RANAJOY GANGULI

SAP Leader (Associate Director-SAP)

Residence status: US Citizen

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SUMMARY

Highly motivated and successful SAP Leader with over 20 years of total experience, specializing in leading, forming and motivating high performance teams in complex SAP business transformation programs, with team size up to 160. Has 18 years of proven SAP consulting experience with Fortune 500 companies, with over 8 years into Big 4 consulting, with 8 full life cycle implementation and rollout experiences. Specializes in multi-country rollout including European, Asia Pacific and Latin American countries. Highly experienced in validated SAP system - has been in leadership roles, responsible for SAP ECC programs with FDA audits and validation, up to $100 million with geographically dispersed teams and completed them on time and within budget to client’s delight. Has experience of heading a regional SAP Practice for over 2 years. Has excellent experience in handling clients across different geographies (USA, European Union, LATAM, UK and Asia Pac) in business transformations, global deployments, supports, upgrades, assessments and roll outs. Has a unique blend of SAP and business knowledge. Has very strong process and SAP configuration knowledge in Procure to Pay, Supply Chain Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Production Planning and Quality Management paired with in-depth understanding in Pharmaceutical business processes and Consumer Products industry (Food and beverages). Recognized capabilities include (but not limited to):

Leading Supply Chain/ Logistic implementations to success for Pharmaceutical and CPG companies

Heading the PMO to envision and to prioritize business improvement projects with well-defined KPI metrics.

Proven Leadership in successfully managing complex delivery of SAP enterprise implementations from project initiation to go-live with offshore components (based on PMI and ASAP methodologies).

Experienced in driving several complex blueprints and end to end implementations of blueprint values $5 million to $35 million

Has designed, led blueprinting, build and realization phases for several SAP projects with complexities, involving MM, QM, PP, WM, SD, FICO modules.

Has led multiple Strategic Assessments that finally resulted in large transformational projects of $20 million value.

Has extensive experience on managing implementations and rollouts using Onsite-Offshore models. Has worked in Offshore (India) as SAP Center head for over 2 years.

Sound knowledge and hands-on experience in Procure-To-Pay Inventory management, Warehouse management and Quality Management areas.

Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills, highly experienced in working with Business Leaders and Business Users and steer them towards best business practice adoption.

As a Leader, ability to clearly communicate roles and responsibilities to the project team and work continuously with the team to maintain morale and positive environment during trying times.

Project governance and Stakeholder management.

Adept in flagging risks and issues upfront, providing mitigation plans and tracking the plans to completion

Has shepherded Data governance processes and has helped business with identification of data issues, root causes, mitigation and quarterly data review cadences.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Program Manager, currently heading PMO for a global SAP roll out - Cognizant USA as Associate Director – May 2016 till date

1 year as Global Leader for direct and indirect procurement, Project Manager for complex implementation projects – Shure, Inc as Global Lead – April 2015 to May 2016

4.5 years as SAP Leader/Integration Manager – IBM USA as Senior Manager – Aug 2010 to Feb 2015

Over 5.5 years in Program Managerial roles with Cognizant as Senior Manager - January 2005 till August 2010.

4 years of leading SAP consulting teams (Materials, Warehouse & Transportation Management modules) with Price Waterhouse Coopers/IBM as Advanced Consultant from Jan 2001 to Jan 2005.

ADDENDUM

2.5 years as a Core team member in SAP Materials Management & Project Systems modules with Larsen and Toubro Limited (June 1998 to Oct 2000)

SAP Practice Head for Cognizant in Kolkata for over 2 years in addition to delivery management roles. Headed a practice of 75 for delivery, escalation management, career guidance, mentoring and competency building(June 2005 to Aug 2007)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Director for Cognizant – 05/2016 till date

Leading the PMO as Program Manager for multi country global roll out for Pharma company in East coast

Reporting into the VP of client on deliverables, progress, risks, mitigation, planning and messaging to business stakeholders at every step of the project.

Mentoring and coaching onsite and offshore teams on deliverables, career, scope containment, quality and mitigating escalations.

Global Procurement Lead - Shure, Inc. (GIS Division) – 04/2015 to 05/2016

PM for EMEA RDC project that spans across 8 countries. Biggest IT project for Shure in 2015-16

Led Business improvements in the areas of commodity procurement, factory planning and supply planning

Senior Managing Consultant - IBM, USA (GBS division) - 08/2010 to 02/2015

Led the process area of Procure to pay in marquee clients in USA that had global implementations.

Important Project Assignments

Program Manager and Data Manager for Cepheid – July 2014 to December 2014

Advisor and Subject Matter expert in Global Roll out of SAP at Abbvie for 47 countries (in Jan 2013 to Dec 2013

Business Transformation Leader in the Procure to Pay & Inventory areas at Abbott Laboratories – June 2011 to Dec 2012

Program Manager with special focus on Procure to Pay process area for challenging business transformation project at Dole Food Company(now Itochu) – September 2010 to June 2011

Worked on pre sales pursuits for Abbvie for three deals in 2013, all of which were wins.

Led the SME Forum for SAP Supply Chain practice area in 2012, to provide expert SME help in projects involving PTP, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management and Quality Management.

Recruited several candidates and mentored, groomed team members

Senior Manager – SAP, Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA 01/2005 – 08/2010

Managed complex SAP implementations by leveraging Cognizant’s global capabilities. Developed cost effective value propositions for clients and mobilized on-shore and offshore resources to successfully implement solutions. Audited projects for contractual obligations and assessed plans to mitigate risks. Recruited and nurtured employees in career development and becoming knowledge leaders. Led SAP Practice of 75 consultants for over two years.

Important Project Assignments

Was PM for Assessment of system consolidation for Mitsubishi Chemicals and Mitsubishi Polyesters – May 2010-June 2010

Led the proposal, due diligence and Project Management for Upgrade of Boehringer Ingelheim – Jan 2010 to May 2010

Led the assessment for consolidation of Supply Chain processes after acquisition of Medimmune by AstraZeneca. This led to a consolidation project subsequently for $6.5 million. ( AstraZeneca/Medimmune)- Aug 09 to Oct 09

Program Manager for the SAP Support project and the Upgrade project which was a US $5 multimillion engagement. Also managed an SAP Assessment Project to identify areas of process improvement, cost curtailment and user comfort. Provided 50 strong recommendations to client (Fresenius) in addition to a Support deal (team of 25). Also managed multiple medium and short term projects to successful completion(Fresenius Kabi, Illinois)- May’08 till June ’09

Project Manager for a SAP CRM end to end implementation project with 15 team members for the Interaction (Call) Center. Managed the project within budget and timelines. The project saved the client an estimated $10 million annually(The Schwan Food Company, Minnesota)- Aug 2007 till May 2008

Project Manager for the first ever roll out for Cognizant in India for a Mitsubishi Chemicals subsidiary(MCC PTA India Ltd) - April 2007 to Aug 2007

SAP Knowledge Transition Manager for Kimberly Clark for a team of 25 consultants (Kimberly Clark, West Malling, UK) – Jan 2007 till Feb 2007

Roll out Manager for SAP roll out to 11 countries. Did all the planning and due diligence that led to a very successful roll out. Team size was 20.(Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Europe) - June 2006 to Aug 2006

Consultant –Advanced, PriceWaterhouse Coopers 02/2001-01/2005

Lead analysis, design and implementation of SAP projects. Provide subject matter expertise to PwC consultants in procure to pay and inventory management areas and developed proposals for implementation of projects. Recruited and mentored staff consultants. Imparted training in MM module to trainees.

Important Project Assignments

Was the sole PTP consultant with elements of mySAP SRM for the end to end SAP Implementation(AOL, Virginia, USA)- May 04 to Nov 04

Material Handling Tower Manager in the Global deployment of SAP to 82 countries for Nestle. Established the first ever Offshore Configuration factory in Asia. Led workshops at Switzerland and Germany to shape the artifacts for the successful delivery model through configuration factory from India. Added business lines like regression testing, learning and training support. (Nestle) – April 2003 to Dec 2003

Was the Procure to pay lead responsible for business blueprinting, realization, construction, and testing and post go live hypercare. Also formulated the roll out strategies and delivered the blueprint for 7 countries ( USA, Trinidad, Tunisia, India, Singapore, Thailand and Egypt)for Procure to pay area(BG Group Plc, a $22 billion Oil and Gas major,) – Jan 2002 to Dec 2002

Was the MM and QM lead for SAP technical Upgrade project from 4.0B to 4.6C(Tata Steel, a $32.7 billion leading Steel plant in India)- April 2001 to Oct 2001

Other experiences:

Was a SAP Core team member for the first SAP implementation for the Engineering, Construction and Operations (ECO) group of a $8 billion leading Indian construction company. Also rolled out the template to three different business units (Larsen and Toubro Limited, a $8 billion engineering and construction giant)- June 1998 to Oct 2000

EDUCATION

Bachelor (Honors) in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur,India

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

“Business communications skills” from Tepper School of Business –Carnegie Mellon University(2009)

Certified in Leadership Development Program by Indian Institute of Management(IIM) Calcutta(2007)

SAP- Materials Management & Project Systems by Price Waterhouse Coopers, India(1998)

Publications: Co-authored a book on Cancer research (“Bugging Cancer – Daring to Dream”) and its future in terms of path breaking remedies. Book was reviewed by University of Cambridge and a Nobel Laureate among others.

Accomplishments

Saved more than $5 million across all construction sites of Larsen and Toubro (across 1999 and 2000) by introducing transparency on Materials Management in SAP

Was among the first three consultants who started the business line for training IBM consultants of 15 countries in Europe with IBM India resources.

Was instrumental in several winning deals through solution/presenting to clients. Was PM for many of them.

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