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• Venkat has 17.5 years of experience in SAP project management, program management, functional consulting, machine learning, practice management and pre-sales activities.
• He led multiple SAP Implementation and Application Management (AMS) programs. He has good experience in systems implementation and application management methodologies and has deep understanding of agile and waterfall methodologies.
• He has deep expertise in Supply Chain and Customer Relation Management business processes. He specializes in SAP Sales and Distribution (SD), SAP Project Systems (PS), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), SAP CRM, S/4HANA and IS-Utilities (IS-U) solutions. He has good expertise in machine learning (ML). His consulting experience spans across consumer-packaged goods, telecom, retail, manufacturing, power and utilities, logistics and transportation industries.
• He led multiple practice management initiatives like service quality improvement (CMMI for Services, SSAE16 and ITIL), establishment of SAP Centers of Expertise (COEs), process optimization and innovation through machine learning (ML) and Pre-sales activities. He has strong communication, project management and leadership skills. He is a proven team player and has experience of working with people from highly diversified environments globally.
• He is a PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP). He completed MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB, Hyderabad, India) and B.E (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from BITS (Pilani, India).
Led SAP ECC implementation and on- going application support for an IT consulting company.
Led S4/4HANA1709 version Greenfield implementation for an airlines client.
Led S/4HANA Migration project for a Logistics Company involving migration from SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 7 to S/4HANA 1610 on-premise version.
Led SAP ISU Solution Implementation and on- going Application Support for a US based water utility company.
Led SAP GST for India Solution Implementation for an IT consulting company.
Lead consultant for implementation of SAP SD module, as part of the financial transformation program for a consumer Products Company based in Europe.
Led SAP CRM Application Support project for a consumer durable company
Functional consultant for implementation of SAP SD, EWM modules, as part of the supply chain transformation program for a industrial products company based in USA.
My areas of expertise include: SAP Systems Implementation, Application Management, Project and Program Management, Supply Chain Process Consulting, SAP functional consulting, Application Portfolio Rationalization, ERP Products Evaluation, Procurement of IT Services/ Products, Establishment of ERP Centers of Excellence(COEs) and Service Delivery Quality Improvement.
As SAP Solution Planning Lead, I was responsible for proposing compelling solutions to the clients in SAP Technology area. I led solutioning of systems implementation and application management services (AMS) deals involving S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP Callidus, SAP IBP, SAP Hybris solutions. I worked on deals from North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. I collaborated with SAP Capability COEs, Delivery and Sales teams for proposing right solution to the customers.
I was responsible for service delivery for SAP Application Support and Implementation projects. My day-to-day responsibilities include Program management, Pre-sales and Practice capability building activities.
I played the roles of SAP functional consultant, lead consultant, project manager, service quality champion and pre-sales manager at Deloitte.
Interfaced with international clients for solving their SAP CRM implementation and application maintenance related technical issues and developed enhancements and bug fixes.
Designed and developed a module for tracing the discrepancy in inventory as part of $ 1.5 million project, for centralization of an existing inventory system for a top 100 US retailer.
Post-Graduate Programme in Management (MBA, full time) in 2005 from Indian School of Business (ISB, Hyderabad, India)
B.E. (Honors) Mechanical Engineering in 2001 from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS, Pilani, India)
PMI Certified Project Management Professional(PMP)
APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional(CSCP)
Deloitte Certified Enterprise Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt
Deloitte Certified SAP Sales and Distribution consultant
ITIL v3 Foundation program certificate
o Amazon Certified AWS Cloud Business Professional and Technical Professional