The Authors

Deloitte principal/partner Deb Bhattacharjee is a thought leader in supply chain strategy, supply chain planning, and inventory planning and management. He has published papers on supply chain segmentation, inventory management, and transportation.

Deloitte principal Eric Monti is a veteran SAP consultant with experience in the service parts, manufacturing, and consumer business industries, where he managed, designed, developed, and implemented SAP solutions. Eric has worked internationally, managing project teams located in different countries and both onsite and offshore resources.

Stephen Perel is an ERP and business transformation professional with more than fifteen years of experience implementing SAP projects. His specific focus is on the supply chain, covering warehouse management, inventory management, materials management, sales and distribution, purchasing, planning, and production.

Guillermo B. Vazquez is a senior technology executive, leading multimillion dollar SAP global programs with Fortune 500 companies. He has been implementing supply chain management solutions such as sales and distribution, purchase management, intercompany processing and transfer pricing, and warehouse management for more than twenty years. Guillermo led the fourth live SAP HANA implementation in the world, and is developing the Deloitte Cognitive Data Fabric powered by SAP Leonardo.

Contributors

Krishna Balaraman is an SAP-certified enterprise asset management consultant with more than 11 years of experience implementing the full lifecycle of the SAP Plant Maintenance module. He helps clients set up PM and MRO software during the design, realization, go-live, and support phases of a project. He has experience in various industry areas, including consumer and industry products, telecommunications, and aerospace. Krishna also has experience in numerous implementation methodologies.

Dibakar Bhattacharyya is an SAP analytics and enterprise performance management expert with more than 10 years of experience. He has more than five years of experience working with SAP HANA as an enterprise data warehouse solution, and has helped multiple Fortune 500 clients from the consumer products, life sciences, and financial services industries build enterprise analytics solutions. He is passionate about big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Madhavan Krishnamurthi is a certified procure-to-pay consultant who is focused on SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba and who has 11 years of SAP experience (and five years of experience in pharmaceutical, mechanical, and the consumer goods industries. Madhavan has worked on implementation, development, and SAP SRM upgrade projects for the life sciences, hi-tech, and mechanical industries.

Rishi Menon is a specialist master at Deloitte with more than 20 years of supply chain and enterprise applications experience. He specializes in using SAP solutions such as SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP SCM to deliver complex supply chain transformation engagements. Rishi is APICS (CPIM, CSCP, and CIRM), SAP (SCM), and PMI (PMP) certified.

Parminder Singh is an SAP practitioner who currently leads Deloitte’s EWM practice. He has more than 14 years of experience planning and managing global SAP supply chain management implementations, and has led several global SAP EWM implementations for large companies in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, automotive, and hi-tech spaces.

Avinash Sonavane is an SAP consultant with more than 13 years of SAP supply chain experience managing the SAP ERP Production Planning (PP-PI), Quality Management, and Inventory Management modules. He helps clients leverage SAP technology to enabled mergers and acquisitions and restructuring projects. He has successfully provided SAP supply chain solutions for Fortune 500 clients in the hi-tech, automobile, medical device manufacturing, food, cement, semiconductor manufacturing, and utilities industries.

Ram Vattikuti is an SAP supply chain management professional with more than 12 years of experience leading SAP ERP Production Planning (PP-PI), Quality Management, and Inventory Management modules. He has successfully delivered solutions for complex manufacturing scenarios on behalf of clients in the consumer products, pharmaceutical, food, semiconductor, and hi-tech industries.

Sarah Zuckerman is certified in SAP ERP Sales and Distribution and has been working on SAP implementation projects for six years. During past projects she worked in the United Kingdom and Canada, and consulted with resources in Spain, Germany, Russia, China, and Poland. The majority of her work has been in the consumer products industry, with a focus on order management, invoicing, EDI, and integration with downstream processes such as accounts receivable, accounting, and reporting.