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Job title: Functional Consultant ERP    Company: POLARIS Software Lab Limited   NumYrs: .5

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PRAKASH S J ABRAHAM
psabraham@mailcity.com
91-11-91541665

WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

· Over six months experience in Oracle Applications covering Implementation, Pre Sales and Training. · Over one and half years experience in ERP covering Implementation, Pre Sales and Case Study Implementation. · One and half years experience in Sales and Distribution.
· Three and half years experience in Manufacturing covering Logistics Management, Materials Management, Production Planning and Control, and Production Management. · One year experience in Management Consulting covering Selection and Recruitment and Consulting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP             :  ORACLE Manufacturing 10.7 GUI / 10.6 GUI / 10.6CUI,                             MFG/PRO 8.3 / 8.4and MOVEX	
HW/OS     : IBM PC Compatibles, HP 9000 series, Intel based platforms  (Pentium, 486 servers), DOS, UNIX
Software        :  ORACLE
Languages       :  Developer 2000

Functional Consultant-ERP, POLARIS Software Lab Ltd, India
Oct 97 onwards
Project Leader-ERP Implementation, ADVENT Computer Services Ltd.,
Apr 97 - Jul 97
Area Manager-ERP Presales, Mafatlal Consultancy Services Ltd, India
May 96 - Apr 97
Assistant Manager - Production Planning, Paharpur Cooling Towers Ltd.,
Jul 93 - Aug 95
Management Consultant, ABC Consultants Ltd., India
Jul 92 - Jun 93
Assistant Manager - Sales and Distribution, Solidaire India Ltd., India
Jul 89 - Jun 92

PRESENT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

· Conducting detailed system studies as a part of Pre Sales for Various clients and preparing a report on their existing methodologies, improvement needed and strategy to be adopted. · Sold the entire suite of Oracle Applications to a leading Consumer Non Durable company in North of India against the Competition of BaaN, SAP and MFG / PRO. · Case Study Implementation of an Automobile Industry.
· Approved faculty for training conducted by Oracle India for Order Entry, Inventory, Bills of Material and Purchasing. · Approved faculty for training conducted at Maruti Udyog Ltd. and Oracle Consulting, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

PROJECTS:

Title      :       Case Study Implementation of a near live like automobile industry with multiple locations and over 300 items defined in a multi level bill of materials.  All activities pertaining to the manufacturing operations is as detailed out in an exhaustive document prepared internally.

Client  :  POLARIS Software Lab Limited                        Oct 97 onwards

Order Entry

· Managing Customers and Customer Profiles
· Defining Items and Bills of Material
· Managing Pricing and Discounting Strategies
· Processing Orders
· Fulfilling Orders
· Processing Returns
· Processing Internal Requisitions

Inventory

· Basic set up of the module, identifying structure and defining Flexfields
· Defining Inventory structures (Organisations, Sub-Inventories, Locators), Workday Calendars, Items, Item Status, Category and Category Sets, Catalogue Items, Templates and Item Details · Specify Inventory Controls (Locator, Revision, Lot and Serial)
· Transaction Types and Inventory Transactions, Receiving Concepts.
· Managing Supply and Demand (Recorder Point Planning, Min-Max Planning, Sub Inventory Replenishment Planning, Internal Requisitions and Importing Requisitions) · Defining Available-to-Promise
· Performing Accuracy Analysis (Compiling Descending Value Report, Physical Inventory, ABC Analysis, Cycle Count) · Defining and Maintaining Cost Type

Bills of Material and Engineering Products

· Defining Resources, Resource Availability, Workday Calendars and Available Resources
· Defining Engineering Items and Engineering Routing specifying Primary and Alternate Routings · Creating and Maintaining Engineering Bills of Material
· Releasing Engineering Items Information to Manufacturing
· Computing Lead Times
· Managing Engineering Changes By Managing and Implementing ECO’s
· Defining Planning and Marketing Bills of Material

Purchase

· Basic set up of the module. identifying structure and defining Flexfields
· Setting up Document Approval and Security
· Maintaining Purchasing Items
· Managing the Supply Base
· Managing Requisitions and Document Approval
· Creating Purchase Orders and Blanket Purchase Orders
· Receiving Production and MRO Items
· Generating Purchase Requirements
· Reviewing Purchase Accounting Effects
· Managing Outside Processing

Environment : Oracle Applications 10.6SC on Oracle Server 7.1

Title           :  MOVEX (ERP) Total Implementation

Duration        :  Apr 97 - Sep 97

Modules        : Customer Order,  Inventory  Management, Purchase  Order, Purchase and Supplier Statistics, Manufacturing Data, Manufacturing Order, Forecasting, General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.

Responsibilities : In the Capacity of Project Leader was responsible for :
· Defining Project Activities
· Preparing Project Plan
· Planning of resources
· Coordinating with the key users of the customer team for building Business Process
· Educating key users for their respective modules
· Mapping existing system onto MOVEX after Gap Analysis
· Preparing templates and transferring data’s from legacy system onto MOVEX
· System testing like Functionality testing , integrated testing and Volume Testing in a CRP environment · Going live.

Role as Project Leader

· Audit/Assessment of current situation
· First cut education of clients team
· Commit to implementation
· Setup project organization
· Performance goals monitoring
· Initial education of end users
· Sales, Logistics and Manufacturing process mapping
· Planning and Control Process
· Gap analysis
· Data management
· Process improvement
· Pilot and cut over
· Performance measurement

Environment : AS / 400, OS / 400 and RPG / 400

MAFATLAL CONSULTANCY SERVICE LIMITED

Area Manager Pre Sales                                                               May 96 - Apr 97

· Presented a business - focused MFG / PRO solution to prospective customers using in-depth knowledge of vertical markets.
· Instrumental within the industry team in facilitating Sales
· Provide business analysis Consultancy
· Identify and champion the use of MFG / PRO to meet changing business requirements.
· Provide Consultancy on MFG / PRO functionality and configuration
· Identify and specify interface solution between MFG / PRO and legacy systems, providing business analysis in that area.

Role as Pre Sales Manager

· Business Process Study
· Data Modeling
· Gap Analysis
· Enterprises Wide IT Solutions

PAHARPUR COOLING TOWERS LIMITED

Assistant Manager - Production Planning                                 Jul 94 - Aug 95

· Work Scheduling of Operation and Sequences
· Managing Resources for Production
· Quality Inspection at process level
· Material Requirement Planning based on Consumption, Reorder level and Order proposal.
· Evaluating the capacity load situation
· Production Activity Control
· Workforce Planning

Sr. Engineer - Materials                                		        Jul 93 - Jun 94

· Warehouse Management
· Material Valuation
· Inventory Management
· Material Requirements Planning based on Consumption, Recorder level and Order Proposal.
· Vendor Evaluation

ABC CONSULTANTS LIMITED

Management Consultant                                   	        Jul 92 - Jun 93

· Preparation of Market entry Reports eg. Pscholl Plc UK
· Preparation of Techno Economic Feasibility Report
· Expertise Marketing
· Recruitment and Selection

SOLIDAIRE INDIA LIMITED

Asst. Manager - Sales and Distribution                                          Jul 91 - Jun 92

Trainee Engineer - Sales and Distribution                             Nov 90 - Jun 91

· Sales and Distribution Transaction
· Sales support activities like Promoting Business Development, Improving Customer Service, Supporting Sales Promotion Activities and Provide methods for evaluating Competitor Products · Sales activities like Pricing, Delivery Scheduling, Receivables, Credit Facilities etc.
· Shipping
· Selling
· Sales Planning
· Launching of Products

Trainee Engineer - Production                                          Mar 90 - Oct 90

· Resources for Production
· Workforce planning
· Quality Inspection
· Production Activity Control

Trainee Engineer - Inventory                                            Jul 89 - Feb 90

· Manage Material by Quality and value
· Goods Receipt for Purchase Order
· Goods Issues
· Transfer Postings and Stock Transfers
· Goods Movement for Production Orders
· Physical Inventory

ERP PACKAGES:

· Have undergone an extensive 30 days training program ( Aug 97 - Sep 97 ) on Oracle Applications (Manufacturing) conducted by Oracle India. Has been trained on the following modules.

Oracle Inventory, Oracle Purchase, Oracle Order Entry, Oracle Engineering Products, Oracle Planning Products, Oracle Work in Process, Oracle Flexfields, Oracle Application Object Library, Oracle System Administration.

· Have undergone an extensive 20 days training program on MFG / PRO Applications conducted by Mafatlal India. Has been trained on the following modules.

MFG / PRO Distribution
MFG / PRO Supply Chain
MFG / PRO Manufacturing
MFG / PRO Financials

· Have undergone an extensive 15 days training program on MOVEX Applications conducted by Intensia AB Sweden. Has been training on the following modules

MOVEX Customer Order Management,
MOVEX Manufacturing.

QUALIFICATION: Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, India (1985 - 1989)

Post Graduate Course in Business Transformation Management from Aptech School of Management, Bombay, India (Aug 95 - Apr 96)