SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of extensive experience in the Information Technology industry; extensive experience in all aspects of Oracle VCP implementations, Project Management and S&OP.
• Competency in project planning, execution, and tracking; budget, scope, and risk management; coordination between Onsite and Offshore team; and supervision of Technical team, which includes Technical Consultants, Oracle Applications Database Administrators, and System Administrators
• Solution architect for implementation of Oracle R12 Advanced Supply chain planning, Demantra Demand Management and S&OP for a Make - to-Order/Make - to-stock, Wholesale and retail business. Responsible for integration of Oracle Value Chain planning with Oracle EBS and Legacy transaction system.
• Responsible for Implementation, System setup, Analysis, Design, Configuration, Testing, User and Post-Implementation & Production Support of Oracle Planning Modules ( Confidential, ODP, Demantra Demand Management and S&OP and APCC) for global organizations in North America, EMEA and APAC regions.
• Supply chain lead consultant and architect in several end-to-end Oracle application implemetation which includes implementation of Oracle ERP (Discrete Manufacturing, OPM Manufacturing Suite, Order Management,Purchasing and Inventory) and Oracle VCP Modules.
• Excellent track-record of leading teams and driving projects to completion on time. Good team player and also self-motivated to work independently.
• Served as a liaison between Business Users, Designers, Developers and Testing Teams. Experience in converting the requirements into effective design documents. Worked on all stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) including requirement analysis, design, development, and testing.
• Excellent communication skills, systematic approach and ability to work effectively in a fast paced environment as well as strong analytical, inter-personal, and problem-solving skills
• Oracle Applications 12.2.4 and 11.5.10
• Oracle Value Chain Planning: Advanced suppy Chain Planning, Demantra Demand Management, Sales and Operations Planning, APCC, ODP, Production Scheduling (PS),MRP, BOM. Expertise in implementation of Oracle VCP modules integration with Oracle ERP and Legacy transaction system
• Oracle EBS: Discrete Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Purchasing, Order Management, and Inventory

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Reporting Tools: APCC, Developer/2000 (Forms 6i/4.5,Reports 6i/2.5), Crystal Reports 10.0, Workflow, SQL*Loader, PL/SQL, TOAD, SQL, Discoverer and Noetix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Supply Chain Solutions Consultant/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing Oracle Value Chain Planning Modules like GOP, Rapid Planning in North America and APAC
• Working with APAC team to implement Rapid Planning Module in Oracle Applications 12.2.5 and integrating with North American footprints.
• Responsible for documenting the current business practices, identifying Gaps, providing solutions & work around, customizations and required Setup’s for Rapid Planning and GOP.

Confidential

Solution Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise in project planning, analysis, process design of Demand Planning utilizing Oracle Demantra Demand Planning and PTP.
• Conducted workshops to understand Business Requirements
• Working with Demand Planning team to improve statistical forecast.
• Successfully upgraded Demantra from 12.2.4.1 to 12.2.5.1

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully configured and implemented a global forecasting and S&OP process utilizing Oracle Demantra DM and S&OP. Also provided significant forecast process, best practice guidance, corrected multiple production process issues and implemented Demantra 12.2.4.
• Provided expertise in project planning, analysis, process design, global supply chain planning and Demantra software functionality.
• Worked closely with Business users, PMO teams and IT to design a monthly Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Sales & Operation planning processes.
• Integrated Demantra with oracle Confidential, APCC and BI. Co-ordinated various CRP’s, SIT and UAT test cycles by creating Test plans and issue resolutions.
• Work closely with IT team to provide technical and architectural support and recommendation to setup and maintain Confidential and Demantra application stack
• Designed and developed end user materials and trained users in NA, APAC and EMEA regions.
• Served as a liaison between Demand Planners, Supply Planners, and IT.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Implementing Oracle Confidential and ATP for one of our locations in Sweden. Performed planning activity to complete project on time and within budget; Carried out budget preparation and estimation; evaluated timelines; collaborated with different stakeholders.
• Responsible for documenting the current business practices, identifying Gaps, providing solutions & work around, customizations and required Setup’s in Oracle VCP.
• Collaborated with business managers to ensure that materials support the needs of the functional area.
• Interacted with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Conducted CRP’s, UAT, and end-user .

Confidential, Chicago

Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Process manufacturing (Formulas, Recipes, routings and Operations) environment.
• Manage and co-ordinate the onsite and offshore teams. Developed Project plan, Cutover plan and played key role in several mock go live tests.
• Responsible for Implementation, System setup, Analysis, Design, Configuration, Testing, User and Post-Implementation & Production Support of Oracle Planning Modules ( Confidential, ODP, Demantra and PS) for our global organizations in India, Mexico and China.
• Conducted extensive workshops to understand the current Forecasting, Material Planning, Capacity planning, Scheduling and order Promising Process.
• Developed solution to support current monthly forecasting process by defining multiple Confidential Plans and integrating with Demantra DM with better tool to compare percent fullfillment of demand by the supply chain. This provides better visibility to supply management how much capacity need to be added to achive the demand and negotiate with the demand team to reduce and / or increase demand or change the product mix based on supply capability
• Indentify the advanced functionalities in Confidential, PS and EBS to meet the business requirements such as Sequence Dependent Setup, optimization of planning using decision rules
• Implementation of advanced functionalities like constraint Confidential Plan, Decision Rules Optimization for Alternate Resource and BOM/Routing, Batchable Resource and Sequence dependent setup (SDS) for critical resources
• Finalizing the Long and Medium range Confidential planning approach by defining the planning bucket sizes, planning horizon, Capacity constraint (ECC), Scheduling.
• Designed Routing and Alternae Recipe to provide accurate Resource Requirement for Capacity Planning
• Co-ordinated CRP, UAT and SIT test cycles by creating Test plans and issue resolutions.
• Responsible for documenting the current business practices, identifying Gaps, providing solutions & work around, customizations and required Setup’s in Oracle applications
• Interacted with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of business processes and gather business requirements.
• Designed and developed end user materials and gave PowerPoint presentations.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented SDLC methodology for Oracle Sales Application
• Served as a liaison between Business Users, Designers and Developers.
• Responsible for designing, developing, testing and documenting business requirements.
• Managed project - including setting timelines and milestones, interacting with vendor, reporting on project status to business Managers.
• Responsible for gathering requirements from client personnel and recommending business priorities.
• Performed Unit testing, System integration testing and UAT of business processes.
• Manage and co-ordinate the onsite and offshore teams. Developed Project plan, Cutover plan and played key role in several mock go live tests
• Oversaw QA process in developing test cases and conditions.

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Implemented on-site business requirements for Oracle application implementation (Depot Repair Module). Worked with technical staff to create, interpret, and implement business requirements into technical specifications. Identified, analyzed, reported, and tracked test script issue creation and resolution.
• Responsible for Oracle package set-up, conversion and program testing, and post-Production support.
• Responsible for developing new system roles and responsibilities, planning and developing materials and schedules, delivering, providing end-user support, and writing project communications.
• Collaborated with business managers to ensure that materials support the needs of the functional area.
• Interacted with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Served as a liaison between Business Users, Designers and Developers.

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to gather requirements from the client personnel document and distribute the work to the development team.
• Extensive testing of new functinalities were done in a dynamic testing environment
• Created new business process and data maintenance procedures
• Created, reviewed and maintained detailed Technical and functional design documents.
• Prepared materials and conducted user . Collaborated with business managers to ensure that materials support the needs of the functional area.
• Resolved the critical issues wherein worked with Oracle support
• Tested several Reports using Report Builder 6i in Oracle Applications version 11.5.10.
• Coordinated the work with the Offshore Development team in India.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to take the lead in implementing the SCRs (System Change Requests). In the process, interacted with the client's personnel to gather the requirements, reported them to the Technical Lead, implemented some of the SCRs and distributed the work among the Confidential personnel and outside contractors.
• Participated in the documentation of the Forms and Reports.
• Was also responsible to provide the status of the SCRs in a timely manner to the Project Manager and the rest of the team in Weekly Confidential team meetings.
• Involved in designing Technical Design Documents. Also documented the work by creating various manuals for to the future testers and users.
• Responsible to test the SCRs and train the client's personnel in testing the SCRs. In the process, interacted with the Technical Approver, DBA and users on the client side to gather the status of the work and report it to the Technical Lead and the Project Manager from Confidential .