Program Director Business Transformation

Venkateswara Rao Yeleswaram, SAP Program Director

Fulshear, TX, 77441, USA, +1-508-***-****, **************@*****.***

SUMMARY Accomplished SAP Program Director with over 15 years of experience in managing large-scale SAP projects and P&L accountability. Technology executive with 34 years of IT industry experience in delivery of SAP Transformation Programs and SAP Operations. Proven expertise in leading transformation initiatives, demonstrated by growing account revenue from $10 million to $18 million within three years. Successfully drove critical SAP migration and Greenfield implementation projects, enhancing client profitability and satisfaction. Committed to delivering innovative solutions that align with business needs, thereby adding significant value to Customers.

WORK EXPERIENCE

12/2023 – Present Director SAP Programs - Oil & Gas unit, Tata Consultancy Services, Houston, USA

Oversaw and ensured delivery and accountability for overall SAP P&L, project profitability, and utilization in the Oil & Gas unit of TCS.

Managed the P&L for SAP projects within the business unit across North America.

Secured critical SAP business transformation programs in key customer accounts.

Directed and coordinated the SAP team, facilitating successful project delivery and ensuring client satisfaction.

Championed SAP proposals for SAP Integration projects, SAP AMS and DevOps projects, SAP ECC migration to S4 Hana, S4 Greenfield implementation, and SAP GTS transformation initiatives.

11/2020 – 12/2023 Business Relationship Manager, Tata Consultancy Services, Boston, USA

Administered the P&L of the account while managing account scorecards.

Drove account revenue growth from $10 million to $18 million over three years.

Executed critical business transformation programs, ensuring timely completion that resulted in a $4 billion annual sales improvement for the customer.

Proven track record in managing a team of delivery managers for SAP and Non SAP Projects with on time quality deliveries.

Successful in converting business pain points into opportunities

Responsible for effective stakeholder management

11/2017 – 10/2020 SAP Program Manager, Tata Consultancy Services, Boston, USA

Successfully delivered various business transformation projects, adding

substantial value to operations.

Successful completion of M&A program of 3 Perishable DCs into customer landscape.

Delivered SAP transformation program to Integrate with the upgraded version of Manhattan WMS with SAP with substantial value to operations.

Managed SAP integration with JDA Planning tool, Capital one project, SAP Callidus implementation, Business transformation program on SAP digital foundation, Robotics automation of POS QA.

Successfully managed SAP IT Support operations using the levers of Automation, Process improvements, productivity improvement of support teams, Cross functional training.

Responsible to drive all business-critical priority activities from both technical solution and end to end management perspective across all client stakeholders and external vendor driven environment in a complex landscape.

Delivered SAP Integrations with new digital platform which improved online sales of customer by 10 times in two years. Facilitated B2B processes by implementing customer-specific pricing and enhancing system features.

07/2005 – 01/2011 Project Manager, SAP Functional Lead, CMC Americas, Houston, USA

Coordinated the delivery of project configuration and development work within the Supply Chain

Automated Intercompany stock transfers, third party procurement involving IDocs and 3PL.

Designed and delivered SAP transformation program in New Product Introductions(NPI) space that helped automate the NPI process and simply business taks and workflows. Data loads cycle time for new plants has reduced to 3 days from 4 weeks.

Successfully completed the SAP consolidation program that helped customer to bring all business units across globe on to one SAP ECC instance.

Responsible to identify and implement Continuous process improvements enabling business do their business better and providing substantial cost and cycle time reduction.

Agile Coach: Provided training and mentoring on the Agile /Scrum methodology to the build teams working in new operating model in Bose.

Achievements : I was instrumental in building agile teams in onsite-offshore model to execute projects and enhancements in agile methodology. Automation of data load process for new plants.

Responsible for Delivery of development work for enhancements, reports and resolution of production issues, change requests, in Supply chain Process area( Procurement, PP, IM QM, LE, GTS).

Completed successfully SAP ECC and GTS Upgrade Projects as solution Architect

Part of SAP implementation project in Applied Materials as Material Management & SRM Functional Lead

02/1991 – 01/2005 Dy. Manager, Senior Engineer, Engineer, Bharat Heavy Plate & Vessels, Visakhapatnam, India

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Accumulated significant experience in the design and configuration of SAP ERP systems.

Project Management of Engineering projects

Mechanical design and detailing of Pressure vessels, Columns and Heat transfer equipment and Piping to Indian and international standards ASME, BS, API etc.

FEM analysis and design of large and heavy columns for refineries and Petrochemical industry

Team building and skill management

Projects Handled: Design, Engineering, Project management, Procurement of raw Materials, manufacturing, supply, transportation and commissioning of crude & vacuum distillation columns, Exchangers, pressure vessels, Reactors and tankage for Cochin Refineries Ltd, Indian Oil Corporation Panipat, Haldia, Mathura, Madras Refineries Ltd., HPCL- Visakhapatnam, Mumbai, Nagarjuna Fertilizers, Indian Petrochemicals Ltd

EDUCATION

07/1989 – 01/1991 Indian Institute of Technology Madras,

Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Chennai, India

07/1984 – 05/1988 Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering,

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Solution Consultant in my SAP Supply Chain Management-Procurement

Certified SAP SRM5.0 (SRM2005 and CCM2.0) SAP Supplier Relationship Management 2005 with Catalogue content Management

Certified in ARIS Business Architect and ARIS Business Architect for SAP Net weaver

Scrum Master accredited Certification from International Scrum Institute

The Open group TOGAF 9 Certified level certification on Enterprise Architecture

Certified Project Management Professional by PMI ( 2005 to 2019)

Tirupati, India

SKILLS SAP Transformation Programs SAP Operations

Sales Support Business Process Re-engineering

Project Management Agile Methodology

Supply Chain Management SAP ECC

S4 HANA Process Improvements

Client Relationship Management Governance Structure Development Team Building

Presentation Skills Stakeholder Management

Leadership Team Orientation

Problem Solving Adaptability

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