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Muthukumar Panchanathan

Muthukumar Panchanathan

SAP Technologies Manager
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Experienced SAP Technologies Manager with over 25+ years of expertise in driving SAP solutions across various industry verticals like chemicals, resources, telecom and products and manufacturing industry. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, managing full-cycle SAP implementations, and optimizing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to improve business operations. Proven track record of successfully deploying SAP solutions for strategic IT solutions that align with business goals. Strong leadership, project management, and technical expertise. Always staying abreast of latest and recent technological advancements and continue to strive excellence together with the team.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
9
9
Certificates

Work History

SAP Technologies Manager

Accenture
07.2013 - Current
  • Now Lead a team of 60+ SAP professionals, ensuring the successful implementation, maintenance, and optimization of SAP ECC and S/4 HANA systems for a wide variety of business verticals and market units and geographies.
  • Generating an average annual revenue of more than 10 million USD from various projects.
  • Managed end-to-end SAP project life cycle, including requirements gathering, system design, implementation, testing, and post-go-live support.
  • Coordinate with key stakeholders in Production, Supply Chain, Finance, and Sales to ensure alignment of SAP solutions with business objectives and processes.
  • Spearheaded the successful migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, resulting in a 25% improvement in operational efficiency.
  • Managed and enforced best practices for SAP configuration, customization, and troubleshooting to ensure maximum system uptime and data integrity.
  • Manage SAP-related integrations with external systems such as OpenText VIM (Vendor Invoice Management).
  • Led system performance analysis, tuning, and optimization initiatives, reducing processing times by 30%.
  • Oversaw SAP security and access management, ensuring compliance with internal policies and industry regulations (GDPR).
  • Managed detailed documentation and training manuals for SAP end-users, ensuring consistent processes across multiple locations.
  • Led the team in enterprise level data and content management solutions using various SAP and third-party tools.

SAP Project Head – SAP Practice

Arteria Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 07.2013
  • Directed SAP implementation projects across various modules for Indian customers.
  • Collaborated with business leaders to define project scope, timelines, and resource allocation, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery of solutions, reporting directly to division head and CTO.
  • Managed a vibrant < 10 team members, mentoring, coaching, training and established practice, augmented internal capabilities to meet and fulfil for large-scale SAP projects. The team strength increased from just two to more than 10, resulted in strong practice for the delivery of the projects.
  • Supported sales and project management activities closely working with SAP, resulting in procuring and supporting more projects win-rate, with 25-35% travelling to client places.
  • Conducted workshops domestic and abroad for many clients in close relationship with SAP Company, Bengaluru for client demos and orals.
  • Brought in new portfolio of products and trained myself and trained junior team members and thereby tried to increase the revenue for the practice.
  • Managed multiple parallel projects with the support of the young and vibrant team members and motivated them during the course of the time.

SAP Technical Lead

Pricol Limited (Auto OEM Manufacturer)
06.2007 - 01.2010
  • Acted as the lead SAP technical consultant for the implementation and optimization of SAP MM, SD, and PP modules.
  • Delivered SAP technical solutions for integrating SAP with third-party systems (such as inventory management and ERP tools).
  • Managed SAP MIS process to streamline 100% accuracy in the monthly production, sales, and billing collection activities, eliminating legacy system execution in parallel to SAP operations.
  • Enhanced the ABP (Annual Business Planning) process to the core and led to the efficient planning and help strategized the business to bring in more efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Provided support to end-user training on SAP functionalities and troubleshooting, reducing technical support tickets by 20%.
  • Soared to the level where forecasting, planning and recruiting resources for the on-going SAP project implementations, taking part in the discussions with VPs, IS Head.
  • Award winner for Best SAP Implementations in Automobile OEM sector

Education

Executive MBA - Global Business Management

IIM-Kolkata
07.2019

Master of Computer Applications - undefined

Bharathiar University
05.1998

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Bharathiar University
05.1995

Skills

SAP systems: SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Fiori, SAP BW, SAP GTS, SAP ISU etc

Accomplishments

  • SAP System Assessment: Being part of multiple SAP ECC assessments on the roadmap to S/4HANA and successfully recommended the effective approaches to clients on their journey to cloud or SAP RISE with S/4HANA systems.
  • Project Management: Having hands-on experience in managing multiple parallel SAP projects and delivered the projects on-time and on-schedule by following best project management practices.
  • Cost Savings: Delivered a cost savings of $500K annually through effective management of SAP Data base systems, process automation, and system optimization initiatives in one of my accounts.
  • Awards & Recognitions: Awarded multiple times with ACE (Accenture Celebrates Excellence) award in Accenture, Best employee of the month/Quarter in Arteria and Pricol Limited.
  • Information Security Elite Ambassador for multiple years and various leadership internal and external trainings.

Timeline

SAP Technologies Manager

Accenture
07.2013 - Current

SAP Project Head – SAP Practice

Arteria Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 07.2013

SAP Technical Lead

Pricol Limited (Auto OEM Manufacturer)
06.2007 - 01.2010

Master of Computer Applications - undefined

Bharathiar University

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Bharathiar University

Executive MBA - Global Business Management

IIM-Kolkata

Certification

Microsoft Power BI Certification

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Attended SAP TechEd Conferences annually to stay updated on the latest SAP technologies and innovations.
  • Participated in leadership development programs to refine team management and project execution skills.
  • Keep up to date with recent and latest in SAP technologies, Gen & Agentic AI, Cloud etc.

Section name

Teaching Experience – 8 Years (Heads of Departments of Computer Science & Applications) Vidyasagar College of Arts and Science, Affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. One of the top 20 colleges in Arts and Science category by India Today in 2020. June 1998 – Dec 2006

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