manoj vachhani

IT Transformational executive with business acumen and with total 20 years of work experience in the areas of IT strategy, ERP/IT Program Management, consulting, Customer relation, business process, start-ups and build Center of Excellence, service/maintenance operations and business relation engaging with diverse cultured teams of large MNCs across the globe (US, ASIA, EMEA) . I have been providing expertise and leadership in IT Enabled business process solutions and collaboration in areas of finance, distribution & supply chain, Manufacturing, HR, Sales & marketing, system architecture, integrations and IT infrastructure. Given a target work environment which lays emphasis on standards, quality, people development and innovation, have a leadership to provide direction, implement plans through motivation and act as change agent.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Johnson & Johnson Medical A Major US health care organization. ($ 80 Billion revenue) with operations in 248 countries.
Key Responsibilities (Enterprise IT solution and ERP support Head-ASPAC reporting to VP)
• Engage with C-level leadership across organizational functions for IT/ERP solutions and operations.
• Coordinate with application Managed service multiple vendors and infrastructure partners for Business critical systems to support Country business partners, Global SCM Teams, Country Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain departments, IT Shared services organization.
• Lead large, moderate to complex projects, programs or initiatives across the franchise or enterprise for Business critical systems. Ensure the programs/projects are delivered either directly or through the project teams.
• Lead Center of excellence for IT application and ERP (JDE Oracle E1, SAP) and build IT organization in virtual environment in areas of change and release management, service operations and business process improvements.
• Engage right mix of technology resources through Managed services, ITIL framework and SLA governance for application support.
• Ensure Enterprise Systems meet SOX, GxP, Audit and CSV requirements in IT and finance & regulatory area.
Job scope-
• Collaborating and directing IT managers/SMEs/Solution architect and engaging outsourced vendor resources. Constantly seek opportunity for organization framework optimization.
Statement of achievements-
• Managed business partner expectations at C-level, resolved conflicts between requirements and budgets.
• Lead JDE to SAP complex migration program for 15 Asia countries and regional distribution center in 36 months time with 30 million budget and 100 SMEs from multi vendor and multi location J&J teams. Handled the situation by being assertive, friendly and motivating the team members to understand and realize the importance of end results. Was able to achieve the desired goals within budget and on time which resulted in increased productivity and world class solutions for end users and organization. As a token of appreciation was awarded the encore award for Asia pacific.
• Lead system solutions for SCM KPIs like ESO, fill rate, DOS, perfect order metric, forecasting integrity measurement, advanced planning and customer integration to enhance customer loyalty and orders by 2% and reduce excess inventory by 10 %. This resulted both top line and bottom line improvement on P&L. This was carried with cross functional and IT team coordination globally and was responsible for both IT program and directing SMEs/business process experts from concept to delivery. Received many accolades from ASPAC leadership team.
• Optimized IT/ERP support spends by 20 % by creating word class ERP center of excellence in India for ASPAC countries. This was achieved through right internal hiring, knowledge retention and vendor negotiation skills. Consolidated and optimized ERP/IT resources with capacity planning and eliminating redundancy. Received best IT executive award in 2007.

Oracle Corporation, USA. June 2004 till Jan 2006
Delivery Manager (Sr. principle consultant)
Key Responsibilities
• Managing ERP practice and managed services for supply-chain / finance systems (JDE) and provide leadership to global (USA & EMEA) projects.
Job scope-
• Responsible for P&L and portfolio management of multi dimensional projects.
• Build Center of excellence in India (Bangalore) . Define SLAs and manage outsourcing contracts worth $ 50 million and manage client expectations through right sourcing and recruitments, motivation and retention.
• Ensure reliability and availability of ERP solutions, and oversees teams capacity planning, oversees ERP projects, including project planning, resource allocation.
Statement of achievements - Managed below high value and strategic projects for the organization.
• Client- Print Pack Inc, Atlanta USA-Major printing organization.
Performed onsite delivery manager role for on time completion of complex migration project..
• Project - Upgrade to 8.10 from Xe. Client- Volvo Penta Of Americas, VA USA.
Major ship building organization. Provide leadership to Financials & Distribution business process and consultants.. Role- On Site Project Lead
• Project : One world XE (Migration from World to XE). Client: Avatar Holding, USA.
Role: Offshore Project Manager.
•Project: One World XE / ERP 8.0 (Job Costing PBLF Enhancement).Client: Granite Construction, USA. Role: Offshore Manager to build high performing teams.

Key Responsibilities (Associate reporting to Business development head)
• Build JDE ERP practice from scratch for business growth and manage multi location ERP projects.
• Participate in pre-sales and business development activities.
Job scope-
• Convert opportunity into long term client contracts and build high performing delivery teams for prestigious organization.
Statement of achievements - Business development and managed below growth enabler strategic projects for the organization.
A ) Client : AARP, USA.Duration: (FEB’03 - May’04).
AARP (formerly American Association of Retired Persons) is a non-profit organization serving the interests of persons over 50 yrs old in the United States.
Negotiated engagement contract to implement an support Procure to Pay Business model in ERP involving Purchase order processing, Inventory, GL, and AP & FIXED asset, service billing, Job costing. Process modeling done for Order to Cash Business process, which involves Sales Order Processing, Inventory, and A/R & GL.
B) Client: Kimberly -Clarke / Safeskin Corporation Ltd. Duration: Jan’00 - Feb’03
Project Description:- KC-Safeskin corporation is a latex gloves manufacturing and distribution multinational, with an annual sales of nearly $ 950 million and corporate headquarters at Roswell USA and manufacturing facilities at Thailand and having overseas operations Globaly. Lead pre-sales, contract negotiation; business blueprinting, solution design and post go live support through multi country teams. Achieved 15 million businesses for organization. Received accolades from CEO.
C) Client: HCL PEROT SYSTEMS.Duration: (Nov’98 - Dec’99)- Lead first in house ERP implementation to build skills in the organization for business development. Successfully completed Financial Accounting, Job Costing and Human Resources modules at all its Geographical locations namely UK, Singapore, USA, Mauritius, Malaysia, Netherlands and India.

Key Responsibilities (reporting to Sales Manager)
Pre sales and systems improvements through building solution in Mainframe systems.
Statement of achievements:-
Project- Cost Estimate module, Client: MANNESMANN DEMAG, RATINGEN, GERMANY.
Responsibility: Team Leader. Implemented cost estimate module and improved automation for sales department.
Project : Production Planning Module. (Aug’95 to Dec’96)
Client : M.P. Iron & Steel Co. Role : Team Lead, Sr. Analyst.

Engineer reporting to GM-IT/Logistics
Key Responsibilities, Job scope and achievements-.
• Leading production-planning and MIS team.
• Improved customer collaboration through automation for sales and dispatches.
• Resolved quality problem through logical reasoning. Conducted business Analysis to implement quality Management module to improve defect reporting and product tracking.