Venky Doraikannu PMP

Cell (847) 340 9462

vdyadav@yahoo.com

 

SUMMARY

Dynamic, performance-focused, and accomplished SAP Executive with more than 24 years of experience in field of Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Logistics which encompasses 20 years of SAP implementation in a lead role. Extensive Leadership experience in managing and implementing best practice integrated system solutions for complex business scenarios and integrations. Managed large teams of up to 52 resources comprising of employees and onsite, offsite and offshore consultants to deliver outstanding deployments efficiently in partnership with IT teams, functional teams and business teams. Breadth and Depth of knowledge of several cross functional business processes such as Order-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay, Plan to Produce, Supply Chain, Accounts Receivables and Payables, across many industries, enabling to lead implementation of best practices and technology solutions. His SAP functional expertise includes the MM (Procurement, AP, IM, WM, Master data) with integration to MDG, MDM, SD, GTM, PP, PM, TM, QM, EDI, BIBO, SRM, APO and Commodity Management. He is exposed to Big data and Hadoop.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP: MM, SD, WM, PP PI, PM, BW, LIS, EIS, EDI, SRM, GTM, Commodity Management, TM 7, 8.1, APO

Tools: Testing (Mercury Quality Center, HP ALM), Solution manager, Production support (BNC Remedy, Clarify), Transport management (Remedy, Rev-Trac, Charm), Win shuttle, Info shuttle, CSL Triple point,.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

IT Business Solutions Inc, Schaumburg, IL Jan 2002 - Present

Cargill Inc. Hopkins MN, Jan 2011 – Jan 2013, Aug 2013 - Present

·              Delivered and supported multiple SAP Rollouts for several Cargill business units with numerous RICEF objects (workflow, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms).

·               Collaborated with Process team, Master Data team, Development team, Basis, GRC and Business to establish standards and processes that test leads should follow to manage their areas of responsibilities and to build the solution and transport it to other instances.

·               Worked on the TM implementation version 7, 8, 9.1 for both inbound and outbound process. Conducted workshops, worked with the process team in seamless integration of TM with OTC/P2P teams, lead the data loading of TM related data, trained the users on the end to end TM process and executing transactions in TM.

·               Led the cutover activities for six different go lives. Had detailed discussion with the business and senior leadership on resource allocation and deployments at all sites. Ensured we had string coverage in sites that had high risk and needed more attention. Worked with the project management team, process teams and business teams on cutover planning, training, pre black out, post black out procedures, hyper care and ongoing support. Worked with the legacy IT teams on effectively seamless data, accurate data conversion and ultimately retiring their systems gradually after SAP go live.

·               Renegotiated many existing large and small contracts, reviewed various Requests for Proposals (RFPs), built efficiencies in contracts and reduced the IT contracting expense by over $6M dollars.

·               Established and maintained excellent relationship with senior management, internal partners and external primary and secondary vendors.

·               Sourced, recruited and managed a highly motivated development team of 12 employees and 40 consultants (onsite, offsite and offshore) across Order-Trade-Settlement-Cash (OTSC), Procure-to-Pay (PRTP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Relationship Management (SRM) and Commodity Trade Management (CTM).

·               Drafted testing strategies and roadmaps across multiple test instances.

·               Defined effective methodologies, procedures and processes to create test datasheets and test scripts.

·               Extensively worked with design architects to build the data readiness tool to track the cleansing status of master data objects during the SAP Chain rollout.

·               Partnered with internal Data Management Organization and SAP in evaluating feasibility of implementing SAP MDM across the organization.

·               Assured adherence to all SOX and Global Data Governance policies and procedures.

 

National Grid, Waltham MA, Feb 2013 – July 2013

Designed metrics/KPI’s on Inventory & Warehouse management  and Procurement process like Stock outs, Inventory turns, Inventory valuation, Obsolete inventory, Cycle count accuracy & performance, Pick to Ship, Dock to Stock, Order fill rate, PM work orders status like aging & costs, Vendor performance, Shopping cart analysis. These metrics were presented to the senior management to identify their top issues and suggested solutions to fix their issues. Educated the warehouse personnel on the process & design so that picking/put away, cycle counting was done efficiently. Trained the end users in the creation of Shopping carts, PO’s, Confirmation of services & Invoices.

 

Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Plano TX June 2009 – Dec 2010

Vendor to Pay team lead (5 members including consultants and business users)

Conducted process demos to explain the current process and design to the new business units on Master Data, Procurement & AP. Documented the GAPS, came up with solution (systematic or manual process) and presented to the steering committee. Worked with BOA consultants to define field mappings, rules for data transformation/loading and developed reports to support the data validation by business users. Worked with MDM team to bring the material master from various systems into MDM with focus on rationalizing the Unit of measures, Classes & Characteristics, analyzing the idoc errors during syndication. Led the archiving project which involved archiving of transactional data.

 

ABBOTT Laboratories, Waukegan IL Dec 2007 – June 2009

Led the implementation of purchasing module at two ABBOTT plants. Scope of purchasing included indirect purchasing, direct purchasing, MRO, Third Party procurement and Sub contracting. Worked with the business in documenting their change requests and in prioritizing them. Worked with the solution center to develop custom reports, transactions, data conversion and interfaces (SAP and Maximo) to meet the new business requirement. Worked with the security team to implement the role based security and trained the users in the new process and transactions.  Worked with the business during their go-live by supporting their operations and fixing their issues.

Part of the SRM 5.0 implementation team for the biotech plant in ABBOTT. Conducted workshops, SRM Overview sessions to demonstrate the features/functionality of SRM to key business users to get their requirements. Participated in meetings to scope out and prioritize the requirements with the senior management.

 

ConAgra Foods, Omaha NE Jan 2002 to Dec 2007

·               Led the technical upgrade from SAP 4.6C to ECC 5.0, then from ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0. Went through the ASU tool to review OSS notes regarding upgrade, delta functionality, release notes/changes etc. Analyzed the amount and impact of changes using SPAU (repository objects) and SPPD (dictionary objects)

·               Led the divestiture projects by explaining the process, design. Separating and extracting the master data from SAP and worked with the new companies IT group in loading them into their system.

·               Worked on the custom Catch weight solution. Designed transactions to store the actual weights in pounds that were entered during the GR (production, purchasing). Designed custom reports to view and analyze.

·               Created storage types, storage sections and storage bins with automatic creation of Transfer orders. Configured the GR, GI, Transfer posting, Physical inventory count, Picking and Removal strategy to take place at WM level with Handling Units. Configured warehouse activity monitor to identify, track and correct warehouse errors like open TO’s, Open deliveries, negative stocks, inconsistencies in stock quantities.

·               Designed the process for STO like Fast Change, STO Fill or Kill. Wrote functional specs to add custom fields in the STO transactions. Identified the user exit to put logic to prevent the creation of multiple deliveries for a STO. Designed interfaces with legacy systems to create STO’s in SAP and to extract STO information to them.

·               Configured the Batch management process and setup the Batch Search strategy. Designed reports like Batch Recall report, Distressed Shelf life report based on the Expiration date characteristics in the Batch.

·               Designed several interfaces between SAP R3 & AS400, Red Prairie, 3PL (warehousing), Logility (SCP)

 

Manager, ERNST & YOUNG LLC, Chicago, IL, Aug 97- Dec 2001

Universal Oil Products, Des Plaines, IL

Team Lead Inventory Management team (5 members including consultants and business users)

Defined custom material types with custom views and fields (mandatory or hidden), set up new number ranges. Designed a custom transaction to copy a material from a plant to many plants/ storage locations Demonstrated and documented the material maintenance process. Designed and wrote functional specification for RICEF’s in IMWM.

 

EQUATE PETROCHEMICALS, Kuwait

Team Lead: Procurement Team (7 members including consultants and business users)

Demonstrated and documented the procurement & Invoice Verification process i.e. Requisition, RFQ’s, Quotations, Vendor evaluation, Outline Agreements, PO (Vendor Consignment, Third Party Processing, Sub–Contracting), Creating Invoices (credit memos and debit memos), Viewing and Clearing vendor line items, Parking and Posting Invoices, Subsequent Settlement etc. Managed the documentation of the configuration scripts, loading the AP and procurement data, delivery of training to business users on the processes.

 

ULTRAMAR DIAMOND SHAMROCK, Montreal, Canada

Team Lead – Inventory Management team (5 members including consultants and business users)

Demonstrated the functionality and wrote BPP’s on business process in IMWM like Goods Receipts, Goods Issue, Reservations, Transfer postings and Physical Inventory (manual & batch). Configured new movement types and wrote the functional specification to create a custom transaction to handle the Shipping & Receiving variances.

 

JOHNSON and JOHNSON, Sydney, Australia

Team Lead – Materials Management data team, (6 members including consultants and business users)

Designed & wrote specs to load Materials, Vendors, PO’s, Contracts, AP, GR/IR, PIR, Source list, Inventory.

 

ELI LILLY, Indianapolis, IN

Senior Business Analyst Plan to Produce

Wrote functional & technical design documents for the conversion of Materials, BOM’s, Routings and Work Centers.

 

KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL, Jasper, IN

Senior Business Analyst Logistics team

Designed RICEF’s to determine the least transportation cost, load optimizations/routes, creation of Shipments in ECC using legacy data, marking them as complete after deliveries has been PGI’ed and pushing to freight systems.

 

Contractor @ IBM, Endicott, NY, Mar 1997 to June 1997

Developed an Information Warehouse and reporting system to be used by the top executives using the EIS and LIS.

 

DELOITTE AND TOUCHE LLP, Oakbrook IL, September 1995 to Mar 1997

OWENS CORNING, Toledo, OH

Senior Business Analyst OTC team

Designed several inbound/outbound interfaces in MM, SD using ABAP/UPI.  Designed reports like AR Summary, AR Aging etc. and layouts sets for the Invoices, Chargeback, Purchasing and Sales Order.

 

MCHUGH FREEMAN ASSOCIATES, Waukesha, WI, August 1994 to August 1995

Senior Software Engineer (Red Prairie)

Involved in the design and implementation of warehousing software. Developed several GUI’s using UNIFACE, stored procedures using Oracle to carry out the various business processes, reports using SQR.

 

HAS, INC., Indianapolis, IN, January 1993 to July 1994

Senior Consultant

Developed several GUI’s using SQL*FORMS, stored procedures (PLSQL) and reports using SQL*Report Writer.

 

APPAREL LEATHERS AND TECHNICS, April 1990 to July 1991

Manufacturing Engineer

Involved in the design and implementation of a plant layout for a shoe & textile manufacturing plant. Improved production planning process to achieve production targets. Performed cost analysis and Inventory optimization.