Venkatesh Raman
IT Manager - Supply Chain & Ptp @Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
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WORK HISTORY
IT Manager - Supply Chain & Ptp @Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
Nashville, TN, US
IT manager responsible for supporting procurement, EAM, testing and tax solutions in SAP ECC, Ariba, Hexagon and Vertex made of FTE and AMS providers- Stabilized Ariba post implementation and developed roadmap - Deployed SAP in South America Countries – Chile, Peru, and Argentina - Kick started and modernized forestry solutions - Deployed use cases in BTP and Integration Suite. Rolled out Signavio and prototyped SAC- Built functional team and transitioned business owned IT systems/resources
EDUCATION
University of Madras
B.S, Mechanical Engineering
Oklahoma State University
MS, Industrial Engineering/MIS
SKILLS
ABOUT VENKATESH RAMAN
Proven SAP manager with over 15 years of experience in MM-WM, SD, LE, PP, Supply Chain and end to end SAP R/3 production support, enhancement and project delivery- Coordinated and delivered applications and infrastructure needs of a project- Managed team size of up to 30 with ability to deliver projects on/under budget and on/before schedule- Managed team size of over 45 Contractors (onsite, offshore, nearshore) for Production support and enhancement delivery -Expertise in process design and redesign with ability to think ‘outside the box’-Ability to motivate team members, management and customers to think and act differently-Proven ability to establish strong relationship with senior management and customers for a shared vision-Seasoned in outsourced development model with demonstrated ability to drive improvements across project lifecycle and ongoing operations support- All Ongoing Run operations support including incident management and delivery, outage coordinaton and resolution, enhancement prioritization and delivery, Vendor management, Incident Metrics -All Project management related activities including Project proposal, cost estimation, Project schedule & resource planning, co-ordination of activities between business & IT team, Weekly status reporting, Steering committee status reporting, Data Architecture & System landscape validation, Business Process design, validation and quality proceduresSpecialties: SAP Production Support, Incident management, Vendor management, Production Support Metrics and Management, Project Management, Phase 0 workshops, Requirement gathering, Business case prep, Documentation,Vendor negotiations, SAP Logistics and Supply Chain process, Warehouse Management (WM)/ Inventory Management, RFs, Logistics and Transportation, Export Process, SAP Security and Basic Basis Work. 3PL integrations, Outsourced development model, Software Quality (CMM), Infrastructure set up process (Wireless and Hardware set up)
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