Surinder Kohli
IT Executive: Business Transformation, Strategy & Architecture, ERP (SAP), Delivery Excellence
- Role
- Senior Executive Director Global ERP & IT Leader Americas Region at PHINIA
- Location
- Troy, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Surinder Kohli
IT Executive Leadership * IT Architecture & Strategy* Large IT Projects Design* SAP Design & Deployment* BI & Data Analytics* IT Organization Transformation* IT Cost Management* IT Driven Business Innovation * IT Supplier Management* Business Case Development
Experience
Senior Executive Director Global ERP & IT Leader Americas Region
Jul 2023 — Present · MI, US
Led ERP & Enterprise application separation (~25M USD) from BorgWarner & establish independent PHINIA entity & IT processes- Built 45 team SAP COE & Business Relationship Managers (BRM’s) across NA, LATAM, EMEA & AP to deliver IT transformation on a scale. Executed 30+ business enablement projects including business case development- Leading ~$50M, 3-year SAP S/4HANA on RISE ERP transformation program. First phase launch ($1.6B) in July 2026 (11 countries)- Lead transformation in Finance using SAP S/4 backbone coupled with revamp of Product Line Profitability & other core Finance processes. Opportunistically deployed AI agents within Aftermarket business segment (B2C) on Pricefx for optimized pricing- Lead transformation of Supply Chain functions using SAP S/4, Ivalua & Palantir (Tariff recovery)- Right sized PHINIA ecosystem inherited from Borg Warner: Data center consolidation,>70% workloads migrated to cloud, Consolidated EDI platform to Seeburger, developed model for TCO for every application to reduced application footprint (~15%), Consolidated vendor landscape & optimized IT operating model flexible & scalable
Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst
MS, Mechanical / Manufacturing Engineering
1990 — 1992
Regional Engineering College, Nagpur, India
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Mechanical Engineering
1985 — 1989
Skills
- Business Intelligence
- Sap Erp
- Project Management
- Itil Service Strategy
- Supply Chain
- Change Management
- Itil Process Implementation
- IT Outsourcing
- Cloud Computing
- Crm
- IT Strategy
- Business Transformation
- IT Management
- Solution Architecture
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