Lakshmana Perumal (Lp) Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tn, In

Chennai

After working in a business setting for 21 years, I decided to look for ways to use the skills I have gained to help society as a whole. At that point, I joined Samunnati, whose goal is to "Make Markets Work for Smallholder Farmers." As Technology Leader at Samunnati, my primary goal was to make systems robust and scalable and seamlessly talk to each other.Key outcomes include:Implementing Netsuite ERP in <6 months to handle completely unique business processes that differentiated… Show more After working in a business setting for 21 years, I decided to look for ways to use the skills I have gained to help society as a whole. At that point, I joined Samunnati, whose goal is to "Make Markets Work for Smallholder Farmers." As Technology Leader at Samunnati, my primary goal was to make systems robust and scalable and seamlessly talk to each other.Key outcomes include:Implementing Netsuite ERP in <6 months to handle completely unique business processes that differentiated Samunnati in the market. This implementation resulted in highly automated business processes that are scalable and resulted in an RoI for >350%Managing all the systems across the NBFC and agri-commerce businesses and ensuring all the systems are scalable and are seamlessly integratedAll systems were revamped and new scalable systems implemented to support 10X business growthA New LoS system which is completely configurable for the new business processes and are also rule based. The system can be configured to launch new products with new data and business rules in <3 days as against the previous system needing 3-4 week window to launch a new productAll systems were made to talk to each other ensuring data entry happens at source in only one system, resulting in increased productivity and data integrity. This helped 20-30% increase in proposal conversion to loans.Data from all systems pushed into a common data management system for centralized reporting and tracking Show less

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Managing the Strategic Customers of Ramco and Evangelizing Ramco's Latest capability to solve real-life customer problems and to incorporate the feedback into the product to ensure the product is becoming very robust in terms of the newer technology and functionalities.

India

Managing Strategic Implementations of the latest Ramco ERP Solutions across the globe to enable Digital Transformation for customers. Have enabled the largest broadband provider in the Philippines to transform their financial process before the IPO to ensure they have an auditable accounting system in place. The transformation ensured they could save ~ 20 Mn PHP per year and still have a completely auditable system in place.Individually transformed the collaboration and tracking of… Show more Managing Strategic Implementations of the latest Ramco ERP Solutions across the globe to enable Digital Transformation for customers. Have enabled the largest broadband provider in the Philippines to transform their financial process before the IPO to ensure they have an auditable accounting system in place. The transformation ensured they could save ~ 20 Mn PHP per year and still have a completely auditable system in place.Individually transformed the collaboration and tracking of project execution and our Business Head to ensure the Work From Home is effective and transparent using MS Teams adoption across the organization.This has resulted in an increased efficiency on an average of 15-20%.Customer accountability and process transparency brought in additional revenue of 5-15%, and the ELF Score improved by 20%Converting this into a repeatable process and organization-wide adoption can result in better efficiency, better csat and additional revenue.Currently, working on enabling one of India's largest engineering company to digitally transform their business and ensure they are moving toward industry 4.0. Show less

Chennai Area, India

Managed a team of 40 consultants working across various projects to ensure the project success and be responsible for their career growth and aspirations in the organization.Brought in a completely new concept of CoE where the senior members of the CoE will be the mentor for the junior members who will be the foot soldiers on the field executing projects.This transformed the Ramco Product implementation, impacting the quality of Implementation (CSAT) and the implementation's… Show more Managed a team of 40 consultants working across various projects to ensure the project success and be responsible for their career growth and aspirations in the organization.Brought in a completely new concept of CoE where the senior members of the CoE will be the mentor for the junior members who will be the foot soldiers on the field executing projects.This transformed the Ramco Product implementation, impacting the quality of Implementation (CSAT) and the implementation's efficiency. Show less

Chennai Area, India

After moving from the US I am currently with the Product Development team led by CEO himself and the mission is to accomplish an application that is available on all devices and is simple to use and comply with the core mantra of the new generation - MUSIC - Mobile, User-friendly easy to learn interface, Social interaction through integration with different social networks, In-memory process for extreme speeds and agility and the application is Context aware.Apart from this continuing… Show more After moving from the US I am currently with the Product Development team led by CEO himself and the mission is to accomplish an application that is available on all devices and is simple to use and comply with the core mantra of the new generation - MUSIC - Mobile, User-friendly easy to learn interface, Social interaction through integration with different social networks, In-memory process for extreme speeds and agility and the application is Context aware.Apart from this continuing with the support for the implementation in the US and Managing few named accounts in the US and Australia. Show less

Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Moved to the US to build partnerships for Ramco's Offering and increase the presence of various products in the market.Instrumental in getting 8 new customers for Ramco New Generation ERP in 1 Year.Conceptualizing and Developing a Cloud based Solution for AT&T Premium Vendor for Customer Lifecycle Process. The process covers Leads, how it gets distributed to vendors and how it gets converted to a customer and the post install relationship with the customers.Handled the… Show more Moved to the US to build partnerships for Ramco's Offering and increase the presence of various products in the market.Instrumental in getting 8 new customers for Ramco New Generation ERP in 1 Year.Conceptualizing and Developing a Cloud based Solution for AT&T Premium Vendor for Customer Lifecycle Process. The process covers Leads, how it gets distributed to vendors and how it gets converted to a customer and the post install relationship with the customers.Handled the Complete process for an Order win from the largest client for Ramco in the Non-Aviation domain in the US for the new ERP Product. After winning the order, as part of penetration strategy, implemented the solution for the customer also, as we wanted to build a reference for the solution in the US. Successfully implemented the solution for the customer where the customer had failed previously with 3 different products.As Account Manager for the account grew the account by 5 times from the initial value in 1 year. This was accomplished through new orders for new areas and inclusion of new processes in the ERP. Won the customer confidence to roll out the solution globally. Show less

Have grown the practice from scratch.Developed 3 new Product Variants for specific industries in the services vertical, IT-ITES, Ship Management, Facilities Management.Developed from Concepts, the Insurance framework, which is the key differentiator for Ramco in the insurance space and has won appreciation from Ex. CEO of FJA, one of the largest Insurance Software company in Europe.Rebuilt the Banking Vertical in India with focus on development projects and have own orders worth INR… Show more Have grown the practice from scratch.Developed 3 new Product Variants for specific industries in the services vertical, IT-ITES, Ship Management, Facilities Management.Developed from Concepts, the Insurance framework, which is the key differentiator for Ramco in the insurance space and has won appreciation from Ex. CEO of FJA, one of the largest Insurance Software company in Europe.Rebuilt the Banking Vertical in India with focus on development projects and have own orders worth INR 20 million for banking in 1 year. Show less

• Worked on the largest order win for Ramco • Provided solutions for complex business requirements from the customers in new business area• Consistently rated as the best performer in the team• Pioneered the concept of Ramco Center of Excellence, a single portal for all the solution and capability demonstrations • Part of the core team pioneering SOA practice in Ramco, has demonstrated to various prospects on Ramco’s SOA Capabilities• Conceptualized the templates for SOA… Show more • Worked on the largest order win for Ramco • Provided solutions for complex business requirements from the customers in new business area• Consistently rated as the best performer in the team• Pioneered the concept of Ramco Center of Excellence, a single portal for all the solution and capability demonstrations • Part of the core team pioneering SOA practice in Ramco, has demonstrated to various prospects on Ramco’s SOA Capabilities• Conceptualized the templates for SOA readiness Maturity analysis• Part of MDM sub-practice initiative within the SOA practice• Widely travelled, to Singapore, US, Europe, Asia and Middle East for various solution discussions and business process consultancy • Member of the core team implementing 6 Sigma practice and Product Management Council• Certified as Practicing Business Process Management Consultant by Business Process Management Group, UK• Part of Global Supply Chain Excellence team in Ramco. Show less

• Completed 4 Projects – 2 Solution consultancy Projects and 2 implementation projects• Handled one of the first implementations of the new genre of Ramco product with Beta customers• Handled the beta project also within budget• Handled a team of 25 people at various phases of the project• Has done project estimations using function point for 25 projects and templatized the estimation process• Rated as one of the best projects when moved into maintenance

• Onsite Business Process Consultancy for the worlds biggest Packaging Materials Manufacturer, a Fortune 50 Company• Responsible independently for the process study and optimization of sell side supply chain process for the group, spanning 6 companies and 40 locations• Managed a team of 8 consultants from the customer and was completely responsible for the delivery• Used Aris Tool set for documenting the process• Managed the process study for 40 locations and then driving the… Show more • Onsite Business Process Consultancy for the worlds biggest Packaging Materials Manufacturer, a Fortune 50 Company• Responsible independently for the process study and optimization of sell side supply chain process for the group, spanning 6 companies and 40 locations• Managed a team of 8 consultants from the customer and was completely responsible for the delivery• Used Aris Tool set for documenting the process• Managed the process study for 40 locations and then driving the consensus for the common process across companies and locations based on supply chain optimization metrics• Customer appreciation for the process study methodology• Prepared the methodology template for process study in other areas • Assignment was finished before time and within budget Show less

• Manage a team of 5 functional specialists for prototyping the prospective customers’ new requirements and model the available solution with customer relevant data• Successfully modeled and demonstrated solutions by which we as a team have added 8 customers worth $10-15 million

• Lead a team of 15 people to conceptualize and design business components’ for the Ramco's Flagship Software "Enterprise Solutions" a completely web architected scalable new generation ERP solution, designed and developed through proprietary framework Ramco Business Process Platform• Managed a team of 5 consultants and 10 design engineers in development of sales and shipping process for ERP solution

• 7 New Product addition to Bharat Electronics offering in the Batteries Division• Co-ordinate in the JV partnership Between a US based battery manufacturer and BEL for manufacture of Lithium –Ion Batteries. Responsible for market analysis, preparation of business case and presenting the business case with the executive board for approval• Introduced various quality measures and reduced product rejections from 10% to < 1%

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