Pradeep Anandraj

Coaching Global Data Governance leaders on Agile best practices, emphasizing continuous improvement and self-organization

• Empowered the team to make decisions, collaborate, and deliver high-quality MDM solutions and Data Catalogue
• Managed and supported Connected eCommerce, GMC, GCC, EPR/ESG business team on delivering the Global business solutions
• Establish and maintain metadata management practices to enhance data discoverability and usability
• Experience in working across geographies with Business Owners, Stakeholders, Customers with broad and diverse business models objectives
• Implement global data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures in alignment with enterprise-wide organizational goals and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with IT and business units to integrate the data catalogue with existing data management and analytics platforms
• Leader in the development of the strategic roadmap and operational framework for Master Data Management and Master Data Governance for areas within their scope.

Liaising with Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Functional Consultants and Technical peers to achieve project goals within expected timelines

• Drive and assist with building Assets and Accelerators within SAP ERP and SAP CIG
• Build repository of custom development implemented for unique business requirements
• Design and develop the features assigned to achieve the Milestone goals (Sprints)
• Assisting clients in the implementation and support of Ariba solutions for both direct and indirect spend and improving business processes
• Manages customer and internal team member’s expectations to optimize productivity and increase impact of solutions
• Respond to customer inquiries in a timely manner and within service level objectives
• Involved in program Increment to provide development timebox that synchronize to facilitate planning, limiting WIP, provide for aggregation of value and assure consistent retrospectives
• Managed and supported Implementation and Configuration: Implement and configure SAP Ariba Downstream modules to align with procurement and sourcing business processes
• Lead and facilitate software teams on the ART through development and delivery, guide the transition to and implementation of SAFe.

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies for the team (Daily Stand-up, Team backlog management, Planning, Retrospective, Grooming & Review/Demo)
• Leverage significant experience with Agile and SCRUM methodologies to lead project teams on a daily basis to the successful delivery of software development related projects
• Creating Project plans, Product planning, backlog refinement, schedules, deliverables, resource and budgets with Product Owner
• Managed all aspects of SDLC projects from Initial planning through Closure deployment
• Lead Project Teams through the identification and management of risks and the resolution of issues throughout the project
• Ensure that release deliverables are submitted and that quality standards defined by the team are consistently met (per acceptance criteria and definition of done)
• Monitoring services request, incident tickets and calculating monthly KPI’s metrics
• Responsible and Maintaining the Training documents in AGILE e6 PLM and ADAPTIV
• Managed PI planning to identify the Scrum Team dependencies, PI Objectives and guide team with business value
• Provided guidance in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe and leads Agile delivery teams to deliver value consistently.

Manages all activities related to SAP E2E Implementation projects and ensured all SAP project goals are accomplished according to specifications and objectives

• Experience in leading large projects (Data Migration/Business Driven) globally with cross-functional teams
• Coordinate project activities amongst the functional and technical team members consultants
• Define project scope with key stakeholders and effectively manage milestones and dependencies
• Facilitate the implementation and support of SAP SD
• Design, customize, configure and testing of SD
• Provide consulting services on both new implementations and existing support projects
• Act as a liaison between the business functions and the technical team
• Handle changes or emergency transports as needed for high priority issues
• Document functional designs, test cases and results
• Experienced with an ERP system and a PLM system
• Uses designate process mapping, tracking and assigned tools for project life cycle management to meet business needs

• Customization of Enterprise Structure & Business area in SD of sales team
• Experienced in Chemical Manufacturing environments by maintaining and setting Master data records, Pricing Condition tables, Pricing procedure, Condition record, Credit, Debit memo
• Order Management: Creation of Sales documents, Sales order (standard order, rush order, cash sales, service order, returns), Deliveries (outbound & inbound), Billing, Invoicing
• Expert knowledge of implementing master data concepts around the standardization and control of master data, process ownership in multinational organizations
• Experienced in item proposal, customer material info records, Inquiry and Quotation
• Working with various sales document types, item categories and schedule line categories
• Experienced in IDOC methodologies and interface knowledge (ALE/IDoc)
• Global understanding of SCM business standards in SAP
• Accountable for IT Controls, GDPR, SOX compliance, and audit findings to the business.

• Ensure all creations of master data are posted within the agreed SLA levels
• Expert knowledge in maintaining MDM, data governance, data quality and data cleansing
• Ensure that relevant customer master creation or change requests are submitted using the standard form, and approved by Credit Manager/notified to Business Managers
• Support functional/business leaders with customer master reports
• Raise gaps and improvements on customer service policies and procedures; discuss improvements with CS Manager and implement follow up actions
• Ensure that validation of active accounts status is maintained according to respective Business rules
• Maintain and updates monthly the master data dashboard
• Ensure all inactive accounts are blocked from processing in SAP as part of Annual Deletion of Inactive Customers process
• Participated in projects for master data improvements to support business.

• Managed and monitors all installed systems and infrastructure for the organization to be in line with company guidelines or SOP (standard operating procedure)
• Defines customers’ needs and functionality in a service development cycle
• Assists in the coordination of various teams testing and evaluating for the development of design and its implementation of the best output
• Installs, configures, and tests operating systems, application software, and system management tools
• Ensures the highest level of systems and infrastructure availability
• Implements warranty and support activities.