Sundaralingam Sankarapandiyan
Mountain House,USA
Summary
Dynamic Business Systems Management professional with extensive experience in aligning supply chain processes with system architecture and optimizing workflows. Proven ability to leverage data-driven insights for strategic decision-making and foster effective cross-functional collaboration in fast-paced environments. Expertise in product management, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement, consistently translating complex concepts into actionable business solutions. Recognized for reliability and a results-oriented mindset, complemented by strong communication and leadership skills that enhance alignment between organizational goals and operational performance while upholding high ethical standards.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Sr IT Business Analyst-Supply Chain Solutions
Shockwave Medical
Santa Clara, CA, USA
08.2022 - Current
- Global Implementation of Supply chain system Process in Oracle fusion to Manage, Automate and Support the business process in Order Management,Manufacturing, Inventory, Purchasing, Product Management.
- Order Fulfillment integrations with SFDC System
- Integration with Logistics service providers like UPS, Fedex, HLE 3PL,(Europe)and NTT(Japan)
- Purchasing: Define and Configure the Purchasing Order type flow for Standard and Blanket purchase order, Planned Purchase Orders, Internet Procurement and P-card.
- EDI integration with supplier for Purchase Order EDI 850, PO Acknowledgement EDI 855, PO Change Orders EDI 860, Advanced Shipment Notice EDI856.
- Developed, tracked and presented metrics and tools that connected different business systems and ad-hoc reports, increasing Operation efficiency.
- Initiated global Inventory control towers at Shockwave Medical to enhance visibility into inbound and outbound shipments
- Successfully presented the concept and executed its implementation within eight months, following executive approval.
- Align with the finance team in defining with the approval workflow for purchase orders and requisitions.
- Define and Configure the Inventory Organization across the globe.
- Design the system flow for interorg transfers, , Sales order Shipments, Drop shipments,Customer Returns
- Map the daily inventory transactions needs like Sub inventory transfers, Account alias receipt, Cycle counts in Oracle and RFsmart.
- Custom integrations with RFsmart to perform Blind counts, Lot number generations as per shockwave requirements..
- Integrations with MES system(Critical Manufacturing) in Creating the Work Orders, Work order status, Operation status steps.
- Define the Configurations for New Product Introductions, Item Structures, Item Rules, Roles and Responsibilities.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across various Supply chain departments to understand business requirements and objectives.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of existing business processes, systems, and workflows to identify opportunities for optimization and automation.
- Design, develop, and implement robust systems solutions that align with business goals and objectives.
- Lead and facilitate workshops, meetings, and interviews to gather requirements, define scope, and drive consensus among stakeholders.
- Develop comprehensive business and technical documentation, including functional specifications, system design documents, and test plans.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on systems and processes, providing guidance and support to both technical and non-technical team members.
- Conduct thorough testing and validation of systems solutions to ensure accuracy, reliability, and compliance with requirements.
- Provide ongoing support and maintenance for implemented systems, including troubleshooting issues and implementing enhancements as needed.
- Define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to measure progress and identify opportunities for further improvement in system processes.
- Coordinated product lifecycle management activities to ensure timely delivery and compliance.
Product Manager
Tesla
Fremont, CA, USA
08.2018 - 06.2022
- Designing, building, and managing systems that support business processes, for Purchasing, Vendor management, Contract lifecycle management, Foreign trade zone operations.
- Analyzed business requirements and translated them into functional specifications for IT projects.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify process improvement opportunities and implement effective solutions.
- Facilitated change management processes to ensure smooth transitions during system implementations.
- Concurrently managing multiple projects and tasks, with a solid understanding of business requirements and Execution.
- Define, Design and Build the Supplier Onboarding System flow.
- Adherence to SOX Audit Controls and support reviews from the SOX Audit Control.
- Continuous Process improvement to improve the SLA's of supplier onboarding process.
- Integrations with internal applications like Purchasing, Payables and external business applications process like Plaid for Bank verification.
- Supplier Hold Management, Restricted party screening system Flow.
- System tracking of Parts that are covered by the US Government free trade policy.
- Daily reporting of Inventory, location and movements withing the zone.
- Integration with MES systems for parts that are consumed in production lines and the outputs of those consumed part.
- Report export and import of goods.
- Maintain more that 95% accuracy as per US government foreign trade policy.
- Design System process to define clause, Redlining, Approval Workflows.
- Collaborate with legal team to understand process, drive consensus, and manage expectations.
- Cross Functional collaboration with Supply Chain teams to train, user acceptance on the Contract Lifecycle Process implementation.
- Define and build systematic process of creating purchase order based on the type of procurement (Direct/Indirect, Internet Procurement, P Card).
- Identify, Define and Merge similar Purchase orders flows into a single Purchase order Type.
Senior Business Analyst
Yahoo
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
10.2013 - 08.2018
- R12 Upgrade Fit Gap Analysis.
- Study and document the current Business process from all system involving Data center Operation from Item Creation, Procurement, Receiving, Invoicing, Supplier creation and Maintenance, Installation in data service, retiring the properties, selling to recyclers, return to vendors, transfers of properties globally.
- Map the Identified Process into R12 instance and study the custom solutions, integration with other systems, Reporting changes.
- Map the future flows with the impact on current customization and changes required and suggestion to follow possible 3rd party system process in Oracle ERP.
- Estimate the time lines of full Upgrade Process, team requirement, training suggestion to the current team.
- Designing changes to the existing Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite) R11i system and its related systems.
- Gathering requirements, designing solutions, configuration changes, setting up Proof of Concept (POC) demos, designing customizations/extensions, testing solutions, generating test scripts, writing documentation, etc.
- Mapping data warehouse inbound and outbound business process.
- Mapping New Rules, Custom process and Enhance Oracle Process by Minimizing manual steps.
- Design Inventory Management inquiry forms in Mobile apps for iOS and Android.
- Identified the business-critical forms in Oracle Application desktop and built them in Mobile apps.
- Best Hack ovation award for the business solution.
- Testing and documentation of the design and testing scenarios.
- Wireframe Design for Inquiry.
- On hand Qty by Item, Sub Inventory.
- PO Inquiry by PO #, Supplier, Org.
- LPN Inquiry by LPN #, Org.
- Wireframe Design for transactions.
- Sub Inventory transfer, PO Receiving, Inter Org Transfer, Account Alias Receipt and Transaction, SO, Shipment, LPN Receiving and Shipping.
- Maintain and Support Warehouse Management team in data center.
- Support Physical count Process annually.
- Train the user's team on RF Gun usability and transaction.
- Design custom forms in RF Guns for inquiry and transactions.
- Standardize merger and Acquisition Process.
- Create a standard process for any new merger and Acquisition Process.
- Integrate all the Item from the new acquired company – Tumblr, Flurry, Bright Roll.
- Train the Business team on the Yahoo Business Process and transaction.
- Identify the existing process and do the Gap analysis for the Inventory Management Process.
- Create custom program for cabinet build Process for each datacenter from the acquired Company to integrate with the Yahoo standard process.
Business Analyst
Google
Mountain View, CA, USA
04.2013 - 10.2013
- Reverse Logistics System Integration for Chromecast.
- Design integration with Sales Force, BPEL, Oracle Apps and Vendor EDI based on the Product types either from End Customer or Channel.
- Project : Reverse Logistics Integration.
- Client : Google.
- Role : Business Analyst.
- Application : Oracle Apps, SOA (BPEL), Sales Force, Googleplex, Cloud transactions.
- Project Desc : Designing, Mapping and integrating the Reverse Logistics Process for new Products.
- Flows Mapped : Reverse Logistics-Advanced Replacement, Return and Repair, repair and Replacement.
- Mapping the Reverse logistics business flow to integrate with Sales Force, BPEL, Oracle Apps and Vendor EDI based on the Product types either from End Customer or Channel.
- Creating the RMA in Sales Force and using an API to Create RMA order in Oracle.
- BPEL to process the Payload for Movement of goods from Customer to Google Repair center to Vendor and triggering the ASN to the Vendor.
- Identify and Map the RMA process like Advanced Replacement, Exchange and Repair and Return in Googleplex for Internal Google Reverse Logistics team.
- Mapping the Movement of Goods from Customer to Repair center and Repair Center to Vendor as Sub Inventory transfers and Receiving against RMA.
- Mapping the Movement of goods from Vendor to Google repair center or Customer based on Rules.
Oracle Principal consultant
Symmetricom
San Jose, CA, USA
05.2010 - 04.2013
- R12 Upgrade from 11.5.10.2 to R12.
- As a Principal Consultant responsible for the Overall Project execution from the Define process to Project Closure related to Supply Chain modules.
- For R12 upgrade Project, involved in the TUMS Report Process, Pre upgrade and Post upgrade verification steps, Interface cleaning Process Requirement Gathering, Solution Design, Testing, CRP, User training and Migration.
- As a Supply chain Consultant Owner for Order to cash, procure to Pay, assemble to order and Returns Processes and Service Contract Integration and Install base.
- As a Principal Consultant responsible for Integrating with different process Owner, Communication with the Business and Offshore India team, Status update to the Customer Steering Committee.
- As a Principal Consultant responsible for Scope and Time Management for the Project.
- As a Principal Consultant responsible for team performance, Recruitment, Quality of Delivery.
- As a Principal Consultant responsible for coordination with the technical team lead on the Existing Customizations, reports in 11.5.10.2 and eliminating the void report, Object.
- As a Supply chain Consultant responsible for Custom solution if required.
- As Principal Consultant responsible for transaction of Knowledge from R12 Upgrade team to the 11.5.10.2 Support team.
- CRP with Super users and user training on the new enhanced R12 features.
- Manage and Support Supply Chain System process for Order Management, Inventory, Purchasing.
- Custom Enhancement on Intercompany order for ATO Items and Process.
Business System Analyst and Oracle Solution design Architect
QLogic
Irvine, CA, USA
02.2007 - 04.2010
- Custom Enhancement Project.
- Order Management Re engineering (OMR) and order to Cash (O2C): Restructuring the Process of sales order processing for Direct Shipments, Drop ships, Service Contracts, EDI orders and B2B Signal in .net application.
- Automation of all Manual Efforts involved in sales order Processing involving the process below.
- Ehub Phase I, II & III Automation and Enhancement Project.
- Detailed study of the Business Process of QLogic related to Supply Chain and the Oracle Flow in QLogic.
- The GAP process was followed to identify the Mismatch Current Business and Oracle Process with the Customers Requirement and Recommendation to the Current Business was given and the new Business Process was fitted into the Oracle Supply Chain Flow.
- This process change was executed over a Span of around 2 years in 3 Phases.
Business System Analyst and Oracle Solution design Architect
Dynacraft
Penang, MY, Malaysia
05.2005 - 02.2007
- Implement and configure, customize the Oracle application to support the various business process requirement.
- R12 Upgrade.
- Project : DYNACRAFT IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT, MALAYSIA.
- Role : SCM Functional Consultant, Onsite coordinator.
- Duration : May 2006 – Jan 2007.
- Modules : Inventory, Purchasing, Iprocurement, isourcing.
- Project Desc : 11.5.10 Implementation.
- Employer : Sierra Atlantic (A HITACHI CONSULTING COMPANY).
- Flow Mapped: Vendor and Consigned Inventory, Procure to Pay.
- I was involved in the product from analysis phase till the implementation phase and was instrumental in successful completion of the project and was responsible for Successful implementation of the Following Modules: Oracle Inventory, Oracle Purchasing, I Procurement, I Supplier.
- One of the largest manufacturers of lead frames, located in Penang, Malaysia, Dynacraft leads the industry in manufacture and supply of microelectronic packaging systems.
Education
B.E - Computer Science and Engineering
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
IndiaPGDM - Marketing and International Business
Indian Center for International Business
Pune, IndiaSkills
- Supply chain product management
- Order fulfillment management
- Customer data management
- Inventory Management
- Oracle Fusion SCM expertise
- Supplier relationship management
- Mobile supply chain optimization
- Experienced in seamless system integration
- Business process modernization
Certification
- ASCM Supply Chain Procurement Certificate
- Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Certified Expert Consultant, Order Management and Purchasing
Timeline
Sr IT Business Analyst-Supply Chain Solutions
Shockwave Medical
08.2022 - Current
Product Manager
Tesla
08.2018 - 06.2022
Senior Business Analyst
Yahoo
10.2013 - 08.2018
Business Analyst
Google
04.2013 - 10.2013
Oracle Principal consultant
Symmetricom
05.2010 - 04.2013
Business System Analyst and Oracle Solution design Architect
QLogic
02.2007 - 04.2010
Business System Analyst and Oracle Solution design Architect
Dynacraft
05.2005 - 02.2007
PGDM - Marketing and International Business
Indian Center for International Business
B.E - Computer Science and Engineering
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University