This document provides a career summary for Tarun Jha. It outlines his educational background which includes an FPM from IIM Ahmedabad, an MBA from IMS Indore, and a BE from IIT Roorkee. It then details his 17 years of professional experience in supply chain management and SAP consulting. Key roles included principal consultant positions at Infosys and managing consultant roles at HCL-Axon. Project experience included companies like ConAgra, Adidas, Firmenich, Metsa Group, GlaxoSmithKline, Leader Cable, Shell, Chevron, and Gillette. The document highlights his expertise in SAP SCM modules like DP, SNP, and PP/DS.

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1 Career Overview
Job Title Principal Consultant
Nationality Indian
Educational Qualifications  Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) (All But
Dissertation) – IIM Ahmedabad
 MBA (Marketing) – IMS, Indore
 BE – IIT Roorkee
Language Ability  English and Hindi
Key Skill Areas  SAP Supply Chain Management
 Understanding of entire supply chain processes
 Worked extensively in DP, SNP and PP/DS
2 Personal Profile
 Age – 44 years
 Contact No – 512-659-5859
 E-mail ID – Tarun.jha21@gmail.com, jha_tarun@hotmail.com
 Address – 18440, Chicago Court, Apt No – 109, Omaha, Nebraska, US
 H1B Visa
3 Professional History
 17 years of total experience this includes, around 7 years of domain experience and
over 10 years of SAP and SCM consulting in areas like Demand Planning (DP), Mid
Term Planning (SNP) and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS).
 SAP functional consulting and solutioning experience in SAP ECC, SAP APO (SCM
4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 7.0) in Asia and Europe
 Experienced in different roles as project manager, offshore and onsite consultants,
offshore and onsite lead and solution design expert in different assignments.
 Having experience in different phases of projects – overall project management,
requirement gathering, blueprinting, fit-gap, proto-typing, build, integration test, UAT,
post-go-live support.
 Involved in several end to end large RFP responses which includes – Estimation, Staff
Planning, and Project Phasing, Costing, Complete solutioning and Orals.
 Domain experience in product and business development, logistics and supply chain
management in a commodity industry.

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 Experience of statistical software packages like SPSS, SYSTAT etc. and Optimization
software’s like GAMS, ILOG Solvers, mySAP SCM etc and also undertaken advance
level studies in operations management and supply chain management.
 Published an article in SCM Expert and earlier an article in Journal of International
Business and Economics.
 Abreast with latest developments in creating reports using SAP Info-center and Fiori
Apps.
Key tasks and achievements:
 Involved in large implementation projects such as ConAgra, Apple, Chevron, Shell, Glaxo
SmithKLine, Leader Cable, Metsa, Firmenish for implementation of SCM modules such as
DP, SNP, PP/DS for solutioning and consulting.
 Involved in large RFPs and provided solutions pertaining to SCM modules primarily.
 Led a big team of 60 consultants for a particular tower in Shell project.
 Keeps exploring different SCM modules and is SAP trained in TM-EM.
08/2012 – Till Date Infosys Limited
Principal Consultant – US
ConAgra, Omaha, US
 Working as APO Onsite lead and based outof Omaha,Nebraska.Modules thathave been implemented
in APO are DP, SNP and PP/DS.
Adidas, Germany
Adidas is one of the largest footwear and apparels company with head-office in Germany.
 Worked with the business in Demand Planning area ofSCM.
Firmenich, Geneva
Firmenich SA is the largestprivately-owned company in the perfume and flavor business.Firmenich is upgrading
their SAP applications across all worldwide locations and therefore also upgrading their business processes.
 Part of Business Process Excellence team and working on aligning business processes in demand
planning area ofSCM.
 Working on life cycle planning,realignment,S&OP,implementation ofaccuracyand bias reports,creating
new characteristics, attributes, data sources, planning area, planning books, macros, dynamic and
database alerts etc.
Metsa Group, Finland
Metsa is a diversified group primarily in paper manufacturing and the transformational project was carried out at
Metsa Board. In this projectseveral modules such as DP,SNP, PP/DS, GATP and TM is being implemented.
 Worked as SNP lead for solution design design and implementation atMetsa board from Finland.
 Metsa board has complex supply chain and has different supply models such as Single Leg, Multi Leg,
Consignment,VMI etc.
 Block planning in SNP is done and blocks are proposed for PP/DS planning.
 Optimizer, CTM planning engine was used along with deploymentand TLB.

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Other Activities
Involved in RFP for a large food manufacturing company(around 25 millioneuros).As a supplychain lead provided
solution and estimation for the SAP SCM requirements, which was a major part of the entire requirement. Also
involved in Orals,deep dive sessions and was interviewed bythe clientas probable SAP SCM lead.
Involved in the solutioning of Golden Agri-business (GAR), Indonesia for the entire procurement to pay business
process.Recommended frontend as UI5 and SAP BPM & BRM for automation oftheir approval process. Gathered
their entire business process complexities and convinced the client about the solution. The solution was also
integrated with third party system for invoice verification and signature verification processes. Selected the vendor
for third party system and provided the complete end-to-end solution.
Part of the external task force to analyse the current SAP support activites for APPLE, US based company and
come up with Insights showing business impact, release support bandwidth and reduce age of ticke ts. Arrived at
15 insights,which would help Apple in dollar savings and customer satisfaction apartfrom improvementin number
of tickets.
12/2010 – 08/2012 HCL-AXON
Managing Consultant
GlaxoSmithKline, UK
Glaxo SmithKline is a pharma companyand transformational projectwas carried outin DP and SNP modules for
their pharma and consumer business.
 Worked as functional consultantfor DP implementation in GlaxoSmithKline.
 Involved in go-live of fourteen countries of Europe.
 Very complexconsensus forecasting system encompassing pharmaceutical requirements in Europe
 Involved into cutover rehearsals,manual configuration and build activities.
 Worked on life cycle planning, promotion planning, S&OP, planning area, planning books, macros,
dynamic and database alerts etc.
Leader Cable, Malaysia
Leader Cable is a big cable manufacturing companyand its manufacturers all types ofcables.As regards planning
they are only using PP/DS module.
 Worked as a solution lead for solving issues ofPP/DS implementation.
 Worked on heavy customization of overlapping of planned orders. Suggested custom heuristics solution
to the client for overlapping of planned orders.
 Clienthad other issues such as pegging in make-to-stock situation and the same was addressed through
minor customization.
 Complexity of cable manufacturing firm was addressed through implementation of production planning
and detailed scheduling module of SAP SCM.
 Lead a team of functional and ABAP consultants.
Other Activities in HCL-AXON
 Also visited Arcelik in Turkey and helped sales team.Workshop was conducted to understand their issues
and we provided them high level solution end-to-end. Issues were pertaining to DP and SNP and S&D
module ofR/3.
 Was identified for conducting due diligence for Merck, a pharmaceutical companyand understanding the
preparedness for supportofAPO modules alreadyimplemented.
 Helped in capability building by involving in several activities such as SCM consultantrecruitment,RFPs,
creation of new productand also developmentmanager for eightconsultants.

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01/2009 – 12/2010 IBM India
Seior Advisory Consultant
Shell, UK
Shell is one of the biggest SAP implementation in the world. Shell project is managed from UK and from India. It
has a big team at Bangalore,offshore.There are four towers – Solution delivery, Solution Build, Deploymentand
Live Countries and Portfolio. Solution delivery constitutes of functional consultants,while solution build are a team
of technical consultants.Live countries and Portfolio team works on those countries,which have already gone live
and they need the latest enhancements. This team also works on countries where Shell wants to divest. All the
three modules ofSAP SCM are being used in Shell as regards SAP SCM implementation.
 Developed the fourth tower i.e. Live Countries and Portfolio from 5 to 60 consultants.
 Involved in Shell Implementation Project (Live countries and Portfolio) as a Team lead for 60 members
and carried out various project managementresponsibilities.
 Involved in Shell Implementation Project (Solution Delivery) and carried out various responsibilities. The
system is quite complexand lot of non-standard SAP functionalities is being used in all the SCM modules
such as DP, SNP, and PP/DS.
07/2005 – 01/2009 Larsen and Toubro Infotech
Project Manager
Gillette, Germany
Gillette Companyhad SAP APO – DP and SNP implemented and itinvolved supportactivities in Globalenvironment
for the markets of Europe,AMEE, GLA and Asia Pac.
 Provided offshore supportfor mySAP SCM DP and SNP, already implemented atGillette Company
 Handling interface issues with the external systems like EDW,Manugistics with middlewarelike Sonic etc
 Batch failure analysis & corrective action, new batch job definition and scheduling
 Also supported SNP module,which had heuristics as planning engine and deployment,TLB.
Chevron, US
Chevron is another big SAP implementation.Global template was firstimplemented in South African continentand
the same was rolled out for Asia Pacific Countries and the entire development was carried out from Manila,
Philippines.They have SCM DP and SNP module implemented
 Involved in implementation activities from Phillipines for APO Go-Live for Asia Pacific region for Chevron
Project. Was involved in handling go-live defects,configuration,training ofdemand planners and cut-over
activities.
 Also provided offshore support for mySAP SCM, already implemented at Chevron as Team Lead with
projectmanagementresponsibilities for deliverables.
Other Activities at Larsen and Toubro Infotech
 Detailed studyof L&T Case process for mySAP SCM implementation in particular Demand Planning.This
was mainlysolutioning activity.
 Detailed study of Chevron process for downstream business as regards mySAP SCM Demand Planning
implementation.This too was mainlysolutioning activity.
01/2005 – 06/2005 Ispat Industries
Deputy Manager (Business Development)

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Ispat Industries Limited is an Integrated Steel Plant on the Western Coast of India, which manufactures hot and
cold rolled coils.
IspatIndustries had initiated a major supplychain excellence program to look at operational inefficiencies in al l the
processes ofsupply chain.I was in corporate team as a ports and shipping expert and was involved into all ports
and shipping related decisions.
 Developmentofoptimization modeller to identifythe sources androutes for the raw materials procurement
with identification ofsoft and hard constraints.
 Make-or-Buy Analysis for Ships for transportation ofraw material.Alternatives were to buy a new/old ship
on self/lease financing,hire a ship on spot/long term basis
 Feasibilitystudy of developmentof nearby port apartfrom the developmentofcaptive port facilities.
 Capacity study at the captive port as regards barging capacities, berthing facilities and cargo handling
facilities for suggesting enhancementin facilities
 Demurrage studyto minimize the staying of mother vessels atthe anchorage.Loading portand unloading
port facilities were studied along with their warehousing facilities was s tudied.
08/2003 – 10/2004 I-maritime Consultancy Limited
Consultant
i-maritime Consultancy Limited is an independent maritime consultancy firm, which specializes in business
consultancyfor maritime sector.Involved in various consulting projects as below -
 Feasibilitystudy of ship repair projectat Mundra Port (for Adani Ports Ltd.).
 Market Requirements studyfor Tankers in India (for Transworld Group).
 Market Requirements studyfor Bunkering in India (for Shell).
 Traffic study of Iron and Steel Scrap at Mundra Port (for Adani Ports Ltd.).
 Traffic and feasibilitystudy for dry bulk and container at Gangavaram Port (for Visual Soft).
 Traffic study for dry bulk and container at Pipavav Port (for IDFC Ltd).
 Traffic study for dry bulk and container at Dahej Port (for ICICI Ltd).
 Understanding Trade in Indian Sub-continent(for Transworld Group).
 Understanding activities oftop 10 Liners and 10 Logistics providers (for Mitsui OSK)
07/1998 – 07/2003 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
FPM Student
Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad is a premier Institute ofManagementin India.Course work comprised
of general management subjects with emphasis on production and operations management. Advanced courses
comprisedofSystem Analysis and Simulation,Operation ResearchI,Operation Research II,Advanced Operations
Managementand Advanced Probability.
Thesis work was on supply chain management for Garment Industry to understand the relationship of various
variables such as productvariety, supplychain structure etc.
06/1993 – 06/1998 Shri Ishar Alloy Steels Limited
Assisstant Manager (Marketing)
ShriIshar Alloy Steels Limited is a mini-steelplant,which manufactures differentgrades ofalloyand stainless steel.
They mainlysupplyto auto-components manufacturer.
 New product and marketdevelopmentfor various grades ofstainless steel
 Costing and realization monitoring for stainless steel products.
 Handling local sales and exports for stainless steel products
 Coordination with branches for sales and inventorymanagementatall levels for stainless steel products
 Handling customer complaints and providing technical services.