SUMMARY:

• Manage and lead teams to deliver business process transformations, enterprise system solutions and business analytics in supply chain areas of Finance, Forecasting/Demand Planning, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Distribution, Inventory, Warehouse Management, Pricing, and Costing. 22+ yrs experience in manufacturing, service, retail, pharmaceutical, medical devices, and ecommerce enterprises.
• SCM TransformationsS&OP ProcessFDA/FAA Regulations
• Program/Project Management4 yrs - BI/Data Analytics3PL/4PL/Warehousing
• Business Policy/Process ImprovementsLean Six Sigma Techniques Cost Reduction Initiatives
• ERP Systems/Logility/SFDC/LogProData Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Logility Voyager, Logility Advanced Analytics, SQL queries Supply Chain Analytical Tools: ETL, Statistical Modeling, Cognos, Oracle OBIEE, MS Excel, SAS Supply Chain, R, Orange Implementation of Six Sigma projects, Lean Techniques - Value Stream Mapping, 5 Why Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Director- Supply Chain Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Work with business teams to assess current processes and identify process improvement opportunities - including project ideas and solutions
• Worked with business teams to translate requirements into data analytic models
• Run high level design workshops to drive resolution of highly complex business problems in supply chain analytics across various areas like demand planning, inventory optimization, logistics and after market services
• Conduct deep dives to better understand key supply chain metrics and the analytics dashboards needed to support the executive business team
• Advocate best business intelligence practices, including data manipulation and data visualization.
• Identifying and documenting potential data sources and flows
• Led implementation team to deploy new forecasting intelligence using Logility Analytics software
• Led team in the design and development of dashboards, reports and other business intelligence metrics
• Communicate the status of critical projects with key business and IT stakeholders.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and supply chain team employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems. Create development plans for solution managers to build a strong team
• Manage team goals for annual cost savings initiatives
• Use lean techniques to improve cycle times across the supply chain-procurement to order fulfillment
• Product rationalization initiative to reduce total no. of SKUs and the complexity created in the supply chain
• Zero Inventory project to determine optimum stock levels, eliminate $25M worth of slow moving SKUs to make-to-order model with a new vendor
• Managed the demand planning analytical process in Logility to determine how to optimize the S&OP process to attain higher forecast accuracy with a variety of inputs
• Updating the existing distribution model to increase direct-to-customer shipments and reduce warehouse to DC moves
• Project to optimize returns management in an industry where return rate is as high as 30%

Confidential

Supply Chain Project MANAGER/Solution Architect/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 14 years of consulting experience in systems with specialization in supply chain planning/forecasting, manufacturing, order fulfillment, and sales & services
• 9 years of leadership roles and managed multiple teams with 6-35 members for successful on-time delivery of supply chain initiatives
• Analyzed business systems, policy and processes, tools and information for project scope development
• Project management in the areas of- project schedule and quality management; communications; task and resource management; project budgeting; risk / issue management; change management
• Prepared SOW, project plan for the implementation of new business procedures, inventory stock levels, warehouse designs, shipping networks, demand planning systems
• Developed data analytical models based on user requirements
• Led team at IBM/TOSHIBA to create supply chain data analytics dashboards and BI reports for predictive analysis. This was a 2 yr project for transitioning from COGNOS to Oracle OBIEE
• Analyzed data, legacy systems and data flows and assisted developers to store and present data in BI apps
• Provided to developers in ERP databases and translation to Dimensions and Facts
• Compliance: Responsible for documenting policies and procedures for FDA or FAA compliance, monitoring SOP & Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance and quality assurance measures
• Manage daily team activities to advance the work during the different phases of project: Definition, Operations Analysis, Design and development, Configuration, Testing, Implementation, and maintenance
• Managed development projects with technical teams (onshore and offshore) to ensure completed analysis, testing and timely deployment. Reviewed technical deliverables for accuracy and completeness
• Used continuous improvement methodology of lean and six sigma to improve supply chain processes

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepare end-to-end solution design from quote-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and product life cycle
• Deployed ERP system solutions and manage business process transformations. Responsible for implementing multiple EBS core module
• Completed gap analysis of functional flows, provide solution design, perform demo for the gaps solution from standard solution sets as well customized solution
• Data management by preparing governance model around future data creation-product and customers
• Solution architect for KPI dashboards and supply chain data analytics reports
• Assisted developers with mapping data from ERP database to ETLs
• Prepared schedule to automate daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting using data analytics tools
• Led cross functional discussions to analyze the requirements and brainstorm the solutions.
• Recommend, develop and execute plans for additional software module implementations based on business requirements.
• Create forecasting models based on Sales and operation plan
• Design integrations with saleforce.com and Oracle applications
• Managed daily team activities to advance the work during the different phases of project: Definition, Operations Analysis, Design and development, Configuration, Testing, Implementation, and maintenance
• Managed IT development projects with technical teams (onshore and offshore) to ensure completed analysis, testing and timely deployment. Reviewed technical deliverables for accuracy and completeness
• Used continuous improvement methodology of lean, and six sigma to improve supply chain processes
• Design integrations with MS Dynamics, saleforce.com and Oracle Supply Chain applications

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects to implement Oracle ERP suites with successful on-time delivery
• Prepared project plans and scope documents for all project deliverables and associated tasks required to complete those deliverables.
• Established project goals, timelines and implementation plans. Ran daily review meetings, conducted risk management analysis and supervised a team building exercise go manage the scope, cost, and schedule
• Developed and communicated weekly project status to the client and internal management to include project milestones and deliverables, project scope changes, project risks and key issues. Monitoring and control of changes in cost, time, scope.
• Gathered detailed business requirements, lead client discussions, developed functional design specifications, developed detailed testing scenarios, cases, and scripts, and worked with offshore development members.
• Ran design reviews and project deliverable meetings created by the implementation team
• Mitigate team conflicts, risks, and led changes/communication group during go-lives

Confidential

Principal Consultant - Supply Chain

Responsibilities:

• Tasks accomplished included requirements gathering, to-be process mapping, system design workshops, conference room pilot, module configuration, application testing, and integration testing
• Created future business models for the client based on best industrial practices, designing custom solutions in Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management (Shipping and Returns), Bills of Material modules
• Created documentation for current designs, future models, issues log, business solutions, custom design specifications, CRP test scripts, user manuals, SOP’s based on Oracle AIM Methodology
• Build reports for understanding material transactions, warehouse reports