Arunkumar Ks Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bangalore

For about 7 years now, I have been providing strategic digital business capability & transformation consulting for many leading companies in CPG (Nivea, JSW Paints), Retail (Future Group), Fashion and Retail (BIBA Fashions) and Interim Global CIO role for Automotive Engineering Companies (Varroc), Farm and Industrial Equipment Company (Kubota North America), Consumer Electricals (Crompton Greaves) & recently Abdul Lateef Jameel Motors, Saudi Arabia. I have been part of 7 large SAP implementation, Consolidation, HANA Migration to Cloud and S/4 HANA Upgrade programs, which in all included over 47 different products of SAP, including ERP-ECC, S4HANA, APO-DP, SNP, PPDS, BW, BPM, Portal, PI/CPI, ICH, TPVS, SAP Success Factors, Concur, BPC, Vehicle Management System, MDG, Multi Bank Connectivity, Finance Closing cockpit, Advanced Receivables & Credit Management, Cash/Treasury management, Governance Risk and Control, PDMI, Digital Vehicle Hub, Commissions Cloud (Vistex), Advanced ATP, Demand Driven MRP, SAP Spares and Service Parts Management, SAP Service Cloud and Warranty Management, Incentive and Commission Management, SAP ARIBA (Direct and Indirect Sourcing and Procurement), Accounts Payable Automation (Open Text) Advanced Receivables management, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Archiving and Document (OpenText), Information Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Content Management, Enable Now for user training, SAP Logistics Business Network, S/4 HANA Retail and Fashion, etc. covering all functions of the enterprises.

Bangalore

Digital Value Chain Strategy and Roadmap Consulting assignments for multiple CPG and Retail Companies (JSW Paints, NIVEA India, Future Group..)

Kolkata Area, India

Responsible for building organization & industry specific Business IT Vision & Strategy across Emami Groups businesses spanning CPG, Hospitals, Health Care, Agro-tech, Cement, Realty & ART Gallery; Mandated to evaluate & build road maps & provide execution leadership Specialties:Business Intelligence - Business Process - Information Management - Digital Transformation - Business –IT partnering - Data Visualization

Kolkata Area, India

Transformed IT infrastructure by fully embracing the ‘Infrastructure-as-a-service’ (IAAS) on HP CloudEngineered step-change in Talent Management capability with SAP Successfactors Cloud services for Recruitment, On boarding, Performance and Goal Management, Training and Development, Learning Management and De boardingPowered Business for faster Operations, Reporting, Analytics, Insights and Decision making with high performance SAP HANA platformCreated robust, holistic Business Intelligence platform for Operational, Tactical and Strategic reporting, dash boarding and self-service data visualization capabilityDelivered High performance product margin analysis and management solution, with a combination of SAP product costing and profitability analysis, SAP BI platform and Lumira, the SAP data visualization toolBuilt sound business case for rapid new product development, launch and relaunch with World Class PLM platformHighlights:Developed the Emami digital transformation Vision & the Business IT Strategy and execution plan; successfully secured the endorsement from Stakeholders to achieve competitive & “Best-in-class-Business-IT-capability” in the Consumer Products IndustryConceived and executed ‘Cloud first’ strategy; Migrated Core operational business platforms of SAP ERP and BI to high performance SAP HANA on Cloud, Talent Lifecycle Management operations to Cloud based SAP Success Factors & implemented an effective product margin analytics and management capability

Bangalore & Singapore

Highlights:Led one of the most sophisticated, ambitious and high impact SAP BPM capability to accelerate material and finished goods master data creation for product launch and relaunch; Implemented in 10 countries -Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines and MDM operations in Bangalore. This capability reduced the End-to-End Master Data definition time for new product launch and re launch by 58 to 80%. Successfully strategized to extend the solution to over 170 countries where Unilever was operatingAchieved consolidation of reporting and analytics solution across all countries in the region – replaced over 50 legacy reporting applications in multiple countries with regional SAP BW reporting solution making it one of the largest such implementation in the world with 30+ TB of data

Singapore/Bangalore

Highlights:Led the Information, Master Data and BPM track of Regional SAP Program with a budget of 77.5million EuroPartnered with business in all the 40+ countries and 16000+ users in Asia, Africa and Russia Region, for Information reporting, analytics, Master Data and Business Process Management capabilityEvangelised and engineered consolidation of reporting and analytics solutions across all countries in the region – replaced over 50 legacy reporting applications with regional SAP BW reporting solution. One of the largest such implementation in the world with 30+ TB of dataDeveloped and Implemented IT strategy and Road map in AAR for Information, Master data and Business Process Management; Conceived, Architected, Developed & led the implementation of BPM capability for Materials and Finished Goods

Bangalore

Highlights:Developed Business Case and Roadmap for replacing existing Mfgpro & heterogeneous systems with SAP solutionsLed the SAP Technology, Solution Architecture and Information Management teams for one of the largest(~20TB data)high performance data warehouse in Unilever; Led strategic implementation of IBM WPC Master Data Management solutionIntegrated Supply chain planning with execution processes with new SAP solutions like SNC (Supply Network Collaboration) and TPVS (Transport Planning and Vehicle Scheduling); Streamlined and integrated Business Process management capabilities with SAP NW BPM – e.g. Procure to Pay, user and role provisioning, Master data management, etc.Drove rapid value realization by adopting over 30 ramp-up releases across Fusion SAP landscape in 5 years; Shaped the Hardware Platform Strategy for FUSION which is embraced by rest of UnileverBuilt solution sustenance capability with pioneering implementation of multiple features of SAP solution manager, with increased automation and radically reduced cost of support.Established an automated regression testing capability with a well-integrated SAP CR management capability, resulting in rapid upgrades & release cycles @ lower cost; SAP published the case study as one of the best in the world

Bangalore

Part of 3 member leadership team, to conceive, create business case and establish IT enabled Shared Services Centre (Indigo) for Finance and Commercial Activities. Chartered to architect and deliver the IT capability; Indigo was subsequently sold to CapgeminiHighlights:Built new B2B integration capability with Modern Retailers for order fulfilment and increased OTIF deliveryImplemented Red Prairie for managing large Mechanized warehouses, a first for FMCG industry in IndiaReengineered and consolidated the 13 Sales and Branch office functions of three erstwhile independent companies i.e. Hindustan Lever, Brooke Bond and Kwality Walls, into 4 regional offices across all businesses.Reengineered the Order fulfilment process, which improved the customer service/OTIF by over 20%Enabled merger and de-merger of multiple companies with HUL – like Ponds, Lakme, Lever Johnson, Best Foods, Bungee and NutriciaBusiness Impacts:Achieved consolidation and harmonization of processes and systems of three distinct companies and business operations i.e. Hindustan Lever Ltd., Brooke Bond Lipton Ltd and Kwality Walls which became one of the first in Unilever WorldDeveloped the first ever “Business Process Management” solution for Customer Management and Vendor Payment processes using a basket of 5 different tools and technologies from IBM. This was a key value driver in Shared Services modelProject Quantum: Developed mobile application capability for Hindustan Unilever Sales teams and successfully piloted across 6 large metros of 600+ salesmen; Project received major recognition as “High Value for Money” solution (106 USD/Sales Person), built business confidence to extend the capability for over 20,000 sales men

Bangalore

Highlights:Led the Outbound supply chain re-engineering from concept to design, business change management and institutionalised the ‘daily replenishment’ capabilityReengineered the Supply Chain to Two tiered supply chain, based on volume of stocks being moved and established concept of Regional Warehouses / Buffer Depots; Delivered high impact result in terms of Working capital savings to the tune of over 30 Million Euros (INR 200 Crores) and Improvement in Customer Service, from 71 to 95% in 1997. Received Director’s Enterprise Award.Extended the Daily replenishment concept upstream from Finished Goods Warehouses to Factories. Led to further significant improvements in reduction of Stock Levels and improvement of order fulfilment. Consequently achieved ‘negative working capital’ at the company level

Bangalore

Results Achieved: Development & Implementation of Computerized Manufacturing System for the entire 'Strategic Business Unit', with a top line of US$ 80 Million, covering Marketing, Production Planning, Materials Management, Shop-floor planning & Control, Dispatch of Finished Products, Accounting and FinanceConceived and Implemented Engineering Document and Process Management SystemEvaluation and Selection of ERP/MRP Packaged solution for the entire Company. Recommended SAP R/3 against Oracle Manufacturing and Avalon after a thorough evaluation, which was subsequently adopted by the company.

Turnkey design &Commissioning of Mini Cement Plants

Master Of Science (Ms)

Mie

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)