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Suresh Gopalakrishnan is listed as Project/Program manager helping customers on their digital transformation journey based in San Diego, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Suresh Gopalakrishnan.
Suresh Gopalakrishnan previously worked as Sr. Manager - ERP Delivery Management at Crowe and Grp Manager, ERP Project Management at Avanade. Suresh Gopalakrishnan holds Master Of Business Administration (Mba) from Ucla Anderson School Of Management.
When I was asked to support an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system at Sequent (now IBM) during 96, little did I know about the enormous difficulty involved in it. However, as my client said in 2000, I was able to leave a "lasting contribution". The team grew from 3 to 250, and annual revenue reached $7M. Great success at Sequent brought many opportunities that included project management assignment at Sony.By then I had sailed through many challenging and highly critical projects involving various Oracle technologies and was ready for more. As a consumer product goods firm, in a highly competitive market, projects at Sony were highly challenging in terms of time pressure, diverse complex technologies, and intricate business processes. With my passion in project management I was able to overcome these challenges and, as my client PM said, I was able to complete projects “on time/budget”. One of the project reduced annual raw material waste by $4-5 M.After many successful years of managing projects I wanted to take my passion in management to the next level and did a master’s program in Global Leadership at the University of San Diego in 2005.While at Fujitsu, I started off with a multi-year ERP implementation project at a distribution firm. This was one of the most challenging projects considering user’s resistance to change, their disagreement on a common process, and difficulty to integrate more than 25 Oracle modules like OTM, Demantra, SIEBEL, eBusiness, EDI, etc. Program resulted in high fill rate bringing in additional $1-2 M revenue per month.My quest for deeper understanding of business and desire to take my career to global level inspired me to undertake a global executive MBA.After leaving Fujitsu in 2015 I took my passion to execute projects to IBM, NuVasive and Microsoft.Published an article in Project Management Institute's magazine - "Three Things I learned from Executive MBA" -->http://www.pmnetwork-digital.com/pmnetwork/july_2015#pg28
Listed skills include Program Management, It Strategy, Pmp, Erp, and 46 others.
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Chicago, Illinois, Us
Executed analysis phase of Dynamics 365 (F&O, WMS) at 9 steel plants across Mexico, replacing AX2012 and two homegrown ERP systems. Execution focused on seven critical success factors and a twelve-question periodic survey to ensure the focus.
Seattle, Washington, Us
Executed Dynamics 365 (F&O, WMS) ERP rollout for 40 retail stores across USA. Approx. yearly $2M cost savings by consolidating four separate legacy ERP systems
Redmond, Washington, Us
Since Jan/2020, executed $24M Dynamics 365 (F&O, Retail/POS) cloud migration and e-Comm website migration to D365 Commerce for a specialty retailer of mattresses with over 2600 stores across the USA. All store rollout was completed between Aug/2021 and Apr/2022. Outcome: Approx yearly $3M savings in data center elimination & migration out of the Salesforce platform. Besides, this customer had a unique requirement to deliver around 80% of transactions within 3 hours requiring an accurate inventory availability and delivery slot data. We developed a complex ATP Cache solution to fulfill this unique requirement.2017-2019: Managed a team to achieve a successful digital transformation pilot program (Dynamics 365 F&O, Retail/POS) at the world’s largest franchiser of retail shipping, postal, printing, and business service centers. This client has 15,000+ Point of Sale registers and 45,000+ users in 5,000 stores across the USA. Outcome: Approx yearly $5M savings in data center elimination and maintenance of legacy systems.
Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
• Executed IT strategy & transformation project for a private aircraft manufacturer o Scope included defining future state IT organization/architecture, defining/implementing ITSM policies/processes and tools, and consolidating data centers for a resilient IT system o Estimated to bring approx. $6-7M in savings per year
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------Clients: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Stryker, Canpotex, LRN, DPI Specialty Foods and UGN Auto---------------------------------------------------------------------------* Recovered two projects in red status by applying structured project management methodologies ** Resulted in approx. $200K savings * Led SIEBEL and infrastructure upgrade (Fujitsu Cloud) project at Blue Cross Blue Shields, NC achieving on-time completion and minimal post production issues ** Helped client sail through smoothly during high volume registration (early 2014) as a result of Managed Health Care sign-ups* Executed ERP transformation solution by providing both program management and solution/system architecture advice to replace distributed legacy system at five warehouses across US for a food distribution firm ** Improved fill rate (98%) brought additional $1-2 M in revenue per month ** Implementation included over thirty modules including SIEBEL, Order Management, Shipping, Finance, Demantra, EDI, OTM, MSCA, and Procurement* Proven track record in providing leadership, coaching, guidance, and training to Project Managers * Expertise in executing business and technology related solutions (design/implement/support) while ensuring proper alignment between organizational strategy and programs’ objectives
Bangalore, Karnataka, In
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clients: Sprint, Sony, Weyerhaeuser, Sequent (Now IBM)Employers: Wipro, Oracle---------------------------------------------------------------------------------AT SONY:* Managed multiple global (US/Mexico/Japan) transformation, optimization, and outsourcing projects by providing both program management and system/solution architecture advice* Delivered common procurement solution for TV business resulting in*** Reduced yearly raw material wastage by $4-$5 million*** Reduced forecast to plan lead time from 2-3 days to less than a day * Executed ERP integration to B2B website resulting in increased salesAT WEYERHAEUSER:* Played a key role in establishing standards/methodologies during SEI Level 5 (CMMI) certification process (2003-06)* Successfully delivered outsourcing pilot program by completely taking over the system support and providing a short/long term IT strategy resulting in $3-$4 savings/yearAT SEQUENT (Now IBM):* Executed ERP implementation/upgrade projects with high customer satisfaction leading to increase in revenue from $1M to $7M in 3 years
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Suresh Gopalakrishnan is listed as Project/Program manager helping customers on their digital transformation journey.
Suresh Gopalakrishnan is based in San Diego, California, United States.
Suresh Gopalakrishnan has worked for Crowe, Avanade, Microsoft, Ibm, and Fujitsu America Inc..
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Suresh Gopalakrishnan holds Master Of Business Administration (Mba) from Ucla Anderson School Of Management.
Suresh Gopalakrishnan is listed with skills including Program Management, It Strategy, Pmp, Erp, Sdlc, Project Management, Pmo, and Business Process.
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