SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over 15 years of industry experience in the implementation of Oracle E - Business Suite (EBS), Value Chain Planning (VCP), and Oracle Cloud applications for various product and service industries globally including pharmaceuticals, high technology, medical equipment, consumer products manufacturing, copier manufacturing and service provider, aviation manufacturing and financial services.
• As a functional lead consultant, he has worked on many cross-functional areas of applications including Planning Central, SCM Cloud, Value Chain Planning (VCP - Demantra DM, Confidential, RTS&OP, Confidential, Distribution Planning, Advanced Planning Command Center ( Confidential ), Production Scheduler, Confidential, MRP, Order Management (OM), Configurator, Shipping execution, Inventory, BOM, WIP, OSFM, and Service/Constact applications.
• He has been extensively involved in the implementation of critical business processes, such as, plan to produce, order-to-cash, plan-to-produce and procure-to-pay for Discrete, Project, Process (OPM) and Flow manufacturing processes. Confidential ’s areas of expertise include business development and pre-sales leadership, implementation leadership, business process analysis, mapping, solution design, configuration/setup and implementation of supply chain solutions.
• Specializing in Oracle Cloud application (SCM Cloud, Planning Central, DM cloud, Supply Cloud, S&OP Cloud).
• Led several companies through the implementation of Oracle EBS - Distribution, Supply Chain applications including Invnetory, Bills of Material, Work in Process, Order Management, Shipping execution, WMS, OPM and Value Chain Planning applications (Demantra Confidential, Distribution Planning, Production Scheduling, Confidential, Collaborative Planning, Inventory Optimization, Confidential ).
• Proven record of helping clients make informed business decisions by recommending multiple solution options with their pros and cons to meet clients’ business requirements based on the best industry practices. This approach always helped the companies achieve visible business goals/objectives like improved Forecast Accuracy, reduced Inventory (improved inventory turns), improved Order Fill Rates, improved Customer Service Levels and Process Efficiency gains.
• Expertise in both global and local solution implementations. Have led more than 16 implementations of Oracle EBS, VCP, and Cloud solutions.
• Demonstrates in depth knowledge and understanding of Oracle EBS Manufacturing, Distribution, and CRM applications including Order Management, Shipping, BOM, Inventory, WIP, OPM, and Oracle Service/Contracts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Responsibilities:

• Performed a health check and evaluation of client’ SCM, Demand and Supply Plannig processes and solutions
• Enhanced SCM solutions including Confidential, Purchasing, BOM, WIP, Order Management with ATO, WMS and Demand Planning,
• Implemented Distribution Planning, Global Order Promising, and Demantra Demand Management in 3 phases
• Phase I included
• Data accuracies and process implementation for on going data management needed for accurate inputs to Confidential for Distribution, Production and Material Planning
• Unconstrained Planning to improve process efficiencies in supply planning
• Constrained Plan for Available to Promise based on inventory and capacity availability
• Phase II included
• Distribution Planning for 7 distribution centers across the globe, Min-Target-Max based replenishment for finished goods at Confidential, Fair share allocation of inventory across Confidential .
• Phase III included
• Discovery and implementation of Demantra Demand Management to meet client’s demand planning needs and to improve forecast accuracies.

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led the implementation of Demantra, Confidential, Confidential to meet Confidential ’s life science related unique demand and supply planning business needs.
• Utilized latest VCP applications 12.2.5.x functionality in OPM environment to configure the solution for client’s Demand Planning and Supply Planning processes and integrate Demantra, Confidential, and Confidential . New features included Solaris Engine configuration, Launch Management, DM to Confidential integration etc.
• Modeled Product, Customer, and Patiromer Confidential levels in Demantra Demand Management to generate and finalize an unconstrained forecast and create Forecast Accuracy metrics including MAPE and Bias
• Entire Supply chain including Confidential, Contract Manufacturers (CMO), Warehouse, Supplier, Manufacturing plant modeled in 1 holistic Confidential plan for Production and Procurement Planning.
• Critical supply chain constraints are modeled as supplier constraints in Confidential
• Used Confidential dashboards for Forecast Scenario comparison, Demand and Supply Analysis, and to monitor Resource Utilization.
• Responsible for design, configurations, conducting solution workshops, and testing cycles.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functional lead for this large Demand Planning solution implementation involving 14 Stryker divisions across 90 countries globally with make to stock (MTS) and make to order processes(MTO/CTO).
• Complex hierarchy configurations for Product and Geography(Location) - 7 levels each
• History collection from several non-EBS sources
• Multiple Engine profiles to generate separate Statistical Forecast for revenue and non-revenue demand streams
• Comprehensive solutions for New Product Launches and End of Life Products
• Forecast accuracy metrics - MAPE and Bias errors and accuracies
• Configurations of 350+ series
• Integration with multiple source ERPs including Oracle, JD Edwards, SAP, and several other legacy systems
• Statistical forecast tuning to improve forecast accuracies
• Nodal tuning to tune parameters for specific product trends
• Configure to order solution to meet client’s make to order business processes for 3 different divisions.
• Collection of BOM and Dependent history from EBS and non-EBS sources.
• Calculation of historical planning percentages, and determination on dependent demand forecast based on planning percentage choice.
• Led the requirements, solution deign, and configurations. Key resource for pilot testing, training, user acceptance testing and deployments across the globe.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Confidential to meet the supply chain planning needs of this hi-tech manufacturing company.
• Utilized Confidential ’s Production Plans and Manufacturing Plans as solutions to model the master production scheduling and material planning processes.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a functional Planning Track Lead, engaged with Stryker NV and Orthopaedics in implementing Global Planning Solutions for their complex manufacturing and planning processes using Demantra DM, Confidential, RTS&OP, Confidential, IO and Confidential .
• Objectives met included
• Global Forecasting for all countries/regions using collaboration and handshake between Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance
• Financial Planning, Forecasting, and Cadence
• Automation of complex planning processes to improve Forecast Accuracies and Process Efficiencies.
• Used Confidential for nodal tuning to improve forecast accuracies
• Sales and Operations Planning collaboration between Supply Chain, Manufacturing/Operations and Marketing
• Confidential Distribution Planning for central distribution centers
• Confidential Capacity Planning, Production Planning, Material Planning
• Designed Global Forecasting and Operational Planning processes using Oracle Demantra DM, RT S&OP, and Confidential applications for Stryker. Configured and setup Demantra DM and RT S&OP, tuned Analytical Engine, configured over 200 series, worksheets, workflows etc
• Integrated Demantra to Confidential for management measures, reporting and dashboards

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led Confidential ’s global Confidential implementation for their regions across the world .
• Lead architect for the planning solution utilizing Distribution Planning and Constrained Planning for client’s configured (CTO) and standard product lines utilizing Confidential ’s capacity planning capabilities to level load the factories and help improve order fill rates and streamline manufacturing process for Confidential ’s Contract Manufacturers’ facilities.

Confidential

Lead functional solution architect

Responsibilities:

• S&OP’s Demand Review and Supply Review processes were implemented involving Sales/Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance and CMO teams of BioMarin.
• Implementation scope included collecting the booking and shipments history from legacy system and Oracle EBS, Statistical Forecasting using 9 statistical models including regression, holt and intermittent models, a closed loop Demand Review process to produce a Consensus Forecast using worksheets, Forecast Accuracy and Waterfall Analysis, Demand Simulations, Collaboration between groups for demand and publish Forecast to Supply Planning, and a comprehensive Supply Review process to drive to an Operational Supply Plan.
• Led the upgrade of Demantra DM and S&OP from 7.2 to 7.3 and implemented several new features and functions including analytical engine execution from linux box, horizontal views of data in the worksheets, pool time series and other functional and technical enhancements.
• Configured Distribution, Production (MPS) and Manufacturing (MRP) plans to model and plan finished good and lower level products in an OPM environment. Confidential ’s constrained and unconstrained plans were used to generate level loaded production schedules and plan for purchased material.

Oracle Manufacturing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led this defense systems company through significant business improvements using Oracle Confidential and other Oracle Manufacturing applications.
• Using Confidential, provided solutions and processes to systemically level load company’s production plan and schedule. Configured and setup the Confidential application to meet client’s planning requirements
• Worked with client’s planning and operations teams to help them manage their daily and weekly planning activities using leading practices.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led this large manufacturer of medical devices through the implementation of Demantra Demand Management and redeployment of Confidential .
• Key Demand Management functions that were implemented included collection of booking history from Oracle EBS and legacy systems, history and forecast series configuration, advanced worksheet configurations for the planners, analytical engine tuning to generate a statistical forecast, forecast accuracy analysis, simulation capabilities, chain management, internal collaboration and publishing the forecast to Confidential for supply planning.
• Major business objectives accomplished included shorten the forecasting cycle by more than 80%, improve forecast accuracy, improve productivity of planners and IT personnel, solution scalability and improved performance.
• Using Confidential, Stryker planned their finished products and purchased items for three of the sites. Collaborative Planning was used along with Confidential to collaborate with suppliers. Confidential was used to provide customers with accurate ATP dates.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led Confidential through the implementation of Confidential, PS, Confidential and Collaborative Planning. The implementation was done using the best industry practices and solutions to help Confidential achieve their inventory and delivery goals,
• As a hands-on lead solution architect, provided solutions to minimize inventory and improve inventory turns at Confidential ’s worldwide manufacturing and distribution locations. Used Confidential and Confidential solutions to shorten the lead times and to significantly improve order fill rates and customer service levels. The manufacturing plants in US and Canada were piloted to schedule the factory using Production Scheduling.
• Conducted discovery sessions, conference room pilots, testing and user training sessions for the implementation. Evaluated Demantra for global forecasting process.
• Assisted Confidential with the implementation of an Intercompany process across sets of books which was required in order to realize the best benefits of Confidential and Confidential .
• Assisted Motorola in planning and implementing a period based forecasting process and solution using Oracle ODP (Oracle Demand Planning) and Confidential .
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive trading partner planning process and solution with Motorola’s contract manufacturers using Oracle Collaborative Planning, Confidential, ODP, Oracle Consignment using OM, Purchasing, and Inventory applications.
• Lead consultant for the implementation of material and capacity constrained Confidential plans for two of Motorola’s manufacturing facilities.
• Conducted discovery sessions, workshops, CRP and testing sessions for the above implementations.

Confidential

Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped Stryker in establishing VMI relationship with 7 of their affiliates worldwide by brining them live on Oracle Collaborative Planning and iSupplier.
• Led the implementation of ODP and Confidential for Stryker’s US manufacturing plant. The footprint included forecasting and capacity constrained planning and scheduling.
• Helped improve the Inventory Turns and reduce the inventory at client’s manufacturing cells and distribution centers using Oracle Confidential and Oracle Demand Planning
• On both the projects, assisted the client in performing requirements and process mapping and conducting CRPs, workshops, user training and UATs.
• Led the evaluation and pilot for Demantra’s Demand Management to migrate the client from Oracle Demand Planning to Demantra in order to provide a more scalable and flexible demand planning solution.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the implementation of migrating Confidential from Oracle Demand Planning to Demantra Demand Management applications.
• Assisted Confidential ’s demand planning business and technical teams in evaluating the capabilities of Demantra Demand Management and Advanced Forecasting.
• The functionality and capabilities that were included in the implementation were creating and working with series, the scalability and performance of Demantra when forecast is generated at the customer and customer location ( Confidential ) levels, the integration of Demantra with Oracle ERP and Confidential, configuring and working with multiple series for history and forecast, working with seeded/pre-configured worksheets, chaining, automatic determination of best forecasting level, forecast simulation, collaborative workbench and other advanced forecasting functions.
• Assisted Confidential in accomplishing significant improvements to their forecast accuracies and improving their demand planning process efficiencies using Demantra’s Demand Management.

Confidential

Functional project lead

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the client in streamlining their global supply chain processes (for their world wide sites) using Oracle’s planning products - Oracle Demand Planning, Confidential, Confidential, MRP and Collaborative Planning. As a solution architect for Oracle ODP, Confidential, Collaborative Planning (including CMI and VMI), and iSupplier applications provided the system solutions to address several business issues.
• Using Confidential, provided solutions to configure client’s high volume production schedules and material plans. The solution included the implementation of Material and Capacity Constraints Based Planning, Scheduling and Optimization, Unconstrained Supplier Schedules, Demand Prioritization, advanced Forecast Consumption Techniques and automation of Factory Schedules. Worked with the client’s operations group (production planning, material planning, global supply planning and logistics) to improve and align their processes and map them to Oracle’s planning systems. Helped the factory schedulers interpret and maintain schedules using Gantt Charts and reports.
• Provided solutions to meet client’s complex demand planning/forecasting requirements using advanced functions of ODP and Confidential like four dimensional forecasting including Geography, designing custom hierarchies and levels, designing complex statistical and formula measures, publishing forecasts to the customers, receiving forecast updates from the customers into demand planning and implementing CMI with Confidential ’s customers and VMI with the suppliers.
• Assisted in the implementation of Oracle Manufacturing, Distributions & Logistics Applications including Inventory, BOM, OM and WMS.

Confidential

Functional Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• The business issues resolved included inventory reduction (higher inv turns), improved order fill rates, order prioritization, accurate customer promises and improved service levels. The solutions were provided for the make to stock, make to order (configure to order) and procure to orders and forecasts processes.
• Functional lead for the upgrade of 11i applications for this large company. Modules included Inventory, BOM, WIP, OM, Purchasing, iProcurement and Shipping.
• Responsible for setups, validation, integrated testing and user training for various modules across 11i application for 2 primary business units.