Ebey Kurian

· Global Product Lead for Industry 4.0 Applications.

· Accountable for selecting, budgeting, and delivering technologies for Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS).

· Built roadmaps and spearheaded efforts to enable harmonized, optimal technologies for global Manufacturing, Environmental Health, and Safety organizational needs.

· Managed a global cross-functional team of approximately 40 members in the implementation of multiple enterprise applications.

· Collaborated with external vendors to build Proof of Concepts (POCs) for digital twins, machine learning (ML), and other emerging technologies.

· Led the implementation of MS Dynamics 365 ERP for commercial SCM in North America, reporting directly to the COO.

· Played a key role in establishing processes for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), master data management, and governance.

· Spearheaded the digital transformation of the Clinical Supply Chain through the implementation of the Smart Supplies solution.

· Established a roadmap for developing a connected supply chain in collaboration with global stakeholders.

· Collaborated with EMEA operations to harmonize the track and trace solution.

· Provided leadership for a $30M ERP transformation project, overseeing the migration of legacy systems to Oracle ERP at domestic and international small molecule plants, enabling electronic batch recording capability.

· Led IT initiatives, planning, architecting, and operationalizing integrated shop floor, lab, and ERP systems (MES, OSI soft, LIMS, Oracle, etc.) for a $25M digital Cellular Therapy manufacturing facility following the ISA-95 model.

· Solutioned, architected, and implemented MS Dynamics for R&D SCM.

· Enabled business analytical capabilities for manufacturing and the supply chain, implementing dashboards for executive KPIs.

· Spearheaded Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and led efforts to enable Disaster Recovery capabilities for mission-critical systems with proper Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

· Developed IT roadmaps in collaboration with business leaders, enabling relevant IT system capabilities to meet the requirements for technical operations.

· Developed a proof of concept for predictive maintenance using IoT and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies.

· Collaborated with executive leadership, developing annual IT budgets for global technical operations.

· Developed business cases and enterprise architecture for IT investments (Manufacturing plant in Switzerland, CAR-T manufacturing plant in NJ, Serialization, supply chain control tower, etc.).

· Acted as the key liaison across all functional areas, including business units, the information technology department, and outside vendors.

· Led the application rationalization tasks for the manufacturing and supply chain domain for acquisitions and divestitures.

· Served as the manufacturing and supply chain IT lead in the divestiture of "Otezla" to Amgen.

· As the Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain IT Architect, spearheaded the global ERP rollout, overseeing business process design, solution architecture, and implementation across 20 manufacturing and logistics/distribution centers.

· Designed Toll manufacturing capabilities.

· Architected and implemented solutions for CAPA management.

· Proposed recommendations to streamline core business processes, minimizing complexity, training effort, and data duplication.

· Redesigned and transformed product master data from legacy systems to Agile PLM and Oracle R12, ensuring compliance with all FDA regulatory requirements.

· Led the design, build, CRPs, UATs, etc., ensuring the successful deployment of the corporate ERP rollout.

· Managed a cross-functional team responsible for customizations, data migration, and interface development.

· Led a team for one of the largest Oracle ERP financial implementations for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a federal government project.

· Functioned as the lead solution architect for multiple ERP projects.

· Served as the conversion lead in migrating SCM data from SAP to Oracle ERP for a multinational ERP project.

· Assisted executive management in developing proposals and statements of work.

· Corporate lead for ERP implementation.

· Analyzed legacy processes within the healthcare supply chain for seven large hospitals in NY, standardized, and integrated them into the ERP.

· Implemented EDI to establish demand-driven SCM with healthcare product distributors, including Henry Schein, via the contract procurement organization Broadlane.

· Designed a Just-In-Time (JIT) procurement program for hospital materials and the pharmacy.

· Conducted end-user training and oversaw the outsourced Supply Chain IT group.

· Managed both internal IT and consulting staff.