SAP Manager Project

Rahul Solanki

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Professional Profile Summary

Comprehensive 23 years of experience with 16+ years in SAP Delivery

SAP Certified Associate - SAP Activate Project Manager

SAP Certified in “S/4HANA - Implementation Scenarios for Architects”

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Sales Cloud 1811

SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP Marketing Cloud (1802)

S/4HANA lead for OD&T (Offering, Delivery and Transformation) Asia Pacific Region

Core Member of North & Central Europe SAP Practice team

11+ years as Project/ Program Delivery Manager/ Account Manager experience

Executed multiple Onsite Int’l Assignments (USA, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, UK, Taiwan, Malaysia)

Excellent experience in client interaction and client management roles

Experience in managing multiple projects and programs

SAP Business Consultancy experience in SAP Order to Cash, Lean Warehouse and Transportation modules Industry experience of FMCG, Auto, Plant Protection, Chemicals and Electronics- Semi Conductor sector

Experience of Managing Portfolio of Projects amounting to more than USD 15M

Provided support in the area of Presales, creating and responding to RFPs, Vendor Management

Experience in handling large teams with about 100 team members

ITIL Certified with thorough exposure to CMMI level 5 processes

Excellent experience in managing teams in various delivery models

Received IBM Service Excellence Award for Delivery

Detailed Work Experience

Employer : DXC Technology

Duration : May 2015- Till date

Designation : Application Service Delivery Management - Expert Level

Clients: Multiple Clients

Location: Germany and Bangalore

Clients: Al Dahra, UAE

Project : S/4HANA EM & SAP IBP Implementation

Location: Abu Dhabi

Duration: Jan 2020 till date

Clients: GFL

Project : S/4HANA Migration project

Location: Bangalore

Duration: Nov 2019 till 20 Dec 2019

Clients: Multiple Clients

From: 16th July 2019 till date

Role S/4HANA Project Manager

Project Planning, Scheduling and Tracking the project in the area of S/4HANA Sales, Procurement & Finance and SAP IBP according to SAP Activate methodology

Risk and Escalation Management, Progress reporting to Client Management

Role S/4HANA Project Manager

Created SoW

Project planning

Created draft Project Management Plan

Ensuring correct staffing for the project

Role: Offering Delivery Executive

Review S/4HANA solutions for the clients

Coordinate and collaborate with Technical, Solution, Sales, Pricing, and Delivery teams

Understand client RFP requirements and craft appropriate solution to meet the requirements

Project: NGIT – S/4HANA Finance, BPC, MDM, HighRadius, GTE, OneSource Global Next

Client: HPE

From: 2nd Jan 2019 15th July 2019

Team size: 60 SMEs

Role:

Transition Manager: Managing the transition of S/4HANA Finance project for 60 DXC resources, from HPE + Deloitte+ HighRadius to DXC Production support

Plan and execute Knowledge Acquisition, Shadowing, Reverse Shadowing

Engage with multiple teams to enable KT and Run phase setup

Provide regular status updates to the client and management

Stability Phase Service Delivery Manager: Manage SAP S/4HANA teams in the area of

Incident management

Change Management

Team management [US, Manila, India]

Issue/ Risk Management

Regular status updates to the client and management

Project: S/4 HANA Implementation-MOHH Ministry of Singapore

Role: Lead Offering Delivery Executive

Solution overview and validation

Inputs to RFP

Clients: Lonza, Basel, Switzerland

Project : SAP Carve out – Legal entity split for Brazil and Argentina, ECC 6.4

Location: Bangalore

Duration: April 2018 till September 2018

Role: Lead Offering Delivery Executive and Project Manager

Project planning and Kickoff

Created the Project Management Plan

Ensured correct staffing for the project by liasoning with various teams in Costa Rica, Brazil, Europe and India

Communicate assigned tasks and schedule to the Project Team

Track/ Monitored progress of work

Regular status meeting with the stakeholders

Coordinate Change Control Procedure for delivery tasks with the Client

Responsible for quality and timely completion and delivery of the deliverables defined in the SOW

Track Issues and actions till its closure

Resource and Risk Management

Review sign-off for all deliverables and obtain project acceptance from the client

Clients: Multiple Clients

Location: Germany and Bangalore

Duration: May 2015 till April 2018

Role: Lead Offering Delivery Executive

Bid Management and Business Development for SAP AMS, Implementations/ Multiple country Rollout in the areas of S/4HANA and ECC

Review S/4HANA solutions for the clients in ASIA

Coordinate and collaborate with Technical, Solution, Sales, Pricing, and Operations teams

Understand client RFP requirements and craft appropriate solution to meet the requirements

Writing responses to RFPs, articulating the designed solution and value proposition to the customer with differentiators

Participate in internal pre-sales process and taking the proposed solution through multiple reviews

Presenting designed solutions and proposals to the customer in a convincing and effective manner

Contribute to designing, architecting and estimations

Customer Meetings for Presentations / Demo / POC / Discovery with top CXOs

- Solutions perspective for arriving at the correct Scope, Efforts & Costing and risk mitigation plans

- Managing /sharing collaterals / other bid related documentation with internal / delivery teams

Preparation of client presentations for TaaS, BOSM, SAP Leonardo, S/4HANA, Digital Transformation

Solutioning for SAP AMS proposal

Preparation of collaterals for client workshops

Account Planning:

Prepare Account Strategy, Plan for project resource matrix across Europe, Asia, and South America

Plan out resourcing and technology trend strategy with respective Technology leads

Responsible for creating, maintaining and managing delivery models for the practice

Employer : IBM India Pvt Ltd

Duration : Nov 2008 till May 2015

Responsibilities

Program / Account / Delivery Management, Business Consultant

Project

Client Name: Honda Europe

Designation: Delivery Manager/ Program Manager/ PMO

Location: Onsite, Frankfurt, Germany

Duration: April 2014 till May 2015

Role:

Responsible for managing multiple projects involving multiple IT vendors (CSC, IBM, Honda, IBI, IGate and Infosys) for projects SAP and Non SAP implementation projects - Apollo, Apollo Lite, Month-end Management Tool and a number of smaller projects within Continuous Improvement program.

Overall Team size of about 100 resources in the area of R2R, O2C and VMS

Help client to initiate projects, Enable solution design, preparation of RFPs, engage with vendors, vendor

Evaluation, selection and creation of agreements

Price and contract negotiation with vendors

Help client with staffing their projects, monitoring the performance of the team

As an escalation point for the Honda project managers

Managing the Continuous Improvement program for the client

Help Client monitor the performance of various IT vendors and provide support for transitioning work seamlessly from one Vendor to the other

Risk management

Help IBM in tracking multiple projects engaged with the client at onsite, by providing a common platform for issue resolution, status updates and proactively managing the program to work as one team

Managed portfolio of SAP Projects (TCV of $7 million)

Project Name : New ERA

Client: Micron. It is one of the world's leading semiconductor companies manufacturing DRAM, NAND and NOR Flash memory products that are used in computing, networking, and server applications, to mobile, embedded, consumer, automotive, and industrial designs. Micron is an industry leader, developing groundbreaking technologies having over 20,000 employees worldwide, headquartered in Boise, Idaho (US).

Micron was integrating three separate companies: Elpida Memory Inc. and Akita located in Japan, and Rexchip located in Taiwan. The project is known as the New ERA (Elpida, Rexchip, Akita) Project

Role: SAP Project Manager and Business Consultant

Modules : SAP FI, CO, MM, PP, QM, PM, HR, SAP security and ABAP

Duration : Sep 2012 till March 2014

Role:

Account Management

Responsible for Account growth in terms of TCV and head count

Build a positive and long term relationship with the client

Engage and influence key business stakeholders on opportunities to leverage the SAP enterprise platform to improve business effectiveness thereby driving business growth

Respond to RFPs. Coordinate with the Solutioning team to provide estimates

Collaborate with various teams in the organization for New Account growth opportunities

Implemented Company wide initiatives to the Account – Lean Methodology, Rational Team Concert, Rational Portfolio Manage and GenO framework

Project Delivery

Communicate assigned tasks and schedule to the Project Team

Track progress of work - develop a reporting format with relevant KPI’s

Prepare and provide weekly/monthly status reports to the Client

Coordinate Change Control Procedure for delivery tasks with the Client

Responsible for quality and timely completion and delivery of the deliverables defined in the SOW

Track Issues and actions till its closure

Resource and Risk Management

Work load management, work allocation, Utilization and Cost

Review sign-off for all deliverables and obtain project acceptance from the client

Conduct Lessons Learned session

Manage project resources

Business Process Consultancy

Carried out business process workshops with relevant stakeholders in Taiwan

Participated in workshops to understand the Bonded Warehouse requirements and scope

Provided business consultancy to align Rexchip’s business with Micron’s processes and also to meet the Bonded Warehouse requirements

Helped in creating swim lane diagrams and process flows that could be used for preparing test scripts

Role:

Project Name : SAP AMS support for Jyoti Structures Limited, Mumbai

Client: Jyoti Structures Ltd, JSL undertakes turnkey projects on a global scale, offering a complete range of services in Design, Testing, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Supply and Construction with our in-house expertise. It is amongst a very few EPC service providers worldwide, which possess the capabilities to execute turnkey projects covering the entire gamut of Power Transmission business. Having relationships with clients from over 40 countries across the globe.

Role: SAP Service Delivery Manager

Modules : SAP FI, CO, MM, PP, SD, PS, MII, QM, PM, HR(OM/PA/Time/Payroll) and ABAP

Duration : Sep 2012 till June 2013

Initiate AMS delivery setup (both in terms of planning and resourcing)

Transitioning Project using IBM Design Build Manage methodology

Solution Manager setup for project repository and for Testing

Project Management ( L1, L2 and L3 Support teams)

Project Financials tracking, Scoping and Controlling

Client Engagement and Delivery, Risk Management

Escalation Management, Team Meetings and coordination with multiple teams

Risk Management using IBM methodology of Seven Keys

Vendor Management

Project Name : SAP implementation for Micron-Numonyx Integration Project for Singapore and Italy having more than 4000 SAP users.

Client: Micron. It is one of the world's leading semiconductor companies manufacturing DRAM, NAND and NOR Flash memory products that are used in computing, networking, and server applications, to mobile, embedded, consumer, automotive, and industrial designs. Micron is an industry leader, developing groundbreaking technologies having over 20,000 employees worldwide, headquartered in Boise, Idaho (US).

Modules : SAP HR (OM, PA, TM, ESS/ MSS), ABAP HR, SAP SD, SAP Security

Duration : November 2011 till August 2012

Role: SAP Delivery Manager

Budget Planning

Project Financials tracking

Scoping and Controlling

Client Engagement and Delivery

Risk Management

Escalation Management

Team Meetings

Coordination with multiple teams

Prepare and provide weekly/monthly status reports to the Client

Coordinate Change Control Procedure for delivery tasks with the Client

Responsible for quality and timely completion and delivery of the deliverables defined in the SOW

Track Issues and actions till its closure

Project Name : SAP implementation for Safran Morpho, India

Safran is specialized in Aeronautics/Defense/Security and Morpho develops identification and detection solutions covering both people and goods for commercial and government customers. Morpho's integrated systems and equipment are deployed worldwide and contribute to the safety and security of transportation, data, people and countries.

Modules : FICO, PP, MM, SD, WM

Duration : August 2011 - November 2011

Role: SAP Project Manager

The Scope Of Work performed for the SAFRAN-Morpho was to rollout the SAP Global Template project to it's Indian plant based at Noida. Followed the Ascendant Methodology for the implementation. Carried out

Budget Planning, Scoping and Controlling

Financial Tracking

Client Engagement and Delivery

Escalation Management

Team Meetings and coordination with various teams

Project Name : SAP SSA Wave3 implementation

Client: MTN, SA (12 Countries)

Incorporated in 1994, MTN Group Limited is a multi-national telecommunications group offering voice and data communications products and services to individuals and businesses. MTN has GSM licenses in 21 countries and internet service provider businesses in 13 countries, spanning three continents.

Modules : FICO, MM, SD

Duration : November 2010 - August 2011

Role: SAP Project Manager

Used Ascendant Methodology for Implementation

Managing multi-location teams

Budget Planning, Scoping and Controlling

Client Engagement and Delivery

Risk Management using IBM methodology of Seven Keys

Prepare and provide weekly/monthly status reports to the Client

Coordinate Change Control Procedure for delivery tasks with the Client

Responsible for quality and timely completion and delivery of the deliverables defined in the SOW

Track Issues and actions till its closure

Resource and Risk Management

Project Name : SAP SSA Wave2 implementation

Client: MTN, SA (4 Countries)

Incorporated in 1994, MTN Group Limited is a multi-national telecommunications group offering voice and data communications products and services to individuals and businesses. MTN has GSM licenses in 21 countries and internet service provider businesses in 13 countries, spanning three continents.

Modules : FICO, MM, SD

Duration : June 2010 - November 2010

Role: SAP Project Manager

Used Ascendant Methodology for Implementation

Managing multi-location teams, Budget Planning, Scoping and Controlling

Client Engagement and Delivery

Track Issues and actions till its closure

Resource and Risk Management

Project Name : SAP SSA Wave1 implementation

Client: MTN, SA (4 Countries)

Incorporated in 1994, MTN Group Limited is a multi-national telecommunications group offering voice and data communications products and services to individuals and businesses. MTN has GSM licenses in 21 countries and internet service provider businesses in 13 countries, spanning three continents.

Modules : FICO, MM, SD

Duration : December 2009 - June 2010

Role: SAP Project Manager

Used Ascendant Methodology for Implementation

Managing multi-location teams

Budget Planning, Scoping and Controlling, Client Engagement and Delivery

Track Issues and actions till its closure

Resource and Risk Management

Project Name : SAP Enhancement and Production Support

Client: IBM SAP General Procurement, IBM SAP Accounts Payable for North America and EMEA

Modules : FICO, MM, SD

Duration : May 2009 to December 2009

Role: SAP Project Manager

Managed teams located in US, Mexico, China, Philippines, Brazil and India

Coordinated with upstream and downstream Applications

Project Name : Global One” SAP Implementation Project

Client: Cheminova, Denmark

Cheminova is a manufacturer of fine chemicals, with its main business area within plant protection products. The annual turnover is around 5.6 billion Danish Kroner (DKK) or more than 750 million Euros. Cheminova employed 800 people in Denmark and another 1,200 abroad.

Modules : FICO, MM, SD, WM, HR

Duration : Nov 2008 to May 2009

Role: SAP Project Manager

Budget Planning

Scoping

Controlling

Client Engagement and Delivery

Prepared RICEF Plan, Test Plan, Data Migration and Cut Over Plan

Escalation Management

Team Meetings and coordination with multiple teams

Provided inputs on bids (replying to RFPs) and Project costing

Employer : Patni Computer Systems Limited, India

Duration : April 2008 till 21st Nov 2008

Project : SAP Production Support

ERP Application : SAP

Client : 16 Clients of UK IT company, Serco Solutions

Duration : April 2008 till 21st Nov 2008

Role: SAP Project Manager

Manage a team of more than 50 members (Service Desk, Logistics, FICO, CRM, BI, Basis, SAP Security)

Establishing a process for SAP support, enhancements and small implementations

Assist in Infrastructure planning and setup for the transitioned Project

Prepared Business Continuity Plan for the project

To manage the SAP development team for all enhancements and project related work

Capacity planning and recruiting suitable resources for project

Employer : Atos Origin India Pvt. Ltd

Duration : Feb 2007- March 2008

Project : AOUK Apps Management

ERP Application : SAP

Clients : Electro Components, Brakes Brothers, Johnson’s Service group, Lucite, Mitsubishi, Grampian Foods, Premier Foods, Swinton, South West trains

Role: SAP Project Manager

manage a team of more than 45 SAP consultants ( comprising of SD, FICO, MM, CRM, APO, HR, ABAP and BW modules offshore and onsite)

Plan, Schedule, track and execute project plans

Capacity planning and recruiting suitable resources for projects

Client Expectation Management

Objective settings, Mid-year and Annual Reviews

Team building

Initiated and implemented various activities to make project meet CMMI level 5 standards

Team Utilization and Invoicing

Risk Management

Employer : Colgate Palmolive India Limited

Title : Assistant Manager- SAP SD

Duration : Feb 2005 till Dec 2006

Has worked with Global Shared Services Organization, SAP division of Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited, Mumbai, which provides expertise on SAP modules to its Sister concerns located in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Project : CRM 5.0 system Refresh, Morristown, US

Role: As a Project Manager, led and coordinated the CRM refresh with R/3, APO and BW systems.

Responsibilities

Risk Management and mitigation plan

Project Planning, Coordinated with teams in US and Asia Pacific

Participated in Solutioning of Campaign Management

Project : Development of 3PL Warehouse Interface for De-commissioned SAP WM

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities

To manage implementation of 3PL WM interface development for Malaysia

Project : SAP Implementation Project (Lean Warehouse and Transportation module), Onsite US

Role: Implemented Lean Warehouse and Freight cost Config. for Mexico.

Responsibilities

Business Blueprint Creation

Configuration of Lean Warehouse and Transportation Module,

Testing of end to end process which includes UT and IT

Defined Distribution Business Blueprint and SD Configuration documents for Latin America in the area of CVS, Packing, ATP and Transportation

SAP Implementation, Colgate Palmolive- SAP Expansion Project, Onsite Malaysia

Role: As a SAP Consultant Implemented SD and Transportation module for Vietnam under Colgate Palmolive- SAP Expansion Project,

Responsibilities

Business Blueprint Creation

Configuration of Transportation Module

Configuration of SD Module

Test end to end processes

Master data template creation for Credit Management, Customer Master and Pricing

Project : Global Template for Demand

Role : Created Global Template for Demand Category in SAP Solutions Manager for Colgate-Palmolive in co-ordination with European-African and American Subsidiaries.

Global Template defined the Scenarios and Business Process Procedures implemented across Colgate-Palmolive worldwide. Worked on setup of Solution Manager for Testing.

Project : EDI Setup for Walmart, China

Role: To work on new requirements in EDI for Walmart, China

Responsibilities

Creation of new EDI customer, Dummy SKU Functionality, EDI EAN & Material Determination

EDI Partner Determination, EDI Customer Order Unit Conversion, EDI Expected Price Conversion

Employer : vMoksha Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore

vMoksha Technologies is an IT outsourcing company headquartered in Bangalore, India. vMoksha and have operations in the US, Canada, Europe and the Asia Pacific region with offices in San Jose, New Jersey, London, Singapore and development centres in Bangalore, Pune (both in India) and Singapore.

Title : SAP SD Consultant

Dates of employment : August 2004 to Feb 2005

Project : SAP Production Support

Type : Support/ maintenance

Client : UCB Chemicals, Belgium

Duration : August 2004 to Feb 2005

Role: Had dual responsibility of SD lead and Project Manager

Responsibilities

As Project Manager and SD Team lead led a team of SD, PP, MM, FICO and ABAP consultants to provide Production Support.

Employer : SCL, India

Title : Consultant

Duration : Dec 1999 to May 2004

Role : Software Consultant/ Project Manager

Project : Multiple Projects as mentioned below

Type : Development

Platform : Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 95, IIS Web Server

Languages : HTML, Java, PHP, PERL, VB 5.0

Database : Oracle 8i, MS Access

Duration : Dec 1999 to Oct 2002

Role: As program manager-PMO for the below mentioned projects, I managed the entire end to end delivery of the projects to the client.

Solutioning

Client engagement during pre sales

Participated in bidding for projects and negotiation with clients

Gather high level project requirements for project estimations

Conduct SRS workshops

Deployment of solution at the client locations

Project: Retail Pro Management System, Personnel Information System – an ERP solution

Client HPGIC, HP Government

Project: “Court Logger” application for Audio – Video Recordings and Court Cases Management System,

Client: HPERC (Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulation Commission).

Project: To develop “Commercial Consumers Billing & Ledger Management” Software for HPSEB

Client: HPSEB, Solan Circle.

Designed the software development processes for the company for its software development centre.

Employer : Modi Alkalis and Chemicals Limited, India

Title : Product head

Duration : May 1997 to Nov 1999

Responsibilities

Sales planning and execution

Business Development

Vendor Management

Participate in tenders

Price Negotiation

Education & Trainings

SAP Certified Associate - SAP Activate Project Manager

Certified in “S/4HANA - Implementation Scenarios for Architects”

Master of Business Administration, Centre for Management Development, Modinagar (1995-97)

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Physics. HNBG University, Dehradun (1991-1994)

ITIL certified

Honor’s Diploma in Systems Management, NIIT – 3yrs

Web Masters from WWW Institute

CIW Certified Security Professional

SAP Digital badge for “SAP Leonardo Design-Led Engagements Demystified”

TensorFlow for AI

Google Cloud Architect program

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