manager and Simplification/Automation Lead. Prior to GE, I worked for Fisher Valve of Emerson, World’s top Control Valves Manufacturing Company as Manufacturing and SCM Lead Consultant for Oracle e-business suite Implementation, rollout and support.
Solid background in manufacturing and supply chain management with emphasis in quality, continuous improvement and on-time delivery. Focus on strategic planning to improve areas of greatest concern and deliver results through successful implementation and enahncements.
Gained expertise on ERP implementations by working on 4 full life cycle ERP implementation projects of Oracle E Business Suite that includes activities like System Landscape study, Requirements Gathering, Scoping, Fitment Analysis, Business Process design, Product Configuration and Custom Solutions Design, Development and Deployment.
An Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist (INV, OM,PO) with Broad/deep business process experience: Discrete Manufacturing (WIP, BOM, PIM, INV, QUALITY), Supply Chain (Order-to-Cash, Procurement-to-Pay),Costing, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) and Warehouse Management System (WMS).
Complete end to end R12/R11i Implementation, Support, Rollout project experience
Expert in solutioning and designing various Integrations with 3rd party systems to Oracle EBS.
Experience in Presales and client presentations
Education, Certification, Awards and recognition Details
Education
BE in Mechanical Engineering, Biju Pattanaik University, Orissa, India
Certification
and
Trainings
Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist R12: Oracle Order Management
Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist R12: Oracle Purchasing
Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist R12: Oracle Inventory
Oracle Financial 11i
Awarded by Pat on the back award many times.
Professional Experience
Role Summary
TechMahindra (2014 to Till Date ) – Project Manager
Infosys Technology Ltd – (2008 to 2014) – Senior Consultant
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (2004 to 2008) – Business Analyst
Work Experience
Project Management and Leadership
Leveraged functional, industry and ERP knowledge to develop value propositions, define project scope and schedules to balance business needs.Estimated work effort, skills/resource requirements and developed high level as well as detailed project plans.
Solid understanding of implementation methodology. Experience with adopting and customizing methodology and tools to meet project objectives.
Strength in disciplined project execution through well-defined processes for all of the following dimensions of project management: Scope, Schedule, Resources, Status, Risks, Issues and Quality.
As a solution architect and Simplification/Automation Lead, ensured professional development of staff. which includes ongoing coaching, mentoring, individual strength and development assessment, performance reviews and internal communication. Lead competency development and knowledge management efforts.
Functional and Technical Expertise
As a Project Manager, Solution architect and Simplificatio/Automation Lead performed business process reengineering, as-is/to-be modeling, functional mapping, gap analysis/resolution. Identified business drivers. Designed, configured, prototyped well thought out, robust solutions. Communicated solutions at all levels. Designed integration across systems, custom enhancements, reports, interfaces/conversions, rollout strategies and Testing environment setup – SIT and User Acceptance Tests (UAT).
The breadth of functional experience includes supply chain, procure to pay, materials management (inventory and warehouse management), make-to-order, engineer-to-order configuration. Good understanding of financial accounting and reporting.
The Oracle module experience includes expertise in INV, OM, WIP, BOM, PO, PIM,EAM,QUALITY, COSTING, WMS and ASCP. I also have technical understanding PL/SQL, Form personalization and Workflow.
This breadth as well as depth of experience enables me to lead all aspects of business and technology projects with first hand appreciation for issues and solutions as well gain respect of clinets and team members.
Projects
Release : R1.2.5
Implementation and Post production Support
Home Appliances, Manufacturing Industry
Role : Project Manager
Louisville, KY
General Electric Home Appliance Implementation, Support and Rollout (2014- Present)
Mr. Saroj working as Solution Architect - EBS R12.2.5 Supply chain and Discrete Manufacturing is responsible for
Currently managing large full life cycle Oracle EBS implementation to support procure-to-pay, Manufacturing, Order to Cash, Standard Costing, WMS and ASCP.
Activities include supporting existing Plants and rolling-out the solution to new plants, developing enhancements, testing, process optimization and Solution design
As Simplification/Automation lead made Simplifications in Supply Chain process to benefits business more than 50K hours and more than 10.5 million dollar value for Business.
Designed and developed 3rd party tool Derby Accells integration with Oracle for Consignement Process with Supplier.
Re-Designed third party MES tool iQMS integration with Oracle for shop floor execution
First point of contact for all Material Manager, BOM Specialist, Master Scheduler and Finance Analyst from all five existing plant running in Oracle ERP+ for any critical ERP issues which impact plant function.
Troubleshooting and fixing the issues on Oracle setups and transactional issues- third party Integration for Sourcing (Consigned Inventory), third party MES tool Proficy and Cimplicity integration with Oracle Manufacturing and improving the overall ERP+ processes by Simplification and automation.
Develped critical costing report (Model cost and DMP report) to help business decision on part variance and model variance
Worked on more than 25 CEMLI’s to improve Supply chain management (SCM) and Order ship billing (OSB) processses.
Worked on critical production issues which includes correcting the Plant forecast demand for their finished goods, integration issues with third party MES shop floor execution system with Oracle EBS, interacting with plant super users (Material Manager, Master Scheduler and BOM Specialist) to solve high critical issues avoiding potential plant shutdown, Root cause analysis and making Simplification/automation to avoid repetitive issues.
Suceessfuly setup Cycle Count program in Oracle ERP which helped in maintaning accurate Inventory in all GE Appliaance Plants.
Leveraging leadership skills and industry/product knowledge in Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management, Wrok In Process, Bills of Material, Costing, WMS and ASCP to lead issue resolution at project level.
Release : R11.5.10
Implementation and Post production Support
ETO Valves Manufacturing Industry
Marshalltown, IA
Sherman, TX
Fisher Valves, Emerson Process Management EPM 11i Support and enhancement of existing Process (Global Implementation) (2012 - 2014)
Mr. Saroj worked as Senior Consultant and was responsible for
Lead the full life cycle implementation and Support of Oracle EBS R11i Manufacturing and SCM modules along third party Integration of Oracle with Proplanner for routing creation .
Developed, modified and Executed Application Setup Documents for INV,OM,PO, BOM, WIP, COSTING and WMS.
Worked on core setups, interface configurations, requirement definition, and fit/gap analysis.
Ensure that any Oracle integration into other systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, interface specifications and is in direct correlation with overall IT strategy.
Successfully executed CRP1, CRP2, and UAT and provided post production support for the end users after go-live.
Research, troubleshoot, and resolve issues that arise in the production system including data inconsistencies, unexpected error messages and daily close exceptions. Provided first level support for the Manufacturing and Planning Applications, interacting daily with end users.
Value Stream Assignment solution in accordance with the Lean philosophy
Custom work reporting is designed to enable the shop floor operators to capture the various work- related data efficiently.
Custom WIP job form solution to provide Additional information like sales order number, sales order rep number, line number, project, Kanban, schedule group, planner, setup time, cumulative run time, released date, start date, completion date, projected completion date, OSP PO linked to the WIP job etc. which is frequently required in manufacturing.
Online dispatch list solution to manage work to be released to work centers (Resources)
Oracle-Proplanner Interface solution to managing and prioritizing machining routing creation work queue and on time Sales Order delivery.
Notification based (paperless) new item creation process
Missing structure program to put the trade orders on scheduling hold when the structure is not complete in the shipping organization
Quality collection plan are deigned considering Global (all site) requirements and used across the manufacturing plants
Release : R12.1
Implementation
Utility Industry
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Oracle R12 e-business suite Implementation project for Orissa Power Transmission Corporation Limited (2010-2011)
Mr. Saroj worked as Solution architect and was responsible for
Provided solution for complex Operation and Maintenance of linear assets like Extra High Tension lines and analyze load flow and voltage profile of Extra High Tension Lines, Asset Tracking and movement of Assets across multiple organizations.
Provide solution to overcome challenges faced by transmission companies due to their nature of work, widespread Geographical presence, systems that are created around manual processes and lack of information for decision making
Provided solutions which not only automates the manual processes but also standardizes the processes being followed across the organization which helped client to streamlined Customer Operations, better management of energy demand and supply, accurate analysis and forecasting, Accurate settlement and billing, Efficient management of on hand inventory, view of stock across network and better network performance
Release : R12.1
Implementation
Oil and Gas Industry
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Implementation of oracle R12 e-business suite for Oil and Gas Rig Maintenance Company Remedial Offshore (2004-2008)
Mr. Saroj worked as Sr. Consultant and was responsible for
Worked closely with external vendors in setup and functional gap analysis,
Identified required RICE components and guided the team to deliver the components.
Created inbound, outbound interfaces and conversions for PO, INV modules with costing.
Responsible for Month end closing and nightly Batch jobs.
Developed, modified and Executed Application Setup Documents (BR.100) for PO, INV,BOM, WIP
Trained Business Users and involved in documentation of user support documents
Monitor and fix errors in interfaces, research the reason for errors, fixing the issue and reprocessing data.
Gathered end-user specifications and work with Development team to deliver system customization and enhancement requests.
Worked on critical production issues, which includes interacting with users, Root cause analysis, Data fix and Patch Impact Analysis.
Gathered requirements from users/gap analysis, setup of the application and training users/developers with the use of application functionalities, worked with other functional applications lead with regards to setup/patching issues and also working with the DBA and developers to identify and address custom needs of the client.
Participate in workshops with clients in the design, configuration, and conversion of the financial management application.
Performed systems integration testing and support user acceptance testing
Provided solution for Client business challenges to map and support Assets like Elevated Support Vessels (ESV) which move across geographies and have innumerable child assets and Integration of Oracle eAM with the Oracle Certified Mobile Disconnected Solution Partner “Venture forth”.
Design/development of Disconnected Solution which is easy to use and used from the Rigs even when satellite connection is not available
Better cost and budgetary controls with ability to drill down costs to the individual resource and material level using oracle projects.
Ensure 24/7 system support to the Rig irrespective of connectivity challenges enabling business continuity
Release : 11.5.10
Post production Support
Manufacturing Industry
Hyderabad, India
Support Project for Agilent Technologies, USA (2004-2008)
Mr. Saroj worked as Business Analyst and was responsible for
Involved in the full life cycle implementation of Oracle EBS Manufacturing modules.
Developed, modified and Executed Application Setup Documents (BR.100) for INV, Costing, BOM, WIP
Worked on core setups, interface configurations, requirement definition, and fit/gap analysis.
Assigned employee-user responsibilities, menu structures, security profiles
Defined and implemented, organizational hierarchies, security profiles, security report groups, and responsibilities.
Provided end-user support and training for INV, BOM, WIP and have Developed, modified and Executed Test Scripts for INV, BOM, WIP and Provided documentation tailored to company needs.
Research, troubleshoot, and resolve issues that arise in the production system including data inconsistencies, unexpected error messages and daily close exceptions.
Wrote the Test Scripts (TE.040), Setup Documents (BR.100) for INV, BOM, WIP,OM,PO
Contact this candidate