Nitin Kakkar, Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)

Nitin Kakkar

Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)

West Fraser

Location
Canada - British Columbia
Education
Master's degree, Strategy
Experience
15 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 9 Months

Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS) at West Fraser
  • Canada - British Columbia
  • July 2018 to March 2019

OTM application support lead analyst entailing
Elicitation of customer requirements

Resolution of customer tickets for feature enhancement

Configuration of OTM 6.3.7 for Rail, Road and Ocean modes

Itinerary management, Bulk plan management, Contract and Rate Management, EDI interface management, Invoice Auto Match and payment management, Automation Agents Management, Package Movement across environment

SQL script based Master Data Management Analysis support with JDE

Security Management and roles management

Proprietor at Self owned
  • India - Delhi
  • February 2017 to May 2018

Boutique Consulting Expert focused on Cost Optimization, Experience Enhancement, Digital Program Management, Change Management and Fintech Expertise (Mobile payments, Block chain payments, Smart Contracts)

General Manager at Airtel
  • India - Delhi
  • October 2015 to January 2017

Sourcing Head for Indirect spends covering customer care contact center services, professional services (Consultancy contracting), financial services (including P&C Insurance, Healthcare insurance), HR Services (Employee Surveys). Contracting - to ensure compliance and value generation, Category management to generate target cost optimization and value delivery

Engagement Manager at Accenture
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2006 to October 2015

Consulting Delivery Management, Client Expectation Management, Project Management, Work Deliverables review, Steering Committee Presentations and Deliverables review, Proposal Management for future business development, Client Mining

Senior Manager at Sutherland Global Services
  • India
  • October 2005 to November 2006

Office of Strategy Management with focus to enhance topline and optimise cost to serve for Payer, Provider and Intermediary verticals

Sales and Business Development (Relationship Management and Sales Generation) for Payer vertical

Client Relationship Manager at IBM
  • India - Delhi
  • June 2003 to October 2005

Consultative Sales and Business Development, Industrial Sales for Automotive, Oil & Gas with C level executives with view to sell Transformational initiatives with big component of IT

Education

Master's degree, Strategy
  • at IIM B
  • March 2003

Top 10% of Batch with focus on Strategy and Operations Management and Strategic IT & Technology Management. Won several extracurricular competitions focusing on use cases of Strategy in Action, Finance Management, Shareholder Value Creation, Marketing Management and Technology Strategy. Published Though leadership article in IIMB Management Quarterly Journal focusing on Future of Indian IT Industry that was reviewed by panel of leading management gurus and stalwarts of Indian IT Industry in Bengaluru

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi *
  • May 2000

Specialties & Skills

Lean Six Sigma
Logistics
Global Sourcing
Creating Powerful Presentations
Issue Based Problem Solving
Structured Communication
Strategic Sourcing
Six Sigma
Logistics

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Urdu
Beginner

Memberships

IEEE
  • Review Member
  • May 2000
Sokka Gakkai International
  • Area Chief
  • January 2000

Training and Certifications

PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI accredited training
Date Attended:
March 2019
Duration:
35 hours
Six Sigma Green Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2018
Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2018
Accenture Leadership Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Accenture Inc
Date Attended:
January 2012
Duration:
200 hours

Hobbies

  • Running
    5 Km run on alternate days