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Anthony Muralidhar

Anthony Muralidhar

Head - SHAPEiN CoE
Bengaluru

Summary

· 23 years in IT (which includes 18+ years in SAP) of progressively responsible experience


· A distinguished career earmarked by accomplishments in leading and directing Information-Technology (SAP & currently Workday) Implementations/Operations across broad disciplines including Development, Testing, Production Support, Project/Program Management, Customer Satisfaction, Vendor Relationships, Strategic Planning, Staff Development and Promoting Change and Improvement


· Principles of Project Management (PMP) along with Lean Six Sigma (L6S) processes (DMAIC) used to execute & deliver medium & large Projects, Programs and Portfolios

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications

Work History

Head - SHAPEiN CoE

ABB
09.2023 - Current
  • - The CoE was newly created & established on 1st September, 2023 to take over work from an external vendor SHAPEiN & eventually replace SHAPEiN post go-live in 2025 as part of the HR Transformation Program (HRTP)
  • - There are 30 countries in scope for SHAPEiN Integrations which can be extended post Go-Live
  • - Approximately 70K Employees & Contingent Workers (CWs) in scope for Go-Live
  • - Overall Project Cost Savings of 4.2 Million USD / Year until Go-Live (2025) and 2 Million USD/Year thereafter
  • - Centralized communication, Knowledge Transfer & Resource Management
  • Achievement : 80% of work taken up by CoE with 2.3 million USD savings in the 1st year

SAP & Workday Architect /Portfolio Manager

ABB India Limited
6 2014 - 08.2023
  • · Architect · Implementation · Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) · Workday (ABB & Hitachi) · Data Migration (SNP Crystal Bridge/Informatica)
  • - Data Migration with SNP Crystal Bridge for 42 countries in ABB & 19 countries in Hitachi · Upgrades · Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) · Others
  • SAP & Workday Architect /Portfolio Manager - ABB Limited, India
  • - Spearheading Architecture & Solutioning as the Single point of contact (SPOC) for 40+ Countries (IMA, SAS & GBS Countries) known as REMSC (Regional ERP Management & Support Center) with approximately 20K employees
  • - Integrated On-Boarding/Implementation of new countries onto the REMSC
  • landscape as well as Support & Maintenance of 40+ countries
  • Architected Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) – PG carve-Out (Hitachi), GE
  • (Liberty) & Tornado (Turbochargers Division)
  • - PG Carve-Out from ABB to Hitachi involved 19 Countries, 8K+ employees
  • - SAP & Portal applications migrated to PG
  • - 0.4 million data records were transferred to a central system for HR data management via interfaces (HR Group Tools)
  • - Workday Integration Architect in Project Fusion (ABB Workday Implementation) for 40+ REMSC Countries
  • - Hitachi Workday Go-Live completed successfully in June 2022 for 8K employees and 19 Countries
  • · SHAPEiN Integration
  • - Functional Analysis - Integrated SAP & Workday using SHAPEiN Fast Development Kit (FDK accelerators) with field-to-field mapping for Time/Payroll Infotypes encompassing 6 Countries(India, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, Egypt and Arab Emirates) with 11K Employees and 4.5K Contingent Workers
  • - Technical Analysis - Smart Cases user resolution options, Integrated Admin Cockpit definition & Designer Tool customization
  • - Analyzed and developed data migration rules with SNP using Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) data engineering to extract data from SAP & load into Workday
  • - EHP8 Upgrade for SAP & Portal modules & yearly CLCs (Country Legal Changes) being applied on the SAP system (Latest upgrade A3) for 40+ countries in ABB & 19 countries in Hitachi
  • - Reduced individual countries SAP notes installation by 30% because of Support Packs & Country Legal Changes (CLCs)
  • - Built Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) Interface for AU/NZ Payroll to extract and transfer Payroll Data from SAP to AU/NZ Tax portal directly via CPI for about 2K employees
  • - New Way of Working (India) - for a hybrid working environment
  • Project Salesforce (FSL) - SalesForce Integration with CATS

SAP Portfolio & Project Manager

Mindtree Limited
05.2010 - 06.2014

· Architected ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas) system for PRP(Performance Related Pay) & PMS (Performance Management System) in a Consulting role using innovation & automation which resulted 30% savings in processing time

· Implementation Specialist for al-wasl in Dubai as senior SAP

Consultant for 1K employees

· Streamlined & completed a Rollout Project (53 Countries) for Volvo

· SAP Portfolio Manager for adidas at Herzogenaurach (Germany) handling complete Production Support of SAP HCM for adidas (6K employees)

· Success Factors Implementation and Support

SAP Lead

Logica Pvt. Limited
07.2008 - 04.2010
  • Production Support ticket handling & Change Requests for SAP
  • Modules with users globally

SAP Implementation Specialist

Tata Consultancy Services, TCS
02.2001 - 06.2008
  • End-to-end implementation for ABB
  • Production Support for Eli Lilly

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Industrial Engineering & Management

BMS College of Engineering

Skills

Workday & SHAPEiN Integration Architect

PowerBI

Client Relationship Management

Implementation & AMS

Cost Optimization / Budgeting

Leader

Innovator

Team Builder

Accomplishments

· Architected the creation & establishment of a new ‘SHAPEiN COE’ in ABB to implement & support Workday & SAP Integration with Overall Project Cost savings of $4.2 Million until Go-Live & $2 Million/year thereafter.

NOTE: In the 1st Year, CoE took over 80% work & orchestrated savings of 2.3 Million USD

· Pioneered a 3-year contract with adidas for SAP Production Support -> $1 Million

· Formulated a Proposal/POC for Al Ghanim (Kuwait) in Mindtree –$1.8 Million

Certification

Workday Pro – Integrations Administrator

Additional Information

· USA (Phoenix) – 2 years

· Germany (Frankfurt/Erlangen)) – 5 years

· Luxemburg – 6 months

· Dubai – 6 months

· Egypt (Cairo) – 3 Months

· Worked in & traveled to 20+ countries

· NOTE: Willing to relocate & work anywhere in the world

Timeline

Head - SHAPEiN CoE

ABB
09.2023 - Current

Workday Pro – Integrations Administrator

07-2022

AWS Cloud Practitioner (AWS-CCP)

05-2021

Lean Six Sigma (L6S) Black Belt

03-2020

ITIL Foundation Certified (V4.0)

01-2020

Lean Six Sigma (L6S) Green Belt

06-2019

PMP Certified (PMBOK 5)

11-2017

SAP Portfolio & Project Manager

Mindtree Limited
05.2010 - 06.2014

ITIL Foundation (V3.0)

08-2009

SAP Lead

Logica Pvt. Limited
07.2008 - 04.2010

SAP HCM (V5.0)

05-2007

SAP Implementation Specialist

Tata Consultancy Services, TCS
02.2001 - 06.2008

SAP & Workday Architect /Portfolio Manager

ABB India Limited
6 2014 - 08.2023

Bachelor of Engineering - Industrial Engineering & Management

BMS College of Engineering
Anthony MuralidharHead - SHAPEiN CoE