SENTHILNATHAN AK

• Managed takeover of SAP Applications by Foxconn from Microsoft for HANOI Mobile factory. Successfully had "Day 1" as planned and plant operations were started as planned.
• SAP Applications were successfully migrated from On Prem to Azure cloud. This is one the world largest migration ever taken, where in SAP ECC production system of 48 TB was migrated with NZDT approach.
• New SAP applications such as SAP GTS was added to landscape that had considerably reduced the operations cost.
• SAP UDF ( Unified Demand Forecasting) feature was implemented and planning was successfully accomplished for one of the largest Australian Retailer.
• Created tactical relationships with teams to propel projects and attain results.
• Prepared S4 HANA Proof of concept for S4 HANA implementation and also did a demo on S4 HANA to HMD IT team on the given Business cases on very short duration with limited offshore teams.
• Contributed to corporate strategy initiatives management across teams through accountability, communication and reporting.

As a Solution Architect,

• Developed and implemented Unified Material planning, a planning program involving material explosion and interfacing with Suppliers for showing the demand forecast of the components for a period of 18 months. Also, the material explosion is used for deriving detailed cost break ups with the product structure.
• E-Kanban solution for material replenishment that reduced the procurement time along with minimal inventory was developed.
• Set up new Warehouse set up in Vietnam in Logistics. This had full scope from Inbound to Outbound operations. Several new scope of business solutions were tried out, like the ownership transfer of goods happening at the point of consumption, reducing the inventory cost and actual realization of the material cost at the point of consumption.
• Special requirements such as carrying GR data to the point of production were implemented.

• Quota based consumption, a SAP enhancement was developed to have the consumption of raw material effectively as per Quota percentages allocated. This resulted in savings of 60 K USD/ month. Deployed kinetic solutions, involving applications SAP WM, LMF, PMT (Legacy systems) in Dongguan and Chennai.
• Worked and deployed continuous flow model- cost effective method of material flow with different operational philosophy at Chennai.
• Developed solutions for Material flow at Nokia, integrating applications in Java and Dot net with SAP. Visual material handling, a process involving visual controls to stream line material flow was developed in Java application and I did process development and Business co-ordination, in a non- SAP implementation.

First solar is a Solar Modules manufacturing company located in US, Germany and Malaysia. The role is to understand the client requirements by onsite visit and cater to their rollout and support at offshore. The manufacturing processes and logistics process were understood and detail study of how they were mapped in SAP was studied. This gave an overall exposure to repetitive manufacturing and the logistics followed by First solar.

• Created project plans with established timelines, assigned to appropriate teams and managed workflow throughout construction.
• Led meetings with internal team members, consultants and contractors.
• Developed solutions to project risks and issues, meeting quality and timeline goals and objectives.
• Identified needs and coordinated resource allocation to deliver quality standards on time and within budget.

• SAP Process- Make Lead consultant for Riotinto, second largest Mining Company. Successfully accomplished the Cut over activities of MMP (Manage Mining Processes) team. Had played vital role in the pre and post Go-live activities in MMP. Prepared Work Instructions for MMP to be used by the Business as a part of Post Go-live support.
• In Nokia Mobile phones project, played role of onsite coordinator and were responsible for the deliveries done at offshore and to drive more work to offshore. Offshore modules involved were SD, PP MM, QM and WM. The projects involved enhancements and also global rollouts.
• Played role of concept developer in three projects, involves understanding of Nokia business and IT team and planning and documenting concepts.
• Partnered with team members to identify and address challenges or opportunities.
• Aligned project specifications, schedules and phase deliverables across teams, members and external parties to conform with user needs and client requirements.

• Headed a team of 20 members, Responsible for Plant improvements and cost savings, Report generation to top management regarding Plant performance and operation, Drafted technical manuals and documents catering to Quality system needs, Structured Modification proposals through standard safety practice,
• Co-ordinate ERP systems implementation, Performed pre and post commissioning activities of process modifications, Evaluated plant improvement studies and provided recommendation,
• Consolidated yearly data of the plant specific consumption, processing costs, Developed software programs for performance evaluation of equipment