Sanket Gokhale has over 22 years of experience in IT and project management. He has led implementation projects for SAP solutions in retail, supply chain, and manufacturing domains across various industries and geographies. Some of his major projects include rolling out SAP IS Retail for Future Group's fashion, electronics, and grocery businesses, and implementing JDA solutions for merchandise and assortment planning. Currently he is working as a Practice Engagement Manager at Infosys in Hong Kong, leading SAP implementation projects for retail clients in Asia.

1. SANKET GOKHALE
Program Manager, Solution Architect, Application Delivery & Support professional
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
22 years of progressive work experience
 13+ years of IT experience, leading and managing multiple
“Application implementation & support programs” for Retail,
Merchandising – Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Consumer
Industries verticals.
 8+ years of Domain experience in sales, marketing, supply chain,
business development, distributor channel management.
VISION
Being Best at providing Practical & Innovative Solutions for Business Excellence
GUIDING PRINCIPLE Plan hard, Work smart, Pursue success !
PMI certified
Project
Management
Practitioner
SAP certified
IS Retail
Professional

2. Education & Certifications
Yr. 1996
Bachelor of
Engineering
Mumbai
University
Yr. 2008
MS Office
Project
training
PMPulse
Yr. 2011
Project Management
Professional (PMP)
certification
Project Management
Institute (PMI)
Yr. 2006
SAP MM / SD
training
Shreya
Technologies
Yr. 2011
SAP BI / NW
7.0 training
Lithan
Genovate
Yr. 2014
SAP Retail
ERP 6.0
certification
SAP Global

3. Technology Exposure
Core Expertise
• SAP R/3, SAP S/4, SAP IS Retail, SAP MAP
• Starter packs: Fashion, Grocery, Meat, Instore Production
• JDA Intactics, Enterprise Planning, Assortment Planning
Exposure to
applications
• ERP: Movex (Lawson M3)
• Retail specific: SAP CAR, POSDM, SAP FMS
• Point of Sale: Barter, Micros, Wincor, ETP POS
• Analytics: Greenplum, Microstrategy, IBM Cognos, SAP BI
• Supply Chain: SAP WMS, EWM
• CRM: Siebel, SAP C4C, SAP CRM
• MDM: SAP MDG, IBM MDM
• SAP real estate mgmt., DMS, ESS, Store Operations (Task
Mgmt)
• Rapid Deployment Solutions: CAR, P4R, APR,
Replenishment
Exposure to Project
Management
Methodologies
• Waterfall / Agile
• SAP ASAP / SAP Activate

4. Work Experience (22 years)
From Yr. 1996
Greaves Cotton
Ltd., India
Sales Executive
From Yr. 2005
Symphony
Services, India
Business
Consultant
From Yr. 2012
Prism Informatics,
Thailand
Practice Lead -
Retail
From Yr. 2003
TATA Motors
Ltd., India
Assistant
Manager
From Yr. 2006
Future Group,
India
Sr. Manager -
Projects
From Yr. 2013
SAP Global
Delivery, India
Team
Manager
From Yr. 2017
Nexus System
Resources, Thailand
Consulting
Manager
From Yr. 2018
Infosys Ltd.,
Hong Kong
Practice Engagement
Manager

5. Achievements
Set-up Planning Center Of Excellence to drive & support
the Merchandise & Assortment Planning Function across
18 different business verticals in Future Group.
Keynote speaker for SAP Forum, Thailand (July 18,
2013) for topic “Drive Your Consignment Business with
SAP Retail Solution”.
Winner of Outstanding Achievement Award - year 2014 in
SAP Global Delivery

6. IT Project Experience across domains
Retail / Fashion CPG / MFG

7. Geographies supported during projects
EUROPE
 Belgium
 Netherlands
 UKNORTH AMERICA
 USA
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
ASIA
 India
 Greater China
 Hong Kong
 Macau
 Taiwan
 Singapore
 Malaysia
 Thailand
 Philippines
 Vietnam
 Japan

8. Major Projects / Programs delivered
2006 - 2007
•SAP IS Retail roll-out with POS integration for 5 group companies
covering FASHION, ELECTRONICS, FURNITURE, GROCERY &
GENERAL MERCHANDISE business verticals.
2008
•Implemented “Time & Attendance”, “Payroll management” and
“Performance management” solution with Employee Self Service
portal for 260 locations (25,000 employees) of Future Group.
2009 - 2011
•Implementation of JDA Merchandise and Assortment planning
suite for Pre-season & In-season planning and JDA-Intactix tool
for Space & Floor planning. Integration with the host systems (SAP
& BI) using JCAPS as the integration tool.
•Successfully rolled out the JDA program across 18 different
Business Verticals of Future Group.
•Handled subsequent application enhancements in-house.

9. Major Projects / Programs delivered
2014 - 2015
•Project manager & Solution Lead for GODIVA (a Belgium based Chocolatier
having presence in 10 countries across North America, Europe, APJ) 13m USD
bid engagement.
•Design included SAP IS Retail integration with MICROS POS, Manhattan WMS
system, TMS and also PP & QM modules activated within SAP IS Retail to cater
to the production requirements of GODIVA.
•Lead the logistics BBP workshops in Japan & Hong Kong.
•Lead offshore development from Bangalore.
2015 - 2016
•MM MEGA MARKET (a Hypermarket chain in Thailand & Vietnam): SAP IS Retail
re-implementation project. Deployment of starter packs for GROCERY, MEAT
and INSTORE production. Integration with WINCOR POS & in-house WMS.
2016 - 2017
•CMG – CENTRAL MARKETING GROUP (a high street fashion chain in Thailand):
SAP S/4 HANA implementation project with POS / WMS integration.
•Deploying Fashion starter pack (on SAP S/4 HANA for RETAIL), CAR RDS,
Merchandise / Assortment Planning and Analytics in SAP BOBJ. Scope also
included PP and CS modules on top of IS Retail.
•Resolving inter-module design conflicts to give the best solution fit for
customer.

10. Other Major Engagements
2014
Project Manager & Solution Lead for BBP QA / gap fit workshop for
MYDIN (a Malaysian Supermarket Retail chain). Deployed Grocery,
Meat & In-store Production starter packs.
2015
Pre-sales & proposal for DFS (a Hong Kong based Duty Free shop having
presence in 12 countries), 10,000+ person-days ROM proposal.
Preparation of 2-year SOLUTION ROAD-MAP for SAP IS Retail, SAP
planning solution, Forecasting & Replenishment solution, CAR and
analytics.
2016
C J EXPRESS (a Convenience store chain in Thailand): SAP IS Retail
implementation project. Deployment of starter packs for GROCERY and
AUTO REPLENISHMENT. Max Attention / Expert on demand services to
review & oversee the project.
2016
BANGCHAK (a Petroleum Giant in Thailand with Retail start-up). Pre-
sales & proposal design: scope included starter pack for GROCERY &
INSTORE production (on top of SAP S/4 HANA for RETAIL). Starter pack
presentation & demo for customer.

11.  sanket.s.gokhale@gmail.com
 Athene, B-104, Lodha Paradise, Thane (W) – 400601, Maharashtra, India.
# Current location: Hong Kong  +(852) 9721-3709
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