Girish Kakhandaki_ResumeCV_Jun_2015

GIRISH KAKHANDAKI
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Girish Kakhandaki is currently working as Senior Consultant in Deloitte Consulting India
Pvt Ltd since June 2013. He has 12 years of professional experience in IT almost all of
which has been in JDE and the remaining in SAP and Risk Management. He is an
Engineer by graduation from NIT-Surathkal and has completed PG Diploma (MBA) in
Management from Symbiosis, Pune.
As part of his JDE experience he has
 An end-to-end implementation project including client-site support in India based
client.
 He has also done a re-implementation of the Warehouse with a real-time
interface with SAP & other software’s for a UK based client.
 A stabilization project which included few mini-projects (like implementing
complaints and returns process from scratch, implementing an actual weight
based pricing process), enhancements through fixes & production support both
at client-site as well as offshore for a UK based client.
 He has also been on various Run & Maintain projects for a Global Oil major and
for a US based Life Sciences client which also included contribution in an
upgrade project a US based client.
 He has been the solution architect in the Pre-Sales cycle and the transition
manager for a JDE Support project for the Latin America region.
 He was a support/warranty project with one of the biggest Public Sector Oil
companies in India.
He has played various roles over the years from an individual contributor to a module
lead to an offshore lead to a project manager and also as a transition manager. Being a
senior resource he has also worked on a few JDE project proposals with couple of
successful win.
He has primarily worked in all the key sub-modules of JDE Distribution & Logistics
(Inventory, Procurement, Order Management, Advance Warehouse, Transportation, and
Advance Pricing) and has a working knowledge of Accounts Payable, Manufacturing,
and Supply Chain arena. He has good overview knowledge of OneWorld Technical and
is able to perform logic reviews and debugging reports.
He has also extensively worked on interfaces with Supply Chain software, Mill Execution
systems, Weighbridge software, EDI Transactions, Warehouse execution systems,
Documentation systems (like Optio, Formation) and Data Warehousing / BI software’ s.
The non-JDE experience has been into various roles of Program Management Office in
an SAP Rollout/Deployment project (PMO), Software Projects Delivery Risk
Management and Application Development projects and Training.
Girish Kakhandaki wants to primarily work in the field of JDE/ERP as a solution
architect/Business Analyst or in Support functions (Pre-Sales, Center of Excellence). He
believes to be the best in whatever task is taken up.

MOBILE  +91 9900054194 | EMAIL  girishkak@yahoo.com Page 2 of 11

PROFESSIONAL CAREER DETAILS (IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)
Company : Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
Engagement / Project : JDE E1 Run the Train (Pick Pack Ship Team)
Client : Life Sciences
Project Duration : 25+ months (Jun 2013 till date)
Team Size / Location : 30 members / Bengaluru
Project Description  The current project is an AMS project. The assignment is a Run
and Maintenance assignment for the Global JDE Support of a Life Sciences Client. The
project involves RFC’s and also upgrade project from 8.12 version to 9.0 version.
Roles & Responsibilities  Girish’s role is to support the Pick Pack Ship Team for the
NA region. The role also included functional testing of the PPS application during the
upgrade project from 8.12 to 9.0. The role also requires Girish to do the RCA on problem
tickets and also perform Change Requests based on the business needs.
Company : Wipro Technologies
Engagement / Project : JDE E1 Managed Service (JDE Order Management Lead)
Client : Healthcare/Pharma
Project Duration : 4 months (Feb 2013 till Jun 2013)
Project Description  The project was an AMS project which has gone live on 1st
April
2012. The assignment is a Run and Maintenance assignment as part of a Managed
Services contract for the Global JDE Support of a Healthcare/Pharma major. The task is
to support various JDE instances across the various geographies – Asia, Europe, North
America and Latin America. The program involves different language based support
(English and Spanish) and in different time zones and includes the helpdesk service
capabilities. Role of JDE team is to resolve JDE internal issues as well as liaise with
other software’s used as Bolt-Ons. Wipro responsibility is primarily into functional roles
on all the modules of Finance, D&L and Manufacturing. Wipro is also responsible for all
the JDE technical developments.
Roles & Responsibilities  Girish role was to lead the Order Management stream.
The focus was on improving the offshore presence in terms of any non-priority tickets
and Change Requests. He also focused on capturing the knowledge and consolidating
the same.

Engagement / Project : JDE E1/OW/WS Managed Service (Transition Manager)
Client : Energy / Oil Industry major
Project Duration : 8 months (May 2012 till Jan 2013)
Team Size / Location : 20 members / Argentina + Bengaluru
Project Description  The assignment started off as a new RFP for the JDE Managed
Services of primarily the LATAM region and Africa along with the remainder of the world
of an Energy / Oil Industry major. The MS vendor would have to bid against the 3
chosen vendors of IBM, Accenture and Wipro. The entire Solution would have to be
made in considering the reduction in cost and flexibility of services and that too in 2
languages of English and Spanish in multiple time zones and includes the helpdesk
service capabilities. Role of JDE team is to resolve JDE internal issues as well as liaise
with other software’s used as Bolt-Ons. Wipro responsibility was into functional roles on
all the modules of Finance, D&L and Manufacturing and all the JDE technical
developments. The client is highly process-driven and follows ITIL Processes for all the
project tasks from ticket logging to problem management to Change/Release
Management. The Production Support includes month-end support activities at the
beginning of each month and a 20x5 in other working days apart from the Change
Requests and mini-projects with add-on personnel.
Roles & Responsibilities  Girish actively participated in the Pre-Sales process from
day one and was main architect of the solution design of JDE and its helpdesk services.
The solution design included identifying team size / location, skill sets, location of
resources, language requirements, time zones, KT and support schedule and pricing
elements. Post the win of the assignment to Wipro Technologies, Girish was entrusted
with the role of Transition Manager. In this role Girish had to perform resource selection
based on skills in various geographies including recruitment, provide necessary training
to selected resources, create the Knowledge Transfer schedules with client & execute it,
manage the deliverables of each phase, ensure the relevant access to each team
member, fine tune scope of engagement, billing aspects and handle escalations for the
team. Since Go-Live on 1st
Oct 2012, he has been responsible for ensuring the
deliverables of the team, client &, team engagement design/execution, create requisite
reporting matrix for the team and management. As part of this role he has also
solutioned an additional team for Discretionary enhancements, Projects and Ad-Hoc
requests apart from the Run and Maintain team.
Engagement / Project : JDE E1/OW/WS Managed Service (Project Manager)
Client : Energy / Oil Industry major
Project Duration : 13 months (Apr 2011 till Apr 2012)
Project Description  The project is a production support (part of Managed Services)
for the North American, EU/APAC & Africa division of an Energy / Oil Industry major.
The client has been using JDE Worldsoft for the last 15+ years and has implemented
OneWorld Xe in 2007. The JDE system is very complex with 1500+ customization the

OneWorld and Worldsoft systems co-exist. Wipro’s responsibility is of Managed services
and JDE support/maintenance is a part of the whole client account. Role of JDE team is
to resolve JDE internal issues as well as liaise with other software’s used as Bolt-Ons.
Wipro responsibility is primarily into functional roles on all the modules of Finance, D&L
and Manufacturing. The technical involvement is case-to-case basis of enhancements
and the CNC/Infrastructure responsibility is with client. The Production Support includes
month-end support activities at the beginning of each month (24x7) and a 20x5 in other
working days. The support is across 2 geographies of North America and EU/APAC.
Roles & Responsibilities  The role was transitioned from an onsite role into an
offshore role. Being a project manager his typical major roles are
 Managing people and knowledge within the team
 Engage client for delivery assurance and continuous feedback
 Assigning tasks to team members
 Resource movements
 Billing
 Handle escalations
 Periodic reporting
 Exploring new opportunities including participating in proposal process
 Initiate Process Improvement plans
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Engagement / Project : JDE E1/OW/WS Managed Service (Project Manager)
Client : Major European Paper Manufacturer and Distributor
Project Duration : 3 months (Jan 2011 till Mar 2011)
Project Description  Project is a long-term maintenance project running from 2006
with Wipro Technologies. The client has various businesses with the Paper industry and
is a paper manufacturing firm. Client has a lot of different businesses under one roof.
Due to the nature of industry, the company is undergoing constant changes in terms of
divestment of business or addition of businesses/sites onto the existing JDE instance.
Wipro’s responsibilities on the project in terms of JDE are of Production support in JDE
modules (Finance, Distribution & Logistics and Manufacturing), CNC activities, all JDE
technical activities and participate in Project activities on a need basis. Apart from this
Wipro handles Bolt-Ons associated with JDE like Data warehousing/BI, Supply Chain
software, Middleware and infrastructure. The responsibility of the JDE team is to co-
ordinate between all the Bolt-Ons. Production Support was a 10 hrs x 5 days/week
project.
Roles & Responsibilities  Girish had taken over the role of Project Manager at the
client side for close to 2 months during the absence of the existing PM for that period.
He was always the second in command of the team throughout the life of the
assignment and was a natural progression during emergency requirement. His role was
to manage people at various client locations and also the offshore team. Girish was
currently managing a team of 14 members based in multiple locations. Being a project
manager his typical major roles are

 Managing people and knowledge within the team
 Assigning tasks
 Resource movements
 Billing
 Handle escalations
 Periodic reporting
 Exploring new opportunities including participating in proposal process
 Progress Reports on Ongoing Projects
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Engagement / Project : JDE OW Maintenance (Project Lead/Business Analyst)
Project Duration : 24 months (Jan 2009 till Dec 2010)
Team Size / Location : 4 members / UK
Project Description  Same client and account description as stated in the previous
section above. The Specific projects during this phase were of a Stock Sharing Project
(Zenon1), a replacement of an existing Warehouse with another warehouse (Zenon2)
and Implementation of New Business onto the JDE instance.
Mini Project 1  Stock Sharing Project across JDE and SAP system – Zenon1
This was a very challenging project from an IT and business perspective. The business
case was to close an existing warehouse and merge it with another warehouse of a
sister concern to have a huge saving in working capital and transportation alignment.
The project mainly involved a close interaction of JDE along with its Bolt-Ons and SAP
along with its Bolt-Ons. The constraints were to see the same Branch/Plant in the 2
mentioned system in Real-Time in terms of stock availability, stock commitments and
transactions. The other biggest constraint was the presence of 2 order promising
systems – OMP (SCM software) and SAP Order Promising module. There were 4
primary systems to be in sync to complete any set of transaction – JDE, OMP, SAP,
WMA (Warehouse Management System). As these are multiple systems, the
transactions are near to real-time (within a few seconds of each other)
Mini Project 2  Replace existing Warehouse with a new one within JDE – Zenon2
This project was an offshoot of the previous one. The previous warehouse was in SAP
while this particular one was in a home grown ERP. Also this warehouse had a few more
complex functionalities of overseas dispatches, which was limited in the previous one.
Hence it was a management decision to execute the entire solution within JDE with
some integration with the new transportation Bolt-On of the home grown ERP.
Mini Project 3  Implementation of New Business onto the JDE instance
The aim of the project was to bring in a different business/Mill under the Paper
manufacturing company onto JDE from an existing legacy system. This was an end-to
end implementation. As the business was different from the other businesses, it was a
major deviation to existing processes and functionality. As the project was based out of

Spain and with Spanish language as the communication, a set of Spanish speaking
consultants were hired for the task.
Roles & Responsibilities 
Mini Project 1  Stock Sharing Project across JDE and SAP system – Zenon1
Girish’s role here was to lead the Solutions team on the JDE side. He was the main
architect for the entire design and project planning from IT perspective. He participated
in the entire project from initiation, business rules definitions/setup, design multiple
solutions along with the SAP team to figure out the feasibility and robustness of the
system, get the customizations developed in time, under budget and of high quality,
entire end-to-end testing with SAP team as well as the business community, Go-Live
planning & implementation and post Go-live support, fixes and improvements. The entire
workforce was distributed across different locations and the co-ordination itself was a
challenge. The project was a great success story at the client-side leading to more
confidence in Wipro Technologies delivery capabilities.
This was the most challenging assignment of Girish so far in his career with the hope of
even more challenging tasks and constraints.
Mini Project 2  Replace existing Warehouse with a new one within JDE – Zenon2
Girish’s role here was to lead the Solutions team on the JDE side. He was the main
architect for the entire design. He participated in the entire project from initiation, design
solution along with the client’s home grown ERP team, help in setting up the new
Warehouse configurations, co-ordinate with business (existing and new teams),
infrastructure team, get the customizations developed in time, under budget and of high
quality, Go-Live planning & implementation and post Go-live support, fixes and
improvements. The entire workforce was distributed across three locations and the co-
ordination itself was a challenge as it was a major business project rather than a purely
IT project. The project was a great success story at the client-side.
Mini Project 3  Implementation of New Business onto the JDE instance
Girish was involved in this project in an advisory role. The role was defined to help out
the consultants where they were not able to design/configure the requirement in the
existing process/system/functionality. Girish’s role was during the design, build and unit
testing phase. He had a few challenging roles to play for in this assignment.
Engagement / Project : JDE OW Maintenance (Team Lead/Business Analyst)
Project Duration : 29 months (Aug 2006 till Dec 2008)
Team Size / Location : 12 members / UK
Project Description  Project is a long-term maintenance project running from 2006
with Wipro Technologies. The client has various businesses with the Paper industry and
is a paper manufacturing firm. Client has a lot of different businesses under one roof.
Due to the nature of industry, the company is undergoing constant changes in terms of

divestment of business or addition of businesses/sites onto the existing JDE instance.
Wipro’s responsibilities on the project in terms of JDE are of Production support in JDE
modules (Finance, Distribution & Logistics and Manufacturing), CNC activities, all JDE
technical activities and participate in Project activities on a need basis. Apart from this
Wipro handles Bolt-Ons associated with JDE like Data warehousing/BI, Supply Chain
software, Middleware and infrastructure. The responsibility of the JDE team is to co-
ordinate between all the Bolt-Ons. Production Support was a 10 hrs x 5 days/week
project.
Roles & Responsibilities  Girish was part of the Wipro team (9 members) who
initially (6 months) went to client during the initial phase of the engagement. The client
had implemented JDE in one of their major businesses and had more than 200 issues
post-golive. The role of the team was to learn/understand the system/processes in the
least time and least effort, start day-to-day support, help stabilize the system and build
accountability in terms of SLA’s for user problem issues / tickets. The client had
intentions to phase out existing individual contractors for cost saving. He was an
important element in the D&L part of the assignment and to convince the client on
Wipro’s capability in delivery. The delivery capabilities of the entire team led to a larger
outsourcing contract beyond JDE. Post the initial stint his role was to establish the entire
offshore team primarily w.r.t business knowledge and JDE knowledge right from the JDE
team to non-JDE technical streams to infrastructure teams to helpdesk team. He was
assigned the role of offshore team lead and report/assist to the project manager at
onsite. He was the SPOC or the entire JDE team w.r.t client and JDE practice. His role
was to capture all the knowledge captured in the team and document it on the Sales,
Inventory, Procurement and Transportation streams. During this assignment he was
rotated between onsite and offshore a couple of times, based on the needs of the role.
Company : Capgemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd
Engagement / Project : SAP Global Rollout/Deployment (PMO)
Client : Multinational major in Energy sector
Project Duration : 3 months (Apr 2006 till Jun 2006)
Team Size / Location : 32 members / Delhi
Project Description  The project was a Deployment/Rollout based on the Global
solution and Local scope adaptations for Schneider-Electric India. The total Team Size /
Location was 16 members from Capgemini India and 40 members from the various
teams of Schneider-Electric. The complexity of the project was that the model was being
developed and the deployment was lagging by only few weeks and the involvement of
various operating units with members of different nationalities.
Roles & Responsibilities  My responsibility on the project was of a PMO whose main
role was to be involved in the project planning and tracking, defining templates, be the
owners of the document management tool, schedule co-ordination meetings for the 13
teams on the project, ensure phase deliveries, effort tracking on NIKU, Reporting
activities, Risk management, Issue management and communication with the team. The

role required him to report to the Client Project Director as well his Capgemini
counterpart.
One of the complexities involved was the planning on arranging workshops from various
locations / time zones, various intermingled teams and continuously keep adapting to the
changing global plan and communicate it to the team without affecting the deliveries.
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Engagement / Project : JDE 8.10 Implementation Project (Business Analyst)
Client : Indian major in Paper and Pulp Manufacturing
Project Duration : 17 months (Nov 2004 till Mar 2006)
Project Description  The project was a full life cycle implementation of ERP – JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne including Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) modules.
The phases covered were AS-IS study, Super User JDE training, TO-BE formulation,
GAP Analysis, Unit and Integration Testing, Data uploads, User Training, Go-Live and
Go-Live support. The total Team Size / Location was 12 members. The major modules
involved were – D&L, Finance and Manufacturing. Major modules under D&L were
Inventory, Procurement and Sales.
The project included post-Go live support in continuation of the implementation of ERP –
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne done by the team previously. The project was a part of the
stabilization of the pilot Roll-outs and for the synchronization activities of all the modules
implemented. Team Size / Location was 17 members at peak.
Roles & Responsibilities  Girish primarily worked in the Inventory and Procurement
modules of EnterpriseOne package and the interface with the weighbridge system. The
client operations covered were - Procurement – Head Office & Plants, Stores
Management, Forest Operations and Outsourcing. It also included customization of
applications and reports. Girish was involved from Project kick-off till the end of post Go
live support. Most of the implementation was vanilla, except for weighbridge interface,
custom PO print, custom Invoice print and the most complex part of Purchase Receipt
process to counter moisture loss of wood which was executed by using Purchase
Disposition application. There were a few critical reports which were customized to the
needs. Post Go-Live, Girish was responsible for resolving issues, business process fine
tuning, enhancements to the existing reports/applications in the Inventory and Purchase
modules of EnterpriseOne package and the interface with the weighbridge system. The
client operations covered were - Procurement - HO & Plants, Stores Management,
Forest Operations and Outsourcing. The role also required
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Engagement / Project : JDE One World XE Warranty Issues Project (Business Analyst)
Client : Indian major in Oil Industry
Project Duration : 10 months (Feb 2004 till Nov 2004)

Project Description  The project was a Warranty Issues support to patch up the gaps
or shortfalls of implementation of JD Edwards OneWorld Xe at One of the Oil majors in
India. The implementation project was one of the biggest projects in Asia-Pacific for JD
Edwards. There were more than 50 application customizations and 200+ report
customizations on the project. The project involved resolution/enhancements of the
existing applications/reports in a post-Golive scenario. The total Team Size / Location
was 6 members.
Roles & Responsibilities  Girish was responsible for resolving warranty issues
emanating from the resolution provided during implementation especially in the arena of
Purchase. This mainly included bug fixing on the reports/customized applications,
enhancements to reports and application of patches for identified issues. Apart from
these activities was involved in Supplemental Database documentation, Role-based
user manual documentation, Version synchronization activities and to support the
Central Support team of Capgemini.
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Engagement / Project : Delivery Risk Management Framework Implementations and
Internal Systems (Member).
Client : Multinational major in Energy sector
Project Duration : 3 months (Nov 2003 till Jan 2004)
Team Size / Location : 3 members / Mumbai
Project / Role Description 
Assignment: Software Delivery Risk Management
Was part of the team which formulated the Software delivery risk management process
& methodology and was responsible for its implementation across Capgemini India. The
role was to identify the delivery risk as identified across the organization, choose the
important ones, create a mathematical model, define the rating guidelines, define the
team for the audit, determine the frequency of audits based on results and keep fine
tuning the model. Girish got an excellent opportunity to work with the senior
management of the organization.
Assignment: Feasibility Study of MS-EPM
Was part of the team which studied the feasibility of Microsoft EPM as a project
management tool in Capgemini Consulting India. Girish attended the training at the
Microsoft office and along with a team of 2 Project Managers thrashed out the feasibility
of using the tool within the organization.
Assignment: Development and Testing of Quality Metrics Tracker
Was part of the team which developed the tool to capture quality metrics on a project for
the CMM initiative. Girish’s role involved in getting the tool developed as a team lead /
business analyst. He led a team of 6 developers and testers.

Girish attended 2 weeks of JDE distribution and Logistics training from Systime, Mumbai
soon after joining Capgemini.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
• PGDM (Marketing & Systems) full-time from Symbiosis Institute of Management
Studies Pune between 2001 - 2003
• B.E. (Chemical) from NIT–Surathkal, Karnataka in 2000 (formerly called Karnataka
Regional Engineering College – KREC)
CERTIFICATIONS and TRAININGS:
1. Certified Project Manager in Wipro Technologies – 2011.
2. Certified JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 Distribution Essentials (1Z0549)
Professional
3. Oracle Certified Enterprise One Implementation Distribution champion - 2010
4. Oracle certified Enterprise one Implementation Supplier Relationship
Management Champion - 2010
5. Highest level of JDE D&L certification at Wipro Technologies - 2010
6. Basics in Supply Chain Management – APICS in 2004.
7. Participated in “How to Gather and Document User Requirements” – 2013
8. Participated in “Facilitation Techniques for Requirements Development” – 2013
PERSONNEL PROFILE:
• Marital status : Married
• Sex : Male
• Date of birth : 22nd
Jan 1979
• Passport No. : G9336423 valid till June 2018
• Languages known : English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi
KEY STRENGTHS:
1. Passion for excellence
2. Passion for learning and sharing the knowledge
3. Good Analytical and Problem Solving skills
4. Excellent Communication skills
5. Experience of working in big & small, multi-cultural environments
CONTACT DETAILS:
Address Mobile: +91-9900054194
#254, 6th
Cross,
4th
Main, 6th
Block, Email: girishkak@yahoo.com
Nagarabhavi IInd
Stage
Bangalore - 560072. (India)
** References available on request.

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