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Saravanan Shanmugam

Saravanan Shanmugam

IT Program Manager

Summary

IT Program Manager having 15+ years of total experience

· IT Program/Project Delivery management – 6.5+years

(PMP Certified & SAP Activate Certified)

· IT Consulting - 5 years ( SAP Certified )

· Plant Engineer and Logistics specialist – (Non-IT Experience) - 3.5 years

· Completed regular MBA from good B School (IMT-Ghaziabad)

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

IT Program Manager ( Joined as Project Manager)

Renault Nissan Technology Business Center
Chennai
05.2018 - Current

Highlights: Additional Responsibilities :

Responsibilities:

· Program Delivery manager responsible for SAP application handling Procurement of all the Nissan Motor Ltd.(NML)-Japan plants. Application is used by 9000+ users across 18 automobile plants in Japan.

· Responsible for Implementation & Rollout of application to NML & affiliated Organizations

· Responsible for Application Maintenance operations-AMS (Production Support) of indirect procurement in NML and enhancements of the application.

· Team management and Team building.

· Bid Management and Project initiation.

· 3rd party vendor resource management of SAP & non SAP consultants

· Revenue management and Account relationship management of set of customers from NML

· Program Delivery Manager responsible for 5 internal teams – a. Projects b. AMS c. Basis. d. User Management e. Translations

· Successful implementation and rollout of Procurement application to NML and affiliated Organizations

· Built internal team of resources in RNTBCI to handle all major requirement for the application

· Consistent outstanding performer with many awards and recognitions.

· Working on various SAP related Estimations with GM/DGM for Nissan & Renault new SAP projects

· Representing the corporate SAP Centre of Excellence activities from our vertical. COE activities include POCs for new projects, creating reusable assets, conducting training sessions etc

Senior Associate Consultant

ATLAS COPCO
06.2015 - 05.2018
  • Project – 2.1, (Implementation, Rollouts & Global Template enhancement)
  • P2P Global Template Team Lead for P2P (MM + SRM) and Global P2P SRM Template Owner
  • Template
  • Is currently used by 19 regions across the globe
  • Project Lead working on Template and Enhancements CRs (Quarterly and Monthly)
  • SAP MM + SRM– Functional Consultant for Rollout of C2 – Region
  • SAP MM + SRM – Project Team for Pilot Countries implementation
  • Worked in this project from implementation, major Rollouts and Developments
  • Between rollouts and freeze periods, contributed to AMS project PM Tickets and automations.

Senior Consultant

Infosys Limited
Chennai
01.2011 - 05.2018

Assistant Manager

GVK Biosciences Pvt. Ltd
05.2009 - 12.2010
  • Logistics and Warehouse Management)
  • Responsible for International Logistics of both Inward (Project Chemicals) and Outward (Finished Chemicals)
  • Responsible for warehouse Management and Warehouse systems of Internal ERP
  • Vendor management for Shipments – Shippers, Clearing agents and other vendors
  • Liaison with Customs authorities and other related authorities

Assistant Manager

Vedanta Resources, BALCO
06.2005 - 05.2007
  • Introduced Barcode based Inventory management to stores
  • The ERP system was an internally developed product and the challenge was to integrate the system for Barcodes only using the internal IT team
  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for Operation Management of Smelter Shop floor
  • Responsible for certain number of Smelter pots during Shifts handling Metal Tapping, Plant Maintenance, and breakdown management a shop floor
  • Responsible for handling a team of contract workers handling Shop floor operations
  • Key Initiatives:
  • Worked on process improvements of Point feeders in Smelter pots which resulted in higher efficient of the smelter pots
  • Worked on a transportation cost optimization project (BOX-N Wagon) resulting in savings of INR 360 LPA

Education

PGDM (MBA) - Management

IMT Ghaziabad
Delhi, India
06.2007 - 05.2009

B. Tech - Chem.& Electro Chem

CECRI (Central Electro Chemical Research Institute)
Karaikudi
04.2007 - 04.2009

XII Class -

Arasunagar Matric Higher Secondary School
Ariyalur
06.2000 - 05.2001

X Class -

Arasunagar Matric. Higher Sec.School, State Board
06.1998 - 05.1999

Skills

    SAP Delivery Management

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Certification

Certified PMP Manager, PMI

Timeline

IT Program Manager ( Joined as Project Manager)

Renault Nissan Technology Business Center
05.2018 - Current

Senior Associate Consultant

ATLAS COPCO
06.2015 - 05.2018

Senior Consultant

Infosys Limited
01.2011 - 05.2018

Assistant Manager

GVK Biosciences Pvt. Ltd
05.2009 - 12.2010

PGDM (MBA) - Management

IMT Ghaziabad
06.2007 - 05.2009

B. Tech - Chem.& Electro Chem

CECRI (Central Electro Chemical Research Institute)
04.2007 - 04.2009

Assistant Manager

Vedanta Resources, BALCO
06.2005 - 05.2007

XII Class -

Arasunagar Matric Higher Secondary School
06.2000 - 05.2001

X Class -

Arasunagar Matric. Higher Sec.School, State Board
06.1998 - 05.1999
Saravanan ShanmugamIT Program Manager