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RAJ TELIKICHERLA

Sugar Land,TX

Summary

A supply chain transformation specialist with over 17 years of progressive experience leading technology and process enablement for large scale projects.

A seasoned professional with a blend of rich consulting and industry experience.

Led the solution design and architecture to solve various business problems and fit-align the requirements



Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Functional Lead - Supply Chain

NOV
Houston, TX
02.2020 - Current
  • Procurement functional lead for a large scale implementation that consolidates over ten ERP systems and integrates with 10+ boundary systems for manufacturing and aftermarket businesses across the globe
  • Architected and led the implementation of indirect procurement, established prototype enabling 11 vendors for B2B XML transactions in less than a year that streamlined ordering process across US locations and is ready to be rolled out to Canada, UK and Mexico.
  • Brought the efficiencies in the operational procedures and adaptability of the solution by addressing the performance bottlenecks in integration, resulting in reduced ordering time by more than 50%

Specialist Master

Deloitte Consulting LLP
Houston, Texas
02.2018 - 02.2020
  • Led Pricing track of five consultants for a Quote-to-Cash transformation - flexible consumption project in digitizing over 10,000 paper-based contracts and heavily involved manual processes to implement very complex pricing strategies for a subscription-based revenue model
  • Led Inventory and Procurement solution design for a firm initiative to build the automated plug-and- play framework to facilitate data conversions from legacy systems

Principal Consultant

KPIT Technologies LTD
Westbury, NY; Durham, NC ; Pune, India
04.2014 - 02.2018
  • Managed a team of ten consultants and led the greenfield implementation of discrete manufacturing for three lines of business across the globe by integrating two home grown MES systems
  • Managed a team of six consultants to implement the shipping and warehouse management integration with Oracle transportation management cloud for six USA locations
  • As a Procurement Cloud Competency/Center of Excellence leader, managed the solution proposals for over 50 pursuits (Oracle EBS/Cloud), presented two white papers, conducted over 10 workshops resulting in over $10M worth of consulting work

Lead Consultant

Infosys LTD
San Jose, CA
07.2005 - 03.2014
  • Played several roles from individual contributor, track lead, performance testing lead, lead functional consultant to project lead
  • Managed functional and technical consultants, of team size up to seven, in global delivery model for large-scale supply chain transformation in Make and Plan operational areas
  • Led advanced supply chain practice newsletter team of five that published latest trends in supply chain, blogs, white papers etc.,

Education

MBA - Supply Chain And Product Lifecycle Management

The University of Texas At Dallas
Richardson, TX
09.2025

Master of Computer Applications -

Andhra University
India
2004

Skills

  • Oracle Cloud - R11/R12/R13
  • Oracle EBS - R121/R122

Accomplishments

  • Fire Fighter – Aug 2012
  • Disruptive (for promoting innovation and leading change) – Sep 2010
  • Peer-to-Peer Recognition – Aug 2008

Certification

  • Oracle Cloud Customer Connect - Blue Ribbon
  • Oracle Fusion Procurement 11g Implementation Specialist

Timeline

Functional Lead - Supply Chain

NOV
02.2020 - Current

Specialist Master

Deloitte Consulting LLP
02.2018 - 02.2020

Principal Consultant

KPIT Technologies LTD
04.2014 - 02.2018

Lead Consultant

Infosys LTD
07.2005 - 03.2014

MBA - Supply Chain And Product Lifecycle Management

The University of Texas At Dallas

Master of Computer Applications -

Andhra University

Publications

  • EffectiveManagement of Enterprise Assets with Oracle eAM solution

- NorthCentral Oracle Applications User Group, Chicago, USA: 22nd Feb 2013

  • Shifting gears of procure-to-pay cycle with Oracle EBS iSupplier Portal

- All India Oracle Applications User Group - SANGAM15; Hyderabad, India: 22ndNov 2015

  • Shifting gears of procure-to-pay cycle with Oracle EBS iSupplier Portal

- COLLABORATE 2017 - Oracle Applications User Group; Las Vegas: 3rd Apr 2017

Projects

1) Procurement functional lead for Oracle Cloud implementation of Manufacturing and Aftermarket Business Units for Oil & Gas equipment manufacturer

Procurement Functional Lead based at Houston (TX, USA) for manufacturing and aftermarket business units using Oracle Cloud integrating with 10+ homegrown applications (such as Manufacturing Execution System, eReceiving, Drawing Portal, Repair Management system, CPQ etc.,) and other Oracle Cloud applications (HCM, Supplier Hub).

Responsible for
- Providing solutions for Manufacturing and Aftermarket business units
- Making sure the solutions provided are in alignment with global design
- Lead conference room pilot sessions to present the solutions, capture the requirements
- Work with IT solutions director, VP and CIO to demonstrate the solutions, new functionality
- Partner with Business Process leads and IT cross functional leads in driving the Supply Chain solutions and strategizing the short term, long term solutions, road mapping etc.,
- Data conversion from legacy systems, cut-over and post production stabilization

2) Global Indirect Procurement implementation using Oracle Cloud (R13) for Oil & Gas equipment manufacturer

Functional Lead based at Houston (TX, USA). Procure-to-Pay implementation for indirect purchases such as MRO, Safety Supplies, Office supplies, Computer Software, Hardware, Employee Uniforms etc., . Functionalities include Catalog management, Punch-out, B2B communication with Suppliers using Oracle Business Network, Payables invoice processing, approval management, Supplier rollout, user access management.

Responsible for evaluating the requirements, prioritizing and implementing solutions, Test with suppliers, co-ordinate the releases, user access management and production issue resolution

3) Supplier Qualification Management using Oracle Cloud
Functional Lead based at Houston (TX, USA). Implementation of Supplier Qualification Management to address Supplier on-boarding, classification of critical, non-critical and miscellaneous suppliers, QHSE certification management to be in compliance with API/ISO, periodic audits and performance evaluation. Implementation of Supplier Qualification Management to address Supplier on-boarding, classification of critical, non-critical and miscellaneous suppliers, QHSE certification management to be in compliance with API/ISO, periodic audits and performance evaluation.

4) Global Large Scale Transformation Quote-to-Cash Flexible Consumption program using Oracle Cloud (R13) for a leading Business Process Services provider

Pricing Functional Lead based at Secaucus (NJ, USA). Large scale global transformation program to design and implement Oracle Cloud solution to digitize paper based customer contracts, bring efficiencies in sales cycle, ordering, contract management, pricing, revenue recognition, billing, customer management and accounting process areas and reduce revenue leakages. An interesting use case to build complex pricing strategies to price various types of services using Oracle Policy Automation and Fusion Pricing.

Responsible for scope and road map assessment part of Global design, leading business and IT workshops, document risks, key design decisions, Fit-Gap analysis, business expectation management, drive implementation and work stream deliverables

5) Discrete Manufacturing implementation for a leading LED, RF and Power Electronics Manufacturer

Lead implementer, Project Lead based at Research Triangle Park (NC, USA). Oracle discrete manufacturing implementation and integration with homegrown MES system. Transformation of heavily customized, manual processes around Material planning, Work order processing, Product costing, Cost accounting, Inventory management and Order fulfillment. Implemented a pilot in one of the manufacturing locations and built the road map to roll out the solution to other manufacturing facilities bringing the efficiencies in Planning, Manufacturing and Fulfillment processes eliminating the manual, homegrown systems/processes.

Responsible for defining the Program scope for Greenfield pilot implementation in one site and rolling out & enhancing the solution to fit to other sites, client and firm resource planning, portfolio management, stakeholder management, current state assessment, drive Business/IT workshops, implement the solution, training, testing and post production support

6) Oracle EBS R12.2.5 Integration with Oracle Transport Management on-cloud for a leading Manufacturer and Distributor of Over-The-Counter pharmaceutical products.

Lead Implementer, Project Lead based at Westbury (NY, USA). An integration project between applications EBS and OTM on Cloud. Retired 3rd party legacy TMS and configured EBS and built solutions to enhance and streamline the Warehouse Management, Shipping and Order Management processes by enabling OTM integration capabilities. Evaluated integration options and recommended the best possible approach to minimize the licensing costs for infrastructure.

Responsible for delivering EBS implementation scope in multi-vendor implementation, ensure the best integration and implementation practices are followed, highlight risks, client/internal resource and deliverable management, training, validation process support to meet the pharmaceutical industry needs, deployment and post production normalization.

7) Warehouse Management Process Improvements for a leading Manufacturer and Distributor of Over-The-Counter pharmaceutical products.

Lead Implementer, Project Lead based at Westbury (NY, USA).Provided solutions for some of the business pain points in Outbound Warehouse Management processes like Sales Order release, picking task prioritization, picking rules & strategies, label design & printing, shipping documents and Oracle Mobile Web Application forms

Responsible for leading change, recommending the scope for process improvements, optimize the warehouse management rules, implement the process changes

8) Assessment of Procurement Cloud implementation and integration with JDE Financials and Inventory for a leading supplier of building materials

Team Lead based at RTP (NC, USA). Lead the Solution Architecture review of troubled Procurement Cloud implementation project and its integration with existing JD Edwards Financials and Inventory modules. Conducted interviews with Business process owners, IT leads and incumbent SI partner. Acted as an extended arm of Client IT team by reviewing the requirements, proposed solution and Fit-Gap analysis. Suggested the gaps in solution and built the road map to fix the solution issues and extend the Procurement Cloud footprint. Implemented Supplier enablement (Supplier Qualification Management) , Punch outs, Catalogs, requisitions (self-service procurement/iProcurement), Supplier and other master data sync and Purchase Order, Receipt transaction integration

Responsible for managing the deliverables, conducting the solution review and advising on the solution gaps that were to be addressed

9) Proactive Backlog Management for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Functional Team Lead based at Hyderabad, India. Led a team of functional consultants to build a solution prototype for Conference Room Pilot on enhancing the existing Backlog Management Workbench by integrating it with Oracle Rapid Planning solution to provide recommendations to planners in expediting and re-committing the schedule ship dates using plan simulations, what-if scenarios etc., .This was a use case to eliminate the planners reacting to the situations in advancing and pushing the scheduled ship dates to meet the demand Supply Chain.

Responsible for the delivery of Proof of Concept from the inception to developing the prototype and demonstration of the solution. Managed a team of functional and technical consultants.

10) Transformation for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Lead consultant based at San Jose (CA,USA).Designed and built solutions for ADF based Backlog Management Workbench to simplify supply chain planner's daily operations in managing backlog in terms of expediting the sales orders upon customer requests and re-committing the sales orders based on supplier's capacity constraints and inventory unavailability etc.,.

  • Designed a very complex data model to fetch the data from multiple EBS and legacy systems/modules to cater to supply chain planner's requirements
  • This solution had eliminated 10+ custom built solutions and sunset the legacy tools in operation
  • This workbench was one stop tool to fulfill all daily operations of a supply chain planner
  • This workbench was integrated with Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes-
  • Managed the load & performance testing effort and ensured the performance of the tool with defined SLAs
  • Managed deployment activities liaising with cross-functional tracks for impact analysis, DBA and client IT teams to meet the cut-over milestones
  • Designed the prototype to roll out the solution to multiple sites seamlessly

11) Global sourcing for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Lead Consultant based at San Jose (CA,USA).A business process transformation project to sunset disparate legacy sourcing processes for various ordering sources to choose the best warehouse and design & built a global sourcing process for manual orders, Online/Electronic/EDI orders placed from multiple ordering sources and orders placed using iStore. Defined a global algorithm for choosing the best warehouse for sales orders based on geographic, inventory, customer and priority business rules and developed a solution for the same.

12) Enablement of Build-to-Stock Product Fulfillment for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Lead Consultant based at San Jose (CA,USA).Redesigned the key supply chain processes under SCOR Model: Plan, Make and Deliver; with a shift from the legacy, heavily customized ERP to Purchased order based fulfillment for Build-to-Stock standard and configurable products resulting in reduction of 25% of supply chain costs and increased supply chain visibility. Standardized the communication of supply chain data with Contract Manufacturing and 3rd Party Logistics Partners using RosettaNet XML based B2B messages. Implemented Order Management, Purchasing, Shipping, Inventory for standard and configurable products

13) Quote-to-Cash Solution Design for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Functional Analyst based at San Jose (CA,USA). Solution design, analysis of enhancements and scoping based on business impact for Order Management, Advanced Pricing and TeleServices modules.

14) Order-to-Cash Managed Services for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Techno-Functional Analyst based at San Jose (CA,USA) & Bangalore/Hyderabad (India).Production support and maintenance track lead for Order Management and TeleServices modules.

  • Suggested process improvements for repetitive issues
  • Led the workflow purge project to purge millions of workflow records for closed transactions to improve the system performance by 100% management

Publications

  • EffectiveManagement of Enterprise Assets with Oracle eAM solution

- NorthCentral Oracle Applications User Group, Chicago, USA: 22nd Feb 2013

  • Shifting gears of procure-to-pay cycle with Oracle EBS iSupplier Portal

- All India Oracle Applications User Group - SANGAM15; Hyderabad, India: 22ndNov 2015

  • Shifting gears of procure-to-pay cycle with Oracle EBS iSupplier Portal

- COLLABORATE 2017 - Oracle Applications User Group; Las Vegas: 3rd Apr 2017

Projects

1) Procurement functional lead for Oracle Cloud implementation of Manufacturing and Aftermarket Business Units for Oil & Gas equipment manufacturer

Procurement Functional Lead based at Houston (TX, USA) for manufacturing and aftermarket business units using Oracle Cloud integrating with 10+ homegrown applications (such as Manufacturing Execution System, eReceiving, Drawing Portal, Repair Management system, CPQ etc.,) and other Oracle Cloud applications (HCM, Supplier Hub).

Responsible for
- Providing solutions for Manufacturing and Aftermarket business units
- Making sure the solutions provided are in alignment with global design
- Lead conference room pilot sessions to present the solutions, capture the requirements
- Work with IT solutions director, VP and CIO to demonstrate the solutions, new functionality
- Partner with Business Process leads and IT cross functional leads in driving the Supply Chain solutions and strategizing the short term, long term solutions, road mapping etc.,
- Data conversion from legacy systems, cut-over and post production stabilization

2) Global Indirect Procurement implementation using Oracle Cloud (R13) for Oil & Gas equipment manufacturer

Functional Lead based at Houston (TX, USA). Procure-to-Pay implementation for indirect purchases such as MRO, Safety Supplies, Office supplies, Computer Software, Hardware, Employee Uniforms etc., . Functionalities include Catalog management, Punch-out, B2B communication with Suppliers using Oracle Business Network, Payables invoice processing, approval management, Supplier rollout, user access management.

Responsible for evaluating the requirements, prioritizing and implementing solutions, Test with suppliers, co-ordinate the releases, user access management and production issue resolution

3) Supplier Qualification Management using Oracle Cloud
Functional Lead based at Houston (TX, USA). Implementation of Supplier Qualification Management to address Supplier on-boarding, classification of critical, non-critical and miscellaneous suppliers, QHSE certification management to be in compliance with API/ISO, periodic audits and performance evaluation. Implementation of Supplier Qualification Management to address Supplier on-boarding, classification of critical, non-critical and miscellaneous suppliers, QHSE certification management to be in compliance with API/ISO, periodic audits and performance evaluation.

4) Global Large Scale Transformation Quote-to-Cash Flexible Consumption program using Oracle Cloud (R13) for a leading Business Process Services provider

Pricing Functional Lead based at Secaucus (NJ, USA). Large scale global transformation program to design and implement Oracle Cloud solution to digitize paper based customer contracts, bring efficiencies in sales cycle, ordering, contract management, pricing, revenue recognition, billing, customer management and accounting process areas and reduce revenue leakages. An interesting use case to build complex pricing strategies to price various types of services using Oracle Policy Automation and Fusion Pricing.

Responsible for scope and road map assessment part of Global design, leading business and IT workshops, document risks, key design decisions, Fit-Gap analysis, business expectation management, drive implementation and work stream deliverables

5) Discrete Manufacturing implementation for a leading LED, RF and Power Electronics Manufacturer

Lead implementer, Project Lead based at Research Triangle Park (NC, USA). Oracle discrete manufacturing implementation and integration with homegrown MES system. Transformation of heavily customized, manual processes around Material planning, Work order processing, Product costing, Cost accounting, Inventory management and Order fulfillment. Implemented a pilot in one of the manufacturing locations and built the road map to roll out the solution to other manufacturing facilities bringing the efficiencies in Planning, Manufacturing and Fulfillment processes eliminating the manual, homegrown systems/processes.

Responsible for defining the Program scope for Greenfield pilot implementation in one site and rolling out & enhancing the solution to fit to other sites, client and firm resource planning, portfolio management, stakeholder management, current state assessment, drive Business/IT workshops, implement the solution, training, testing and post production support

6) Oracle EBS R12.2.5 Integration with Oracle Transport Management on-cloud for a leading Manufacturer and Distributor of Over-The-Counter pharmaceutical products.

Lead Implementer, Project Lead based at Westbury (NY, USA). An integration project between applications EBS and OTM on Cloud. Retired 3rd party legacy TMS and configured EBS and built solutions to enhance and streamline the Warehouse Management, Shipping and Order Management processes by enabling OTM integration capabilities. Evaluated integration options and recommended the best possible approach to minimize the licensing costs for infrastructure.

Responsible for delivering EBS implementation scope in multi-vendor implementation, ensure the best integration and implementation practices are followed, highlight risks, client/internal resource and deliverable management, training, validation process support to meet the pharmaceutical industry needs, deployment and post production normalization.

7) Warehouse Management Process Improvements for a leading Manufacturer and Distributor of Over-The-Counter pharmaceutical products.

Lead Implementer, Project Lead based at Westbury (NY, USA).Provided solutions for some of the business pain points in Outbound Warehouse Management processes like Sales Order release, picking task prioritization, picking rules & strategies, label design & printing, shipping documents and Oracle Mobile Web Application forms

Responsible for leading change, recommending the scope for process improvements, optimize the warehouse management rules, implement the process changes

8) Assessment of Procurement Cloud implementation and integration with JDE Financials and Inventory for a leading supplier of building materials

Team Lead based at RTP (NC, USA). Lead the Solution Architecture review of troubled Procurement Cloud implementation project and its integration with existing JD Edwards Financials and Inventory modules. Conducted interviews with Business process owners, IT leads and incumbent SI partner. Acted as an extended arm of Client IT team by reviewing the requirements, proposed solution and Fit-Gap analysis. Suggested the gaps in solution and built the road map to fix the solution issues and extend the Procurement Cloud footprint. Implemented Supplier enablement (Supplier Qualification Management) , Punch outs, Catalogs, requisitions (self-service procurement/iProcurement), Supplier and other master data sync and Purchase Order, Receipt transaction integration

Responsible for managing the deliverables, conducting the solution review and advising on the solution gaps that were to be addressed

9) Proactive Backlog Management for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Functional Team Lead based at Hyderabad, India. Led a team of functional consultants to build a solution prototype for Conference Room Pilot on enhancing the existing Backlog Management Workbench by integrating it with Oracle Rapid Planning solution to provide recommendations to planners in expediting and re-committing the schedule ship dates using plan simulations, what-if scenarios etc., .This was a use case to eliminate the planners reacting to the situations in advancing and pushing the scheduled ship dates to meet the demand Supply Chain.

Responsible for the delivery of Proof of Concept from the inception to developing the prototype and demonstration of the solution. Managed a team of functional and technical consultants.

10) Transformation for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Lead consultant based at San Jose (CA,USA).Designed and built solutions for ADF based Backlog Management Workbench to simplify supply chain planner's daily operations in managing backlog in terms of expediting the sales orders upon customer requests and re-committing the sales orders based on supplier's capacity constraints and inventory unavailability etc.,.

  • Designed a very complex data model to fetch the data from multiple EBS and legacy systems/modules to cater to supply chain planner's requirements
  • This solution had eliminated 10+ custom built solutions and sunset the legacy tools in operation
  • This workbench was one stop tool to fulfill all daily operations of a supply chain planner
  • This workbench was integrated with Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes-
  • Managed the load & performance testing effort and ensured the performance of the tool with defined SLAs
  • Managed deployment activities liaising with cross-functional tracks for impact analysis, DBA and client IT teams to meet the cut-over milestones
  • Designed the prototype to roll out the solution to multiple sites seamlessly

11) Global sourcing for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Lead Consultant based at San Jose (CA,USA).A business process transformation project to sunset disparate legacy sourcing processes for various ordering sources to choose the best warehouse and design & built a global sourcing process for manual orders, Online/Electronic/EDI orders placed from multiple ordering sources and orders placed using iStore. Defined a global algorithm for choosing the best warehouse for sales orders based on geographic, inventory, customer and priority business rules and developed a solution for the same.

12) Enablement of Build-to-Stock Product Fulfillment for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Lead Consultant based at San Jose (CA,USA).Redesigned the key supply chain processes under SCOR Model: Plan, Make and Deliver; with a shift from the legacy, heavily customized ERP to Purchased order based fulfillment for Build-to-Stock standard and configurable products resulting in reduction of 25% of supply chain costs and increased supply chain visibility. Standardized the communication of supply chain data with Contract Manufacturing and 3rd Party Logistics Partners using RosettaNet XML based B2B messages. Implemented Order Management, Purchasing, Shipping, Inventory for standard and configurable products

13) Quote-to-Cash Solution Design for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Functional Analyst based at San Jose (CA,USA). Solution design, analysis of enhancements and scoping based on business impact for Order Management, Advanced Pricing and TeleServices modules.

14) Order-to-Cash Managed Services for a $ 48 Billion Networking, Communications and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Techno-Functional Analyst based at San Jose (CA,USA) & Bangalore/Hyderabad (India).Production support and maintenance track lead for Order Management and TeleServices modules.

  • Suggested process improvements for repetitive issues
  • Led the workflow purge project to purge millions of workflow records for closed transactions to improve the system performance by 100% management

Projects

1) Oracle Cloud implementation of manufacturing and aftermarket businesses for Oil & Gas equipment manufacturer

  • Procurement Functional Lead/Solution Architect based at Houston (TX, USA), consolidating over 10 legacy ERP systems into one Oracle Cloud solution, integrating with 10+ boundary applications (such as eReceiving, Drawing Portal, Oracle HCM Cloud, Trading Partner Hub etc.).
  • Led discovery, conference room pilot and fit alignment sessions, solution design, functional specs, testing, user training, data conversion from legacy systems, cut-over and post production stabilization.
  • Partnered with planning, manufacturing, order and inventory management functional and business process leads to provide the end-to-end solution to address the engineer-to-order, build-to-stock, outside processing, project driven supply chain,, spares and repair process areas.
  • Implemented indirect procurement for MRO and corporate, retired redundant ERPs, resulted in saving of over 25% maintenance cost.
  • Rolled out to 11 suppliers and over 1000 users across 20+ US locations through streamlined ordering process, improved shopping experience, leveraging the purchasing power while securing the favorable contract terms.
  • Implemented supplier Qualification Management to streamline supplier on-boarding, classification, QHSE certification management for API/ISO compliance, periodic audits and performance evaluation for over 700 suppliers.

2) Flexible consumption solution implementation using Oracle Cloud for a leading business process services provider

  • Pricing Functional Lead based at Secaucus (NJ, USA). Large scale transformation to implement Quote-to-Cash solution in digitizing over 10,000 paper based customer contracts, bring efficiencies in sales cycle, ordering, contract management, pricing, revenue recognition, billing, customer management and accounting process areas and reduce revenue leakages by eliminating heavy and involved manual processes.
  • Led the solution architecture to build complex pricing strategies for various types of services using Oracle Policy Automation and Pricing.
  • Led the discovery workshops, requirement analysis and trained business users to write the pricing algorithms and rules.

3) Discrete Manufacturing implementation for a leading LED, RF and Power electronics manufacturer

  • Lead implementer, Project Manager based at Research Triangle Park (NC, USA) and Fayetteville (AR,USA). Greenfield pilot implementation of Oracle discrete manufacturing and integration with homegrown MES systems.
  • Transformed heavily customized, excel based manual supply chain planning, homegrown disparate systems for product costing and manufacturing execution to bring the process efficiencies resulting in improved supply lead times and customer promise dates (by over 50%).
  • Defined the program scope, implementation road map for locations across the globe, client and firm resource planning, account portfolio management, current state assessment, drove Business/IT workshops, solution design, training, testing and post production support.

4) Procurement Cloud implementation and integration with JD Edwards for a leading supplier of building materials

  • Project Manager/Solution Architect based at RTP (NC, USA). Conducted design review to address the solution gaps and pain points in troubled procurement cloud implementation and its integration with JD Edwards Financials and Inventory modules, recommended the process improvements and designed the road map for phased implementation.
  • Conducted interviews with Business process owners, IT leads and incumbent solution implementation partner.
  • Acted as an extended arm of Client IT team by reviewing the requirements, proposed solution and Fit-Gap analysis.
  • Managed the implementation of supplier qualification management, punch outs, integrations for master data management, receipts and payables.

5) Oracle EBS integration with OTM Cloud for a leading pharmaceutical product manufacturer and distributor

  • Lead Implementer/Project Manager based at Westbury (NY, USA). Integrated shipping and warehouse management processes with Oracle transportation management cloud retiring the legacy TMS system.
  • Evaluated integration options and recommended the best possible approach to minimize the licensing and maintenance costs.
  • Managed the solution delivery, implementation scope, ensured the best integration practices are followed, user training, supported QA process to meet the pharmaceutical industry needs and post production stabilization.
  • Led change management, recommended the scope for process improvements to optimize the warehouse management processes.
  • Provided solutions to address the business pain points in sales order release, picking strategies, label design & printing, shipping documents and efficient handheld processes resulted in warehouse productivity improvement by over 30%, delivery consolidation with pool point shipment and last leg delivery reduced the shipping costs by 20% and improved the delivery lead times by over 15%.

6) "Enterprise wide Supply chain transformation" for a $48 Bn Networking and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

  • Business Analyst at San Jose (CA,USA). Designed a one-stop-shop workbench integrated with supply chain modules to aid planner's daily operational tasks in responding to customer's expedite requests and supplier recommits.
  • Designed global sourcing algorithm for choosing the best warehouse for sales orders (placed from multiple ordering sources) based on geographic, inventory, customer and priority business rules by sunsetting disparate legacy sourcing processes.
  • Designed a very complex data model from multiple ERP's to provide the supply chain visibility, sunsetting 10+ homegrown tools, solutions.
  • Managed the load testing to ensure the performance SLAs are met and cut-over.
  • Rolled out the solution prototype to sites across the globe seamlessly.

7) Direct Fulfillment Enablement for a $ 48 Billion Networking and Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

  • Business Analyst based at San Jose (CA,USA).Redesigned the key supply chain processes under SCOR Model: Plan, Make and Deliver; with a shift from the legacy, heavily customized ERP to Purchased order-based fulfillment for Build-to-Stock and Configure-to-Order products resulting in reduction of 25% of supply chain costs and increased supply chain visibility.
  • Standardized the communication of supply chain data with contract manufacturing and 3PL Partners using RosettaNet XML based messaging.

Process areas of expertise

  • Procurement
  • Distribution
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Logistics

Process models implemented

  • Build-to-stock
  • Engineer-to-order
  • Configure-to-order
  • Aftermarket
  • Capital equipment purchases
  • Project driven supply chain
  • Indirect procurement

Industries worked for

  • Oil Field services and manufacturing
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Hi-Tech services and manufacturing

- Network hardware and software

- Consumer electronics

- RF and Power supplies

  • Business process services

Publications

  • Effective Management of Enterprise Assets with Oracle eAM solution

- North Central Oracle Applications User Group

Chicago, USA

22nd Feb 2013


  • Shifting gears of procure-to-pay cycle with Oracle EBS iSupplier Portal

- SANGAM15 - All India Oracle Applications User Group

Hyderabad, India

22nd Nov 2015


  • Shifting gears of procure-to-pay cycle with Oracle EBS iSupplier Portal

- COLLABORATE 2017 - Oracle Applications User Group

Las Vegas, USA

3rd Apr 2017

RAJ TELIKICHERLA