Sridhar Turaga

About Sridhar Turaga

Senior management consulting professional focused on helping clients transform business processes by combining data & analytics, AI, and automation using cutting-edge tools such as Celonis. Close to 7 years of experience implementing Celonis to transform processes in supply chain, finance, and order management. Delivered customized solutions to solve client-specific problems in consumer goods, pharma & life sciences, manufacturing, and banking industries delivering multi-million-dollar efficiency savings. Extensive expertise on data models of ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, Infor M3, SAP, Oracle, and custom applications of the clients. Leveraging over two decades of experience in the information technology & consulting services industry. Led P&L of engagements up to $20m in size for Fortune customers delivering application services as well as digital transformation solutions involving intelligent automation, legacy transformation, data & analytics, and artificial intelligence. Delivered large productivity / efficiency savings (about 8% of engagement size) using data-driven process improvements and methodologies such as Six Sigma, Lean, and Design Thinking.

Experience

1. Sr Business Value Solution Architect - Process Mining

   PepsiCo

   Aug 2023 — Present · Princeton, NJ, US

   Solution Development / Innovation – Enabled process mining expansion at Pepsico into new areas such as Trade Promotion Management, Inventory Management, and Enterprise Asset Management by developing pilots and custom projects. Directly engaged senior business leaders from Directors to SVPs introducing process mining, presenting ideas and solutions Technology Development: Developed Celonis assets starting with problem definition to data model development, Views & dashboards, and action flows across TPM, Inventory, EAM, and P2P processes; developed deep expertise in SAP data (tables, columns, joins etc) across multiple process areas; piloted Salesforce involving field sales processes such as Visits and Order Management. Deployed cutting-edge Celonis components such as Views, Network Explorer, and Skills.Project Delivery: Managed full program lifecycle including scoping, estimation, budget approvals, risk, and executive reporting of all aspects of the process mining program.Business Value Management: Drove value discovery workshops to identify opportunities for improvement, frame value and established governance to regularly track value ranging from $200k to $1 million USD CoE Leadership: Drove Process Mining CoE initiatives – an internal Viva Engage portal with 1500 community members across the company, a framework to assess process mining fitment for new opportunities, implemented a methodology to assess the criticality of 180+ data pools and prioritize support, a competency pathway to grow developers into solution architects, and templates for use case, requirement gathering, and business value framing High impact interventions: Led a cross-vendor SWAT team that resolved a stalled Requisition-to-Pay initiative in 4 weeks after 6+ months of delays. Advised on Celonis adoption across Make-Move-Sell processes controls using data and automation to reduce control overhead

Education

• Andhra University

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  Master of Technology - MTech

• Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

  MBA (IPMX), Business Administration and Management, General

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• Customer Relations
• Business Analytics
• Outsourcing
• Process Improvement
• Business Development
• Requirements Analysis
• Competitive Analysis
• Business Model Innovation
• Capital Markets
• Strategy
• Management
• Team Management
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Sdlc
• Leadership
• Program Management
• Pre-Sales
• Software Development
• Customer Service
• People Management
• New Business Development
• Enterprise Software
• Entrepreneurship
• Productivity Improvement
• Project Management
• Consulting
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Product Management
• Software Project Management
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Crm
• Project Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Project Planning
• Vendor Management