AKASH RASTOGI
Summary
Product Owner / Subject Matter Expertise having almost 11.5+ years of experience in JDA WMS, Red Prairie WMS , JDA TMS , Manhattan WMoS and Techno-Functional Consulting. Proven Track Record of WMS Implementations and support for Service Ventures and High-growth Organizations
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical manager
HCL Technologies
02.2020 - Current
- Technical Manager/Product Owner for the entire JDA WMS landscape for Stanley black and Decker and managing the team of more than 30 consultants, supporting the client operations and developments/Enhancements throughout the globe.
- Advanced understanding of Manhattan / Blue Yonder WMS / Blue Yonder TMS/ Red Prairie Discreet.
- Defining and Managing the Product Vision and Roadmap, Managing the Product Backlog, collaborating with the Development Team and Stakeholders and Ensuring Value Delivery.
- Provide creative solutions to complex business problems while maintaining best practices through problem management and Root cause analysis.
- Owning and delivering Weekly /monthly /Quarterly status calls with stake holders .
- Facilitated business process design and development that leverages Manhattan or BY capabilities in area of Logistics Transformation(WMS/TMS).
- Acted as a Techno-functional lead for large projects (work planning /mentoring/ escalation point for project team).
- Requirement gathering for new requirements and working with developers to get those requirements converted to solutions.
- Assisted project teams and business teams to verify the configurations/ customization's in Development and test environments during development/SIT/UAT/Production deployment phase to validate the end-to-end solution
- Worked closely with the Project Support team to provide inputs and develop tools and train the consultants.
- Client: Stanley Black & Decker
- BY WMS / JDA WMS/ Red Prairie WMS/Manhattan WMS
Product Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2018 - 02.2020
- Participate in System Integration Testing (SIT), Pre-UAT and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Providing daily professional support of implemented Manhattan warehouse management systems in all technical aspects.
- Managed deliveries for development using Agile methodologies.
- Performed Design & Gap Analysis, and recommend solutions.
- Configurations of all Manhattan I/O modules/ JDA WMS / RP WMS.
- Coaching and mentoring the consulting team and mentoring junior resources on live production issues and training on the go.
- Developing monitoring scripts for proactive monitoring, automation and reduction of manual effort.
- Helping warehouses on functional activities and providing them with flawless solutions.
- Working on integration related fixes to troubleshooting on cross application flow of files and messages.
- Developing and maintaining technical design/functional design/Architectural/presentation documentation.
- Owning and delivering Weekly /monthly /Quarterly calls with stakeholders.
- Drive client participation in project design activities
- Lead Deployment Workshops to help customers achieve immediate value.
- Client: Arcadia United Kingdom / Belk Inc, USA
- Manhattan WMOS v2008, v2014,v2016/ JDA WMS 8.2/ Red Prairie WMS 2009
Associate IT Consultant
ITC Infotech India Pvt Ltd.
05.2016 - 09.2018
- Providing the UAT for new enhancements within the applications.
- Distribution process analyst for ABINBEV.
- To manage and support the entire distribution process flow for Australia region.
- Order management through SAP SD.
- Warehouse management through JDA warehouse management.
- Transport management through in-house ASP.Net application (SPECTRUM)for the client.
- Handling the communication between all the applications through web methods.
- Provide production support for incident raised by end users.
- Providing the UAT for new enhancements within the applications.
- Incident management, change management, Request management and Problem management for all the application related to Distribution process.
- Coordinating with Developers for Defect analysis and Defect fixes.
- Tracking and Raising the Defects.
- Involved in functional, regression testing.
- Coordinating with the development team in fixing the bugs and updating the specification documents
- Client: ABINBEV, Australia
- E-Commerce
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2014 - 05.2016
- Production Support for MIF, DOM application implemented by Manhattan Associates.
- Root cause Analysis for recurring Incidents
- Daily reporting of pending issues/analysis.
- Co-ordination with Onsite/Client teams for handovers or open issues for the day
- Analyzing and resolving the issues on warehouse management and Order management system.
- Reproducing the issue in lower environment and report the bugs to Manhattan Support team.
- Coordinate and follow up with Manhattan support team regarding the fix for reported bugs
- Release management, deploying SDN fix packs delivered by Manhattan and keep a track of SDN deployment across all the WM and DOM environments and sanity testing after deployment
- Client: Kohls, USA
- Manhattan DOM/ WMS Red Prairie
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and communication Engineering
Faculty of engineering and Technology, Gurukul kangri university
01.2013
Senior secondary - undefined
Army Public school
Secondary - undefined
Saint James school
Skills
- Warehouse Management Systems (Manhattan WMoS (2006/2009/2014/2016)
- OS Proficiency (Windows , UNIX)
- Database Tools(Oracle SQL, MSQL ,SQL Server)
- Warehouse Management Systems (Red Prairie WMS 2009, 82,2022)
- Programming Languages (C, C, Java Basics)
- Supply chain Integration (Autosys/Webmethods/Mulesoft)
- WCS (SCHAFFER/KNAPP/DEMATIC/CIUCH)
- Transportation Management Solutions (JDA TMS 2017,2022 and E2Open)
- Automation (AGV / VLM)
- Order management (Manhattan DOM/ SAP SD)
Hobbies and Interests
Fusion Music, Theoretical Physics, Table Tennis, Vocals (Classical)
PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
- Won Interfaculty Table tennis competition.
- Won Interschool Table tennis competition.
- Won Interschool Basketball competition.
Timeline
Technical manager
HCL Technologies
02.2020 - Current
Product Consultant
Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2018 - 02.2020
Associate IT Consultant
ITC Infotech India Pvt Ltd.
05.2016 - 09.2018
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2014 - 05.2016
Senior secondary - undefined
Army Public school
Secondary - undefined
Saint James school
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and communication Engineering
Faculty of engineering and Technology, Gurukul kangri university
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