Venugopal Cottur, SAP Delivery Head

Venugopal Cottur

SAP Delivery Head

Confidential

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Master's degree, Information Technology
Experience
27 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :27 years, 8 Months

SAP Delivery Head at Confidential
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since June 2022

Provide SAP Consulting, Development, Maintenance and Support for 20 Billion USD, CPG client in US.

IT Consultant at Consulting
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2014 to May 2022

Provide Consulting Services in India and Dubai. Implement IT Strategy, with Secure IT Infrastructure, Datacenter, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, Business Intelligence, Analytics and Mobility solutions, along with Delivery Management.

Manager IT at Alseer, Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2009 to November 2014

• Implementation of SAP HANA, and SAP Business Objects for Analytics, and Mobility
• Sustenance of SAP Landscape, with Mobility Solutions
• Carrying out Upgrades, and Solutions
• Provide IT Infrastructure for Locations across geographies
• Solution Architect & Delivery Management

SAP Delivery Manager at Satyam Computers
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2007 to June 2008

• Setup Offshore Development Centre (ODC) for an MNC Giant (Cola Company), for SAP Development project. Building delivery teams, setup process, Develop and Deliver ABAP objects (RICEFW) in various streams which include APO, BW, Enterprise Portal, Workflow, etc. in all Functional areas
• Implementation of SAP Projects in Retail and FMCG verticals, in various geographies
• Pre-Sales and Solution Architect

General Manager IT at Lapp Group
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2006 to September 2007

• Implementation of all Modules in SAP ERP ECC 6.0
• Setup a new IT Services company for the Group with SAP Centre of Excellence
• Support Group companies in Europe and Americas on SAP
• Implement group-wide Service Centre approach
• Generate Business from External Orders for SAP implementation and support
• Support other IT Services, like Lotus Notes
• Solution Architect

Group Information Systems Manager at Wipro Ltd
  • India
  • December 2004 to December 2006

• Implementation of all Modules in SAP R/3, in 100 Days
• Identification, negotiation and selection of SAP and WAN implementation partners
• Design, Implement, Manage and support IT Infrastructure at 40 Locations
• Design, Development and Implementation of a middleware to connect the customers and SAP, to enhance the value chain
• Taking new IT initiatives, budgeting, plan resources and recruitment
• Development of applications in various platforms and technologies
• Solution Architect

Head - Information Technology at Henkel
  • India - Chennai
  • July 2003 to December 2004

• Implementation of all Modules in SAP R/3
• IT Infrastructure and its operations in the company which has a Corporate Office, five Factories, four Zonal Offices and 34 CFA/Depots spread across the country and connected through WAN with MLLN, Lease Lines, ISDN Lines, VPN and VSATs
• Installation Firewall appliance and Implementation of DMZ
• Support Oracle Applications on Sun Solaris Server
• Lotus Notes Mail System. Development & implementation of Workflow applications like Financial Concurrence, Leave & Travel Expenses, on Lotus Notes
• Implement Facility Management Services.
• Reporting to the company management locally and also to global headquarters
• Develop & Implement a middleware to connect the customers and SAP, and enhance the value chain
• Budgeting, Taking new IT initiatives, budgeting, plan resources and recruitment

Project Leader/Manager at ICICI Infotech
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 1999 to June 2003

• ERP Solutions Implementation
• Custom development and integration with ERP
• Leading Delivery Teams
• Delivery model involving onsite and offshore
• Handle client meetings, draw up solution approaches
• Exercise change control over the approved functional specification
• Develop comprehensive test plans, define acceptance criteria
• Unit & System Testing of Customization and integration
• Negotiation with Customers on deliverables
• Responsible for customer sign-off on project deliverables
• Pre-Sales
• Solution Architect

Asst. Manager at Smithkline Beecham
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 1995 to August 1999

• Implementing BPCS Ver 6.0.02 ( ERP system for Enterprise-wide integration and compliance ) on AS-400
• Implemented Master Production Schedule (MPS), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Capacity Resource Planning (CRP), Purchase, Inventory, Manufacturing Data Management (BOM, Routings, Work-center), Shop-Floor Control (SFC), Advanced Process Industries (API), and Costing modules of BPCS.
• Trained in Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management concepts by ERP Experts from UK and US
• Collection of all the static and dynamic data required for setup in the system
• Generate process flows existing in the system along with the exceptions (Localization)
• Prototyping all the process flows in BPCS.
• Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR’s) projects during prototyping
• Decisions, procedures, work-around were identified and compiled Requirements Definition Report, for developing software add-ons, to implement required changes in the system
• Written Test Scripts and User Manual, trained end-users
• Tested, confirmed the changes in the software during Conference Room Pilot, and subsequent approval of the system for going LIVE.
• Generate Reports using AS-400 Query tool Developed Month-end procedures.
• Day to day maintenance of the system & support to end-users

Education

Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at ICFAI University
  • February 2008
Diploma, Unix, C, Sybase, Oracle Database, Programming
  • at NIIT
  • April 1993
Bachelor's degree, Chemical
  • at Bangalore University
  • June 1990

Specialties & Skills

Integration
Manufacturing
SAP or any ERP Project Implementation, Head - IT, Oracle DBA

Languages

English
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