Erdem Akkas, Business Intelligence Manager

Erdem Akkas

Business Intelligence Manager

BNP Paribas Assurance

Location
Türkiye - Istanbul
Education
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
Experience
10 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 9 Months

Business Intelligence Manager at BNP Paribas Assurance
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • April 2012 to January 2015

•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

MIS Specalist at Siemens AG
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • April 2010 to April 2012

•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.

Supply Chain Executive at Polyplex Europa
  • Türkiye
  • December 2006 to April 2010

•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

Production and Planning Responsible at Topdal Plastik
  • Türkiye - Istanbul
  • March 2006 to December 2006

•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.

Logistics Responsible at Farel Plastik
  • Türkiye
  • December 2005 to March 2006

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

Informatics Division Chief at Military Recruiting Department
  • Türkiye
  • August 2004 to July 2005

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

ERP Project Facilitator at Delta Malta Ltd
  • Malta
  • November 2003 to May 2004

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

Education

Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
  • at Osmangazi University
  • July 2003

Graduate Thesis: Comparison of Traditional Manufacturing and Synchronous Manufacturing Approaches in Arena Simulation Environment Osmangazi University German Language Course Certificate Anatolian University Entrepreneurship Academy Certificate Attended 40th JCI European Conference Was a member of Industrial Engineering Club, Eskisehir Photographers Club Also attended seminars including: Strategic Marketing, Body Language, Foreign Trade, Turkish Tax System… “You are like a miner, continuously finding new things…” Ass.Prof Muzaffer Kapanoglu

Master's degree, Business Administration (Lateral Entry)
  • at Osmangazi University
  • July 2003

Specialties & Skills

Industrial Engineering
Production
Administration
Manufacturing
Integration
Crystal Reports
MS Word
MS Access
MS Outlook
Xcelsius
MS Powerpoint
MS SQL Server
SAP Business Objects BI 3.0/4.0
Oracle SQL
IBM SPSS Modeler (Clementine)
MS Excel

Languages

Turkish
Expert
English
Expert
German
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Playing guitar, biking