Vikram Ketkar

About Vikram Ketkar

With over two decades of expertise in supply chain, warehousing, and retail systems, currently serving as Director of Supply Chain Technology at Medline India, the Global Capability Center (GCC) for Medline Industries—a global leader in healthcare. Leading a team of 100+ IT professionals across diverse skillsets, supporting and optimizing the supply chain application landscape for 50+ North American warehouses and a 1900+ transportation fleet.My teams operate agile squads across 45+ Tier 1 applications, including WMS, TMS, WCS, SAP MM/APO, and vendor management portals. Functions span Build, Support/Helpdesk, QA, and Platform Services, ensuring seamless integration and high availability across the logistics ecosystem.I am involved in a multi-year modernization of the application landscape, including cloud migration and the setup of a Platform Services team to ensure infrastructure stability and scalability.Over the past decade, my team size expanded more than tenfold—fostering horizontal and vertical mobility, welcoming a balanced mix of experienced professionals and fresh talent, and building a tenured core energized by new ideas.Operating across strategic, tactical, and operational layers—I align long-term vision, solve day-to-day challenges, and staying hands-on with the technologies in use. The mission simple: keep the boxes moving—efficiently, reliably, and intelligently.

Experience

1. Director of Supply Chain Technology

   Medline India

   Jul 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

Education

• Wichita State University

  MS, Industrial Engineering

  2000 — 2003

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  BE, Mechanical Engineering

  1995 — 1999

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Business Analysis
• Software Project Management
• Management
• Consulting
• IT Strategy
• Multi-Channel Retail
• Project Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Project Planning
• Supply Chain
• Warehouse Management
• IT Solutions
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Pre-Sales
• Requirements Analysis
• IT Outsourcing
• Leadership
• Integration
• Team Management
• Business Development
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Jda
• Business Intelligence
• Vendor Management