ANKUSH D'SOUZA
SERVANT LEADER | ARCHITECT | INNOVATOR
TECHNOLOGY | DATA ANALYTICS | BUSINESS VALUE
CORE COMPETENCIES
Digital Transformation
Product Strategy, Planning & Roadmap Development
Enterprise Applications Planning & Integration
Data & Analytics
Business Intelligence
Product, Program & Project Management
Software Life Cycle (SDLC) Management
Consulting
Process Improvement
Change Management
User Adoption
Team Building, Development & Leadership
WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
B.S. Supply Chain
(GPA 4.0)
B.S. Finance
(GPA 4.0)
Project Management (PMP)
Cost of Quality
Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt
DATA ANALYTICS
BI
Tableau, Power BI
Oracle OBIEE. APCC
Business ObjectsThoughtSpot, Sisense, Domo
ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
Oracle EBS Supply Chain, Value Chain
SAP ECC QM, PP
SalesForce CRM
DATA & PLATFORM INTEGRATION
SQL Server Integration Services
Informatica, Talend
Alteryx, Tableau Prep
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
MS Project
Smartsheet
Quickbase, JIRA, Monday.com
PRODUCTIVITY PLATFORMS
Office 365 - Teams, SharePoint, Forms
Google Suite
Slack
TECHNOLOGIES
WORK EXPERIENCE (DETAILS)
GE Appliances, a Haier Company, Louisville, KY​
GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky. It has been majority owned by Chinese multinational home appliances company Haier since 2016. It is one of the largest appliance companies in the United States and manufactures appliances under several brands, including GE, GE Profile, Café, Monogram, Haier and Hotpoint
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End-to-End Supply Chain Digital Technology Director leading a team of 50+ full time employees and consultants partnering with business executives to drive innovation and operational excellence driving GE Appliances explosive growth and vision to be the number one appliances eco-system in North America.
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Orchestrated the implementation of enterprise-wide Supply Chain Planning and Transportation Management system to support revenue growth to $11B.
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Led Network optimization efforts including new warehouse setups for the Finished good business and warehouse consolidation for the direct materials area.
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Developed multi-year digital technology strategy and roadmap in Manufacturing, Planning, Sourcing, Quality and Logistics functions around key pillars of simplification, automation, and scalability.
Honeywell, SPS, Cincinnati, OH​
SPS is a strategic business unit of Honeywell, a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Honeywell technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable
Global Digital Technology Supply Chain leader and advisor to the ISC Executive Team to transform SPS Intelligrated into a smart, connected, and integrated supply chain with a high degree of automation, simplification & agility in managing an annual operating budget of ~$10M.
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Accountable for creating a multi-year strategy & execution plan to ensure alignment of supply chain capabilities with business priorities to match service level expectations of the customer and promote innovation.
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Setup new warehouse in Poland covering areas of ERP, WMS, cybersecurity, infrastructure & networking, and personnel to support business growth aligned with strategic priorities.
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Drove multiple automation initiatives (PO creation, Mass updates, Robotic Process Automation, Dual Sourcing, Outsourcing, Analytics) in the Sourcing/Procurement function to reducing manual effort by >60% in ~3 months.
Estee Lauder Companies, New York, NY
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Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products . Sales of~$16 billion & sold in about 150 countries. Popular brands include Estée Lauder, Clinique, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Tom Ford.
Responsibilities included defining and delivering a compelling Data & Analytics (Q-360) roadmap based on customer needs and strategic opportunities, partnering with cross functional stakeholders to execute on the plan, improving the Data Quality and Analytics capabilities of the organization, mentoring team members and sharing best practices with other teams.
Within 9 months, we delivered 13+ dashboards to 200+ global users with a hybrid agile methodology reducing blocked inventory, improving manufacturing efficiency and eliminating product quality defects and optimizing talent utilization by saving 7500+ hours annually.
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Technologies used: Tableau, Power BI, SQL, SAP Quality Management & Material Management, OpenText, SharePoint
Ankush D'Souza Consulting, Atlanta, GA
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Founded an independent consulting practice out of my passion and entrepreneurial spirit.
Independent contractor for PwC for the Order to Cash Transformation for a leading Building Materials Manufacturer Led multiple complex releases and develped a customized Logistics product to simplify, & streamline the Shipment Planning & Execution process across 500 customers and 20+ plants/DC's.
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Implemented a critical Supplier Portal across 100+ suppliers for a leading Consumer Goods Manufacturer to digitize the Procure-to-Pay process resulting in a 30% productivity improvement and 85% reduction in errors. Managed all aspects Software development Life cycle including project scoping, requirements gathering, configuration, technical dev, testing (system integration & user acceptance), training, change management & hyper-care support
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Technologies used: Order Management, Global Order Promising, Accounts Receivable, Shipping Execution, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Inventory, Purchasing, iSupplier Portal, Payables, SalesForce.com, Tableau, SQL, HP ALM (Quality Center), JIRA
Ankush D'Souza Consulting, Atlanta, GA
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Founded an independent consulting practice out of my passion and entrepreneurial spirit to help organizations solve supply chain challenges by applying my unique skills & experience in end-to-end processes, technology, digitization and analytics and generated revenues of ~$300K
Responsibilities included defining and delivering a compelling Data & Analytics (Q-360) roadmap based on customer needs and strategic opportunities, partnering with cross functional stakeholders to execute on the plan, improving the Data Quality and Analytics capabilities of the organization, mentoring team members and sharing best practices with other teams.
Within 9 months, we delivered 13+ dashboards to 200+ global users with a hybrid agile methodology helping save the company $500K/year delivering actionable insights and taking analytics to the next level.
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Technologies used: Tableau, Power BI, SQL, SAP Quality Management & Material Management, OpenText, SharePoint
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GE Power, Atlanta, GA
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GE Power is a world energy leader providing equipment, solutions and services across the energy value chain from generation to consumption. Operating in more than 180 countries, our technology produces a third of the world’s electricity, equips 90% of power transmission utilities worldwide, and our software manages more than 40% of the world’s energy.
Responsibilities included setting up & leading the S&OP IT Center of Excellence and serving as primary Product Manager for innovative SIOP products for multiple sub-businesses. Pioneered the GE Oracle Knowledge Sharing Program fostering a community of 250+ members to collaborate on best practices multiple $1 billion businesses promoting re-use of 100+ ideas resulting in cost savings of $100K annually
Presented as a Panel Speaker about 'Best Practices in Supply Planning' and won the Digital Thread Award at Oracle Open World 2016. Mentored and coached direct reports, leadership program candidates and interns to develop their professional careers as well as activated a team culture of agility and open communication
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Technologies used: Oracle - Order Management, Demantra, Real Time S&OP, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Inventory, Purchasing, iSupplier Portal, iProcurement, Advanced Planning Command Center, OBIEE, Supply Chain Planning Cloud, Quality Management, Bill of Material, Discrete Manufacturing, Inventory, SalesForce.com, Tableau, SQL, HP ALM (Quality Center), GE Predix
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Coty (philosophy brand), Phoenix, AZ
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Coty is one of the world's largest beauty companies and the largest fragrance company with over $9 billion in revenue (as pf June 2018). philosophy is a North American skin care and cosmetics brand founded in 1996 by Cristina Carlino, acquired by The Carlyle Group in 2007 and later acquired by Coty, Inc. in 2010.
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Accountable for Technology and Business intelligence/Analytics products for Supply Chain Organization implementing large scale process improvement projects such as Supplier Scorecards, Digital barcoding & Sourcing Analytics achieving a 40% ROI resulting in an annual cost savings of ~$1 million/year.
Successfully launched a Product Information Management (PIM) system using a cloud platform (Salsify.com) and fully automated the ‘New Product Development’ paper-based processes increasing user productivity by 70% and reducing data errors 55%.
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Promoted within 12 months due to strong performance and organizational impact
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Technologies used: Oracle - Order Management, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Inventory, Purchasing, iSupplier Portal, iProcurement, Quality Management, Recipe Management, Process Manufacturing, Inventory, Warehouse Management, SQL, Google Web Toolkit, Microstrategy, SAP, Discoverer
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IBM, Phoenix, AZ
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International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries.
an independent consulting practice out of my passion and entrepreneurial spirit to help organizations solve supply chain challenges by applying my unique skills & experience in end-to-end processes, technology, digitization, and analytics and generated revenues of ~$300K
Led Supply chain implementations in various functional areas of Order Management, Purchasing, Planning, Manufacturing, and all areas of Software lifecycle delivery using Oracle technology including international projects in Mexico and Canada in multiple industries for 10+ clients.
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Technologies used: Oracle Order Management, Shipping Execution, Purchasing, iSupplier Portal, iProcurement, Costing, Projects, Inventory, Rational Portfolio Manager, uPerform, HP ALM