Abhinav Puntambekar

About Abhinav Puntambekar

Hello, my name is Abhinav Puntambekar, and I am a highly accomplished, adaptable, and…

Experience

1. Head of IT Applications - North America

   Aebi Schmidt Group

   Oct 2023 — Present · US

   As Head of IT application for North America leading a team of internal and external resources, managing, maintaining and striving for continuous improvement across various ERP’s and business applications. Driving transformation across various platforms benefitting the business in terms of efficiency and ease of business with the customer. Collaborate with business and various teams to orchestrate new and innovative solutions, identify process inefficiencies, manage budgets, implement controls and automate and standardize procedures. Partner with procurement team in sourcing and selecting new vendors.• Instrumental in the Implementation of Change Request process and new Service desk tool globally.• Involved in the multiple Legacy ERP transformation into SAP S/4 Public cloud project in terms of providing guidance on the data migration strategy, archiving strategy, critical business process identification and standardization, finalizing the 3rd party application and the integration of the same with SAP.• Develop and plan SAP Job roles and authorization strategy and implementation of standardization of the roles across North American business units• Implementation of critical SAP business processes pertaining to OTC, Finance, Mfg, Supply Chain• Yearly and monthly budget tracking along with Vendor Management and day to day team management across multiple ERP’s and business applications (SAP, Workwise, Infor, Salesforce)• Business collaboration on day-to-day basis in terms of business case creation for various initiatives, identify business process efficiencies and priorities and align with IT goals• Part of the Global Change Advisory Board overseeing/approving the changes and projects being implemented • Global team collaboration in terms of building a SAP COE structure and Salesforce alignment• Oversaw the overall Salesforce cloud implementation across North America • Strategizing on the eCommerce tool upgrade and implementation plan across North America

Education

• University of Pune

  Masters in Computer Management

  2001 — 2003

• University of Pune

  Bachelor in Commerce

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Requirements Analysis
• Business Analysis
• Testing
• Project Management
• Management
• Sap Implementation
• Consulting
• Pre-Sales
• Sap Products
• Requirements Gathering
• Sap Erp
• Software Project Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Sap