Erdem Akkas

•Established Business Intelligence department.
•Developed SAP Business Objects BI universes, reports, and dashboards.
•Periodically developed and presented in depth analytical insights to executive committee with Tableau.
•Developed IBM Cognos BI reports.
•Created an MS Access solution with VBA for call centre integration.
•Formed predictive and forecasting models with R.

“I hired Erdem to lead the Performance Reporting department in Cardif Turkey. He has taken over an extremely difficult job at a time when things were rough. Through patient iterations and structuring of available infrastructure, he has enabled quite good and sufficient reporting structure, which has led to clear performance monitoring.”
Ugur Ҫaglar CMO at BACK-UP, Affinion International

•Meticulously developed SAP Business Objects BI universes, reports and dashboards.
•Implemented an MS Access solution with VBA which saved 235 hours/month.
•Prepared statistical analyses and conducted data mining projects for call centre operatives.

•Skilfully leveraged business intelligence in following business roles:MIS Executive, Packaging and Production Planning Responsible, Logistics Executive, Supply Chain Executive.
•Prepared MIS reports and executed analyses.
•Developed an MS Access solution which increased efficiency of MRP, production planning, logistics, purchasing, packaging and customer service functions.
•Created an MS Excel solution for container load planning, which used a delayed column generation algorithm to compute the optimized solution via VBA and LP Solve.
•Directed the team of 15 professionals.


“There are few words which can describe Erdem such as "intelligent", "meticulous" and "multi skilled”. He is an IT savvy person who can effectively use this talent as tool for doing justice to his core job. He has extraordinary ability to understand the business needs and priorities and is well aware of the KPI’s which drive the business ahead.”
Pankaj Dande Head of Supply Chain - Polypex

•Selected and implemented ERP software, administered MS SQL Server database.
•Developed an MS Access solution which increased efficiency and used as a transition platform for ERP project.
•Managed production department of 4 supervisors and 74 indirect professionals.

•Developed an MS Access solution for integration of internal and external warehouses.

•Completed compulsory military service as informatics division chief.
•Developed an MS Access solution for personnel management.

•As an Aiesec trainee coordinated ERP implementation process and administered MS SQL Server.