SUMMARY:

• Overall 20 years of experience with 9 years of IT experience in solution design, fit/gap analysis, configuration, design, development, testing, implementation and production support of complex solutions using Oracle E - Business Suite Applications 11i and R12. Hands-on experience in implementing Oracle EBS Modules: VCP (ASCP, GOP, PS, Demantra), Mixed Mode Manufacturing/Discrete/Flow, Inventory, Purchasing, PLM, EAM. Work experience with US and APAC based clients.
• Domain experience of 11 years in supply chain planning, inventory management, procurement planning, demand planning, manufacturing, warehouse management, logistics and customer service.
• Key skills include team management, solution architecture, project strategy, business process design and optimization, business case development, value mapping and development, facilitation, and systems integration.
• Good understanding of manufacturing processes in general and business requirements ability to setup and configure Oracle applications based on user requirements.
• Handled three full cycle implementation and support projects of Oracle E-Business Suite Discrete Manufacturing Applications.
• Primary expertise on ASCP, Production Scheduler (PS), Bill of Materials (BOM), Work in Process (WIP), Engineering, Material Requirement planning, Quality, Capacity Planning, Enterprise Asset Management, Manufacturing Scheduling, Costing, Product Life Cycle Management (PLM), Inventory (INV) and Purchasing (PO).
• Secondary expertise Demantra, Oracle Demand Planning (ODP), Global Order Promising (GOP), Project Management and Project Resource Management.
• Can interact effectively with customers, developers and peers to ensure the effective Design, Development and Implementation of the solution.
• Conversant with business process analysis and modeling.
• Strong Exposure to Package implementation/ roll out methodology.
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills, problem resolution, time and resource management.
• Unique ability to interact with senior management to present project complexities / best practices in a simple, understandable manner.
• Industry Verticals experience: Automobiles, Medical Instruments, Steel & Heavy Industry, Glass processing industry, Automobile Components, Light Engineering industry.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

ASCP and APCC - Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, functional analysis, process mapping and solution design.
• Preparing and reviewing Functional design documents (MD.050s)
• Writing Test scripts (TE.040s) and conducting Functional, Integration and User testing
• Conducting Technical Design (MD.070) and Code reviews
• Performing Setups, Configurations and preparing BR.100 document
• Conducting CP workshop and prepare UPK documents for core group.
• Coordinating with PMO, Development, Testing and Business teams across various locations / geographies.
• Reviewing ASCP Server requirements and worked with Oracle to finalize the server size.
• Defined the scheduling model to run ASCP Plans in parallel and deliver ASCP Plan to users before the start of daily operations.
• Defined ASCP upgrade and maintenance check list to sustain the consistent performance.
• Trouble shooting Data collection and ASCP performance issues.
• Connecting Columbus Engine Plant(R12), Rocky Mount(11i), Daventary(11i) ERPs to single Global ASCP instance and deliver operational plans before the start of morning shift.
• Solution modeling on the basis of Theory of constraints (TOC) to deliver order promising and master production schedule on the basis of Bottle neck resource.

Confidential

ASCP - Lead consultant

Responsibilities:

• Inter Organization supply chain planning configuration and project manufacturing integration with ASCP.
• Performance tuning of ASCP post go live with full data volume.
• Issue resolution and support.
• Requirement gathering for Customization and delivered MD-50.
• The role was to build a common ASCP process that could be used within the wider Samvardhan Motherson Group organizations. The initial requirement was to build a planning and scheduling solution. I gave a series of workshops to the senior management team demonstrating how ASCP would assist in their operational and long term planning of materials and capacities. Replaced the spreadsheet planning system with a responsive ERP solution. Enabling capacity planning coupled with demand planning to calculate material requirements for the business.
• Worked with other teams on integration of Advanced Supply Chain Planning Application with Motherson legacy and third party software, which is used for detailed shop floor scheduling and sequencing of child subassemblies.
• Introduced a formal demand planning process using forecast set and master demand schedule. This provided data transparency from the planners to the customer service department so product availability was real time. Additionally the versioning of forecast provided insights to planners on the fluctuation of demand and comparison of various forecast versions for analyzing the change of demand on downstream activities.

Confidential

Functional Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing end-to-end implementations for ESCORTS manufacturing and planning modules.
• Working on business process analysis, business specific requirements, process mapping and solution designing.
• Gather and analyze functional and systems requirements for design, development of final solution using Oracle standard methodologies.
• Document to be processes, gaps, set up documents, custom design documents outlining business needs, program functions and steps involved in developing or modifying the existing program.
• Modification of Requisition Import interface to accommodate business requirements.
• Organizing and driving CRP workshops.
• Working closely with Process owners / Lead key users on post CRP discussions, application and solution mapping.
• Handled functional design of CEMLI objects
• Developed Custom Solution for Outside processing, including India Localization setups
• Developed Custom Workflows for engineering change verification and approvals
• Post Go-Live Support - performance tuning, trouble shoot issues and provide resolutions.
• Review standard programs-Cost Manager, Material Transaction Manager, and Move Transaction manager to optimize the performance and improve efficiency of system.

Confidential

Functional Team Lead - Oracle Manufacturing and ASCP modules

Responsibilities:

• Managing end-to-end implementations for MSSL manufacturing and planning modules.
• Working on business process analysis, business specific requirements, process mapping and solution designing.
• Organizing and driving CRP workshops.
• Working closely with Process owners / Lead key users on post CRP discussions, application and solution mapping.
• Conducting CRP workshop with Lead Key user / Process owner.
• Gathering Requirement with lead key users
• System setup based on requirement.
• Requirement mapping with standard process / customization
• Solution design / work around purposed based on the requirement gaps.
• Handled functional design of CEMLI objects
• Solution design for supply chain network involving manufacturing units and distribution warehouses.
• R12- Feature of SDS (Sequence Dependent Setups) for changeover optimization & Distribution Planning.
• CEMLI Design on Collection Hooks and Release Hooks.
• BOM and WIP with Standard, Non standard discrete jobs
• Costing with standard costing and average costing
• Engineering with manufacturing and engineering change orders
• Quality with Collection plans: Non conformances, Dispositions and CAR
• MRP/MPS with demand class, forecast, MDS, MPS and MRP
• Capacity planning with RCCP and Manufacturing Scheduling
• Item Catalog Category
• Change management: Issues, Change Request, Change Orders
• Product Life cycle management from concept to retirement involving project management integration.
• Document Management through OCS.
• Responsible for supporting the sales process through solution demonstration, writing content for customer proposals and tender responses and conducting workshops with clients/ prospects.
• Provided clear articulation of business focused solution, based on solution knowledge and experience, to prospects with the aim of achieving sales targets and customer satisfaction.
• Develop prototypes and proof of concept for clients to assist in building business cases.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of existing and prospective markets and functional area business drivers.
• Assist Project managers in preparing effort estimates for projects after new business is secured.

Confidential

Oracle ASCP and Oracle Demand Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Used Oracle AIM implementation methodology.
• Worked with Project lead (Oracle Consultant) to plan, scope and manage the effort.
• Development and documentation of as-is and to-be business processes and other associated technical specifications from end user requirements.
• Performed the gap fitment analysis vis-à-vis requirement and product functionality.
• Charged with testing the project release. Created a test plan with test cases. Responsible for coordination of the defect management process with the technical and business leads.
• Led a series of client sessions with managers, executives to sign off on design deliverables.
• Planned user acceptance sessions with key users, utilized the functional test scripts for conducting the user acceptance sessions.
• Displayed and promoted an aptitude for customer service in responding to requests from client and management for planning, status updates, and issue/change resolution.
• Responsible for managing a support team of 2 consultants.
• Worked with client’s e-governance managers to determine priorities and scheduling of production support issues, enhancement of existing systems and changes to project scope.
• Providing post-go-live support to client on ASCP, ODP and GOP modules of Oracle APS (E-business suite-11.5.10).
• Launching weekly and monthly ASCP, ODP collections and plans of type: Optimized, constrained and capable to promise with 24X7 ATP mode.
• Monitoring the performance of activities involved from data collections to post plan reports generation.
• Trouble shooting and providing necessary functional support in terms of plan recovery, raising the Tars, following up on them and working with Oracle development on them.
• Jointly responsible with client for preparing technical assessment document for change request and subsequent release of code fix.
• Charged with the testing of code fix, patches in test environment and finally getting the acceptance of client on the test results before moving the code, apply of patch in production environment.
• Coordinating weekly ASCP plan meetings with Client and resolving issues in the set time frame.
• Recommended solutions for improving plan performance.
• Displayed the aptitude for customer service by responding and resolving the issues within SLA (service level agreement).
• Mentored and trained the team.
• Prepared statement of work (SOW), resource plan, tasks and project metrics for internal project team.
• Accountable to senior management for spearheading the internal project team to work in synch with implementing partners for meeting the project goals.
• Participated with users in gathering, analyzing, defining and documenting business process flows and systems requirements for Make to Stock implementation.
• Requirement gathering, gap analysis, documenting As-Is and To-Be processes.
• Provided inputs for technical and business solution documentation.
• BPR for non - value added activities and redefining the same as per industries best practices.
• Liaison between external consultants/ end users and project team.
• Planned user acceptance sessions with Key Users. Utilized the functional test scripts for conducting the User Acceptance sessions.
• Responsible for project change requests, change request justifications, impact analysis etc.
• System administrator tasks like creating users, responsibilities, menus and profile options etc.
• Coach and support both new and existing team members to facilitate knowledge transfer.