Supply Chain ERP Manager with 10+ years of total professional experience and 8 years of experience in Project Management, Design and Delivery of ERP Solutions across Global IT Consulting projects for major Fortune 500 Clients in US.
Demonstrated success record in multiple roles across different projects as below:

• A Functional Lead responsible for interacting with business, understanding their requirements, designing optimal business processes, performing Fit gap analysis and executing functional design, test and delivery of solutions that meet the stated requirements.
• A Project Manager responsible for leading and managing delivery by Onsite and Offshore teams
• A Test Lead responsible for managing test planning and execution efforts of an extensive onsite and offshore team testing standard and custom solutions across multiple systems and modules.

Key experiences include:

• Involvement in all phases of major transformational programs from conception to deployment.
• Managing teams with peak strength of up to 25 analysts across modules and location.
• Experience in projects involving 11i and R12 versions of Oracle Ebusiness Suite.

KEY SKILL SETS

Oracle Applications Expertise

• Order to Cash: Expert
• Procure to Pay: Competent
• Record to Report: Competent

Project Management Expertise

• Team Leadership
• Project Planning
• Communication/ Status Reporting

Industry Domain Expertise

• Retail Industry Expertise
• Order to Cash Business Process SME

• GBSS is a major transformational program where-in our client is redefining its operations across functions like Order Management, Purchasing, Planning, Manufacturing and Financials using solutions defined in Oracle 11.5.10.2 Platform.
• My role as a test lead is to lead a team of functional, business and test analysts to test and certify all solutions across the 3 major end to end Order to Cash Business Processes: B2B Order Fulfillment, Retail Order Fulfillment and Direct Store Delivery. This involved planning and managing the test planning and execution efforts of ~25 onsite and offshore analysts testing standard processes and custom solutions (including 100+ custom RICE Objects) across Order Management, Pricing, Shipping, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Purchasing and Inventory Modules in Oracle ERP and a Legacy JDA Order Entry and Material Management System for Retail Store orders.
• Responsibilities include understanding the requirements and solution designs, defining scope and testing approach across different test phases, preparing and maintaining test project plans identifying key milestones, resource and environment requirements, involvement in creation, review and execution of test cases, defect management including prioritization and conducting triage sessions for defect resolution and Management reporting including identifying and mitigating project risks and providing Director level status updates on a weekly basis.
• My achievements include appreciations from Client Directors and Managers for on-time and quality delivery of test deliverables across complex solutions, detailed project planning and management and clear and proactive communication of potential issues and risks and their mitigation plan.

Functional Lead (Order Management and Fulfillment) for Direct to Store Order Management Project ,Confidential, NH.

• The client is the largest food wholesaler and one of the largest privately held companies in US. They operate in 2 distinct lines of business: one as a Wholesale distributor of food and grocery products to Supermarkets and Retail chains across the country and the other as a provider of third party warehousing services for leading CPG manufacturers.
• Direct to Store project involved conceptualizing a new supply chain model merging the 2 lines of business by servicing the Supermarket customers of the wholesale distributor business by purchasing goods on the fly from CPG manufacturer’s stocks in the third party warehouses, using solutions defined in an Oracle R12 Platform.
• As a Functional Lead, I was involved in the project from conception including the Proposal stage where-in I was a key member presenting Infosys solution to the client. My responsibilities included Business process definition of the new Direct to Store Supply Chain Model, identifying the functional requirements, performing fit-gap analysis, anchoring the design and delivery of custom solutions as required and post go live support.My achievements include being a key member involved in the Project Win for Infosys and ensuring successful project delivery meeting client business objectives.

Functional Lead (Order and Distributor Management) for Oracle Apps Implementation followed by Oracle 11.5.9 to 11.5.10 Upgrade and Global OM Rollout Project for a leading Multi-Level Marketing Company in Health, Nutrition and Beauty Products based out of Torrance, California.

• The Project first involved migration of Order and Distributor Management processes for business Operations in North America onto an Oracle 11.5.9 Applications Platform from a legacy HP3000 system. Subsequently new projects were initiated for upgrading the applications from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10, solution and rolling out the solution to global operations in phases starting with Mexico and South American Operations and then moving onto to Asia Pac and Europe.
• As a Functional Lead, I was responsible for leading the teams involved inimplementation, post go live support and maintenance as well as the upgrade and rollout of Order Management and Distributor Management applications.

Confidential, June 2002 Feb 2004
Position: Deputy Manager, International Sales and Marketing
Essar Steel Ltd is a leading Multi-National Steel Producing Company based out of India. My responsibilities included:

• Sales of Hot Rolled Steel Coils into South and Middle East Asian Markets.
• World Wide Marketing of the products of Essar Steel Ltd and its partner company ‘Steel Corporation of Gujarat Ltd’ which is a producer of Cold Rolled/Galvanized Steel Coils.
• Management Information System (MIS) in charge of collection of information worldwide regarding latest trends in Global Steel markets. Customer Requirement Analysis and Business Development.

EDUCATION

Post Graduate Diploma in Management
BE (Electronics)