Anoop Das
Darshan Nagar, CSEZ.P.O,
Kakkanad, Kochi,
Kerala, India Pin: 682037
Mobile : +91-989*******
E-mail : *************@*****.*** / *********@*******.***
Summary
14 years of experience in the IT industry which includes consulting of different business scenarios, product development, team management and project management.
Experience in consulting Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Indian Export & Import (EXIM), Taxation (GST, Excise, Service Tax, CST, VAT, Road Permit), Insurance business process for SAP implemented Customers (including DTA, SEZ and EOU).
Since 2015 to 2018, part of SAP Labs India Globalization Services team and have been supporting SAP customers across globe, by developing and delivering Country India localization related taxation (GST India & E-Way Bill Solution).
Now part of SAP Product Success and Co-Innovation and Content Team primary focus being S/4 Cloud Cloud Product Management.
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager Oct 2018 to till date (2 years)
S/4HANA Product Success, Co-Innovation and Content
Plan and support
SAP Product & Cloud Strategy
Product and innovation Strategy
S/4HANA Strategy
Being a trusted advisor to customer and SAP partner community
Cloud Market Analysis & Understanding Technology Trends
Understanding Market Trends & Competition Analysis
Localisation - Taxation and Translation support
Understanding Software Industry Trends
Competitor Analysis
Product Release - Show & Tell to Customer/Partner Groups
Roadmap Definition of Solution
Driving RPA Solution to APJ Region SAP Market.
Understanding of key business processes, such as Sales & Marketing, Procurement, Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management & HR.
Technical Cloud Architectures experience and can guide customers from technical hands on level to architecture, to strategy as full stack experts.
Exposure in Cloud Architectures with focus in Cloud Databases (especially SAP HANA), Data Warehouse Cloud, Analytics Cloud Solutions
Understanding on SAP P&T Solutions on premises Portfolio, e.g. HANA Databases, Data Warehouse, etc.
Experience in SAP Cloud Platform, and/or SAP Analytics Cloud
Knowledge of Hyperscaler PaaS Solutions (e.g. MS Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, etc.)
Localisation Product Manager Sept 2015 to Sept 2018 (3 years 1 month)
Senior Product Specialist
SAP Labs India Pvt. Limited
138 EPIP, Whitefield, Bangalore 560066
Member of GPM (Globalization Product Management) team of India under SAP Globalisation Services
Roles :
Localisation Product Manager for SAP ECC - Country India Logistics Solution.
Localisation Product Manager for SAP ByDesign India
Localisation Product Manager for SAP S4 HANA Cloud Localisation for India
Localisation Product Manager for SAP S4 HANA On-Premise Localisation for India
Product Owner for Country India Solutions and GST India
Functional Roles :
Viable scope definition with priorities
Roll-in of legal/local requirements
Product Owner of country INDIA Solutions
Communication of country roadmap with Area Product Owner
Involve local topic experts for requirement clarification
Provide comprehensive Market Requirement Document (MRD)
Participate in requirement clarification and solution proposal discussions with development teams and be available as tester for verification
Customer Interaction
Ensure the customer communication for new features / major legal changes via an established communication channel.
Support development teams to respond to customer incidents if requirement clarification is requested.
Support Area Product Owner/support/development team with customer engagement if requirement expertise is requested.
Development Delivery
For India SAP GST Implementation instrumental in designing and delivering solutions in P2P, O2C and Financial processes.
Product Owner Role leading development team and rolled out the SAP solution for more than 3000 Customers who do business in India using SAP ECC, S4 HANA OP/ Cloud and SAP Business ByDesign.
Senior Manager Nov 2014 to Sept 2015 (11 months)
Reliance Industries Limited
Thane Belapur Road, Gansoli Navi Mumbai 400709 Maharashtra India
Solution Architect and Functional Consultant for Business Process of Exports, Imports, CST Forms, Insurance scenarios and their implications in SAP MM, SAP SD and SAP CIN Modules.
Consultant May 2008 to Nov 2014 (6 years 2 months)
Brillio Technologies (P) Ltd – (Formerly Collabera Entreprise Software Solutions(P) Ltd)
Technopark, Thiruvanthapuram, 695581 Kerala, India
Role : Project Manager
Consulting of Business Process related to Exports and Imports scenarios and their implications in SAP MM, SAP SD and SAP CIN Modules.
Consulting of EXIM Documentation, Benefit Schemes tracking and Bill of Entry filling
Consulting of Financial Instruments such as Letter of Credit, Inward Bank Guarantee, Outward Bank Guarantee, Buyer’s Credit, Supplier’s credit and Bill Discounting
SAP GTS Basic Configuration and Business Process Knowledge.
Ensured delivery on-time and with high quality, defined contents and maintain high level customer satisfaction & team motivation.
Engaged in regular revamping of the product according with latest EXIM Policies of India.
Defined and detail the business blueprints, use cases and user roles.
Defined business rules and created business process diagrams.
Identified business processes that can be automated or optimized
Configuring General Settings and Configuring Master Data of the Client.
Participated in setting and adjusting project objectives as the process lead for the project.
As a lead, analyzed the as-is process and the creation of the to-be business process model.
Identify business process interdependencies and interconnections.
Define business process measurements.
Testing and trouble shooting.
Providing presale and post-sale offshore and onsite support of the SAP add-on Package.
Worked closely with development team to understand functionality and prepare test plans.
Received client business goals and objectives and translated them into discrete business requirements.
Assessed client organization by understanding the end users and their domain.
Managed dependencies between requirements.
Interface testing between Legacy system and SAP add-on by developing and reviewing end user scripts. Defect Tracking and maintenance activities.
Managed end-to-end responsibility of solutions/project deliveries to multiple clients.
Ensured on time delivery with high quality and maintain high level of customer satisfaction & team motivation.
Worked together with the team during the development/implementation lifecycle.
Ensured business process model and final solution matches requirements.
Projects
Client : Reliance Industries Limited STAR (Smart Transformation at Reliance) :
Role : Project Manager Average Team Size : 20 Persons Peak Size of 45
For the Project: Brillio awarded with “Leadership Award 2012”.
Brillio awarded with “Leadership Award 2013”.
Managed end to end implementation of Brillio Deliverables, for Reliance Exploration and Production Division on April 1st 2014.
November 2011 to Till Date
Project Plan preparation, Execution of project and meeting deadlines of delivery.
Project planning activities and managed the execution of large scale, high risk project according to the plan.
Evaluated complex situations accurately and identified viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer.
Managed relationship with project stakeholders, including internal clients, kept on stakeholders informed about the progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
Managed and communicated a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivated the project team to achieve them; created a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
Ensured proper use of methodology, tools and procedures including standard code review.
Balanced the trade-off of the triple- constraint (time, cost and scope) to realize the expected business value.
Evaluated strategic options and alternatives for delivering or offering services in a more efficient or cost effective manner.
Had built customer relationships with the clear expectation to deliver follow-on business or identify opportunities within the account.
Dealt with difficult issues at the customer and found win-win solutions for both Customer and SAP.
Proactively identified changes in work scope and ensured appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, budget and timeline.
Managed the financial aspects of the project: resource deployment, budgeting and estimate to actual variance.
Analyzed risk, established contingency plans and identified trigger events and responsibilities, for initiating mitigating action.
Communicated and/or escalated project issues early to account management and delivery management.
Functional knowledge in are the below areas
Documentation of Physical & Deemed Exports and Excise Scenarios Factory Stuffing From DTA, SEZ
CFS Stuffing from DTA, SEZ
Pipe Line Movements
Consignment Exports - Sales from Foreign Plant
Deemed Export: Supplies from DTA to SEZ, DTA to EOU, DTA to DTASTO Movement from DTA to SEZ
Imports Bill of Entry Scenarios
Normal Imports of Goods and Services
High Seas Purchase
Free of Cost (FOC) Shipment
Temporary Imports & Related Party Shipment
Second Hand & Re-Import
Benefits Schemes tracking
Advance Authorisation for Physical Exports, Deemed Exports, SEZ Exports
Export Promotion Capital Goods 1%, 3% and 5%
Chapter 3 Licenses: FMS, FPS, MLFPS, SFIS
Duty Drawback (DBK) & Terminal Excise Duty
Banking Instruments for Trade
Incoming and Outgoing Letter of Credit
Inward and Outward Bank Guarantee
Maintenance and Tracking of Opening Bank Limits
Client : GCMMF (AMUL), Gujarat
Role: Team Lead Team Size : 12 Persons
For the Project: Collabera awarded me with “Customer Delight First Quarter 2011” .
Coordination of SAP Add-on modules including Exports, Imports, Excise, Value Added Tax and Forms Tracking.
Consulting – EXIM Documentation, Bill of Entry filling and Letter of Credit
Preparing Business Procedures of EXIM relating to SAP MM,SD and FICO Modules .
Configuring general settings and configuring master data of the client.
Were able to resolve taxation and pricing related Issues
Client : Indofill Chemicals, Mumbai
Consulting - EXIM Documentation, Bill of Entry filling and Letter of Credit
Preparing Business Procedures of EXIM relating to SAP MM,SD and FICO Modules .
Configuring General Settings and Configuring Master Data of the Client.
Client : APAR Industries, Mumbai
For the Project Collabera awarded me with the
“Outstanding Performance Award for Consulting 2010”.
This was a reimplementation project. I was successful in implementing the SAP Add-on product and made sure the product is tuned according to their business requirement. Testing, Training and End User Training Document was prepared.
Client : HMEL, Noida
Consulting - EXIM Documentation, Bill of Entry filling and Letter of Credit.
Performance Optimization.
The execution time of the existing reports was drastically made down by using the Performance optimization techniques.
Gap analysis and Requirement gathering.
More features were added to the existing report which exactly tuned the report for the user to get the desired data.
Entire code was rejuvenated according to the Quality Methods followed by them. Importance was given to code quality and made sure that obsolete statements are not used, avoided hard-coding, text-symbols etc.
Client : Blue Star Limited, Mumbai
Implementation Project, worked with Implementation Partner IBM and was able to successfully implement the SAP Add-on product and made sure the product is tuned according to their business requirement. Testing and Training was given to the end user.
Being a part of Customer Support Team was able to provide solutions for Clients from different industry verticals.
Apollo Tyres, ITC, MRF Tyres, Suzlon, Videocon, Watson Phrama, Cadilla,Decitex Essar Steel, HNGIL, Hindustan Pencils
Software Engineer, June 2004 to May 2006 (24 Months)
MUZIRIS Softech (P) Limited, Muziris House Kurisupally Road, 682015 Kochi, India
Development and Maintenance of ERP Systems for Hospital and Textile Industry and Production Management
Programming in VB.NET as front end, Microsoft SQL Server as the back end and Crystal Reports as the reporting making software.
Designing the work flows and normalising the table to suit to the industry standards.
Being member of System Study Team preparing the Use Cases and System Requirement Specifications.
Recommending and implementing programming in operations and procedural changes within and beyond the scope of assigned responsibilities.
Providing project progress reports and documentation for IT management.
Enhancing and supporting business applications by identifying and correcting management issues twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Preparing and maintaining reports, created according to the internal and external client requirements.
Performing systems testing as needed and providing system and user documentation.
Enhancing technical and analytical knowledge and skills through new module additions in development projects.
Academic Qualification
Post Graduation : MBA (Operations/Systems & Marketing) in TKM Institute of Management, Kollam. - 2006-08 – First Class
Graduation: BSc. Computer Science from School of Technology and Applied Sciences, Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University. 2001- 04 – First Class
12th : AISSCE from Bhavan’s Adarsha Vidyalaya, Kakkanad, Kochi in the year 2001.
10th: AISSE from Bhavan’s Adarsha Vidyalaya, Kakkanad, Kochi in the year 1999.
Achievements
Presented Paper at Conference on “Tourism in India Challenges Ahead “at IIM, Kozhikode conducted by IIM Kozhikode and IIM Lucknow on 15th May 2008.
Presented Paper at Conference on “Marketing to Rural Consumers understanding and tapping the rural market potential” at IIM, Kozhikode on 4th April 2008.
Presented and accepted papers at National and International Management conferences at BITS Pilani Extension Centre, Kolkatta, Department of Management Studies, Annamalai University and TAPMI Manipal.
Being Event Manager, I was instrumental in organising the National Level Seminar on “Current Trends in Marketing” in Thiruvananthapuram on 4th April 2007.
President of Agora Club for Marketing students at TKM Institute of Management.
ANOOP DAS